Re: More Complex (i.e. real world) Shipping Calculations

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

Christopher, have you gotten anywhere on this subject?


At 03:09 PM 6/17/99 , Thompson-Jordan wrote:
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>I need shipping calculations that:
>
>- Divides the order into boxes and does individual UPS shipping
>calculations for each box, as this is how UPS charges.
>- Be able to associate a "ship from" ZIP code with items and do a UPS
>lookup based on where the box is shipped from.
>
>I think these must be fairly common shipping needs, because not all
>shipping is "one box from my location." I don't believe that Minivend can
>do this currently, if I am wrong please let me know.
>
>My initial thought was to do this manually. I would add "shippedfrom" and
>"boxsize" fields to the Products database. The "shippedfrom" field would
>contain the UPS table from which to lookup the shipping. The "boxsize"
>field that would contain the percentage of a box the item needs (e.g. 0.5
>for half, 0.25 for a quarter). If these fields were empty or not present
>it would assume one box from the default location.
>
>On the Checkout page, as I looped through [item-list], I would
>
>1. Divide items into lists using the "shippedfrom" field,
>2. Further divide these lists into boxes by adding up the "boxsizes"
>3. Calculate the weight for each box
>3. Do an individual shipping calculation for each box based on its "from"
>and "to" ZIP codes
>4. Sum the cost to ship each box into the shipping total.
>
>Questions:
>
>- Can Minivend do this within its current shipping model?
>
>- Has anyone implemented this, and if so, would you make the code
>available?
>
>- If this hasn't been done, and others are interested in it as well, could
>a group of us come up with some UserTags to do these type of shipping
>calculations and make them available to all?
>
>If this hasn't been done I will probably plow ahead and would appreciate
>help from any Perl monkeys in the crowd.
>
>Christopher Thompson
>


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