Muliple Supplier Shipping Question
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Hi all, I hope this question finds someone who can help me.
I dropship products from multiple suppliers. Here is my issue:
Question 1:
Example:
A customer adds products from Supplier X and Supplier Y to their cart.
I need the shipping cost to be calculated from both suppliers, which ship from different locations. Essentially, the customer would see 2 different shipping costs.
What plugin would I use for that?
Question 2:
Supplier X has 4 warehouses in the US. I would like the shipping estimate returned to the customer to be from the warehouse closest to them (to keep shipping costs down). Any plugins for this?
Thank you!
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Hi @phi148,
Question 1:
Example:
A customer adds products from Supplier X and Supplier Y to their cart.
I need the shipping cost to be calculated from both suppliers, which ship from different locations. Essentially, the customer would see 2 different shipping costs.
I’d recommend the following steps:
- Create a shipping class for each supplier
- Assign the products that belong to a supplier to the same shipping class i.e. All “Supplier X” products should belong to the “Supplier X” shipping class
- Use the WooCommerce Advanced Shipping Packages extension to break the order into separate pacakges based on the shipping classes each product in the order belongs to
Each package will then be treated as a separate shipment as you can see from this screenshot:
Question 2:
Supplier X has 4 warehouses in the US. I would like the shipping estimate returned to the customer to be from the warehouse closest to them (to keep shipping costs down). Any plugins for this?
This one will probably require you to reach out to a developer to help you build what you need. If you don’t have a go-to developer, we highly recommend contacting one of the services on our customizations page: https://woocommerce.com/customizations/.
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