RE: Drop Shipping and other silly thoughts...

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I agree with cgchris99.  We drop ship from multiple companies and have defaulted to using a single 'average location' zip for shipping calcs ...this hurts sales for those near the supplier.  I could use a multi-vendor shipping module that uses zip code of the supplier as the origination point.  What would be easiest for me would be for the shipping module to calculate shipping totals by manufacturer, in a given order, for each manufacturer in the order, then sum the shipping charges and present just the one shipping page to the customer.  The customer need not worry about the fact that different products came from different locations, although it would be easy to also have that in the sales confirmation email, e.g. Your fiberglass products will ship from our Sacramento warehouse, your resins from our Seattle warehouse.

Also, the multi-vendor shipping module should utilize existing shipping modules for the quotes because ...sometimes, the individual shipping modules are modified for various reasons.  In our case, adding hazmat fees to some orders.

Brian


"We should make a list of the capabilities or features that are necessary to make this work. 

Here's some of the items I think it should be able to do. 

1) Ship From Zip code based on Manfacturer or individual item. 

2) For orders containing multiple items from multiple manfacturers, allow it to calculate the full shipping amount for the items grouped by manufacturer zipcode OR select that it takes the farthest manufacturer away from the home zip and just adds weight for the others. (What are your thoughts on this one and I know it would only work for U.S.) 

I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them."