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Hello,

I got a few questions i'd like to ask and hopefully neowin can help me out or clarify a few things for me.

My boss has been asking me a few things about the shopping cart on the comapny website.

here is the website Peter and Paul's Baskets

Now she's been talking to the website designer and asking him to put shipping charges or at least some sort of chart which shows the shipping charges, that way the client can enter the amount while shopping and get a total price including shipping and taxes. ATM when you make a purchase and finalize it you will only get the price of the basket with taxes included.

Is there any way to insert a chart with shipping charges for the various locations so that at the end of the purchase it calculates shipping and taxes with the total?

Not sure if i made this clear enough but if you need any clarification on anything feel free to ask, and any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advanced, hope to see some answers from some of you :)

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Inserting a chart sounds easy enough if your web designer is doing the programming. I am guessing that you are basing your shipping charges by geographical region instead of per city/locality.

In terms of automating the charge to auto-calculate it with the cart, it really depends on if your webmaster is using a prebuilt script (for example Virtuemart). If they are, there might be a plugin for what you are trying to do. Otherwise, it is up them to code it into the cart script which has been built and is functioning already.

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yes what we're trying to do is inserting charges by geographical region, as well as a something that when a client places an order they receive a confirmation email. The web designer himself, does not want to do this for some reason he says it will mess up the website and that template does not allow him to do it, but i think he's just too lazy to deal with this and tries to use his knowledge to push the idea away. Is there anyway that i could help to do this i dont have much knowledge in shopping carts but i do know the basics and maybe more as far as running a website and coding it...

if someone could lead me towards the right path then id really appreciate it.

thx

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can someone read this over and just let me know whether you think it would be appropriate or not...

Peter and Paul?s Baskets Website Project

The project is based on creating a feature that allows clients to pick a geographical region to where they want the basket to be delivered. It will include a page that will display all regions where shipping is available.

An extra field for shipping charges will be provided in the checkout procedure, which will be marked as (*) required in order to process the order and finalize it.

Once the order is complete, the client will also receive a confirmation email, stating all details of the order.

Shopping Cart features update

? Shipping charges by geographical region

? Email confirmation of order

Hours

? Coding of shopping cart ? 8 to 10 hours

? Research ? 3 to 4 hours

? Uploading and testing ? 3 to 4 hours

Pricing

? $450 to $550

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Not to be mean, but it sounds like you aren't capable of doing the job you're trying to do. All of your questions seem non sequitur to me...

I mean if you're doing Web Development how would you not know how to add shipping charges to a shopping cart? If you're dealing with a custom developed code base you'd start with understanding how the shipping charges need to be calculated and where you'll be getting the rates. Then writing an implementation that meets the requirements. It isn't a question you'd bring to this, or any, forum simply because it would be one we couldn't realistically help with (we'd need to know the code and etc) and should be a piece of cake for you.

Likewise, we can't tell you what a "reasonable" charge is for your services. There are a million and one factors that affect whether your rate is fair or not. I'm sure a .NET Developer in San Francisco, CA doesn't make the same amount as I do (maybe more, maybe less) and as such I'm sure your rates are not the same as mine... If you wanted an example, my company charges $120/h for .NET Development services here in Philadelphia, PA. Would that work for you? Couldn't tell you.

You should have done the price research to figure out what is fair in your area...

So you seem to be swimming in a pool that is too deep for you. I don't think you need to jump out and run, but you need to get your bearings before you drown out.

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i agree with everything that you said Frazell.

I am swimming in a pool thats too deep for me and I've realized it as i looked at the code. The code is made from the current web developer who tells the company he has no time to do this and he doesnt even wanna do it in the near future because he says adding this feature will ruin the template.

The company saw that i have somewhat knowledge and they think i can figure out, and i have confidence in myself that i can.

But the ftp where everything is hosted is a total disaster all kinds of files that arent even used anymore and it just complicated the entire thing.

As far as the shipping calculations and the geographical regions to be added for clients thats not the problem i can take care of that, im just not sure what to edit, and how.

They have given me time until January, and i told em that i dont think i was the right person to do this but as i said that my manager said.... are you shutting me down then cuz i hope your not and i know you can do this....thats y i dont want to back out...

if anyone could tell me what kind of files i should be looking for, then i would appreciate the help, and if i get this completed and get paid for it as a separate contract on the side then i will reward the person who will take the time to i guess walk me through this.

Thx!

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The easiest place to start is to look at the code for the shopping cart and see how it is all built and put together. It might not be coded properly, but this should give you some idea of where the stuff you are looking to build off of is located. Then after investigating the code and the database (if used in this step) you need to map out what your company's business requirements are and build a solution from there.

What I mean is you have to map out exactly how you need to calculate these shipping charges, irrespective of the code, then how you can do it with the existing code base. So, are you using rates from Purolator, Canada Post, UPS, multiple ones, all of them, is it based on Postal Code, etc. Then once you have those questions answered you have to ask where are you going to get the rates from? A service provided by the couriers? Do you need to support the waiving of shipping fees? On an item by item basis or just a cart basis? I think you get where I'm going with the logic.

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yes i get it except that we use our own rates with private couriers. so we have a shipping charge already pre-determined based on the city you are located in

for example:

Vaughan - $20

Condord - $21

Maple- $15

Woodbridge -$17

and the list goes on...so what i have is a chart with all the cities and the cost for each city

So the charges are already established...what they are asking for is basically for an option on the shopping cart where the client can look for the city they r located in and select it in order to have the shipping charge appear in the total. Making sense so far?

Also when i look for the shopping cart files which i think i found but its such a mess in there that they have old and new websites completely mixed togethe...is there a way to find out what files are actually connected to the current website? maybe by looking at the source?

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Are there comments in the source code? Most programmers do, or at least should, leave comments in the source to help future programmers pick up from where they left off.

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yes i get it except that we use our own rates with private couriers. so we have a shipping charge already pre-determined based on the city you are located in

for example:

Vaughan - $20

Condord - $21

Maple- $15

Woodbridge -$17

and the list goes on...so what i have is a chart with all the cities and the cost for each city

So the charges are already established...what they are asking for is basically for an option on the shopping cart where the client can look for the city they r located in and select it in order to have the shipping charge appear in the total. Making sense so far?

Also when i look for the shopping cart files which i think i found but its such a mess in there that they have old and new websites completely mixed togethe...is there a way to find out what files are actually connected to the current website? maybe by looking at the source?

Then start with the requirements you can handle. Figure out how this shipping rate is reached. Is it based on the weight of the order, the dollar value, etc. Then build yourself a table based on that information, at the least. Then look at the source for the shopping cart to see where you can add new functionality. Read the city from wherever it comes from on the page, as well as the Province, and pull the rates from your table.

It should be really easy and require very little modifications to the existing codebase.?

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ok i found the shopping cart files they r split into

shoppingcart.aspx which shows the order summary

shipping.aspx where you input all shipping information...so i figure what i need to adjut has to go in this section..

and shipsummary.aspx which of course confirms the shipping details used in the previous page...

now if i was to paste the code could someone guide me into the right direction as far as having the customer pick the right city for shipping with the price information...

basically i wanna include a field where the customer pulls up the page to see the list of cities we ship to with the shipping charge so that they can include it as they fill in the information that way it will come in the total with taxes and everything else....

what should i paste in here?

it looks pretty simple to do i just dont wanna make a mistake and ruin this...so if someone can guide me through it that would be awesome! thx in advanced

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