I need to match the shipping to an existing format:

Total order value up to £12.00 £1.50
Total order value £12.05 - £20.00 £2.50
Total order value £20.05 - £30.00 £3.50
Total order value over £30.00 £5.00

Existing printed order forms use this so despite my working out a default shipping that approximated to this, the lady wants to stick with her existing rates.

I could do it by setting the default to £0.00 and then having customers select a shipping option from the drop-down list but that allows only three options not four as required. Also I'd like the first box in the drop-down to say " Choose shipping from list"

Is it possible to change the drop-down list options by manually altering the source code without breaking anything, if so, can you point me in the direction of the appropriate file or has anyone any better ideas.

I don't really want to have to go back to Julius Caesar's shopping cart!

Cheers

Woody

Looks like you can add more shipping options by altering the script

Is this going to break anything in Shopping Cart Creator by doing this?

Here's the workaround::

http://www.artistasoft.co.uk/shop/index.php

I can't see any potential problems, but whenever you edit the scripts outside of the software, unforeseen issues could happen. So it is working, then you are probably good to go

I would also like to add more than the three shipping options. Where did you modify the script to allow for this

In the above example shop, it doesn't actually validate the first option which is 'select shipping from list' and appears go straight to PayPal without adding a shipping charge?

Also on a minor point, when you get taken to PayPal, it doesn't seem to take the contents of the cart for display at the top of the PayPal page. This could potentially deter some customers.

May need some more tweaking Woody.

The owner isn't entirely happy with SCC at the moment. Previously the shop used Roman Cart but I suggested that she move over to SCC for ease of use. She wanted to keep her previous shipping rates so I made the amendment to the script so as to allow that but it does require the customer to choose the shipping rate which isn't ideal and I have to manually insert a snippet via HTML Editor to update the shipping rate to allow for more choices every time the shop is updated, which is a pain in the butt.

For whatever reason, Paypal doesn't now send out an email informing her of the sale, which is proving an issue, the previous solution did.

Initially sales were much the same as before SCC but there has hardly been anything in the last three weeks. I've checked the shop with a dummy 10p sale several times, it works fine but people simply aren't using it as before.

Any ideas as to where and what needs tweaking would be greatly appreciated.

I'll post the info where I amended the script when I get home tonight.

Looking at the problem logically, in programming logic that is, you are asking the buyer to input the the subtotal, when it's already displayed on the cart. From a users perspective that comes across as very confusing. The cart already knows what the subtotal is.

A more graceful solution is in the form of if (value) subtotal variable is >10 then shipping variable = 2.50 else shipping variable = 1.50. Not had chance to explore the code with SCC yet so don't know whether those elements of the cart are written in php or javascript. Neither are particularly difficult to code in either language though.

What may be more of a problem for you, is how the shop updates. I know it overwrites some CSS changes and it may also overwrite modified code files. Only someone from Coffeecup can give you the specific details on that though.

Scott is aware that the shipping options in SCC need some major enhancements, but has indicated that even the pro version will not have any enhancements to its shipping options on its initial release, so custom coding is the way to go in the short term.