Opencart module to calculate shipping cost by category.
opencart-shipping-cost-by-category plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
opencart-shipping-cost-by-category plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with opencart-shipping-cost-by-category plugin. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
This plugin will allow admin user to set a fixed cost for each category. The total shipping cost is the minimum of the cost of each category, once for each category in the cart.
For example, if a client has 3 product in cart as follows: product A category A product B category A product C category B
The costs are: 3 category A 5 category B
The total shipping cost will be 5.
Extract/add files to proper filepath: admin/controller/shipping/category.php admin/language/italian/shipping/category.php admin/view/template/shipping/category.tpl catalog/model/shipping/category.php catalog/language/italian/shipping/category.php catalog/language/english/shipping/category.php
Modify MySQL DB:
INSERT INTO _extension (type, code) VALUES ('shipping', 'category');
Access OpenCart admin backend: Give permission to system -> user groups -> top admin -> */category (ie: to all entries with category) Set costs by category in extensions -> shipping -> fixed cost by category
2014-01-06 -> Initial release.