Set Up Flat Rate

I am currently setting up flat rate for certain products, I would like for ecart to calculate shopping on both flat rate packages and shipping packages.

I already set up my table to have a flatrate entry, how do i configure shipping rule?

i got the shipping rule to work. now i am running into were if i add a item that has a flat rate and item that doesn't have a flat rate it doest calculate both rates?

Also please help on the checkout process, its not going through. It is set up for sandbox now.

you have to have 2 rules set up.

one of the flat rat and another for the shipping rate lookup.

you need to have a column in the cart to mark whether they should be applied to the flat rate rule or the shipping rat lookup rule.
For example, lets call that column:
shipMethod

for flat rat items set that columns value to 1 for rate lookup set that column to 2

in the shipping rules add triggers to look at the value for that column


to get this working for the rate lookup will require some hand coding, you would need to add code to calculate the weight for the items that have shipmethod set to 2. We can help implement that part in a premiere support appointment:
http://www.webassist.com/premier_request.php


to troubleshoot the checkout process, add the following code to the checkout failure page to dump the session:

<pre><?php var_dump($_SESSION); ?></pre>

the session contents will contain the response from the gateway, this will have information on why the transaction is failing.

thanks jason,

i narrowed the cart issue to the following. when i process an order and it goes to the order success page. everything looks good, it show products order and details of order submitted. when i navigate back to the the store some how it is storing the products in session along with all other session varables. so when i go through the checkout process through paypal it doesn't process the order. i am assuming the token is expired. my question how do i clear all cart and session values, after my order is successfully gone through? i added the clear cart to the checkout_success page but it didn't work?

add the following code on the success page after the </html> tag to clear the session:

<?php
// Initialize the session.
// If you are using session_name("something"), don't forget it now!
@session_start();

// Unset all of the session variables.
$_SESSION = array();

// If it's desired to kill the session, also delete the session cookie.
// Note: This will destroy the session, and not just the session data!
if (ini_get("session.use_cookies")) {
    $params = session_get_cookie_params();
    @setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 42000,
        $params["path"], $params["domain"],
        $params["secure"], $params["httponly"]
    );
}

// Finally, destroy the session.
@session_destroy();
@session_regenerate_id();
?>

great i will give that a try. can you contact me to figure out the shipping thing?

The shipping issue will involve custom coding.

you should sign up for a premiere support appointment:
http://www.webassist.com/premier_request.php

i added this to checkout_success3 and it didn't work? what am i doing wrong?

it must not be on the right page. make sure the session destroy code is on the correct success page.