Thread: coupon - free shipping - limited proucts

Is it possible to set up a coupon code for "Free Ground Shipping" on just 1 product or any number of products? am using ML 8.0 and NOT using RealTime Shipping methods.

Thanks,
Nizam

That's possible, yes.

In the coupon setup, you need the following attributes to be set:
*Discount Includes Free Shipping: YES
Valid For Product(s): specify what product is to be free of charge

In the appconfig, set ShippingMethodIDIfFreeShippingIsOn to the Shipping Method ID that you want to mark as having free shipping (i.e. Ground, etc). The ID can be retrieved from configurations -> Shipping -> Shipping method.

Would the customer be required to enter a coupon code for this to work?

Yes... but it's going to add free shipping to the whole order. Free Shipping is an all or nothing thing. If you're looking to have specific products be "cost free" for shipping in and of themselves you're going to have to tweak the logic to remove the product before recieving rates. You can find that in the AspDotNetStorefrontCore/ShippingCalculations/MyShippingMethod file and it will require source.

Originally Posted by Ex-Jesse

Yes... but it's going to add free shipping to the whole order. Free Shipping is an all or nothing thing. If you're looking to have specific products be "cost free" for shipping in and of themselves you're going to have to tweak the logic to remove the product before recieving rates. You can find that in the AspDotNetStorefrontCore/ShippingCalculations/MyShippingMethod file and it will require source.

Thanks, after fooling around with it I came to that same conclusion that it was all or nothing. I do have the source for the site and I have customized the heck out of it already! So one more thing is no big deal, was just hoping it could be done with native functionality..

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Ex-Jesse

You can find that in the AspDotNetStorefrontCore/ShippingCalculations/MyShippingMethod file and it will require source.

Is that in the core, I don't see that one.

It's in the core. ShippingCalculation folder if you're viewing the solution in VS2k8. It's got all sorts of classes named based on the shipping method type, IE: AllOrdersHaveFreeShippingCalculation, UseFixedPercentageOfTotalShippingCalculation, etc.

I use real time rates, so I had to add my custom logic in the UseRealTimeRatesShippingCalculation.vb. The function is GetShippingMethods. At the beginning, the s_methods variaible is dimensioned and filled from the RTShipping object. Before you do that, you'll want to iterate through your cart, remove every item that you designate as "is Free Shipping", and store them in an array. Get Your shipping methods then, and re-add the array to the cart. That way the shipping methods are blind of these products, but they are still present.

Yeah, I see it now, didn't realize it was a folder so I ignored the folder. Thanks, I'll start looking there.