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Hello,

 

I have a very particular problem.

 

I have a haulage company that can deliver my items all over the UK. The UK is divided up into large blocks. So for example, the haulage company works on a collective of UK Postcodes.

 

So you have

1st Collective of Postcodes - AL, B, BA, BD, BL etc

2nd Collective for Postcodes - BH, BN, CF etc

 

I have placed the postcodes as names for a haulage company.

 

So I have gone to carrier and put in as the Company Name: AL, B, BA, BL etc.

 

The postcodes in the collectives are big, after all they are big areas. I have realised that the carrier name is only taking 64 characters. This is not enough. I have been told that it is possible to increase this (for my need to 162 characters). But I have been told that the invoice would look messey.

 

How can I have a list of carriers that can deliver to say the 1st Collective of Postcodes that the customer is to select from. The collectives will have separate prices.

 

I have thought about Zones, but I am not sure this this can be implemented. Could I call a Zone the 1st Collective, but then how does this interact with the carrier?

 

Any help would be appreciated - I am going round the twist. :)

 

Thank you for your help.

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Yes you do this with zones you need to create lets say zone 1 and zone 2.

Then create new countries or states and apply those to the zone you need it in.

Then when you create the carrier select the zone it applies to.

You can then have different rates or carriers for each zone.

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Hi marblemsn,

 

To follow on from what tdr170 said, I'd personally use States to divide the UK into counties, which a customer would enter from a drop-down menu at checkout, and the counties would be assigned to the zones that form your postcode collectives. The zones would then have their own pricing structure (if necessary) and assigned to the haulage company as the carrier.

 

If there are exceptions to the rule (ie a BD postcode applies to West and North Yorkshire, which might cover two separate collectives at your end) then I'd make the states a bit more general (Northern England, North East etc.)

 

I think doing it this way would make it as easy as possible from a customer perspective, but hopefully we've at least given you some ideas to find a solution that suits you best.

 

Thanks,

Joel

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