Shipping Options UK

Couple of questions regarding the shipping options in eCart 6:
1) The default options are all US based, can these be changed to UK options (ie Royal Mail, ParcelForce)?
2) I'd like to charge amounts dependent on the number of items that are purchased. So if between 1-5 items = £1.00: 6-10 items = £2.50 etc - Is that possible?
Many thanks
Nick

Last I checked Royal Mail didn't have an API. To use them you have to get their price charts, populate a database, and then look up the associated charge from the recordset. I haven't done ParcelForce, but assuming they have sample code you can use that works, it wouldn't be too difficult to implement (we could help with either of these in a premier support ticket)

Quantity based shipping is a simple rule you can add to the cart. I'm sure you could do that one on your own by going to the shipping tab of the cart object and adding a rule for each price point.

The Royal Mail and the ParcelForce isn't really necessary I have discovered. I have put in new Shipping Options in the eCart Objects but when I try the cart out it hasn't got any shipping details at all and nothing is added when it goes to Paypal. I am not getting any error messages but I was slightly confused as I was following instructions given by Jason to another Forum user and in Jason's version, all the UK Shipping Options were dependent on the following:
AND If session variable exists: [eCartCheckoutForm_shipping_country]
AND If session variable [eCartCheckoutForm_shipping_country] = [UK]
but then the person who had asked the question found that it wasn't working and he had to enter GB instead. Could you tell me what I should be using - UK or GB? I have attached a copy of the cart and the confirm pages in case they are of any help. If you need to see any other pages I can send them
I appreciate your help on this - many thanks

The country code is "GB".... but the new checkout doesn't store all of the form fields individually any more.

To get the necessary field stored into the session, update your confirm_cart.php page and add this code below the cart's ->getContents() call:

<?php

if (isset($_POST['Country'])) {

  $_SESSION['eCartCheckoutForm_shipping_country'] = $_POST['Country'];

}

?>

That way the session variable you are referring to will be set and the shipping should be calculated properly.

That's great - all working now - had a bit of a blip (a rogue square bracket) but now all up and working
Thanks again for your help - really appreciated
Nick