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Streamlined Checkout™ Knowledge Base
Configuring
Custom Shipping Methods
Overview
Streamlined Checkout™ provides the
ability to fine-tune StoreFront Carrier
based methods and create custom shipping
methods with advanced configuration types,
include flat rate per order, fixed rate per
item, fixed rate first item, product based,
valued based, product + value based, as well
as configuring base and incremental rates,
geographic constraints, sort order, custom
naming and support for Free Shipping and
Free Shipping Coupons.
Demo
See the demo below for a mockup and
brief tutorial on how to setup and manage
custom shipping methods.
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Demo shipping administration
Configuration
Streamlined Checkout™ allows you to
optionally define an unlimited number of
custom shipping methods that can stand alone
or co-exist with the StoreFront™ carrier-based
shipping methods.
Any or all of the custom shipping methods,
when combined with StoreFront™ carrier-based
shipping, can be used to increase (or
replace) the number and type of backup
shipping options available to the shopper
when carrier rates cannot be retrieved. To
specify that a particular custom shipping
method should only be available as a backup
choice, include the keyword [BACKUP]
(including the brackets) in the description.
To configure custom shipping methods,
complete the following steps:
a) Add the PENDX_ShipMethods table to your
StoreFront™ database as follows:
i) MS Access:
(1) Open your database in Microsoft Access.
and click on .Tables. in the left
navigation
bar.
(2) Right click in the white space of the
Microsoft Access. window and select .Import.
from the
pop-up menu.
(3) Browse to the location of the unzipped
Streamlined Checkout. files and select the
CustomShip.mdb database.
(4) Select the PENDX_ShipMethods table and
click the OK button. The
PENDX_ShipMethods
table
has now been added to your database.
ii) MS SQL Server
(1) Connect to your database with SQL Server
Enterprise manger or the SQL query
tool of
your
choice.
(2) Execute the SQL script contained in the
PENDX_ShipMethods.sql file, which was
unzipped with
Streamlined Checkout™ files. The
PENDX_ShipMethods table has
now been added
to your
database.
iii) From within Streamlined Checkout™ Admin
page, add new records to the
PENDX_ShipMethods table as follows:
iv) Description
(1) This is the description of the custom
shipping method, e.g. .Custom Ground..
(a) To specify that a particular custom
shipping method should only be available
as
a backup
choice, include the keyword [BACKUP]
(including the brackets)
in the description
as follows:
(i) Custom Ground[BACKUP]
(b) To completely replace the standard
StoreFront™ backup shipping methods
set
Show_SFCarrierBackup="false" in the <PENDX:SC>
tag (see Parameter
Definitions
above).
v) SFCarrierCode
(1) This field is optional and allows you to
associate a StoreFront™ carrier code with
the custom
shipping method. Association with a valid
StoreFront™ carrier allows
the order
tracking feature to
work with the custom method.
vi) Type
(1) This specifies how the shipping rate
should be calculated as follows:
(a) F = Fixed rate per item
(b) O = Flat rate per order
(c) P = Product based (the value specified
for Ship Price in the
Products/Fulfillment
section of Merchant Tools)
(d) V = Value based (as specified in the
value-based shipping table within
Shipping/Value Shipping of Merchant Tools).
(e) A = Value + Product based
(i) This calculation begins with value-based
and then adds the
respective product(s) ship
price to the value-based amount, as long
as
the respective product(s) ship price exceeds
a
certain minimum.
1. The minimum can be defined with the
ShipCalcA_Minimum
parameter. The default
is the shipping minimum as specified
in
StoreFront™ Merchant Tools.
(f) W = Fixed Rate for the first item
(i) This calculation charges a fixed rate
for the first item in the cart and then
adds
the
incremental rate for all additional items in
the cart.
vii) Rate
(1) This is the rate for the shipping
method.
(a) For Types P, V and A, this value is
added to the product or value rate
specified
in the shipping
section of Merchant Tools.
viii) IncrementalRate
(1) This value is used for quantities
greater than 1 of an individual product.
(a) Example: If you wanted the first product
to be $10 and each additional
quantity of
the same
product to be $2, you would specify Rate and
IncrementalRate as follows:
(i) Rate = 10
(ii) IncrementalRate = 2
(b) For calculation type P (Product based),
setting the incremental rate to -1
will
cause the
incremental rate to equal the product ship
price.
ix) LocationConstraint
(1) This specifies the type of location
constraint applied to this shipping method
as
follows (see Define Geographic
Constraints above):
(a) N = (None) no geographical constraints
apply (default)
(b) I = (Include) only allow shipping to
locations that are specified in the
PENDX_LocationConstraints table.
(c) E = (Exclude) do not allow shipping to
locations that are specified in the
PENDX_LocationConstraints table.
x) ConstraintType
(1) This specifies which value will be used
to check the location constraint (see
Define
Geographic
Constraints above) as follows:
(a) 1 = Postal Code
(b) 2 = State (default)
(c) 3 = Country
xi) IsActive
(1) This specifies whether or not the method
is active.
(a) MS Access
(i) True = active, False = inactive
(b) SQL Server
(i) 1 = active, 0 = inactive
xii) SortOrder
(1) A value from 0 to 255 that specifies the
order of the shipping method within
the
shipping methods list displayed to the
shopper. The default vale is 255.
(a) You must set Sort_By_Price="false" in
the <PENDX:SC> tag (See
Parameter
Definitions above) in order to persist this value.
Otherwise
the choices will be automatically
re-sorted
by price from lowest to
highest.
(b) Set Custom_Ship="true" in the <PENDX:SC>
tag (See Parameter
Definitions above).
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