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A Craft Commerce shipping calculator plugin.
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Estimate shipping before checkout #47

Closed johnj24 closed 1 year ago

johnj24 commented 3 years ago

With Postie, is it possible to provide the customer a shipping estimate before an address has been added to the cart? I can't seem to find any great examples of this, so perhaps its not possible. Prior to Postie, I manually created a shipping method in Commerce settings with "Anywhere" as a shipping zone just to give the customer a sense of what it could cost.

engram-design commented 3 years ago

You certainly can, I just haven't put together an example for it. The tricky part is that most providers really require you to provide a bunch of details on customer addresses, to provide accurate pricing. Ideally, if we can just ask for a postcode, that'd be best, which is a popular method I've seen on shops.

I can put together an example for you after I've tested the accuracy of these calls to providers, just supplying the postcode.

johnj24 commented 3 years ago

Sounds great. Thanks, Josh.

joshparylak commented 3 years ago

@engram-design Running into the same issue, we need to estimate shipping addresses based on zipcode. Could you post or send the code example?

engram-design commented 3 years ago

There's no example code for this, because I'd have to create a new endpoint for shipping estimation.

However, since posting this issue, I believe Commerce has its own "Estimate Cart Addresses" functionality. I've not looked into it at length, but it might be an option - https://craftcms.com/docs/commerce/3.x/addresses.html#estimate-cart-addresses

jacobrussell commented 3 years ago

@engram-design What changed from your response to the OP on November 9? It seemed like you did have a solution then? Or did it not end up working out?

engram-design commented 3 years ago

@jacobrussell Nothing has changed, I just haven't had the chance to put together a full example. It was purely conceptual and not sure if I'd have need a custom controller. But Commerce's estimate cart addresses seems the way to go.