Customising shipping to offer a surcharge

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   I have the shipping options setup for our store at the moment but there are certain areas in the UK that we will want to enforce a surcharge on the basis of post code or the first 2 letters of the post code.

e.g. If post code begins with TQ then the delivery charge should attract a 50% surcharge.

Can anyone suggest something to help me on the way. I have some ideas but before I start to evaluate them I was just wondering if anyone else deals with this or similar.

regards

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desquinn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 03-March-2006 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote desquinn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Customising shipping to offer a surcharge Posted: 21-August-2007 at 6:52pm
	I have the shipping options setup for our store at the moment but there are certain areas in the UK that we will want to enforce a surcharge on the basis of post code or the first 2 letters of the post code. e.g. If post code begins with TQ then the delivery charge should attract a 50% surcharge. Can anyone suggest something to help me on the way. I have some ideas but before I start to evaluate them I was just wondering if anyone else deals with this or similar. regards
	Des

Espressotec Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 10-August-2007 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote Espressotec Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22-August-2007 at 1:21pm
	Well for taxes I do beleive you can do taxes by Zip Code. Under Settings go to Manage Taxes, Then Under Tax by location click add new, and then you can choose to add any amount of tax by zip code, country or province
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desquinn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 03-March-2006 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote desquinn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25-August-2007 at 9:12am
	not sure that applying taxes is the right direction as we already apply VAT on all purchases.
	Des

desquinn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 03-March-2006 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote desquinn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27-August-2007 at 7:28pm
	On another tack, whow would I code the shipping selection page to choose a second shipping method. I have the code in place to detect whether a customers postcode is in the surcharge areas. So what I was thinking was a different shipping rate for these customers and priced accordingly. But my dilema is being able to automatically select the correct shipping method on the shipping choice page, and perhaps even hiding the "default"/cheaper method shown to all others. Does anyone have any thoughts on this.
	Des

desquinn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 03-March-2006 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote desquinn Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12-September-2007 at 8:58am
	Hi, Managed to work this one out by playing with the chooseshipment page. If anyone is interested, you can create a separate shipping method with surcharge added to it. Then when the the choice of shipments is being displayed you parse for the surcharge shipment type and then only display that one to the subset of customers that are attracting the surcharge.
	Des