Thread: Minimum Shipping Charge

I have a client that needs to set a minimum shipping charge of 5.95 while using Real time shipping. Is this possible without customization?

You'll need to make modifications for this, but they aren't terribly difficult mods. In the ShoppingCart class, near the bottom of the GetRTShippingRates method, you'll find a foreach loop going through each of the shipping methods

Code:

NumberFormatInfo usNumberFormat = new CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat;

foreach (RTShipping.ShippingMethod s_method in s_methods)
{

Immediately inside of this foreach loop, you would check the rate of the method, and if less than 5.95 set it to 5.95...eg.

Code:

NumberFormatInfo usNumberFormat = new CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat;

foreach (RTShipping.ShippingMethod s_method in s_methods)
{
    if (s_method.ServiceRate < 5.95M)
    {
        s_method.ServiceRate = 5.95M;
    }

You could even create a custom appconfig for minimum shipping charge and use that so if you need to change the minimum charge in the future you don't have to recompile

Code:

NumberFormatInfo usNumberFormat = new CultureInfo("en-US").NumberFormat;

foreach (RTShipping.ShippingMethod s_method in s_methods)
{
    if (s_method.ServiceRate < AppLogic.AppConfigNativeDecimal("RTShipping.MinimumShippingCharge"))
    {
        s_method.ServiceRate = AppLogic.AppConfigNativeDecimal("RTShipping.MinimumShippingCharge");
    }

And that's all there is to it

Thanks a bunch George. That is perfect!