A client of mine runs a non-profit organization called Bianca Children’s Studio, and in respect of the recent tragedy in Haiti, has made a page for people to help the children of Haiti. Any donation amount is accepted, big or small.
Go ahead and click here to help the children in Haiti Now!
This one threw me for a curve at first so I thought I’d share the solution. Lets assume you have a cart with a pre existing shipping method, like UPS and a bunch of regular products. But then you have a few products, say for example, gift certificates, (my problem) that weigh next to nothing, yet the minimum UPS charge is still around $6. Customers would hate that right? So we need free shipping for those products ONLY, then simply mail the Gift Certificates out via regular USPS mail and eat the cost of the stamp. (Of course this is just an example, which happened to be my problem. You may want to have products with free shipping for all kinds of reasons.)
So, the method is two-fold. First you must ALLOW free shipping to even exist in the first place in the system -> configuration. Second, you will create a custom “shopping cart price rule” to assign the free shipping to only the desired products.
In your magento admin, first browse to system, then configuration.
Under sales, select the shipping methods category.
Open the Free Shipping tab. You only change two things.
For Enabled: YES
For Minimum Order Amount, enter some crazy huge number. I entered 999999999. This is half of the trick. It enables free shipping as a “possibility” within the cart, yet no regular order would ever reach that level. If you already have this enabled (free shipping for orders over $50 etc..), then skip to step 2.
I’m not sure if it’s required, but I did the same thing under my standard shipping method as well. (for me it was UPS)
Free Shipping for Minimum Order Amount: Enable
Minimum Order Amount for Free Shipping: 999999999 (same crazy huge number as before)
Click the orange “Save Config” button to save your new settings.
From the main Magento Admin menu at the top, go to Promotions, then select Shopping Cart Price Rules.
Click the Orange Add New Rule
Rule Name: Whatever You want
Description: Whatever You want
Status: Active
Customer Groups: As a default, Select all. (Hold the CTRL key and click)
Coupon Code. NOTHING (don’t enter anything here.)
Uses per coupon: 1000000000 (some huge number)
Uses per customer: 1000000000 (some huge number)
From Date / To Date: Leave blank to start now / end never.
Priority: 0 ?
Public in RSS Feed: no
No changes needed, at least in my case.
Apply: Fixed amount discount for Whole Cart
Amount Discount: 0
Max. Quantity Discount Applied to: 0
Discount Qty Step: 0
Free Shipping: For Matching Items Only
Stop Further Rules Processing: NO
Apply the rule only to cart items matching the following conditions
This is key.
Click the green + button to add a new rule.
Select SKU.
Click “is” and change it to “contains“.
Click the “…“, enter the unique segment of the SKU on you free products. For example the SKUs for my gift certificates were gift25,gift50,gift75 etc.., so here, I entered “gift“. You may simply want to append your free product SKUs with the word “free” for clarity, then enter “free” back here. You can do this however you want, but be sure to not use anything that may be contained in a regular products SKU.
So for me that line read:
SKU contains gift
Click the Orange Save Rule Button.
That’s it! Try it out.
There’s another method I came across which is the same, except instead of anchoring the Shopping Cart Price Rule (promotion) to a products SKU, a custom attribute is created for that product and then the promotion is tied to that attribute instead of an SKU. See it here.
Defeat the Freelancer Blues!
Freelance Switch has a useful article today, “14 Golden Tips for Beating the Freelancer Blues”. I don’t know about you other designers or developers out there, but I definitely get the “Freelancer Blues”. Usually they come around when I haven’t done any large or fulfilling projects recently. Freelance Switch’s article tries to tackle this problem with 14 tips. You know what? Not one of them is “spend more time on the computer”! It so important to not forget the basics, friends, family, exercise, good food, loving and FUN!
Read “14 Golden Tips for Beating the Freelancer Blues” at Freelance Switch now.
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A blog is born! January 14th, 2009. Fitting because my birthday is on the 17th, just a few days away. Close enough!
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