Drop ship additional shipping charge select products

Drop Shipping issue: I need to set up an additional charge when some products are ordered. I ship 75% of my products. 25% are drop shipped from a supplier. The supplier charges me regular shipping for their products. When a customer orders from me and the supplier I take a hit on the shipping charge.

I have shipping set up, but I am obviously taking a hit on some orders due to 2 different shipment charges. How can this be solved?

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Ideal Situation:**
I sell apples. Supplier sells candles.

• Customer 1 orders 2 apples. Shipping is $3.
• Customer 2 orders 2 apples and 5 candles. Shipping is$8 total. $3 for apples + $5 for the candles.
• Customer 3 orders candles. Shipping is $5.

Existing situation:

• Customer 1 orders 2 apples. Shipping is $3.
• Customer 2 orders 2 apples and 5 candles. Shipping is$4 total. $3 for apples + $1 for the candles. (LOSS!)
• Customer 3 orders candles. Shipping is $3. (LOSS!)

What shipping module(s) are you currently using?

I have these currently active:

• United Parcel Service
• United States Postal Service

Thanks!

Is the shipping for the supplier based on;
item count * $XX.XX

Do you use Free Shipping where 0 weight is Free Shipping?

Ideally my products would be USPS rate shipping and the suppliers would be $5 + USPS Shipping.

I am charged a $5 fee for anything they ship. (I didnt mention that before).

So-

Using the example from the first post:

To ship it costs $1 for the first apple and $.50 for each additional
There is a fee of $5 to order from the supplier. Then, $2 for the first and $1 for each additional

Customer 1 2 apples and one candle. 2 apples = $1.5 and 1 candle = $7
Customer 2 3 candles = $8 shipping
Customer 3 4 apples $2.50 shipping

*I would be fine with USPS Calc rates for my items and a flat fee +$5 for all supplier items, if that is doable?

thanks again so much!

When ordering from the supplier, what determines the "flat fee + 5.00" ...

If you have 4 Products from the supplier, how would the "flat fee + $5.00" be computed?

Or are you saying, $5.00 for each Product * Quantity plus the regular USPS shipping charge?

Ideally it would be $5 plus actual USPS shipping, but if I could just make everything $3 it would be close enough. (much closer than it is now)

You could test the cart to see if any Products are from this manufacturers_id and if so, customize the USPS shipping module to:

1 Calculate regular USPS costs

2 If 1 or more products are from this manufacturers_id then add $5.00 to the shipping cost ...

NOTE: if you need this to be $5.00 Per Product Per Item, then add that to the USPS shipping charge, you can calculate that as well ...

Thanks again for your reply. I do not need it $5 per item, just $5 if anything (1 or 100) is shipping from supplier.

Can you tell me how to test the cart?

thanks so much

In the shopping_cart.php class you will find the function:

  /**
   * Method to calculate the number of items in a cart based on an abitrary property
   *
   * $check_what is the fieldname example: 'products_is_free'
   * $check_value is the value being tested for - default is 1
   * Syntax: $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('product_is_free','1');
   *
   * @param string product field to check
   * @param mixed value to check for
   * @return integer number of items matching restraint
   */
  function in_cart_check($check_what, $check_value='1') {

That can tell you if anything is in the cart based on the fields from the products table ... :smile: