Shipping service not automatically set on cart

[Kealtie]

Hi,

I've noticed on my project that the standard shipping rule is not automatically set when a new cart is created, even though the cart complies with all the set rules on the shipping service. How can I make it so that the shipping service is automatically applied to a newly created cart?

Greetings,
Jordy

[ericingram]

Can you detail the steps you're taking?

Shipment services are typically not applied without a specific action. Checkout will usually make an API call to get rates and then another call when the user selects a service. From the dashboard, I believe you have to select one manually if it wasn't set by an API call or something like that already.

[logeshswell]

The issue is shipment_rating is set as null and it could be because you didn't set shipping.country value.

Can you try setting the shipping country before fetching shipment rates, so that shipment_rating should contain a list of shipping services?

[Kealtie]

Alright, I've applied the following Shipping zone 'Worldwide', selecting 'All remaining area's'. Which I assume then applies it to everywhere in the world.

Problem in my specific use case is I want to display the shipping costs in the 'shopping cart', before a potential customer actually fills in their shipping information.

Currently both applying the 'basic' shipping service and fetching the shipping rates does not set the right shipping price on the cart. Shipping price retrieved remains 0,00, which should be 97,50. Also i've tried adding rules to the shipping service that state if the order value of the cart is above 1450 euro's there are no shipping costs, lower then 1450 would apply 97,50 shipping costs.

[logeshswell]

Still, you need to set shipping.country to some default value, so that shipment_rating will be computed and default shipping cost will be applied.

[Kealtie]

Ah yes, I figured. Thanks.

But in my particular use case I want to show the shipping costs (97,50) to the customer before checkout, so, I do not know their address information yet. How would I implement this?

[logeshswell]

Since the shipping cost doesn't change w.r.t country, set the default country as the country in which the application is being accessed (just for an instance).