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[NickSanz]

Is there a way to estimate shipping costs when entering a manual order?

We have all the weights set up in our online store, and Supermanager did download the weights appropriately however I cannot figure out (nor do I even know if it is possible) how to calculate a shipping cost when entering a manual order.

Is this possible, or can this feature be added to the next version of SM?

[David Johns]

Nick,

We have on our list of improvements to add shipping tables that will at least estimate the shipping costs.  Also we had considered adding support for putting a link to a script that calculates it.  Many people use a script to calculate shipping and Yahoo pings it to determine the shipping cost.  We had thought of adding the ability to ping that same script to grab the shipping that should be charged.  Would either of these meet your needs?

Thanks,
David

[NickSanz]

David,

We do use a Yahoo! store and the tables that are set up through our "Shipping Manager" are the ones that we use to calculate shipping costs through our online store. I  these are the tables / script you are speaking of pinging to estimate the shipping cost. This solution would work well for us to calculate manual order shipping costs.

[David Johns]

Nick,

Other people enter a url to a script in their Yahoo Store Manager and it tells the shopping cart to ping a script to determine the shipping to charge.  In your case, however, using the native shipping calculation tables in Yahoo you would have to re-enter the tables in SuperManager.  I think it covers either way they can be calculated.  Unfortunately, since there is no way to export them from Yahoo however, you would have to manually enter them into SuperManager.  That would just be a one-time ordeal, however.

Now that we know there is more interest in this we will consider that in its priority.

Thanks,
David