Can not set up shipping, need 2 types of carriers 1 for heavy and 1 for light items. HELP!

[bfstore.co.uk]

Hello,

I have no programming or web design experience so please be gentle.

Im trying to set up shipping for my site and not getting anywhere. Prestashop is not giving enough information about shipping so im stuck... cant start selling unless this is set up :-( PLEASE HELP!

 

I sell furniture and have 1 -'boxed items' which are delivered by courier and 2- 'sofas' which we deliver ourselves.

1- 'boxed items' have got delivery to UK mainland £9.99 (for most of the items) or £49.99 (for large bedroom sets)

2- 'sofas' are being delivered depending on the county - i have attached a file with our delivery territory below

We also offe:

3- free local delivery in out town

4- free collection in person from our store

 

I followed few instructions from the forum of other people who had simmilar problems but im always getting stuck on something and end up pulling my hair out.

 

Any ideas how to set this up anyone?

 

I have got 4 carriers set up for those 4 types of delivery (or collection)

I added UK counties in States and created zones acording to map (green zone, blue zone, red zone, etc) and then added prices for each zone.

I created 2 weights option for 'boxed items' and priced £9.99 and £49.99

 

Im doing something wrong and not sure what ...

[Dave L]

Hi,

 

You are really going to struggle to achieve this with the default shipping module in prestashop.

 

The module is either weight or price based, that is the shipping to each zone is based on either the weight or the price of each item.

 

In your explanation you are basically asking for a sofa to be delivered on a location basis.

 

The only way I can think of is by setting up 9-carriers and be a bit creative with weights as a way to differentiate between your product mix.

 

I'm making an assumption that a customer could potentially order 3 boxed items, 1 bedroom set or, as you are delivering sofas yourself, multiple sofas would have no additional cost.

 

Zones

Per your file; dark green, light green, blue etc.

 

States

Set each UK county to the relevant colour per your file.

 

Carriers

 

Carrier 1 is for the collect in-store.

 

Carrier 2 is for the boxed items

 

Carrier 3-9 are for the sofas, each is configured to one of your coloured zones.

 

Product Weights

 

Set all boxed items to a weight of 5kg

 

Set all bedroom sets to a weight of 50kg

 

Set all sofas to a weight of 200kg

 

Weight Ranges

 

Carrier 1 = 1kg to 100kg = free

Carrier 2 = 1kg to 5kg = £9.99, 5kg to 10kg =£19.98, 10 to 15kg = £29.97 50kg to 55kg = £49.99, 55kg to 100kg = £ 99.98

Carrier 3 = 200kg to 800kg = free

Carrier 4 = 200kg to 800kg = £39

Carrier 5 = 200kg to 800kg = £49

Carrier 6 = 200kg to 800kg = £59

Carrier 7 = 200kg to 800kg = £69

Carrier 8 = 200kg to 800kg = £99

Carrier 9 = 200kg to 800kg = £125

 

That should do the trick. You may have to fine tune a bit but that's the basics of it anyway. You may have to give consideration to what happens if someone orders say, a boxed set and a sofa. With these combinations in mind you may have to fiddle about with the product weights and weight ranges.

 

 

 

 

Good luck.

[bfstore.co.uk]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply. What about multiple purchases? When the weights adds up will it still work? Or is there any option of asking for total delivery charge for multiple purchases?

 

I have managed to set up delivery of sofas by location by adding all UK counties to the 'States' and then choosing for them particular 'Zone' (green, blue) - this is all on one carrier. And i've set up weight for all sofas over 100kg (there is also separate tab 'County' maybe I should use that instead? but it works as it is...)

 

...but now Im not sure what to do with the delivery for 'boxed items' as it dissapeared... I have delivery from 0-50kg on £9.99 (all item with this delivery charge have saved 0kg) and 51-99kg on £49.99 (again all those items have saved 99kg). It should all be working but now I dont know any more what did I do wrong ? Any idea?

[Dave L]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply. What about multiple purchases? When the weights adds up will it still work? Or is there any option of asking for total delivery charge for multiple purchases?

 

For multiple purchases you just need to consider the product weights. In my example a customer could order 3 boxed items before the shipping moves out of range. If there's a chance someone would order more, just provide additional weight ranges/prices but ensure that the total weight doesn't enter into the weight range for the bedroom sets. Same goes with bedroom sets. My exmple allows for 2 bedroom sets, but again,you can adjust the weight ranges to accomodate more.

 

I have managed to set up delivery of sofas by location by adding all UK counties to the 'States' and then choosing for them particular 'Zone' (green, blue) - this is all on one carrier. And i've set up weight for all sofas over 100kg (there is also separate tab 'County' maybe I should use that instead? but it works as it is...)

 

I have never used the county setting in the module. It was new to V1.4+. However, I'm sure just the use of the States will suffice. You can rename States to Counties in the Tools>Translations>Front Office Translations. Allocating a coloured zone to each state is correct. In carriers you can allocate the specific colour zone for that carrier. So each of the 7 carriers will have different coloured zones allocated without duplicates.

 

...but now Im not sure what to do with the delivery for 'boxed items' as it dissapeared... I have delivery from 0-50kg on £9.99 (all item with this delivery charge have saved 0kg) and 51-99kg on £49.99 (again all those items have saved 99kg). It should all be working but now I dont know any more what did I do wrong ? Any idea?

 

With a single weight range of 0-50kg for your boxed items, multiple items will incur the single £9.99 charge. So if your boxed item product weight is set to 5kg, a customer could order 10 boxed items and only have a £9.99 delivery charge.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by '(all item with this delivery charge have saved 0kg)' and '(again all those items have saved 99kg)'. What exactly disappeared?