Drupal eCommerce course

On the Quote methods page, click on the Flat rate tab and then click on the Add a new flat rate shipping method link to bring up the Edit flat rate method page:

Fig 7: Creating a new flat rate shipping method

In this instance a new Local flat rate method is being created with a base price of $5 and an additional charge of $2 per product. Naturally, you would use prices that reflect your store’s individual costs. Click Submit to add this method to the list of quote methods. You can add as many as you like here depending on what you need to cater for all your customers:

Fig 8: New local flat rate shipping method

This new shipping method is now available to customers purchasing products from your store. By itself, it’s not much use because we have not told the store when it can apply this shipping method. Given that it is for Local delivery we need to ensure that it is only available to local customers. For argument’s sake, let’s say only those customers in the same city.

In order to enforce this, click the conditions link on the far right of the listing to bring up the following page:

Fig 9: Adding a condition to the Local shipping method

We want to see the postal code supplied with an order because this can tell us if the customer is local or not. Make the selection and click Add condition. This brings up the condition’s configuration page that can be used to specify the precise condition to be tested:

Fig 10: Providing a postal code to test against an order’s shipping address

In this instance, any postal code that begins with 070 is considered local, for the purposes of this Local flat rate delivery. With that setting made, click Save changes to add it to the Local conditions.

Now, assuming you have this shipping method enabled in the General settings sub-tab of the Quote methods tab of Shipping quote settings, whenever a customer enters a delivery address within the 070* postal code region, the Local flat rate shipping method will become available for them to select at a base rate of $5 and an additional $2 per product. We’ll see this in action later in the course in the section entitled Fulfilment.