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Distance Based Shipping for Magento 2 User Guide

• Table of Content
• Extension Installation Guide
• Configuration
• Warehouse Manager
• Distance Based Shipping in Frontend
• Distance Based Shipping in Backend

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• Extension Installation
• For Magento Marketplace Customers
• Find the Composer name and version of the
  extension in the extensions composer.json file.
• Login to your SSH and run
• composer require meetanshi/magento-2-distance-base
  d-shipping
• Enter your authentication keys. Your public key
  is your username your private key is your
  password.
• Wait for Composer to finish updating your project
  dependencies and make sure there arent
• any errors.
• To verify that the extension installed properly,
  run the command
• php bin/magento modulestatus Meetanshi_DistanceBa
  sedShipping
• By default, the extension is probably disabled.
• Enable the extension and clear static view files
• php bin/magento moduleenable Meetanshi_DistanceBa
  sedShipping --clear-static- content
• php bin/magento setupupgrade
• For Magento version 2.0.x to 2.1.x - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy
• For Magento version 2.2.x above - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy f
• php bin/magento cacheflush
• For Meetanshi Customers

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• Configuration
• For configuring the extension, login to Magento
  2, move to Sales ? Shipping Methods ? Distance
  Based Shipping Meetanshi where you can find
  various settings to enable the extension.
• Enabled Set YES to enable Distance Based
  Shipping extension.
• Title Enter title for the shipping method.
• Method Name Enter the method name for the
  shipping method.
• Displayed Error Message Enter the error message
  to show for shipping unavailability.
• Google Map API Key Enter the Google map API key
  to auto calculate distance from the warehouse to
  the shipping destination for the distance-based
  shipping amount calculation.
• o Go to the Google Cloud Platform Console. Click
  on Create New Project, add a project name
• and click save.

o Go to APIs Services gt Library.
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o Filter the categories by Maps and click on the
Geocoding API.
o Enable the Geocoding API. You need to create
and attach a billing account to a Google Cloud
Platform project. You can check pricing plans for
the Geocoding API here.
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o Click the menu button and select APIs
Services gt Credentials. On the Credentials page,
click Create credentials gt API key Or edit an API
if already created. You can copy the Google Map
API Key from here.

• Warehouse Selection Select one of the warehouse
  selection options.
• Manual Allows the users to select the preferred
  warehouse manually.
• Warehouse with Lowest Shipping Cost Shows the
  warehouse with the lowest shipping cost.
• Warehouse with Highest Shipping Cost Shows the
  warehouse with the highest shipping cost.
• Distance Unit Select one of the distance units
  to calculate distance.
• Kilometres
• Meters
• Miles Yards
• Shipping Cost Set shipping cost based on the
  calculated distance.
• From (Distance Unit) Set minimum distance.
• To (Distance Unit) Set maximum distance.
• Cost Set shipping cost.
• Type Select one the shipping cost calculation
  types.
• Fixed Fixed amount as in Cost.
• Per Unit Distance Calculated x Amount in the
  Cost.
• Minimum Order Amount Set minimum order amount to
  allow using this shipping method.
• Maximum Order Amount Set maximum order amount to
  allow using this shipping method.
• Maximum Distance for Shipping Enter maximum
  distance to allow shipment.
• Ship to applicable countries Select all allowed
  countries to enable Distance Based Shipping for.

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• Show Method if Not Applicable Select YES to show
  the shipping method even if its not
• applicable.
• Sort Order Add sort order of the shipping method.

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3. Warehouse Manager The extension facilitates to
manage warehouses through a separate backend
grid. Go to Distance Based Shipping gt Warehouse
Manager. All the already created and saved
warehouses seen enlisted here.

• Click Add New Warehouse to add a new warehouse.
• Status Enable warehouse from here.
• Street Enter street address for the warehouse.
• City Enter name of the city in which the
  warehouse is located.
• Country Select country in which the warehouse is
  located.
• State Select state in which the warehouse is
  located.
• Zip Code Enter zip code of the location of the
  warehouse.
• Store Views Select the applicable store views
  for the warehouse.

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4. Distance Based Shipping in Frontend Once you
have set distance-based shipping costs, you can
see distance-based shipping rates extension
enabled in the frontend. After adding products to
cart, the customer selects the warehouse if the
admin has set Manual under the warehouse
selection.
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• Distance Based Shipping on Cart Page
• Once the customer chooses the shipping address,
  the Distance Based Shipping rate is calculated
  and displayed on the cart page under the shipping
  methods.

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• Distance Based Shipping on Checkout Page
• The distance based shipping rate is also
  displayed on the checkout page under the order
  summary.

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• Distance Based Shipping in My Account Section
• Once the order is placed using Distance Based
  Shipping method, under the My Orders tab,
• shipping details are seen.

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5. Distance Based Shipping in Backend Apart from
the frontend, the Distance Based Shipping method
details can also be seen from the backend under
Sales ? Orders. The below image shows the order
view where Distance Based Shipping details are
visible.
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