Shipping Configuration

The following Software Configuration settings control the shipping calculations:

 

Xdefaultshippingmethod

Setting this to Yes means the first option in the shipping dropdown menu will be selected.

Xshippingcalc

This option determines how shipping is calculated. The default is to Lookup a value in shipmethods table and display it. There are many different options available and you can add unique shipping calculations - Quantity, Pricerange, weightrange, Weight, Fixed, Quantityrange.

Xfixedshippingcost

If your areusing the fixed shipping method, this is the cost of the shipping.

Xfixedshippingmethod

If you are using the fixed shipping method, this is the name of your shipping method.

Xmerchantshipzip

The post code of the Merchant – used by some realtime lookup shipping calculators.

xshippingdatabaserecords

If set to No, shipping records are not displayed as a dropdown list.

Xshippingform

If set to No, no shipping form is displayed.

Xshippingfree

A product purchase value. If a customer purchases this amount or more, shipping is free regardless of the shipping method chosen. For example,100.

Xshippingbycountry

Setting this to Yes tells VPCART that the country field is used when reading records in the shipmethods table. This allows you to specify different shipping values for different countries.

Xshippingbystate

Setting this to Yes tells VPCART that the state field is used when reading records in the shipmethods table. This allows you to specify different shipping values for different states.

Xshippingfreeproducts

Setting this to Yes means that a check should be made to exclude products from any shipping calculations if they have freeshipping set to Yes in their product record.

Xshippingselection

If xshippingform=No, set this to Yes to display the shipping dropdown list by itself.