UK Postcode shipping range

Hi

I'm trying to set up specific postage for some Scottish Islands.

One for example has postcodes beginning PA37 - PA39

However, if I try to ship to a test address with postcode PA37 1SE, it doesn't work. I already have a general United Kingdom shipping method at £3 and anything I try to get from the PA37 address defaults to that.

This is my settings, am I doing anything wrong?

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Hi,

The first character of the second part of your post codes is also a number. Because of that, the system does the comparison with 371 and the range 37-39 which means that the post code is outside the range.
You should try with a minimum post code of 370 and a maximum post code of 399.

Thanks, that was definitely part of the problem but it has still left me with an issue.

If I unpublish the postage rate to the whole UK (£3), the fix you gave me works. But if that postage rate is enabled, it takes priority.

Yes, that's normal I guess.

Your UK shipping method does not have any post code restriction, so it's possible for any post code.
You should split it into 2 shipping methods:
one for the range 0-369
one for the range 400-999

That way, you will have one or the other displayed on the checkout but never both at the same time.

OK, thanks.

Unfortunately it's going to be more complicated than that, the prefix letters determine the city/county and the number determines the district. So LA is for one Scottish island, every other city in the UK has a different letter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postcode_a...n_the_United_Kingdom

So I guess I must make a postage option for every prefix individually.

Can I put multiple prefixes in, comma separated?

That's not possible.

That complicates indeed the things.

If I understand correctly, you don't display the shipping methods selection as there is only one method.
What the system does though is that it loads all the possible methods and selects the first one by default.
So you could use that at your advantage:
Do not set any post code restrictions for the global UK shipping method.
order it so that it is the last one.
That way, when both the UK and the island specific method are possible, the island specific one will be selected. And when only the UK one is possible, it will be selected.
That should solve the problem for you without having to enter hundreds of shipping methods...

That has worked for me. Should be fine as long as the client does not decide to offer two postage types to Scottish Highlands!

Thanks for your help.

Got a bit of a problem actually :side:

If you use a UK address, it will give you the £3 amount.

If you then go back, begin the checkout process again and change to Scotland, it stays at £3.

It's not too likely that somebody will have two addresses in different regions and also find this issue, so it's not an urgent problem, but it is definitely a bug.

Do you use the latest version of HikaShop ? Because that's something we improved lately.

I am using 1.5.4

that's strange then as we added a case for that specifically to reset the shipping selection when an address is changed.
We can't reproduce that on our end.

When I first go to checkout, there is a shipping cost included in the total before I've chosen my address, is this normal? It's the cheaper one, which is last on the list of shipping methods. I don't think this was happening at first.

In fact it seems my £3 shipping option often seems to take priority no matter what. For example I gave it a maximum price of £99.99, and made a separate option with a minimum price of £100 and free delivery. If I add £150 worth of goods, it still selects the £3 option.



I started on an earlier version and updated if that makes any difference? I also started on the free version and upgraded to Essential.

It doesn't make any difference.

We need need to look at your settings to see what could be the problem. It's definitely not normal that you still see the 3£ shipping methods after you went over £100 if you set that as a maximum in the shipping method configuration.

Thanks for your help so far

Could I PM you access to the CMS, would that be enough to see what's wrong?

Yes.

The problem is that you have the option "Force shipping regardless of weight" activated in the configuration and no weight in your products and that the option "Include virtual products price" is turned off in your shipping methods.

Since the products don't have a weight, they are considered as virtual, and since the option "Include virtual products price" is turned off in your shipping methods, the products are not taken into account in the price restrictions.

So you should either set a weight in your products or turn on that "Include virtual products price" option in your shipping methods.

Thanks, that solved the issue where the Free Shipping was not taking priority.

However I still have the problem where if you change address after creating your basket, the shipping method does not change. This also means that the Free Shipping is applied before the address is selected, and then takes priority even when you choose an address which should override the free option.

To summarise, this is what we're trying to do:

Shipping Options 1-12 - £27.98
Various specific postcodes within UK

Shipping Option 13 - Free on orders over £100
Does not apply to above postcodes

Shipping Option 14 - £6.99
Anywhere else in the UK

If you spend over £100, you get option 13, regardless of which address you select, but we need any address from options 1-12 to override this.

If you select a UK address, you get option 14. If you then go back and change address to NI, Channel Islands, Scottish Highlands etc. it doesn't update to reflect options 1-12. This means you could trick the system into giving you cheaper postage.

I just check on your website and it's actually working like you want.

I've made a cart with more than £100 of goods and set my address in UK and I got the free shipping.

Then, I went back and change the address with the post code PA380 and the shipping fees were applied automatically.

Hi There,

I'm having similar issues, but I imagine things have changed since the 2 years this topic was created!

I've already got a Shipping Method for the UK setup with free posting which is pointing to my United Kingdom zone. Now I've created another shipping method with the cost of £17.50 for Zone 2 deliveries, also pointed to my United Kingdom zone, so I'm guessing if I've configured the Minimum and Maximum post codes right it should add the extra costs?

Mines slightly more complicated as I've been given a list of post codes for Zone 2 which I'm attaching in this message. I tried G83 7 as the Minimum and PH50 4 as the Maximum but I'm guessing that's not how it works as it just has the free delivery option.






I've already got a Shipping Method for the UK setup with free posting which is pointing to my United Kingdom zone. Now I've created another shipping method with the cost of £17.50 for Zone 2 deliveries, also pointed to my United Kingdom zone

Hi,

For example, for the post code within this range : IV10 8 - IV9 8 you'll have to set the :
- Prefix option to IV
- Minimum post code option to 26
- Maximum post code option to 637

So, you'll have to create 1 shipping method per prefix.