Well yes you an set up auto shipping and the answer to the other question is that it takes about 3 seconds to do so why bother adding it in.- It allows for free shipping under 1000s of variables that shop keepers want . eg some want only free to a local post codes so you have to type in your local post code.
Others want it free after $60.00
Well, I am speaking of auto shipping selection for the customer. Yes you can now set up free shipping, but the customer has to go select it. The auto selection feature in VM2 only works if there is one option of shipping left. I am using the VM teams USPS module that cost me $60 US dollars. So I use it to quote the rates from USPS, but want to offer the customer free shipping with orders 60 and up. They can do that, but they still have to select it from the select shipping page instead of it just automatically doing so for them when they hit the 60 trigger. Customers do not always understand what they are seeing and get confused. You and I would easily figure it out but many folks would look at the cart and go "where is my free shipping". Then might just close it out and cost us sales... It would be another great option to have in promoting VM2 as well as other plugins and modules for those that create them.
The previous versions of VM would let you do this from the VM core. It was under the shop configuration and you could select whatever the amount was and it did not matter what other modules you used. It is just a better customer experience when they order that amount and it automatically can be done. I have contacted the USPS developers and asked if they could put in a maximum dollar amount like the basic module that is included so that you could set it to..... say a maximum for that module at $59.99, and the when the customer hit $60+ that module would stop and the free setup you showed how to put into place would then be the only module still active, and then and only then the current option of auto select would be triggered.
I hope that makes sense. I have my current live VM 1.1 site running this way and the selection that made it work is in the VM setup. Not available in the new version.
Old option here:
Generates this for customer in cart without them doing anything except purchasing the proper amount of goods:
This would be great if we could get this same type of setup, especially after forking out $60 bucks for the USPS shipping module and trying to setup something that was easy and free before.. Just saying..
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