Shipping Options for Products

[cyberkill]

I have some items, heat sensitive, that can only be shipped Next Day and another group that is oversize and can only ship Ground. Is there a way to handle this? I've currently got the UPS module setup and working ok but now this has come up.

Basically want to display the regular shipping options/pricing but only allow Next Day for example with the heat sensitive items.

[Ajeh]

So ...

an order with all Hot stuff goes Next Day ...

an order with all big stuff goes ground ...

What happens to an order with Hot stuff and Big stuff?

500lbs Next Day because of a .5lb Hot stuff?

[cyberkill]

I knew you were going to ask that. For our products, it will rarely happen. If it does we could default to a flat rate price and we'll eat the cost to ship 2 seperate packages.

[cyberkill]

Let me change this a little bit to maybe make it easier.

Would it be possible with the current system or modules to say if a certain product is ordered only allow certain shipping options.

So for example.
Product A - Regular Shipping
Product B - Over Night Only

If B is ordered by itself shipping will only allow Over Night.
If B and A are purchased together it will still default to only allow Over Night.

This would be using the default UPS module or if a separate module based on weight/size.

If this can't be done in the current system how complicated would it be to have someone handle it for me and avg cost of such work?

[Ajeh]

It could be setup to manage this based on cart content ...

But you have more than Product A and Product B ... you have 2 types of Products so we need to know what is it that is unique about these products to be able to tell who is who in the zoo?

[cyberkill]

At this point we're only worried about the heat sensitive items. So we would set an option or assign them all to a group and only allow them to be shipped Next Day.

So we have
Group A Products - Regular Shipping based off the UPS Module.
Group B Products - Next Day only based off UPS Module.

Any combination between the 2 would result in Group B Products shipping rules taking precedent.

[Ajeh]

Yes this can be done ...

Yes this requires some customized code for your site ...

I would have to go through your site and products to really see what all is needed to address this and that would take quite a bit of time ...

If you are unsure how to address this yourself, you might wish to post in the Commercial Help Wanted ... or else, you may contact me privately to review this site and develop a solution for you ...