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    Posted: 05-December-2005 at 5:34pm
I am buying a warehouse in Arizona and need to figure out the best way to make prod cart accomodate?  Does anyone know if there is an add-on feature for product cart that allows you to ship from multiple addressess or have multiple "ship from" addresses - or the best way to code it myself or hire someone as a last resort.  Thanks in advance for the help!
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I am looking for someone to work with me on customizing product cart to do the following:

  1. Add an option for  Add / Edit vendor under the Store Management Tools menu.
  2. Add a drop down in the product add / edit pages to select a preferred vendor.
  3. Add a check box in the product add / edit page to indicate drop shop from preferred vendor (checked)  or store address (unchecked).
  4. Do the associated code to calculate shipping charges.

Real simple stuff!  Should only take an hour our so right? Just kidding.  I know that this is a tall order but I would really to to discuss it with someone.  I know that the guys are thinking of puting similar features in a future version but I don't know if I can wait.

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Hi there -

I think your idea sounds fantastic! I would be glad to help out in any way, but unfortunately I don't have a lot of asp knowledge in my peanut! :)

If there is something I can do to help, let me know! This would be of a great benefit to me any my store as I dropship products from several different suppliers and the shipping charges issue has been there since day one. I live in California, and have warehouses that dropship for me in at least 7 states.

Keep my informed of your progress and again - if there is anything I can do, let me know!

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Since we are indeed working on new features that will address this area of the system, we felt it was important to participate in this conversation. ProductCart v3, which will likely be a Q2 release in 2006, will include a comprehensive Vendor Management system that will allow you to perform a variety of tasks that are related to managing a store where products are purchased from different vendors and sometimes drop-shipped by them.

However, there is one aspect of this new feature that we would like to ask an opinion on. Specifically: assume a customers orders 3 products, supplied by 3 different vendors, and that all of them are drop shippped from the vendors. How do you envision shipping costs being calculated?

  1. As the sum of the three different shipments (this does NOT appear to be the way large ecommerce stores determine the total shipping cost for the order as it might lead to high shipping charges and turn off customers).
  2. As the simple average of the three shipments. E.g. (4.95+5.55+7.65)/3
  3. As the simple average of the three shipments, plus a correction. E.g. an extra 10%, like this: ((4.95+5.55+7.65)/3)*1.1
  4. As a weighted average of the three shipments (if so, how should they be weighted).

This is a very important - and complex - "piece of the equation". A study of major ecommerce stores (e.g. Amazon, Buy.com, etc.) does not seem to point in any particular direction. As mentioned above, however, it does seem like they do not charge for every shipment that occurs to fullfil the order (this is also true in a case where one or more of the products are shipped separately because of a back-order).

Your feedback is very much appreciated :-)

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Hi,

I also have a number of the items I carry dropshipped.  I dread orders of four items that just happen to be from our location and from 2 or 3 different  vendors.  I  think it is necessary to just absorb the higher shipping cost, it means product pricing or margins are need to be higher to cover the occassional shipping abnormality. I will have to pay all three shipping costs but you are right, adding the three is too much. 

If they are items that would generally ship seperately, even if not oversized, a check box could be added to the product info page, then I could select that and a seperate charge would be generated for that item and 3 would be charged a combined shipping  say an average x a factor which would default to zero but that I could set from -999% to 999% on a gobal basis.

Or maybe three check boxes for orders of multiple items, charge average of items, charge highest, and maybe add a flat or percentage handling fee to combined shipments.

I don't think a single formula like a hardcoded factor would work for many stores with dropshipping. There is too much varation in the suppliers that provide dropshipping.

This would allow an store owner to set all dropship items to ship seperately if they choose to. This would be handy even for items shipped from our location (we curently use banded shipping based on total order.)  A 20x14x14 heavy foot massager would likely ship in it own box even through it is not oversized, then a couple hand tools and oils could be combined in a second box.  Also as everyone has different margins, average shipping costs and product structures it would provide some flexibiltiy as to how much of the shipping is absorbed by the store and the customer. 

I do try to group my suppliers so that one customer is less  likely to order from to differ suppliers, but customers do the darnest things 


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