Shipping by currency

[davidbiggie]

If I choose to use shipping by currency, am I able to get 800 rows to set up my shipping range? Or could someone create for me? Any helpful info is appreciated!

Thank you,
David

[Jim]

The maximum number of rows that can be created is 200.

[davidbiggie]

Hi Jim,

Am I able to purchase a template more than 200 rows such as 800 rows?
I need that much rows to set up shipping because I have to set shipping charge by two different percentage in two subtotal range.
Last time you taught me to set percentage in Handling charge, but I encountered a problem. If customer select pick-up, even I set $0 on pick-up shipping, it still charge handling fee. But we usually have free charge on pick-up. So how can I avoid this problem?

Thank you,
David

[Jim]

There is no template for the shipping options. All data is stored in a file called sbdata.aa which is in the store's data directory. Each row of shipping data contains 10 or so fields in the file, so having 800 rows of data would result in more than 8000 different entries just for the shipping options. With that many entries access to the backoffice screen would be exceedingly slooow. This would also affect the length of time required to display the shipping charges to shoppers and might make such a long delay that shoppers would abandon the cart.

If you need more than the 200 shipping options allowed, it would probably be better to use the custom shipping API (Pro stores only) and write (or have someone else write) a module that would calculate the rates and return them to the shopping cart instead of having the shopping cart search through all the data in the sbdata.aa file for each rate possibility.

Using a shipping api you could also probably avoid the handling fee charge for someone who is going to pick-up their order. I don't think there would be a way around this issue using the standard shipping options available in ShopSite.