[ic] Add weight to shipping

[Ed LaFrance]

At 08:02 PM 2/24/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ed LaFrance" <edl@newmediaems.com>
>To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
>Sent: Sunday, 24 February, 2002 17:13
>Subject: Re: [ic] Add weight to shipping
>
>[...]
> >
> > Briefly, two things come to mind:
> >
> > 1. You could push a 'packaging' item into the cart a checkout, which costs
> > 0 but weighs 100 grams.  This could be done with Perl on the checkout
>page,
> > or using the [add-item] usertag I wrote a while ago (it is floating around
> > in the list archives somewhere). You would want to modify the checkout
>page
> > so that the user cannot remove this 'item', and that every time they go to
> > checkout is it added if not already present in the cart.
> >
> > 2. You can tally the weight with your own code on the checkout page, then
> > add 100 grams, and use the final total as the criterion in your shipping
> > file, instead of the current method of having the shipping routines tally
> > the weight.
> >
> > I'll watch this thread if you decide to approach it one of these ways and
> > are looking for some code examples. Meanwhile, maybe someone else knows of
> > an existing Interchange mechanism for doing this...
> >
> > - Ed L.
>
>Thanks Ed for your answer.
>
>To be fair, I know a way to do it, but I just wanted to make it "beautifully
>integrated" with interchange, in case there was a way, as with adding a
>fixed money amount to each order.
>
>My idea is very simple: lower every level of the shipping table in X grams.
>That is, if the Post Office has a scale that goes 0-50, 51-100, 101-200,
>201-350, 351-1000 and so on, I will lower that scale by  X (being X the
>weight of the envelope).  Let us suppose the envelope weighs 25 grams (the
>100 of my former message was asuposition, 25 is much closer), the scale I
>would use would be 0-25, 26-75, 76-175, 176-325, 326-975, and so on...
>
>This will do it.
>
>Regards,
>
>Francisco

Yes, you could certainly do it that way. Depending upon how may entries you 
have in your shipping file, it could get to be a hassle to deal with if 
packaging weight/method changes, and it is not very extensible... but in a 
pinch it'll work.

- Ed L.


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