Magento 1.9 – Autoselect Cheapest UPS Shipping Rate at Checkout

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I need to auto select the cheapest UPS shipping rate on checkout page.

in the picture above I need Ground to be selected by default.

we are trying to make our checkout easier for customers and pre-selecting shipping rate is the first step.

PS: I tried modifying

app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/onepage/shipping_method/available.phtml

and had checked="checked" placed for the first item and it worked. But grandtotal didn't include shipping cost in that case.

Best Answer

You can fire a JS click method after page load like

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
jQuery(function($) {
    $('input[name="shipping_method"]').get(0).click;
});
//]]>

You can use the same thing on specific element id of Ground

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The Mage_Usa carrier models are half-baked.. I suggest core replacement in app/code/local/Mage/Usa/... E.g. I replaced their protected properties with:

protected $_apiUrls = array(
    self::DEVELOPMENT => array(
        'ShipConfirm' => 'https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/ShipConfirm',
        'ShipAccept'  => 'https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/ShipAccept',
        'XAV'  => 'https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/XAV',  // Only works for NY or CA addresses
        'Void'  => 'https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Void',
    ),
    self::PRODUCTION => array(
        'ShipConfirm' => 'https://onlinetools.ups.com/ups.app/xml/ShipConfirm',
        'ShipAccept'  => 'https://onlinetools.ups.com/ups.app/xml/ShipAccept',
        'XAV'  => 'https://onlinetools.ups.com/ups.app/xml/XAV',
        'Void'  => 'https://onlinetools.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Void',
    )
);

Then change the code to fetch the URL like:

$url = $this->_apiUrls[(int)$this->getConfigFlag(self::IS_PRODUCTION)]['ShipConfirm'];

Magento1.9 – Generate UPS Shipping Label

I have found how to fix this!

This was due to a too long shipper address (more than the 35 max characters allowed by UPS) and a little bug in Magento.

In Mage_Usa_Model_Shipping_Carrier_Ups::_formShipmentRequest method the address line 1 for shipper is set like this:

$addressPart->addChild('AddressLine1', $request->getShipperAddressStreet());
$addressPart->addChild('AddressLine2', $request->getShipperAddressStreet2());

As you could see the address line 1 is set with getRecipientAddressStreet() and NOT getRecipientAddressStreet1() which leads to insert address line 1 AND 2 in address line 1 shipper address in UPS request.

Could simple be fixed by replacing getRecipientAddressStreet by getRecipientAddressStreet1. I would recommend to extends class in a module.

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