Shipping TO Multiple Addresses.

[giftmeister]

Can you provide your mod, considering it at least does the job and in case the new one being developed is not better or costly?

Cheers,

Robbie

[L.A.B.]

I too am looking for multiple shipping addresses to be included. I only installed zen cart recently and was quite shocked to find this absent. Someone told me that I should have gone for Magento instead (which apparently has this capability) but I like zen cart for other reasons, so I too would be willing to contribute to the cost.

[john-michael]

Anything? Anyone? I can't imagine someone not willing to make some money on this. Unless the code is that difficult, which I cannot imagine.

[L.A.B.]

Sorry, but I consulted a number of people at work and no solution to this was slick enough for us without having to spend a fortune - so in the end we recreated our shopping area using Magento. We were very very sad to leave Zen... but if shipping to multiple addresses is as imprtant to you as it was to us and you're on a budget, I'd suggest looking elswhere.

[ewalker3]

how has magento worked out for you?
I'm going to have to move away from ZEN as well . The shipping to multiple addreses thing is something I can't believe wasn't taken into account when developing zen through the years.

[L.A.B.]

It has worked out pretty well actually. To look at (via ftp), Zen seems smaller, neater and easier to fiddle with, esp if you're used to it and know where to go to do what. Magento feels like a monster in comparison. However, the latter does so much more - and daunting as the code seems to start with, it's not so bad once you get into it.

I would say that Zen is slightly faster for the user to download than Magento, esp when he/she first enters your shop. This is one of the main resons I would have preferred to stick with Zen. However, I've found that Magento really isn't slow enough to be an issue and my customer numbers haven't declined.

With regards to th multiple addresses - whereas there's nothing for it but to try modifying Zen, it's all been taken care of in your Magento installation. (Mind you, the link to send the order to multiple addresses is less clear than it could be - users were missing it, so I had to change it to a button to make it stand out.)

My advice on the whole would be, if you're running a simple shop and don't need the multiple delivery addresses, stick with Zen, at least for now, because of its speed and ease of use. However, it simply didn't have enough variety of function for us and we have no regrets about moving to Magento. It's not as simple as Zen to install and customise, but it's a lot more impressive once it's up and running.

[john-michael]

I couldn't agree more L.A.B.

I'm in the same exact situation. I currently run Magento for the same exact reason, but I frequently touch base with the development of Zen in the hopes to find multiple address shipping.

Magento is very powerful and can sometimes have sluggish performance on discount hosting.

I recommend Magento to anyone, especially those requiring multiple address shipping.