alpaca Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Hi all you UK based prestashop owners.I need your help.Please could you get in touch with me through pm or reply to this post. We need to know exactly how you have setup your regional delivery charging options.We post using DHL, City Link and Royal Mail. We only ship to UK Mainland at a reasonable postage rate, but when we some times have to post to the Islands, northern Ireland and certain post codes - see below:"The following postcode regions are classed as Highland or Islands – PA, IV, ZE, KWPostcodes AB, PH and PA are standard Scotland (UK Mainland) however, some postcodes here are classed as remote therefore, some timed services are not valid here."We could save some serious money here by not allowing postage to the regions where it costs £13 (DHL) and £38 (City Link) just to deliver an item.How is the best way to turn away customers by enforcing carrier system that will not allow the customer to purchase and item if it will cost us too much?Please could someone shed some light on this?If anyone has a good setup - please share this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpaca Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 anyone that uses Prestashop in the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartman Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 If you only ship to the UK i think it would be quite easy to set up, using zones,Give me a couple of day or so and i will set up a test on a devlopment server,I think you will only be able to do it at a UK county level not postcode, but this would remove the BT, JE and GU postcodes, highlands would be slightly akwardregardsChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartman Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 also i think it would work best with weight based shipping, then small stuff up to a kilo could still go out via royal mail, or if higher value special delivery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartman Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Second thought zones would not work, but you could create new countries, instead of just relying on the default UK, you could set up, UK - Northern Ireland, Uk - Highlands and Channel Isles as new Countrys then you could rename the countries drop down to Uk zones, after that it would be possible to set seperate shipping rates for each zone, taking it further, you could populate the uk zones with the correct countysthats a few random thoughts, I am based in the UK but 99% of my items are small and light so we use royal mail and do not hit this problem, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpaca Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 Hi Bartman,Thanks for your input. Let me know how your process turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoulders Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 please check my new solution hereUK Postal Zones Packhttp://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/105334/third_party_modules/extension_uk_postal_zones_pack/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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