Using multiple shipping methods for a single order

[cablesimple]

Hi,
I have a store in which I would like to drop-ship from more than one vendor/distributor. To do that, and not get killed on shipping costs, I would need to be able to charge the customer shipping based on the product's source. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to have similar functionality to Amazon.com when you are buying from 2 different Amazon sellers. Basically Amazon's shipping page states the fact that you are purchasing products from multiple sources, identifies each source (each in their own section on the shipping page), identifies the products from the source withing the respective section, and offers the shipping options for each source.

I've looked through the contributions but haven't found anything that does anything even similar to this. I've also done a few searches on the forum but haven't found any solutions.

So, I assume a module such as this doesn't exist currently. Considering that, I will probably start writing my own, but if anyone has any suggestions of anything that will get me started (module, similar hack, whatever) I would appreciate it.

Thank you!

[stevesh]

There's a (not free, but reasonably priced) mod for Zencart that's said to do most anything you want to do shipping-wise.

Google 'ceon advanced shipping module'.

[cablesimple]

stevesh,
Thanks for the tip. If this does what I need it to do it's more than worth $50.