Drop Ship and regualr ship into one setup?

[amart79196]

I have a manufacturer (lets refer to him at JAMES) who wants to maintain stock at their office.

If a customer purchases just the items my store that are JAMES only items, there is no issue as I send JAMES the money for that item plus the shipping that was paid. The rest is profit.

The issue that I am having is when a customer gets more than just a "JAMES" item and get some of my items as well. The problem come in with shipping costs as the shipping is not paid out properly since it is being combined and just weighted.

Basically, I need separate shipping charge as JAMES company will be drop shipping their items.

I looked into some of the drop shipping modules, but none that I was able to tell are able to do this...unless I am totally not understanding their descriptions.

I only use USPS shipping module as well.

If anyone knows a way to do this easily, or a module that I can use that will be easy to implement, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your help and responses.

[Ajeh]

What happens on a mixed cart?

Are JAMES Products marked as 0 weight?

Or do they have something on the weight and if so, how do you want that used?

If JAMES Products are all 0 weight, you could customize the shipping modules for 1 to manage an order that is ALL JAMES Products and then the USPS would not add any weight to the order ...

However, if you use the SpecialServices (Domestic) or ExtraServices (International) that may need to be adjusted to not affect things like Insurance ...

[amart79196]

What happens on a mixed cart?

Are JAMES Products marked as 0 weight?

Or do they have something on the weight and if so, how do you want that used?

If JAMES Products are all 0 weight, you could customize the shipping modules for 1 to manage an order that is ALL JAMES Products and then the USPS would not add any weight to the order ...

However, if you use the SpecialServices (Domestic) or ExtraServices (International) that may need to be adjusted to not affect things like Insurance ...

JAMES products are just like any other product. If someone just buys one of their products and that is the only item on the order, shipping needs to be calculated via the weight that I have entered.

I don't see putting item weight to 0 would help in any way to achieve what I am looking to accomplish.

The issue is that when a customer wants to buy more then just JAMES products. I need SEPERATE shipping $$ for any and all JAMES products in the cart and the cart needs to also charge for shipping for anything else in the cart (and ignore the added shipping weight of the JAMES products) because they would be already charged separately.

[Ajeh]

Let's take that a step further ...

When there are JAMES Products only in the cart, how is the shipping calculated?

Also, I am assuming the JAMES Products are distinguished in some manner such as their manufacturers_id value or something, correct?

[amart79196]

Let's take that a step further ...

When there are JAMES Products only in the cart, how is the shipping calculated?

The shipping is calculated based on the weight that I have set for the item and the USPS shipping module.

Also, I am assuming the JAMES Products are distinguished in some manner such as their manufacturers_id value or something, correct?

JAMES products are in their own category in the store.

[Ajeh]

Okay, can you spell out how the weight on the JAMES Products differ from the weight on the other Products?

Do the JAMES products also use USPS? If so, what is the difference between their weight and a regular Product's weight?