Shipping Estimate by Post Code (AUSTRALIA POST)

[ben-permeance <be...@permeance.com.au>]

Hello.
I am working on an OFBiz project in Australia. I have worked out how to use
the Shipping Estimator and have had success using the Shipping Estimator by
GEO_ID(STATES). However, I would like to be able to have the Shipping
Estimator calculate the Geographic Zone by Post Code, not by GEO_ID.. 

Any thoughts?
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Re: Shipping Estimate by Post Code (AUSTRALIA POST)

[David E Jones <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

You could treat these postal zones as Geo records as well (geographic  
boundaries). Once that is done you'll have to setup a Geo hierarchy  
with GeoAssoc records, and then modify some code in the shipping calc  
to expand geo lists based on this hierarchy and do the appropriate  
calculations.

We do something very similar to this in the Tax Authority rate calc  
service, so you can look at that to see how the Geo/GeoAssoc data  
model is meant to work.

-David


On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:37 PM, ben-permeance wrote:

>
> Hello.
> I am working on an OFBiz project in Australia. I have worked out how  
> to use
> the Shipping Estimator and have had success using the Shipping  
> Estimator by
> GEO_ID(STATES). However, I would like to be able to have the Shipping
> Estimator calculate the Geographic Zone by Post Code, not by GEO_ID..
>
> Australia Post Shipping Pricing is caluclated by PostCode
> (eg 1000 - 2263 = N1, 2264-2484 = N2, 2485 - 2486 = Q1 ...)
>
> Any thoughts?
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>