Restaurants showing after kilometer set by admin

alabtechnosoft

@Saurabh @[deleted] I have set radius wise area 15KM from the restaurant location, however restaurants are showing after 25KM, see the below screenshots and let me know did i missed anything?

Saurabh

We calculate the distance from the customer to each store using a formula for GeoDistance rather than using Google Distance Matrix API to get the exact distance.

Only on the cart page, we take the exact distance to calculate the cost of delivery charge.

If you take Google Distance Matrix API to get the distance every time, you will need to pay $$$$ to google every month (literally tens of thousands of dollars)

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For your case, this is how the distance will be taken (geodistance/directdistance)

livedash242

Saurabh But can i use Distance Matrix API, instead of GeoDistance, because in my country 10Km makes the difference between city and highway

ReDmine

Saurabh Where can this be modified to calculate the shipping cost with google distance matrix?
Since geo distace makes me lose a lot of money with its straight calculations instead of taking curves and more roads, it is more gas cost for the delivery man!

Saurabh

livedash242 You will need to make code customizations (regular license will also work) - RestaurantController.php

I am sure you do not realize how much will be the cost for this. And BTW no companies use the Google API just to list the stores.

Cost example:
1 Customer, let's say you have 10 restaurants, then right there you have 10 API calls made to Google.
Reload the page = more 10 API calls.
That's just for one customer.

100 pageviews/day = 100*10 = 1000 API Calls (are you are not if you will even get orders from this 100 page views)
Clearly a bad idea.

When the customer goes to the Cart page, the Distance Matix will kick in and you can show them whether the restaurant will be operational or not in the customer's selected area.

livedash242

Saurabh Oh ok, so when you are on cart page if Distance Matrix calculates that it for example further than 3Km costumer won't able to place an order.

Saurabh

livedash242 Please give that a try.
This feature was done about a year back, but I guess it works exactly the same way.

Saurabh

ReDmine to calculate the delivery charge with Google Distance Matrix API, just enable it on Admin Settings > Customer Application.

Please make sure Google Distance Matrix API is enabled on your Google cloud console as well, or else on the cart page you will get infinite loading.

Marmaris

Saurabh
In the next update, I would like to see the calculation of the minimum order amount for each customer, depending on the distance 🙂
And split the minimum order amount for shipping and pickup