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We have just finished a new web shop for Goodwood Antiques at goodwoodantiques.co.uk. The shop features a Joomla CMS front-end using a traditional template from Joomlashack. The on-line shop is provided using the well-respected & integrated Joomla shopping cart Virtuemart. Goodwood Antiques has a unique product range of champagne and wine racks.
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virtuemart always says free shipping with this order PDF Print
Wednesday, 16 February 2011

The problem here is 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"

vm-1.5-box.pngThis 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 fundamentally confusing.

It's there in the admin config where you can enable/disable but not
configure.

It's duplicated under the shipping module list where you can configure
but not enable/disable

It's in the edit store with the free shipping amount

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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