Maximum weight

[jxm28788]

I'm thinking of expanding my customerbase to Europe, but the shipping charges go from reasonable to absurd after you hit the 2kg mark.

Can I set actinic to refuse orders over 2kg for euro customers...? (if not I'll just put the costs in and the customers will self regulate!)

Also, can I get the shopping basket tool (that appears on every page) to show the basket weight as well as qty and value? If the customer is on the 2kg limit I don't want them to have to go backwards and forwards to the checkout taking stuff out...

[jxm28788]

ah, found the answer to the first one (don't allow excess), but still need to know about displaying the basket weight...

[cdicken]

There is no 'show basket weight' variable in Actinic I'm afraid. These values are never stored as a single value - they are just added together by the Perl scripts whenever you do a weight-based calculation (i.e. when Actinic wants to display the available shipping classes in the checkout).

[jxm28788]

So can I use the existing perl scripts that are used to add it up for the basket to add it up for each page?

or can I write a perl script to do this? has anyone else done this on an actinic site?

If it can be done a few hints would be useful - I do have programming skills but have no idea how perl scripts work... (where do I type them? how do I test them?)

A weight based postal system doesn't seem very useful if the customer has no way of knowing how heavy the basket is...?

[jxm28788]

Does anyone use the weight based postage on their actinic site?

I'm still trying to figure out how to display the weight...

any perl scripters out there? any add-ons that do this?