Is there a way to get free postage when the user orders more than $xxx?
Thanks.
I believe that you go to the Discount/Coupons section and create a Discount.
Under “Value type”, select free shipping.
Once the Discount is created, select the “Details” button to edit it.
Then specify the “When order total exceeds:” value and press “update”
That should work.
Cheers
Raeandy
Ah ha! Hidden away there!
Thank you very much!
You are welcome.
I feel like I’m beating a dead horse with free shipping questions, but I can’t seem to get it configured how I like. I set up a discount in 1.3.5 for free shipping, but it let’s the customer select any shipping method and set’s it as free. Plus, it requires them to enter the code to take advantage of the discount. Is there any way around this? I do real time calculations…
Thanks in advance.
You can eliminate the need for the coupon code if you specify “Free shipping” in the discount section instead of the coupon section. Unfortunately, you can not restrict the shipping methods available for free shipping.
Put in a feature request in the Bug Tracker asking for the ability to specify in shipping methods whether or not that method qualifies for free shipping. I would certainly second the need.
Bpb
That seemed to work… at least as far as you defined… I think I had a conflicting free shipping setting in the Customer Discount section also which may have been causing trouble. It certainly sets me up for problems if a customer can choose overnight shipping and it defaults to no charge. First I have to hope that I notice that shipping was free, rather than just going through with an overnight shipment. Then I have to contact the customer to see if they want to pay extra for the shipping, or default back to standard ground shipping for free… what a hassle.
Thanks for the quick response though.
Glad it helped some.
I have put a feature request (#534) into the bug tracker that would allow specific shipping methods to be tied to free shipping discounts/coupons.
Bob
Thanks, by default, I don’t have access to do that, so I will have to ask to be granted access to that part of the forum I think.
You should see a link up at the top for Bug Tracker.
Bob
Yeah… I was trying to get it at the bottom… not realizing that was a section I wasn’t supposed to have access to. Thanks for the followup though.
We have this working. Technically, my brother worked it out so I can’t take any credit. Basically we have 6 or 7 shipping methods which are real time, and then we created one manual method called Free Economy Shipping. We configured it to only work for continental US and assigned it a rate of $0.00 for orders over $99.00, which doesn’t matter much because CS-Cart automatically fills in a line for over $0 to capture the between 0 and $99.
This wouldn’t work for us because it allowed users to select it even if their orders were under $99 or we had to make it a high rate so people wouldn’t select it which would just be confusing (seeing an item called Free Economy Shipping with a high rate that is).
The fix was to add an if statement to the code that displays shipping methods… and hard coding it to only display the Free Economy Shipping method if the order is over $99.00. Not perfect, but it works for us. I’ll get the exact location of the code and what he added in the next day or so and post it for you to use if anyone is interested.