[ic] Shipping soft goods with subtotal cost criteria

[Paul Jordan]

interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a catalog that use shipping calculation according to the
> total cost of the order.
> It gives the customer a choice when the order is between 0-200,
> 201-800 is only fast shipping,
> 801 - over it free fast shipping.
> Here is my shipping,asc:
>
> fast    FAST_MAIL    [subtotal noformat=1]   0       0       e
> Nothing to ship!
> {'ui_ship_type' => "_subtotal",'ups' => "0",'at_least' =>
> "0",'PriceDivide' => "1",} fast    FAST_MAIL    [subtotal noformat=1]
> 0       800     25         {'PriceDivide' => "1",}
> fast    FAST_MAIL    [subtotal noformat=1]   801     9999999 0
> {'PriceDivide' => "1",}
> normal  MAIL       [subtotal noformat=1]   0       0       e Nothing
> to ship! {'ui_ship_type' => "_subtotal",'ups' => "0",'at_least' =>
> "0",'PriceDivide' => "1",} normal  MAIL       [subtotal noformat=1]
> 0       200     10       {'PriceDivide' => "1",}
>
> I need to add soft goods, that have no shipping charge, the soft
> goods should have no effect on
> the shipping calculation.
> I saw some examples on do it with weight criteria & quantity
> criteria but this is a bit
> different.
> Any idea or directions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chen Naor


Here is a snippet from my shipping.asc file:

USPS: USPS Ground
        criteria        <<EOF
[perl]
	my $total = 0;
	foreach my $item (@$Items) {
		next unless $item->{weight} > 0;
		$total += $item->{quantity} * $item->{weight};
	}
	return $total;
[/perl]
EOF
        min     0
        max     3
        cost    x .0001

        min     3
        max     10
        cost    x 2.4

        min     10
        max     20
        cost    x 1.7

        min     20
        max     30
        cost    x 1.2


For my USPS Group method, you can see it "skips" items with a weight of '0',
which my downloads have a weight of zero. So, the calc ends up only letting
weighted items through to the shipping method.

HTH

Paul