Shipping Math

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1999

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 24084
interpreted = N
texte = Why would this formula work 'pasted' on the invoice page as just plain code,but the formula from the database come up with errors. The minute my totalgoes over 300.00 I start getting the error. The code placed on the pagecomes up just fine the code placed in the shipcost.db errors out.[showif [shiptypemethod]=UPS][math show=f]rate=13.95[/math][showif[subtotal]<200.01][math show=f]rate=10.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<100.01][math show=f]rate=8.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<50.01][math show=f]rate=6.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<30.01][math show=f]rate=4.95[/math][/showif][math][showif[subtotal]>300]([/showif](rate*1)[showif[subtotal]>300]+(floor(([subtotal]*.01))*4.95))[/showif][/math][/showif]In my case the subtotal is $890.00 dollars.Hence the base shipping rate is 13.95, since the subtotal is over $300.00the subtotal is multiplied by .01 giving me a figure of 8.9. I request thefloor and return the value of 8. I then multiply it by 4.95 giving me atotal of 39.60. The total of my formula as pasted into my invoice page iscorrectly 53.55. The total from the shipcost.db is 39.60. The value of thevariable Shipmethod is SPHere is my shipcost.dbShipMethod ShipCostSS 14.95FR 0.00SP [showif [shiptypemethod]=UPS][math show=f]rate=13.95[/math][showif[subtotal]<200.01][math show=f]rate=10.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<100.01][math show=f]rate=8.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<50.01][math show=f]rate=6.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<30.01][math show=f]rate=4.95[/math][/showif][math][showif[subtotal]>300]([/showif](rate*1)[showif[subtotal]>300]+(floor(([subtotal]*.01))*4.95))[/showif][/math][/showif]If ya wanna know why all the extra parenthesis, Its just part of the troubleshooting method I was using. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Shipping Math (Bob Minor 1999)

Why would this formula work 'pasted' on the invoice page as just plain code,but the formula from the database come up with errors. The minute my totalgoes over 300.00 I start getting the error. The code placed on the pagecomes up just fine the code placed in the shipcost.db errors out.[showif [shiptypemethod]=UPS][math show=f]rate=13.95[/math][showif[subtotal]<200.01][math show=f]rate=10.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<100.01][math show=f]rate=8.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<50.01][math show=f]rate=6.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<30.01][math show=f]rate=4.95[/math][/showif][math][showif[subtotal]>300]([/showif](rate*1)[showif[subtotal]>300]+(floor(([subtotal]*.01))*4.95))[/showif][/math][/showif]In my case the subtotal is $890.00 dollars.Hence the base shipping rate is 13.95, since the subtotal is over $300.00the subtotal is multiplied by .01 giving me a figure of 8.9. I request thefloor and return the value of 8. I then multiply it by 4.95 giving me atotal of 39.60. The total of my formula as pasted into my invoice page iscorrectly 53.55. The total from the shipcost.db is 39.60. The value of thevariable Shipmethod is SPHere is my shipcost.dbShipMethod ShipCostSS 14.95FR 0.00SP [showif [shiptypemethod]=UPS][math show=f]rate=13.95[/math][showif[subtotal]<200.01][math show=f]rate=10.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<100.01][math show=f]rate=8.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<50.01][math show=f]rate=6.95[/math][/showif][showif[subtotal]<30.01][math show=f]rate=4.95[/math][/showif][math][showif[subtotal]>300]([/showif](rate*1)[showif[subtotal]>300]+(floor(([subtotal]*.01))*4.95))[/showif][/math][/showif]If ya wanna know why all the extra parenthesis, Its just part of the troubleshooting method I was using. Bob Minor

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