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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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Posted on 26/08/2014 14:11:36

Hi there,

What's the recommended approach to calculate a shipping fee? It seems I can choose between a FeeProvider and a ShippingProvider but I am not sure which one to choose.

My use case is relatively simple: based on the cart's contents, I need to call an external service, provide some data such as the addresses and the order line items and then I get a fee back. The configuration features of the ShippingProvider are nice, but I don't necessarily need them as I can easily configure that stuff elsewhere.

In addition to this: when does a FeeProvider show up? I created a custom class that returns a fixed value but that is never added to the cart. Is it overrules by a ShippingProvider?

Thanks in advance,

Imar


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 26/08/2014 14:26:05
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Hi Imar

You should probably use a ShippingProvider.

Each shipping method you have in your backend could have a ShippingProvider. If the selected shipping method on the cart returns a fee from a shippingprovider the fee calculation will stop there. If no fees are found, the feeprovider will be invoked - and if that returns a PriceRaw instance, the calculation will stop there.

Then if there is still no fee, the fee values from the fee method in the backend will be applied.

BR Nicolai

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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 26/08/2014 14:49:51
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Hi Nicolai,

That's very helpful. I thought a Shipping method in the backend *was* a ShippingProvider. I now see that in order for the FeeProvider to be activated you need to have a method with its type set to None. Might be a good idea to add your answer to the documentation here: http://developer.dynamicweb.com/documentation/for-developers/ecommerce/extensibility/providers/fee-providers.aspx

Thanks!

Imar

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 26/08/2014 14:51:02
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Speaking of that help link: it can't be found through search: http://developer.dynamicweb.com/search.aspx?q=The+FeeProvider+allows+you+to+manipulate+the+shipping+fee+of+an+order+in+eCommerce

Is that a configuration error?

Imar

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 26/08/2014 14:55:16
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Glad I could clarify.

I've updated the documentation with this information!

BR Nicolai

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 26/08/2014 14:55:47
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No reason why it cannot be found. Maybe because we have changed from developer.dynamicweb-cms.com to developer.dynamicweb.com...

 

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