dashCommerce

My customer charges a flat rate of $24.95 for overnight shipping (FedEx) within the continental United States for any order between $70 and $199.99. Above that price, shipping is free. Below that price, the order should not be accepted.

1. How do I configure the shipping for this use case?
2. How do I configure dC3 to not allow an order of less than $70 to complete?

P.S. I just found out that there will also be a number of "packages" that will include Free Shipping.

Nobody has words of advice to offer?????

1. You can create your own ShippingProvider (It shouldn't be hard)
2. There might be a better way but a quick way to do this is edit the checkout page and the cart page to enforce this.

Thank you for your response, yitzchok, but could you please elaborate and shed some light on HOW I might go about those two items?

I guess what you could do is hack the SimpleWeightShippingProvider.cs by changing line

 shippingOption.Rate = simpleWeightShippingRate.AmountPerUnit * order.TotalWeight;

to

        if (order.Total > 70 && order.Total < 200)
            shippingOption.Rate = (decimal)24.95;
        else
            if (order.Total >= 200)
                shippingOption.Rate = 0;
            else
                shippingOption.Rate = -1;

and then in checkout.aspx.cs check if rate = -1 and display some sort of message.

Naz, Thank You very much! It looks simple enough - and I will give it a try first thing tomorrow!!!

You could also just use the SimpleWeightShippingProvider as an example and create your own provider.  I created a new shipping provider today in under an hour by using the SimpleWeightShippingProvider as my starting point.  One of my clients wants to have a flat "per order" shipping rate.  They sell small items so the shipping cost is very low.  They wanted the following:  $5 for USPS domestic; and $5 for USPS International.  Pretty simple.  Here's what I did:

1. I created a new table that was similar to dashCommerce_Store_ShippingEstimate, well, it was pretty much an exact copy except the field named "AmountPerUnit" was renamed "AmountPerOrder", everything else was the same.  I named the table:  dashCommerce_Store_PerOrder_Shipping_Rate.
2. I then used SubSonic to create my controller, collection and item classes for this new table.  This resulted in the following objects being created:  PerOrderShippingRateCollection, PerOrderShippingRate, and PerOrderShippingRateController.  The first two classes were put in Store\Models/Generated, the controller was placed in Store\Controllers\Generated.
3. Then, I went to work on the UI.  I copied simpleweightconfiguration.ascx, and created PerOrderChargeConfiguration.ascx.  I modified the new file slightly to accomodate the new shipping provider, but there really wasn't much that needed changing.  This new file was put in:  Web\admin\controls\configuration\shippingproviders.
4. Then, I created PerOrderShippingProvider.cs in Store\Services\ShippingService, which again was a copy of SimpleWeightShippingProvider.cs, with the code changed to use the PerOrder objects.
5. I then created perordershippingprovider.ascx in Web\admin\controls\navigation, which was a copy of simpleweightshippingprovider.ascx.  I modified this to match the Per Order provider.
6. And lastly, I create PerOrderShippingProvider.sitemap in Web\admin\controls\navigation.  Again, it started as a copy of: simpleweightshippingprovider.sitemap.
7. I then added the following node into the SiteMap/Providers node in the web.config: 

   <add name="PerOrderShippingProviderXmlSiteMapProvider" type="System.Web.XmlSiteMapProvider" siteMapFile="~/admin/controls/navigation/perordershippingprovider.sitemap"/>

8. I added a record in the:  dashCommerce_Store_Provider table for the new provider.

9. I added a new entry in the labels.resx resource file for the hdrAmountPerOrder value.  I created this for the configuration control.

Tim

Ok, I have a zip file of all the code files, how do I "share" this with everyone?

Tim

You can post it up on CodePlex

Okay, I didn't get to this right away, but now that I have, I realize that since I downloaded the "Web Ready" package, I don't HAVE these files!!!

SO, my question is: Can I download the full package, make these changes, rebuild the solution, and then upload changes to the BIN files? Or will that mess me all up???

That should work just fine.

Naz:

I guess what you could do is hack the SimpleWeightShippingProvider.cs by changing line

 shippingOption.Rate = simpleWeightShippingRate.AmountPerUnit * order.TotalWeight;

to

        if (order.Total > 70 && order.Total < 200)
            shippingOption.Rate = (decimal)24.95;
        else
            if (order.Total >= 200)
                shippingOption.Rate = 0;
            else
                shippingOption.Rate = -1;

and then in checkout.aspx.cs check if rate = -1 and display some sort of message.

Okay, I found and changed the SimpleWeightShippingProvider.cs as indicated above, and I've looked at the checkout.aspx.cs and can't figure out how/where/what to do!

I found the area annotated as "Gets the shipping rates" and at the bottom I added:

if (order.ShippingAmount = -1)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("Minimum Order is $70.");
}

single = is an assignment of value

double == is an equality comparison.

D'oh!

Thanks!!