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    Default Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    We are in the process of setting up multiple product
    distribution points across the USA.

    For example.. New Jersey and California

    I would like to divide up the country, states west of the missippie
    will ship from CA, states east will ship from NJ.

    I would like zencart to use different "from" addresses so
    shipping is caculated correctly depending on where the person
    lives.

    Can zencart do this out of the box? How could I go about
    configuring it?

    Thanks,
    Mike

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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    No, I dont think it can do that out of the box. You will have to check if there is any module available for that.
    I no longer provide installation support on forum for all my modules. However, if there are real bugs with the modules please feel free to contact me

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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    The usual question asked here is: what happens when a customer east of the Mississippi orders products from both warehouses?

    To make something like this (AKA "the Dropshipper's Paradox") work, you'd need to essentially create two separate orders when the above situation occurs. Lots of custom coding.

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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    I am in need of the same set up. I have two warehouses. Each warehouse (one West coast and one East Coast) carries all the items we sell. So the issue of a customer ordering something that one warehouse does not have won't come up. I haven't found a shipping module that works with this. I too would like to have the customer get the correct shipping charges when ordering. We have a lot of East Coast orders that aren't completed (ie: carts are left) because the shipping costs are too high when in reality, they are much lower. Anyone have/know of a module that can work with our needs?


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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    You would need to customize your own shipping modules ...

    In a perfect world ... what method of shipping would you use from the East Coast? and from the West Coast?
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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    I know for me, we use UPS only in both warehouses and offer ground and expedited


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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    Because both the East and West warehouses have all of the same products ...

    You could clone the UPS shipping module for the east and west and then build zones for each of them ...

    Then customize the code that instead on using the Store shipping information that you use the East or West warehouse information ...

    Now the East or the West warehouse ups module opens based on shipping address and the better rates can be quoted ...
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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    Thats a good idea Ajeh. So basically behind the scenes.. even
    in the shipping estimator, you would need to

    1. figure out what products in the cart are avaliable from what
    warehouses. Product attribute? some sort of multiple select
    box?

    2. get the shipping address for the warehouses involved. New
    db table and admin tool?

    3. determine which warehouse that has the product is closest
    to the user's zip. As the bird flies distance? A new generic
    distance caculating function using a zip code distance DB?

    4. determine the weight and box sizes of each chunk of their
    order

    5. make a multiple calls to each shipping method, 1 for each
    chunk of the order using the closest warehouse to the user.

    I would think to keep it simple for the user you would need to
    allow the user to select only one shipping method per order..
    UPS, fedex, etc. I dont think you want to tell the customer that
    1/2 of their order is coming via UPS from CA and the other
    1/2 is coming via Fedex in NJ. That would be very confusing.

    6. add up all the costs and present to the user

    7. After checkout.. we would need to maintain an
    inventorys of each product in each warehouse.

    Ideally any module that is written would need to support
    as many warehouses as necessary and a product in some or
    all of the warehouses.

    I can see how this module might be a lot of work but it would
    benefit a lot of people.. especially drop ship folks who are forced
    make concessions, eat shipping costs and use flat rate.

    Mike

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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    No ... actually I thought you said ALL products are available from both the East and the West warehouses and you just needed to know which warehouse to use as the Ship From ... this is not a hard project to write you just have to be very careful in attempting to build the clones on UPS ...

    If you need to determine what Products to send from which warehouse and obtain the shipping for the East Products and the West Products then you will need to really do some heavy customization to get a quote from the two sets of products and the two warehouses and combine them to create the total shipping ... this is not a fun project to write ...

    So for clarification ... are ALL products available from Both the East and West warehouse ... or ... are Some Products available only at the East warehouse and Some Products available only at the West warehouse ...
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    Default Re: Shipping from multiple warehouses across USA

    Actually I am the original poster.. and in my case..

    some are avaliable from our west coast location
    and some are avaliable from our east coast location only.

    Mike

 

 
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