Information about Merchant Shipping Modules

Shipping Information

Question: How can I add a Handling Charge to the UPS Shipping Rate?

Answer: If you go to the Miva Exchange you can download a UPS Plus module that allows you to add a handling fee

URL: http://www.miva.com/exchange/

Answered by Jeff Huber @ MIVA Corp

Question: Does anyone have a module based on order total?

Answer: I uploaded to the Miva Exchange a module for calculating shipping cost
either by a minimum or based on the order subtotal. I don't know how
long it will be before it becomes available. It took the International
Merchant several days to become downloadable. When you set up for a
store, you adjust the ranges in a string delimited with ^ and |
characters. Eg.
1.00|4.99|1.00^5.00|9.99|2.00^10.00|19.99|3.00^20.00|999999.00|5.0 0

In this example you can see that an order of 12.00 would cost 3.00 to
ship. Fairly straightfoward and easy to use. Free, of course. I
haven't done a lot of testing, as it was a half hour project this
morning when someone asked the same question. This module will also
work for the person who wants to offer free shipping after a certain
order total. To do that, make the minimum 0 (zero), and make the last
set of ranges set to price out at 0.00.

If you have problems, please confine the discussion to the
merchant-coders list. Thanks.

Answered by William Weiland @ http://wcw.simplenet.com/

Question: How can I get rid of the "Ship to" section on my order form? Also how do I get rid of the weight info on the products?

Answer: Backup First!

You will need to comment out all instances of bill to or ship to in your
mmui.mv file. There are three instances of the order form in this file so
you will have to comment them all out. Also, all the info is in one table so
you can't just quickly comment out one of the tables.
If you search your mmui.mv for "Ship To" you will have all of the fields
repeated sequentially.
This is what it will look like:(open your email up in full screen it will be
easier to see and understand.)
You will want to comment out one of these depending on which one you want to
keep.

<MvComment>
<TR><TD ALIGN = "left" VALIGN = "middle">

Name:

</TD><TD ALIGN = "left" VALIGN = "middle">

<MvEVAL EXPR = "{ Orders.d.ship_fname }"> <MvEVAL EXPR =
{ Orders.d.ship_lname }">

</MvComment>

</TD><TD ALIGN = "left" VALIGN = "middle">

Name:

</TD><TD ALIGN = "left" VALIGN = "middle">

<MvEVAL EXPR = "{ Orders.d.bill_fname }"> <MvEVAL EXPR =
{ Orders.d.bill_lname }">

</TD></TR>

This will leave you with only the Bill To Name. You will have to repeat this
for all fields in all instances of the order form.

For your second question you will need to do basically the same thing as
above but on a smaller scale.
Search for Shipping Weight: with the colon after weight, will be quicker to
find(I believe there are two instances)

Comment out the lines for weight using the same as above <MvComment>
</MvComment>
Save your changes and upload to your server.

Answered by Mike Crawford @ www.nothinbutprints.com

Question: Why can't I remove a module from my store. I get "Miva Merchant Encountered the Following Error: Module 'Base + Weight Shipping' is in use by one or more orders."

Answer: Try processing the orders using the module first.
Then you should be able to delete it.
Answered by Unknown

Question: The only product attribute is WEIGHT. How can I change it to SIZE and COLOR instead? There's no WEIGHT to my product?

Answer: You can change attributes and options for each product by
clicking the arrow beside the product and selecting attribute.

You would have to rewrite the Merchant program to change
weight to size and color attributes.
Answered by Luray

Question: I'm using the UPS shipping calculated module. Is there a way to include the standard $1.50 handing charge that the store charges per order?

Answer: I believe there is a module at the Miva Exchange that will
do this. Try UPS Plus

Answered by Luray

Question: How can I change the order of credit card and shipping information?

Answer: If you are using Credit Card with Simple Validation for payment, just remove
the options and re-add in the order you want. If you are using UPS online
calculation for shipping it might work to select the options you want in
order as well. I'm not sure about that one though. If you are using other
shipping options it would be the same as the credit cards.

Answered by Mike Crawford @ www.nothinbutprints.com

Quesstion: Is there a way to change the shipping so that if the order is under $40.00, the shipping would be $4.95, and anything over $40.00 would be $7.95.

Answer: VISIT MIVA EXCHANGE: http://www.miva.com/exchange/

Yes. Just go to the Miva Exchange and get the module called subtotal.
Install it to your mall. Then install it to your store. The string of
numbers which go in the rate field would be
0.01|40.00|4.95^40.01|99999.99|7.95

You don't need a minimum cause you covered it with the 0.01 up to.....

Answered by William Weiland @ http://wcw.simplenet.com/merchant/merchant.mv

Question: When I use Online UPS calculation than How would I charge
>handling $5 to my customer?

Answer: There is a free module at:

http://www.miva.com/exchange/

which will let you do this.

Question: I am using Flat Rate shipping of 6.50. But I would like to add $2.00 for extra items rather than another whole 6.50. How can this be done?

Answer: VISIT MIVA EXCHANGE: http://www.miva.com/exchange/

Use the free basenum shipping module in the miva exchange.

Answered by: William Weiland @ http://wcw.simplenet.com/merchant/merchant.mv

Question: Is there any way I can charge for shipping based on a percentage of the product total?

Answer: If you go to www.miva.com/exchange you will find a percentage module that I have placed there. Version 1.X

Brian K. Bolster @ http://www.bkbsolutions.com

Question: My upsplus (and ups) module(s) were not working, I kept getting an 'unable to calculate shipping charges' on the checkout page. When I did a 'view source' on that page I saw an error: 'MvCommerce: Runtime Error: can't resolve undefined symbol: Inappropriate file type or format.'

Answer: I contacted my ISP, who had seen this problem before and recommended that I have my engine downgraded from the 3.63 - that was the problem, the engine. It worked and all is well.

Answered by Laura

Question: Does anyone know if the UPS Commerce Library comes with Merchant2, or do you have to install it?

Answer: The UPS Commerce Libraries is a part of the Miva Empressa server engine, not Merchant the script program. Your host provider has not properly installed Empressa on that server, and it will be up to them to repair it. Instructions on how to install the libraries are in the README.TXT that came with their copy of Empressa. You might draw their attention to their configuration error and ask for it to be fixed. There will be nothing you can do unless you have administrative access to the server that Empressa is running on.

In short, they did not install it right.

Merchant will not be able to calculate shipping costs until your IHP fixes the server for you.

Answered by Jonathan Wray

Question: Is it possible to change the order the shipping options show up in the check out page?

Answer: If you have not noticed they show up in the reversed order you put them is as. Try putting what you want first in last and so on.

Answered by Jeff Collins

Answer: A module for Miva Merchant 1.25 that fixes the ups
Ground Residential problem is now located at:
~http://www.miva.com/~jeff/public/fixes/ups/

The 2.x version is there too.

NOTE: If you already have a UPS module installed,
which most of you downloading this fix would, then
you don't need to uninstall the old module and add
the new module, you simply go to the modules list,
find the current ups module, and upload the new
file (Renamed to ups.mv) and update the existing
installed module with the new file.

Answered by Jeff Huber @ Miva Corporation

Question: Why am I getting the fatal error message MER-MER-00004 Action=Ship Screen=OPAY?

Answer: Your shipping module is not properly installed.

Answered by Luray

Question: How can I include shipping to tax calculation and have it different for different Provinces?

Answer: First, you will need to get Merchant to tax on the shipping. If you go to http://www.miva.com/exchange , under Miva Merchant/Tax are the instructions for modifing the appropriate files for charging tax on shipping. The instructions will work with both Merchant 1.x and 2.x without any modifiactions. Now for the different taxes for each providence, I'd suggest changing the OTHER STATE/PROVIDENCE field to a drop down with a list of all the providences (so spellings are consistant). Then in the tax module, have <MvIF> statements that would read the field and add the tax for that providence.

Answered by Brian Bolster