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    Idea or Suggestion Controlling Various Shipping Methods per Product

    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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    Default Re: Controlling Various Shipping Methods per Product

    Quote Originally Posted by khakigirl View Post
    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.
    If you are open to a commercial solution. Ceon has an Advanced Shipper module that looks like what you need.. I can't post the link for it here, but you can get to the Ceon site by downloading the Ceon URI Mappings module.. The link to the Ceon site is in the readme file..
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    Default Re: Controlling Various Shipping Methods per Product

    There is a commercial module that might assist - google for "zencart advanced shipper"

    BUT - you may be shooting yourself in the foot attempting to charge for multiple shipping methods for a single order

    I know that I and I suspect that many others seek lowest "delivered" price and it sounds like you are heading into having a very high delivered cost for a mixed order
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