How do I Account for Public Holidays Without Modifying the CSV?

I need to exclude a bank holiday Monday from despatch, production and delivery but my next-day delivery option won’t show on the Tuesday. How do I account for that?

One possibility would be to modify the CSV the week before, as per our example for next-day deliveries for Mondays, changing D=3 to D=4. This will need to be changed back again after the holiday.

In this example 30th March 2015 is being used to represent such a day.

In the CSV file two generic methods for next-day and 2-day and an additional method specifically for the day after a bank holiday Monday have been defined.

ShipCal_BankHoliday_CSV

In Catalog > WebShopApps Delivery Date Shipping create a default weekly rule by leaving the “Week Commencing” field blank and select all methods except for the new method.

ShipCal_BankHoliday_DefaultRules​​​​

An additional weekly rule for the “Week Commencing” 30th March will need to be defined with the “Bank Holiday” method selected for the Tuesday.

ShipCal_BankHoliday_BankholRules

This will then allow Friday to be used as the dispatch date and the Tuesday will be the delivery date. The ​​Tuesday after will show “Next Day” as normal.

ShipCal_BankHoliday_Results

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