Adding Shipping Estimator to the Product Page

[Psalty]

Hello,

How can the shipping estimator be added to the product page? In the demo store, the estimator only appears after the item has been added to the cart. Some customers may just want an estimate without adding it to their cart first.

Thanks

[jmestep]

It's a basket shipping calculator, so something would have to be in the basket, unlike Able 5.5 where you could do it on the product page. It could possibly be customzied.
Mazhar, are you lurking anywhere around here?

[AbleMods]

The shipping estimator can be included in a page by adding a ConLib reference to the product display page scriptlet. Use [[ConLib:BasketShippingEstimate]] to reference it.

However you will have to remove the reference to it in the Minibasket.ascx ConLib control. Otherwise you wind up with two estimators on the same page once an item is added to the basket.

[PRS]

Hi all,

I know this post is a little old but it fits with what I'm trying to accomplish on my site.

Is there a way to have the calculator estimate shipping costs from the product page without adding the item to the basket?


Thanks for your time,

Shala

[mazhar]

Well out of the box you can't calculate estimate without having item in basket. May be some custom coding can do that. I think the workaround could be to have UI for estimator on product page. When customer try to get shipping quotes in code create temporary basket with product in it and then get quotes for it. Something similar was being discussed on this thread viewtopic.php?f=42&t=11928

[PRS]

Thanks for your thoughts and the link, Mazhar. I'll take a look!