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It has been a great pleasure to be part of the thriving development communities of VirtueMart as well as WooCommerce. However, during the last year it became painstakingly clear that in addition to a full-time job, a young family and several other time-consuming hobbies at professional level (like being a professional singer) the plugin development and the support that it requires is not sustainable and is taking its toll. It has been an honor, but it is now time to say good bye!
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VM Advanced Shipping by Rules, Version 6.2.4 Filename: plg_opentools_vm_rules_shipping_advanced_v6.2.4.zip MIME-Type: application/zip File size: 56866 Bytes |
Determine even very complex shipping costs according to general conditions (containing even mathematical expressions). Shipping costs can be depending on:
This "Advanced Shipping by Rules" plugin incorporates arbitrary basic arithmetic expressions (allowed operators are +, -, *, /, %, ^, parentheses and functions like round, ceil, floor, max, min, etc.) of the order properties in all conditions and shipping costs. You can also define custom variables that can contain complex conditions (e.g. ZIP are checks) to be reused in multiple rules. Another feature in the advanced version is the support for alphanumeric postcodes (UK, Canada, Netherlands).
Each country zone can be assigned a different tax rule, and the shipping cost can be given as the amout with or without taxes. In both cases the tax amount and the corresponding net or gross shipping costs will be correctly calculated.
Name=Free Shipping; 100<=Amount; 0
Name=Domestic Small; (Weight<3) OR (Articles==1); shipping=6
Name=Domestic Standard; Amount<100; Shipping=1.5*Weight
This set of rules describes three shipping costs: Orders of 100€ and more are free, otherwise if the order weighs less than 3kg or contains only one article, the shipping is 6€, all other orders cost 1.5€ per kg.
This advanced version of the plugin also allows shipping costs like 5% of the order amount, or 10€ per kg, or 2€ per additional article. More advanced rules are employed by cargo companies, where the shipping per kg gets cheaper the more you ship. A (very complex) example is the following rule, which applies to all orders of at least 2 articles below 100€ and specifies shipping costs as 5€ fixed plus 3% of the order amount plus 1€ per kg plus 0.5€ per additional article:Name=Complex shipping function; articles>=2; amount<100; shipping=5+amount*0.03+1*weight+0.5*(articles-2)
For more (and more real-life) examples of advanced shipping cost calculations, see the examples in the documentation.
This plugin is licenced unter the GNU GPLv3.