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Prestashop: Remove Default Shipping Fee Being Added To Total Price at Shopping Cart

Jul 24, 2009 Prestashop

If you’ve been developing e-commerce websites with Prestashop, one main problem that has not been solved in the latest release (Prestashop 1.1) is that the default shipping is immediately added when checking out at the shopping cart. This poses a problem when there are more than one option for shipping methods, and their prices differ from one another. Here is a very simple hack to prevent the default shipping fee from being added to the total price at the Shopping Cart summary page without the need to modify any code:

1. Log into your back office, then go to Shipping tab
2. Choose Carriers at the options below the tabs
3. Click Add New
4. On the Company field, put a name (for this case we’ll use “Shipping Hack”), fill in the Transit time field, and make sure the Status is set to the green check, then click Save.
5. You should go back to the Carriers page. At the Carrier options, choose “Shipping Hack” (or whatever name you gave to the newly created carrier) as default carrier, and click Save.
6. Click again on the Shipping tab
7. At the Fees field, select “Shipping Hack”
8. At the Handling field, Set “Handling charges” and both “Free shipping starts at” fields to 0 (zero), then click Save
9. Click Carriers again
10. Click on “Shipping Hack” and set the Status to the red X, then Save
11. Once you go back again to the Carriers page remember NOT TO click Save again on the Carrier options field

If you do this correctly, no shipping price would be added to the Shopping Cart Summary page in Prestashop until the customer chooses a carrier at the Shipping stage of payment.

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