Using different Shipping Carrier for Different Categories

[schoolboy]

Hi,
What I need, some categories MUST be shipped via USPS, and the Rest MUST be Shipped via UPS (I am using multiple drop-shippers, few of them ship ONLY UPS and the res USPS). I am New to Zen cart and finally starting to piece everything together :)

Thanks a million in advance,
Robin

So, for example:

categories: A, B, and C = USPS
categories: D, E, and F = UPS

What if a customer orders products from categories A and E ???

Do they get charged TWICE (or MORE TIMES) for shipping? Looks like they will - once for USPS and again for UPS. And if they order from all your different shippers, EACH one will charge - so there is the potential that their shipping may be more than half their goods purchase cost

So they end up with the following:

i) They pay a massive premium on their shipping
ii) They have to wait for TWO, THREE, FOUR or maybe even MORE separate deliveries.

You will get HUGE numbers of people abandoning their carts at checkout. Or FURIOUS customers demanding returns and refunds.

Just because there are thousands of dropshippers out there, and the technical capacity to calculate shipping the way you want it, does NOT mean it makes good BUSINESS SENSE.

Multiple dropshipping is a dumb idea... And usually ends in the failure of the webshop.