The Shipping SuperMod™ provides a shipping method control system that allows you to limit what shipping options are available to your customers based on criteria such as shipping address or even what products are being purchased. It allows you to rename and reorder shipping methods in your store, and provides fall-back shipping methods that can be used when no other shipping methods are available - for instance, when online shipping calculators are down.

Key Benefits Include:

• Control the text displayed for each shipping method
• Filter shipping methods available to the customer based on:
  • Number of items in basket
  • Subtotal of basket minimum/maximum
  • Day of week
  • Time Ranges
  • Availability Group
  • NEW! Price Groups
  • Ship-To Country
  • Ship-To State
  • Zip Codes & Zip Prefixes
  • Weight Minimum/Maximum
  • Bill-To/Ship-To Match
• Uses existing shipping modules
• Allows storeowner to constrain shipping methods available for each product in the store. ***Customers can only checkout of the store when all products in the order have a common shipping method.

***PLEASE NOTE*** If you use the Shipping SuperMod and a customer tries to purchase products that cannot all be shipped with the same method, no shipping methods will be available to the customer at checkout because your shipping rules are mutually exclusive and MIVA Merchant does not allow multiple shipping calculations in the same order. You can solve this by allowing for a "least common denominator" shipping method that is always available for all products.

Example Usage: A storefront that sells cakes and jelly beans online has a shipping problem. When a customer purchases a cake, the cake needs to be delivered overnight so that the cake is fresh upon delivery. When a customer buys jelly beans – they can be shipped using regular ground shipping since the jelly beans won’t go stale for quite a long time. Since the storefront offers overnight air and regular ground shipping, many customers are choosing regular shipping for their cakes and are very upset when they receive a stale cake 5 days later. The Shipping SuperMod allows the storefront owner to limit the shipping choices given to the customer given what the customer places in his shopping basket. Using the Shipping SuperMod, the storeowner creates shipping constraints on each of the products in the store – thus allowing the cake to only be shipped via overnight air. He allows the jelly beans to be shipped via overnight air or regular ground shipping. If the customer only purchases jelly beans, the customer can have a choice of overnight or regular ground shipping. If the customer chooses just a cake, he is given only the choice of overnight shipping. If the customer has jelly beans and a cake in his shopping basket, his shipping choices are limited to “overnight air” (to guarantee the freshness of the cake) since "overnight" air was created by the storefront owner as the "least common denominator" shipping method (i.e. all products in the store have the option of overnight air as a shipping method.) The customer can checkout of the store since the order has a valid shipping option.

Specifications:

• Number of items in a basket: Limit shipping methods available based on the number of items in the basket.
• Subtotal of basket minimum: Constrain the shipping methods available based upon basket subtotal minimum.
• Subtotal of basket maximum: Constrain the shipping methods available based upon basket subtotal maximum.
• Day of week: Limit the days that a specific shipping method is available (all/weekend/weekdays).
• Time ranges: Limit the time of day that a specific shipping method is available (up to 2 specific ranges).
• Availability Groups: Limit the shipping methods available depending on what availability groups the customer is in.
• Price Groups: Limit the shipping methods available depending on what price groups the customer is in.
• Countries: Limit the shipping methods available to customers based on their Ship-to country.
• States: Limit the shipping methods available to customers based on their Ship-to state (in the US).
• Zip Codes / Prefixes You can specify that a shipping method is only available to certain zip codes. The zip codes are treated as prefixes; for example, setting a zip code constraint to 349 will only allow the method to be used for zip codes between 34990 and 34999.
• Weight Minimum: Constrain the shipping methods available based upon total order weight minimum.
• Weight Maximum: Constrain the shipping methods available based upon total order weight maximum.
• Bill To/Ship To Match: If the Bill To and Ship To addresses do not match, only allow certain shipping methods.

COMPATIBILITY NOTE: Shipping method controls cannot be provided to Google Checkout! ALL SHIPPING METHOD IN THE STORE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO GOOGLE CHECKOUT CUSTOMERS REGARDLESS OF YOUR SHIPPING SUPERMOD CONFIGURATION.