Hi Mike,

1. There are 2 functions(all though empty) in cw3/CWTags/CWIncDiscountFunctions.cfm

cwGetShippingDiscounts and cwGetShippingDiscount

Both functions are referenced in CW3/CWShowCart.cfm and the values from calculations of those(if you add them) are used in calculating the totals.

There are no FrontEnd Administration(admin) built in for this functionality.

2. You could also Control the shipping Charge amount Programagicaly from with in cw3\CWTags\CWTagShipping.cfm by setting conditions: http://forums.cartweaver.com/topic/free-shipping-if (scroll down and see my post for similar situation)

3. There is always a Charge Shipping option on Product level.

Hope this helps.

Webmaster Alex
http://cwmods.webreed.com/

Thanks for your suggestions Alex, but items 2 & 3 don't fit my client's needs. Ideally they are trying to track the success of a promotion by offering a free shipping coupon.  By seeing how many people use that specific coupon, they can track how many people are customers in response to the ad.

I tried using the two exisiting and empty functions cwGetShippingDiscounts and cwGetShippingDiscount, but have not been successful. 

I'd love to see (and would be willing to pay for) an incremental 3.5 update to cartweaver that added the shipping discount feature as it is the #1 requested discount I get from my clients.  I hate telling them we should offer a dollar amount off that equals the shipping charge instead.

Mike,

I've looked at the code(again) and there are several different ways to approach this.

For example, to give free shipping on ALL products if you are NOT charging Tax on shipping and your shipping is based on Cart total you can

Change
cwGetShippingDiscounts:

from <cfreturn "" />
to <cfreturn "0" />(change 0 to 2 and call it 2 Dollars shipping on your entire order!!!!!)

AND

cwGetShippingDiscount:

From: <cfreturn ShipTotal/>
To: <cfreturn shippingDiscounts/>

And that should Automatically will give you the discount for the Shipping for what Ever it is calculated to be and even display it.


Would it be OK  if You describe in more detail what you are looking for as far as Product Based Shipping discount, real life situations that you deal with. The reason I ask is I might have done them/mods in the past for other clients.

Thanks,

Alex

Alex,

From what I understand you are looking at per product shipping, never mind the discounts at this point.

CW3 shipping calc is based on either Cart Total OR Weight Total, then ranges, state/province extensions and taxes go in.

Sounds like a MOD to me, this is definitely not out of the BOX situation.

Alex

Alex,

but since all the hooks appears to be there (ready and waiting)

and one of the hints is on line 150 in cwGetDiscountProduct function:

AND ((d.discount_applyType) In (1,4,5,6)))


Webmaster Alex
http://cwmods.webreed.com/

That was my first approach.