customers must request shipping quote for orders above a certain weight.

[ddrapeau]

How can I set up my checkout page so customers must request shipping quote for orders above a certain weight.

For instance, I want customers to email me for a quote if an order weighs more than 50 lbs. How do I set that up?

[GJC Web Design]

set a 50lb limit on the current ship plug

after that depends.. do u want to allow them to complete and pay or does the cart stop there and then they enquire?

Can be as simple as a dummy weight/country set to zero and a dummy payment (std) that allows the checkout with a message explaining what happens now

you get the order with the request payment/shipping methods and u respond..

[ddrapeau]

Basically, shipping prices should only be applied by virtuemart to any orders being shipped to Canada and that are under 50lbs.

Orders going outside of Canada and/or above 50lbs should stop there and show some kind of warning to contact an email address for a quote.

[GJC Web Design]

just filter as above and change the message "No ship method blah blah" to what you want

[ddrapeau]

How would I set that filter? I apologize, I'm new to this and I'm not sure what values you'd put into the standard shipping module to get it to work that way.

[GJC Web Design]

max weight and country

[Jörgen]

Hello ddrapeau

My problem was that some Products had incorrect weight, in my case 20 kg instead of 20 g. This triggered no shipping option and the customers didn´t understand why this was happening.
Now I use a standard shipping that is choosen when the weight goes over 20 kg. In the description I tell the customer that this is to heavy and should contact us. I set the shipping cost to a very high value, in my case 9999. This will probably stop the customer from sending the order.

Maybe GJC version is more elegant, because it stops the order from going through payment, but this works for me.

regards

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi