[ic] Shipping question

Josh Lavin josh at perusion.com
Tue Jul 30 14:10:26 UTC 2013


Quoting DB (db at m-and-d.com):
> For virtual items like a PDF, I set the item weight to 0 and then use
> the following to allow for free shipping of such items:
> 
> MDSPDF: regular
>         crit  weight
>         free  No weight items are free.
>         min   0
>         max   0
>         cost  0
>         min   0
>         max   9999999
>         cost  >>STD
> 
> So if there's an item of non-zero weight in the cart, the cost of
> shipping gets calculated based on the STD method (which calculates based
> on cost). If only zero-weight items are purchased, the choice of free
> shipping appears.
> 
> This works fine, however when only zero-weight items are in the cart,
> both the free and the non-free choices are shown on the checkout page.
> I'd prefer to list only the free method when the cart contains only
> zero-weight items. My checkout uses the tyical code:
> 
> 
>     <SELECT NAME=mv_shipmode>
>           [shipping
>             label=1
>             mode=|[data table=country key='[default country US]'
> col=shipmodes]|
>               ]
>     </SELECT>
> 
> Can anyone suggest a solution?

I would change your shipmodes to use the [weight] tag for the crit,
instead of just "weight".

There are some docs for this tag that explain, but look at the
parameters of "zero-unless-attribute" and "zero-if-attribute".

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