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Magento 2 Developer's Guide
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Magento 2 Developer's Guide

by Branko Ajzele
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
8h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Custom offline shipping methods

Magento provides several out-of-the-box offline shipping methods, such as Flatrate, Freeshipping, Pickup, and Tablerate. We can see those in the vendor/magento/module-offline-shipping/Model/Carrier directory.

However, project requirements quite often are such that we need a custom coded shipping method where a special business logic is applied. Thus, the shipping price calculation can be controlled by us. In such cases, knowing how to code our own offline shipping method might come in handy.

Let's go ahead and create a small module called Foggyline_Shipbox that provides Magento an extra offline shipping method.

Start by creating a module registration file named app/code/Foggyline/Shipbox/registration.php with partial ...

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