Jan 2011
2 / 3
Jan 2011
Jan 2011
nickmc53
Jan '11

I understand that Fat Free Cart is provided "on a strictly do-it-yourself basis with no support whatsoever," but I figured I'd see if anyone wanted to answer my quick question.



Fat Free Cart offers a flat rate shipping option, but I'm trying to use Google Checkout's shipping methods in order to have several options. Is this possible to do, or does Fat Free Cart fall under this stipulation - "These shipping settings will only be applied to cart posts that do not already specify shipping methods."?





Follow up question if this isn't possible:



I tried this, "You could set the first-item and add'l-item charges the same for all products, and then use the Handling charge to effectively "boost" the shipping amount added for the first item regardless of product, since Handling only gets added to the cart's shipping fee once per order," but it seems to be adding the handling charge for each additional different item. Did I misunderstand?

  • created

    Jan '11

  • last reply

    Jan '11
  • 2

    replies

  • 1.2k

    views

  • 2

    users

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Jan '11

Hm, it seems the Handling charge for FatFreeCart does indeed work as you described, on a per-product basis rather than per-order.



Since we don't offer support for FatFreeCart, we on the E-junkie support team aren't actually that familiar with how it works or how it differs from the E-junkie cart, so in this case we can only suggest experimenting with different approaches to see if you can get GC shipping charges to apply to FFC orders.



E.g., you might try deleting all shipping-related fields in your FFC button code, so no pre-calculated shipping amount is passed from the cart to checkout, but that might not indicate it's a tangible-goods order eligible for shipping, so in that case, try leaving just a token Handling amount per item and see if you can tack Shipping charges onto that at GC's end.

nickmc53
Jan '11

I tried that and it still didn't work. I have a feeling changes would have to be made to the JS in order for FatFreeCart to work with GC. I'll just stick with my system of having a bulk shipping option that changes the shipping cost to $0 for those items. Thanks for the help.