Re: MV3.11 multiple checkout pages and shipping

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

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At 05:02 PM 5/16/99 , Kyle Cook wrote:
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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 :)

	So, after going back, they DON'T hit the submit button?  You could try a
javascript that 'hits' the submit button when a page closes.

>
>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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