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Spider.my shipping modules v0.3 for osCommerce, Zen Cart (Pos Malaysia)

Updates are coming a bit fast at the moment as various shortcomings are identified and a bugs squashed. The modules are only a few days old, but I’ve rushed them out in the wake of Pos Malaysia’s website changes breaking the old modules.

osCommerce / Zen Cart shipping admin

ISO 3166-2 locations / ‘local’ shipping

The v0.3 modules come without an ISO 3166-2 id specified by default, so will work ‘out of the box’ on a shop without the iso_3166_2 column added to the zones table. The shipping module won’t be able to give local shipping quotes until the db is modified and the field filled in.

Handling charge / Method surcharge

The ‘Handling charge’ field has gone, replaced by ‘Method surcharge’. A shop that wants to give their customers more than one shipping option may need to apply different surcharges per option. This field accepts a comma-separated list of method name:surcharge pairs.

Surcharge per order or per box

The surcharge may be applied once per order or once per box for large orders. For example, if you had to deliver 4 boxes of 20kg each and it was as straightforward for you as it was to ship one box, select ‘per order’. If, for example, you had to buy documents / insurance separately for each box, you would select ‘per box’. Select as appropriate for your business. This may be another field that needs to be ‘per method’: I’m open to suggestions.