[ic] Newbie, how to make FREE shipping default initial selection?

[Ed LaFrance]

At 02:12 PM 03/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>At this point I would be happy just zeroing out UPS Ground commercial.
>Right now is always comes up as
>UPS Ground Commercial  ($6.25)
>in the pulldown menu for the checkout.
>I want it to be:
>UPS Ground Commercial ($0.00)
>And not add anything to the total price.
>How would I do that?
>I've tried messing around with Ground.csv and even completely removing it
>and restarting interchage, but nothing changes.
>Please help.
>-Art

If you are going to charge nothing for GNDCOM then you do not even want to 
reference Ground.csv.  I guess you could just edit the GNDCOM method like so:

GNDCOM  UPS Ground Commercial   weight  0       0       e Nothing to ship!
GNDCOM  UPS Ground Commercial   weight  0       150     0

And Apply Changes.

- Ed L.




>I've spent hours pouring over the (few) docs, and the extensive mailing
>list archives, but haven't quite found the answer.
>I want the usual shipping options to still show up in the pull down (UPS
>ground, 2 day, 1 day), but I also want FREE to show up as well, And on
>top of that, make that the default selection for anyone in the US.
>When I login as a customer and go to SUPPORT, Account Maintenance, the
>pull down list all four choices, but has the default as UPS Ground, even
>though I set the shipping default to FREE in the config.  At least from
>that page I can select FREE as an option, however:
>As soon as I go to make a purchase and click check out, the list that
>shows up for checkout.html page only lists the three choices (not FREE),
>what happened to the selection I had made before?
>The second problem is if a user doesn't want to login, then I want the
>default shipping option to be FREE shipping, but that is empty unless
>you put in an address and then hit recalculate, or if you don't do that,
>then there is no shipping calculation (kind of what I want, but a bit
>kludgy way for it to work out).
>It seems as though these should be easy to address, but I've played
>around with catalog.cfg, products/country.txt products/shipping.asc
>pages/ord/checkout.html all to no avail.
>Keep in mind I'm a systems person, not a programmer. What can I do to
>address these two issues? There's zero budget for any consulting.
>Any help is appreciated thanks.
>I'm running Interchange 4.8.3-1 not using any SQL db's, just the
>included files. I used the foundation demo as the template (with none
>for products/tools/etc).
>Thanks,
>-Art
>
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