Using a business shipping service often leads to a cheaper alternative for customers.
However, it can quickly lead to a problem, if your customer uses this to get a home delivery instead.
It will often lead to you having to pay your carrier a hefty fee.
Not to worry - we can fix that with WEL (Webshipper Expression Language) variables.
When creating (or editing) the rate, you have the option of turning on the "Custom" mode.
When pressing the button, it turns this:
Into this:
This will allow you to add advanced parameters, thus opening a lot of new options.
In this case, we want only to show this rate, when the company name has been filled in the checkout.
To do that, all we have to do is to add the following:
and delivery_address.company_name present?
Which leaves us with:
This logic can be applied in many different scenarios, that lets you customize precisely when you want to show a rate.
Tip: if you wish to make sure that company name is NOT required, simply use this string instead:
and not delivery_address.company_name present?
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