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I'm getting in a bit of a mess here setting up shipping.
Kartris is set up to calculate shipping costs by weight.
I'm also planning to switch off every country apart from the UK but this hasn't been done yet and all other countries are live.
As I'm only shipping in the UK, the postage rates are the same for small parcels. However, when large items need to be sent out we need to use other courier services. These courier services work on rates as follows:
Mainland UK: standard charge
Scottish Highlands: slightly more expensive than the standard charge
Non-Mainland UK: slightly more expensive than Scottish Highlands.
My plan of attack was to set up 3 shipping methods:
Mainland UK
Scottish Highlands
Non-Mainland UK
Weight tables and shipping costs would be appropriate for each area. The idea then was that when the customer reached checkout and looked at the shipping menu, they would see a drop-down list of the 3 choices. Depending on where they (hopefully) perceived their location was, they would pick one of the choices appropriate for their location. Unfortunately, it's only showing one of the shipping methods I've set up which is the Mainland UK method. The other 2 methods don't appear in the list, yet they are set to live.
I only have one shipping zone set live which is United Kingdom.
I'm really not sure how to tackle this issue as it's not possible to apply a 'one size fits all' solution to the UK as courier companies all charge more money to send to locations that require crossing water.
Mon 26 Sep 2011 by
thedrumdoctor
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