[SOLVED] Any way to not show shipping cost until an address is entered?

[rossdavidh]

Hello,

Is there any way to change the behavior of the shopping cart to not show a Shipping cost until an address and carrier is selected? It really doesn't make any sense to show a shipping cost when you don't know where the recipient is, and depending on the setup it may show a very large shipping cost that will scare off the customer. Once they login/create an account, the shipping cost may be quite reasonable but the default shipping (based on who knows what since it doesn't know the location yet) can scare people away before they ever reach that point.

Thanks for any help.

[rocky]

Try changing lines 111-130 of shopping-cart.tpl in your theme's directory from:

{if $shippingCost > 0}
   {if $use_taxes}
       {if $priceDisplay}

{l s='Total shipping (tax excl.):'}
{displayPrice price=$shippingCostTaxExc}

       {else}

{l s='Total shipping (tax incl.):'}
{displayPrice price=$shippingCost}

       {/if}
   {else}

{l s='Total shipping:'}
{displayPrice price=$shippingCostTaxExc}

   {/if}
{/if}

to:

{if $shippingCost > 0 AND ($delivery->id OR $invoice->id)}
   {if $use_taxes}
       {if $priceDisplay}

{l s='Total shipping (tax excl.):'}
{displayPrice price=$shippingCostTaxExc}

       {else}

{l s='Total shipping (tax incl.):'}
{displayPrice price=$shippingCost}

       {/if}
   {else}

{l s='Total shipping:'}
{displayPrice price=$shippingCostTaxExc}

   {/if}
{/if}

This should hopefully only display the shipping cost on the shopping cart summary if an invoice or delivery address has been chosen.

[rossdavidh]

That seems to do the trick, thanks very much!

[rocky]

Great. Please edit your first post and add [sOLVED] to the front of the title.

[bene43420]

I pasted the code into my page and 2x checked it to make sure I only replaced the lines stated, but it didn't change anything. Cart still defaults to the appropriate weight range for zone 1 instead of leaving shipping costs blank until a login or address has been entered. Any suggestions? I am using ver 1.3.3.0.

[rossdavidh]

I have found that this works, most of the time, but (for reasons not yet clear), it doesn't work 100% of the time. We haven't been able to figure out what the cases have in common when it doesn't work.

[OBergman]

I would like to achieve the same thing, but running 1.3.6 my shopping-cart-tpl seems to be slightly different. The first line in the code quoted above (with $shippingCost) is not there. Any ideas how I can make this work?