MV3.11 multiple checkout pages and shipping

[Kyle Cook <kyle@invisio.com>]

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Hey list!

Does any one know how to force the cart to update shipping charges via perl or?

I have a multi page checkout process that works as follows:

basket.html        displays contents of cart

checkout.html     gets customers shipping address and name

checkout2.html   shows cart contents subtotal, tax, shipping and total
                         and allows a selection of shipping methods

checkout3.html    takes payment info and completes order


Everything works fine if you just go through the process.

The problem occurs if you get past checkout.html and then go back to
checkout.html and change your country. Then when you arrive at
checkout2.html again, you still see the shipping amount and any
shipping_message that was generated based on your first country selection
even though the country value has changed (verified by placing a tag [value
country] on this page, and by going back to checkout.html). The only way to
force the cart to update has been to go back and add another item to the
cart, then everything works. It is not a big deal for customers because
they usually pick the country they live in correctly the first time around :)

It is more of a problem when I want to try to "sell" the system to someone
for their own products and they try going back and forth changing countries
to see if shipping etc works correctly.

Any thoughts would be appreciated

Thank You,

Kyle Cook 
http://www.invisio.com 
Web site design, database driven sites,
and shopping cart programming. 
Great sites, value priced!

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