Magento - always show free shipping even before postcode/zip entered

Question

I have a UK Magento store and I only have one shipping method of free to all customers. My checkout page currently reads

"Sorry, no quotes are available for this order at this time." Until a postcode is entered.

However as I only have one shipping method of free, I always want this method displayed and checked even before the customer has entered a postcode.

Any ideas?

Thanks! :-)

Answer 1

You could remove the standard Magento shipping quote altogether and have a drop down menu so that customers could see all (one) of the shipping options straight away on the basket page. I downloaded and installed this extension and it worked well.

http://excellencemagentoblog.com/magento-shipping-method-dropdown-default-shipping-method-on-cart-page

Make sure your default country is United Kingdom in system > config > general

To remove the standard shipping option copy of the following file to your local folder: template/checkout/cart.html and look for the following line:

getIsVirtual()): echo $this->getChildHtml('shipping'); endif; ?>

Then comment it out.

Answer 2

Your website is showing this result. So, you need to remove standard shipping quotes and make a drop down menu so that customers can choose the option according. For this, you need to install the Magento One Page Checkout Extension for your online store so that you do not face any kind of difficulty in future.