Once you have Dimensional Shipping installed you will need to switch it on and if applicable change the store wide settings.
These settings and the enable/disable feature can be found in Magento Admin under System->Configuration->Shipping Settings
There are various system wide options you can choose from. We suggest initially just leave as the default settings until you have played with the extension and understand it some more. The options you can select from are:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Enabled | Enable/disable extension |
| Serial Key | Serial, if blank then means invalid, and extension will not run. You should resolve this by checking your url and serial key |
| Packing Algorithm | This can be either Exact Packing, Best-Fit or Largest Box Packing. Best-Fit and Exact Packing are the only documented methods currently. Exact Packing is the default. Largest Box Packing should only be used if advised by WebShopApps |
| Ship every item separately | Specify if every single item is shipped separately |
| Use parent | When using bundled or configurable products if this switch is set to Yes then the dimensional setup of the configurable/bundle product will be used as opposed to the child simple products within it |
| Apply all Boxes to all Products | This will act as though all of the products have been assigned all of the possible shipping boxes for use with Best Fit Packing. Selecting possible packing boxes at the product level will override this option. (Implemented in v16.4). Please note: If no boxes have been created all products will be sent without any dimensions. |
| Default item packing box | The default packing box to use for products that do not have a box assigned. Can be left blank. See Box Configuration for how to setup a boxes |
| Round weight to next whole number | Will round any weight up to a whole number e.g. 10.2lbs will become 11lbs |
| Show packages in comment history | By default (switch set to Yes) all packages sent to the carrier will be displayed under the comment history section of new orders. If you set this switch to No then no packages will be displayed in the comment history section. Please note, setting the switch to No will not remove packages from previous orders comment history, it will only remove packages from orders created after the switch has been set to No |