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virtuemart always says: free shipping with this order at the order confirmation page . |
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Written by Dean Beedell
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 |
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Bug: virtuemart always says: free shipping with this order at the order confirmation page .
None of my products have weights. I do not ship by weight. I am using the ship by value module only. No other shipping modules are enabled just the ship by value.
I have one rate which is up to £500, the shipping charge for this is £2.49, up to to 10,000 postage is £1.99.
When I have any order total amount over £50 I get the same: "free shipping with this order"
I am using VM 1.1 and joomla 1.5 and it turns out to be a configuration error...
It seems that the ship by value module does not interact with the base Virtuemart shop.
In VM edit store there is a field named:
"Minimum Amount for Free Shipping"
This
needs to be set at a value which does not conflict with the values as
the in the ship by value module. You really would think the two would
interact as they are modifying the same thing. This stuff is enough to
put a newbie off. How are they expected to resolve something like this
without knowing VM inside out. I've been using VM for the last two years
and shippings is still the biggest Pain in the A.
Shipping in VM is funadmentally confusing.
o It's there in the admin config where you can enable/disable but not configure.
o It's duplicated under the shipping module list where you can configure but not enable/disable
o It is in the edit store with the free shipping amount
o It
has a separate admin section all of it's own named "shipping" which
refers to none of the above except for standard shipping which is also
listed in the shipping modules list...
Is this designed to be
confusing or what? Dump it all into one place please! Rationalise it and
pull it together so that newbies don't get put off what is otherwise a
fine cart! I beg you, please fix the bread and butter issues before
adding any new functionality.
Finally, perhaps this is a new bug, but when you have an amount set in the
VM edit store field named: "Minimum Amount for Free Shipping"
It
does not do what it says in any case. It may well handle the value set
in the field but it does not do much with it. When the user clicks the
'next' button the Virtuemart checkout screen of death appears... a blank
page.
I've now upped this value to 100,000 so that this order total is never encountered and the cart works again.
Hope this is useful to someone.
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