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    Gift Certificate Free Shipping

    I can't believe I'm having to ask this again, but the docs are not covering how to get the free shipping to work for a Gift Certificate that has Inventory Variants (inactive products) for different values offered. You can select the main product to apply the Marketing Price Group Gift Certificate Shipping (as outlined in this Miva doc https://docs.miva.com/reference-guid...dit-gift-certs). When you go to checkout you get the "No valid shipping methods are available for your order." Do I need to make all those Inventory Variant products active? Or does the Miva doc need to be updated?
    Leslie Kirk
    Miva Certified Developer
    Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
    Previously of Webs Your Way
    (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

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    #2
    FYI - I have tried creating a Free Shipping Flat Rate Shipping method and assigning it to the product but when you add something else to the basket - it breaks - "No valid shipping methods are available for your order."
    Leslie Kirk
    Miva Certified Developer
    Miva Merchant Specialist since 1997
    Previously of Webs Your Way
    (aka Leslie Nord leslienord)

    Email me: [email protected]
    www.lesliekirk.com

    Follow me: Twitter | Facebook | FourSquare | Pinterest | Flickr

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      #3
      One workaround would be to use weight-based shipping methods (UPS, FedEx, etc) and just set a zero weight for the gift certificates. For those of us using flat-rate shipping, that is not a viable solution of course. I am thinking that we would have to add a conditional to the code to check if a gift cert is in the cart that it would display an option for the free shipping. But it gets kinda tricky.

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        #4
        I think the simple solution is not to use inventory variants and just use regular attributes or separate products. Then your use of assigning Free Shipping to those product(s) would work. To make a better presentation (i.e, not messing with pricing displays), i've either used a 'Category' page or special 'Product' page for Gift Certs when they are separate products.
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          #5
          I just got done fighting with this as well. We are using inventory variants for the gift certificate because we have the price set to dynamically change. Since we are using weight based table shipping, we were able to setup a Flat Rate Shipping option for Free Shipping. Under the Shipping Method Rules for Free Shipping, we set the max weight to 1 (since 0 means unlimited). We set the Exclusions to "Excluded by" for all the other shipping methods. The weight of the gift certificate is set to 0.00. For each of the other shipping methods, we set a minimum weight of 10 since none of our products are lower than that.
          Last edited by afiumano; 10-21-19, 10:39 AM.

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