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I am trying to set different shipping rates based on location in Canada and exclude the territories, so I entered the following rule:

Name="No shipping available"; Canada_Area=="X"; NoShipping
Name="Newfoundland"; Canada_Area=="A" AND "A"<=Canada_Subarea<="N"; Shipping=50
Name="PEI"; Canada_Area=="C"; Shipping=50
Name="Free Shipping"; 0<=Amount; Shipping=0

This rule works for everything but the first rule (No shipping to Canada_Area=="X"). When I enter X0A 0H0 for the customer's shipping address postal code the cart says "No shipment selected". When I try to "Select shipment" it says that no shipment method matches the characteristics of my order. Again, if I have an address in any of the other postal code ranges, it works fine. Can you tell me what am I doing wrong?

I've tried the first rule as both:
Name="No shipping available"; Canada_Area=="X"; Shipping=NoShipping

AND

Name="No shipping available"; Canada_Area=="X"; NoShipping

Neither works for me.

Thanks for your help.

Unfortunately, VirtueMart itself is not so flexible. A shipping plugin can only provide a shipping rate, in which case the name will be displayed, or it offeres not shipping rate, but then it can not show any message...
So, it is not possible for the shipping plugin to display the Name string to the user, unless the plugin offers a shipping rate.

Basically, what you experience (a postal code of X0A 0H0 not offering the free shipping of your fourth rule) is actually the best that can currently be done in VirtueMart.

Sorry,
Reinhold

PS: I have amended the docs on NoShipping to make this clear.

Thank you. Your explanation makes sense. I had not understood Virtuemart's limitations.

I'm probably going to hack my Virtuemart site to make it work the way I need it to in conjunction with your Shipping by Rules plugin (which is great, by the way).