Re: Forcing a shipping mode based on product

[mikeh@minivend.com]

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Quoting Reuven M. Lerner (reuven@lerner.co.il):
> 
> Is it possible to force shipping modes based on a product?  That, if
> the user selects a particular product, their shipping options are
> restricted to a subset of what should normally be possible for that
> destination.
> 
> Those of you who have ordered music from Amazon.com from outside of
> the United States might be familiar with this; ordering even one CD
> with your book shipment forces you to use surface mail, rather than
> air mail.  My client has requested something similar, where a
> particular product can only be sent via next-day air.
> 
> It seems to me that MiniVend's products and shipping modes exist in
> two different universes, meeting only when the user places an order --
> which would mean that such a scheme shouldn't be possible.  However, I
> long ago stopped believing that anything is impossible for MiniVend.
> 

One question I saw recently is an FAQ:

usps	Mail	price	0	1000	x .10

This works fine as long as your pricing is just
the "price" field. But if it isn't, there are many other
ways.

This type of question is becoming common enough that I need
to put this out in someplace besides the documentation:

--- The criterion can be more than just the products database

usps	Mail	pricing:price	0	1000	x .10

--- The "criteria" field can hold more than just a field name

usps	Mail	[subtotal noformat=1]	0	1000	x .10

--- The "cost" field can hold more than just a number

usps	Mail	placeholder	0	1000	f [subtotal noformat=1] x .10

Any of these produce a 10% shipping cost on the subtotal depending
on pricing method.

--- There is CommonAdjust shipping just like there is CommonAdjust pricing

usps	Mail	placeholder	0	1000	m products:shipping, ==products:insurance

All work fine. 

And if you need to qualify something:

[set restricted_shipping][/set]
[item-list]
	[if-field restricted_shipping]
	[set restricted_shipping]1[/set]
	[/if-field]
[/item-list]

[if scratch restricted_shipping]
[set shipmodes]surface[/set]
[else]
[set shipmodes]air surface[/set]
[/else]
[/if]

You get the idea.

Shipping is much like anything else in MiniVend. There is more
than one way to do it.

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