Re: shipping price problem

[alex <alex@domanet.com>]

Kyle Hayes wrote:

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>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am calculating my own shipping because we have some odd ways of doing it
> that do not fit into the UPS scheme at all.  Formulas don't work either.
> So, I wrote my own GlobalSub that does the calculations.  It works like a
> charm.  However, I get a shipping note like that below whenever I have too
> much weight.  DHL is the shipping method that I am calculating, and UPS is
> the default one shipped with the MV 3.12 simple demo.  In this case, I
> have selected UPS as the shipping mode!  What is calling dhl anyway?
>
> "Shipping Note: 168 lbs too heavy for UPSNo match found for mode 'dhl',
> quantity '120', returning 0."
>
> My shipping.asc lines for dhl look like this:
>
> dhl     DHL Air Freight quantity        0       0       e Nothing to ship!
> dhl     DHL Air Freight quantity        0       50      s calc_dhl ;[value
> country], ;[value state]
> dhl     DHL Air Freight quantity        50      999999  e Please call us
> for bulk shipping information.
>
> (my mailer is breaking the lines, but hopefully you can see what is going
> on.)
>
> The error line works for the other shipping types.  It is printing out the
> error line for UPS ground and then appending some sort of internal error
> that probably shouldn't be there.  Of course there is no match found for
> dhl, I didn't choose that shipping type!
>
> I added a line to the top of shipping.asc:
>
> default No shipping     weight  100     99999999        e Too much weight.
> Please call us for bulk shipping.
>
> When I order 150 units (at 1.5lbs each), I do not see this error.
>
> It appears that [data session ship_message] is _not_ reset after an error.
> What can I use?  For instance, if I chose 51 units, it is too much for DHL
> shipping.  I get the expected error message above.  However, if I choose a
> different shipping method after that and hit "update", I get the same
> shipping message!  The cost of shipping for that number of units/weight is
> correct, but the shipping message is not reset.  Where is the current
> shipping message?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Kyle
>
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I am having problems with shipping calculations as well  and i get the same error
message -

No match found for mode 'dhl', quantity '120', returning 0.

let me know if you find out anything

thanks
alex