Ubercart

If you are using the UPS Shipping module for your Ubercart website (eCommerce modules for Drupal) and it seems like the quotes you are getting from UPS are too high, it can be for a number of reasons. One thing that you may wish to check is to see what you have entered as the Pickup Type in your Shipping Quote settings. This is located at: Home › Administer › Store administration › Configuration › Shipping quote settings > Quote Methods or URL: admin/store/settings/quotes/methods/ups (after your domain).

If you have installed and configured the UPS Shipping module for your Ubercart site (Drupal eCommerce website), you can specify which UPS shipping options you want to have quoted in check out - i.e. Ground, Second Day Air, etc. If you find you are having a problem with only certain shipping methods being quoted during checkout and not others, there is one quick thing you may wish to check. Trying pulling up one of your products, click on edit, and then check for the package type that you have listed.

Ubercart provides tremendous functionality for building an eCommerce site in Drupal. And within a fairly short period of time after installation, one can build at least a decent online shopping cart / eCommerce website. One will add products, perhaps include categories, and configuration various parts of the system such as shipping, payment methods, etc.

Ubercart (with Drupal) is not the only eCommerce package that we have used or could use for open source software-based eCommerce web development. We've built eCommerce sites in other platforms like Zen Cart, and we've checked out others like Magento. In the open source software category, there are many decent platforms and some that really excel in specific ways.

I was rather surprised at the number of shipping modules and options for Drupal (Ubercart) that would not do what I wanted it to do. A client simply wanted one of three shipping rates to be assigned based on the total number of products in an order. It should have been simple. Creating a table-based type of shipping rate in Zen Cart is very easy to do. But after working through the Flat Rate module, Rate Based module, and others, the site still wasn't quoting the shipping rates accurately.

Not that I have a general problem with commercial software, I am happy to see that numerous open source software communities and initiatives continue to thrive. Yes, there exists many die hard fans of open source software, just as there are some who think it is the bane of the software world. I happen to sit somewhere in between - I can appreciate both. And I use both.