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    Posted: 11-March-2008 at 4:05pm

Has anyone seen an approach where a customer can purchase an item, but instead of having it shipped, they select a "pick up at store" option?  Any thoughts on how to accomplish?

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Greg Dinger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-March-2008 at 4:35pm
I think you should be able to just create a custom shipping option with no charge.  Have you tried that?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hamish Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-March-2008 at 5:04pm
Hi Paul,
    Greg is perfectly correct. We use it for a sandwich shop which delivers and also has pick-up's.  If your offering that as an option you may, depending on the products / values etc, also wish to offer a C.O.D payment option. (Or should that be C.O.P )
 


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Yeah the only downside is that some of the American customers have been ordering with the pick-up from store option so it is causing us more work since we nowhave to edit their orders. Too bad product cart doesn't have a way to limit that shipping option to people in the same province or local area.
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Hi Reg,
    Put a big note on the delivery options page & perhaps a Canadian flag & a link to the store location next to the "Pick-up @ Store" option"
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Greg Dinger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19-March-2008 at 4:25pm

In creating www.home-distilling.com/home.asp, our client was concerned that the dropdown that contains the shipping options.  We created a fairly bright graphic and referenced it in the shipping instructions text that is accessible on the shipping settings page.

You could do the same, as Hamish proposes.  Create a nice image that is large and bright enough to not be missed that tells the customer their options.

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Those are actaully quite nice ideas. Thank you for the suggestions.  I beleive we just pulled off that shipping option and only edit the few orders that wanted to pick up from the showroom.

 

Sometimes I guess it's better to keep it simple, and gas prices now a days make it cheaper to just ship it to our local customers!

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We did the same thing. Where we just created a shipping option for it. it would be cool however, to be able to force sales tax based on that option.
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