Thread: UPS Maximum Weight

While we are using negotiated prices of UPS.
In admin we have an option to enter the maximum Weight for UPS.
which is good.
But I have a issue hear.
lets say i gave 150 lbs as maximum size for UPS negotiated rates.
When customer adds Products in shopping cart, and if reaches any thing above 150 lbs.

Cart is not calculating the shipping and gives a message showing call for Shipping cost.

why is it not considering anything above as a second box. ie., if shopping cart has products weight 190 lbs the cart should count it as 1 box of 150 lbs and 2nd box of 40 lbs and give the shipping rates.

How can we achieve it.

can one help me with this.

thanks

This will most definitely take a mod to the shipping calculation class. We had the same issue and I resolved it by putting in code to take the total weight and break it up into equal 70 lb increments (thats the max we pack in a box). Lets say a customer ordered 300 lbs worth, I would have 5 boxes. 4 boxes at 70lbs each and then 1 at 20 lbs. I then call ups api with that data.

its not perfect, obviously you cant break the weight perfectly but this gets us very close and has worked well.

I dont remember the details of what I changed but it was fairly simple. I think if you search you will see where I asked this same questions long ago. I suggested they create an app config called "splitpackat" and you give it the weight you want to break shipments into. Obviously they never took my advice.

Can you please share your code,
I would like to implement it on my site.

Ill see if I can figure out what/where all it changed.

Ok, I cant send you the actual code as we have some proprietary calculations in this class. But in the RTSHipping class below is the code ive added/modified. See if this gets you started, feel free to post back here with any questions and ill help as best I can.

Code:

//created a local variable to figure out total num of packages based on 70lb weight break
int numPackages = (int)Math.Ceiling(ShipmentWeight / 70);
//kill this array that was based on Shipment.Count
//rateRequest.Shipment.Package = new ups2.ShipmentPackage[Shipment.Count];
//create this array based on what I determined total package count to be
rateRequest.Shipment.Package = new ups2.ShipmentPackage[numPackages];
//set a local variable remainingWeight to total weight
decimal remainingWeight = ShipmentWeight;
//down below turn the foreach loop into a while using our numPackages as the control variable
// foreach (RTShipping.Package p in Shipment)
while (numPackages > 0)

   //right here check if our remaining weight is under our break point, if so set this package to that weight and kill the numPackages control variable
                    // package weight
                    if (remainingWeight <= 70) 
                    {
                        upsPackage.PackageWeight.Weight = remainingWeight;
                        numPackages = 0;

                    } else 
                    {
                        //remainingWeight was over 70, set this package to 70, reduce remainingWeight and reduce numPackages by 1
                        upsPackage.PackageWeight.Weight = 70;
                        remainingWeight -= 70;
                        numPackages--;
                    }
                    //upsPackage.PackageWeight.Weight = p.Weight;

Can you please tell me which code file you edited to make this work?

I do not have source code, can i get this done with out source code?

Originally Posted by harsha.gus

Can you please tell me which code file you edited to make this work?

I do not have source code, can i get this done with out source code?

Its in RTShipping.cs and no, you will need source to make this change.