I am in a situation where I am selling products via drop shipping from multiple venders, plus shipping from my primary location. My venders ship using various methods and pricing schemes, such as one uses UPS zones and one is only FedEx and one is only USPS flat rate. Oh, and then the guy that does free shipping.
So, what it comes down to is that I need to have certain shipping methods only available for certain products and my cart will need to calculate shipping differently depending on the products sold. (i.e. Will need to charge FedEx flat rate for product x and UPS zones for product y, but perform only 1 credit card transaction.) The customer will not have a choice in the shipping (unfortunately), so it's only a back-end issue.
From what I'm reading, I need to setup different product types and then do a bit of programming to calculate shipping on each of the various product types and then add it all together for the grand total.
I know I can do it, but I want to make sure I'm not over thinking the solution.
PHP and I don't always get along.
Thanks.
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