Force Specific Product To Ship Separately From Others

Store Builder Questions
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I recently bought stock of a product that is a very odd size and shape compared to most of the products I sell (books and DVDs).

What I would like to know is: can I set this new product up in such a way that whenever someone orders it, it will be shipped separately from the rest of the products?

So, Joe Bloggs orders 3 books and 1 widget.

At checkout he will see that his order is coming in 2 separate packages, one for the books and one for the widget. And he will pay 2 shipping fees, one for each package.

Fred Bloggs order 1 book and 3 widgets. Same thing: he three widgets will go in one box, and the book will go in another. He will pay 2 shipping fees, one for each package.

Can this be made to work?

Thanks in advance.

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I dont use it but Im guesssing the items in a box function could work, so for the other item to ship separately could be forced always to be in 1 box alone with its own shipping cost. Then you could add a promo where the regular shipping gets applied at nil price for those other specific products

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I dont use it but Im guesssing the items in a box function could work, so for the other item to ship separately could be forced always to be in 1 box alone with its own shipping cost. Then you could add a promo where the regular shipping gets applied at nil price for those other specific products

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I guess that might work. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

4

Please pay attention to the Suppliers module. Create one supplier for specific product and another one for all other items. Then attach shipping methods to suppliers. As a result, 2 sections with shipping methods will be displayed on the checkout

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Please pay attention to the Suppliers module. Create one supplier for specific product and another one for all other items. Then attach shipping methods to suppliers. As a result, 2 sections with shipping methods will be displayed on the checkout

Thanks eCom, but I'm not seeing a "Suppliers Module" in my backend...

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Did you check it in the Browse all available add-ons tab?

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7

Ah, thanks for that. I keep forgetting about that tab. I see it now.

Is there a way to add a supplier to all products en-masse, then change only this one to a different supplier? I currently have over 430 products so adding a supplier to each one could be a time-consuming operation.

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That tab is stupid. There should be 3 tabs:

1 - installed/active addons

2 - disabled addons

3 - available addons to install

And the lists should NOT be mixed.

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Ah, thanks for that. I keep forgetting about that tab. I see it now.

Is there a way to add a supplier to all products en-masse, then change only this one to a different supplier? I currently have over 430 products so adding a supplier to each one could be a time-consuming operation.

You can easily do it with the export/ import functionality

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You can easily do it with the export/ import functionality

Awesome! Thanks so much!

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You only need to setup the supplier for the one product. You don't have to have all products releated to suppliers. Essentially this was put in place for drop-shipping. So what happens is:

- If product has a supplier, then send an email to the supplier when the product is orders.

+ use the supplier's address as the shipping origin (will calculate differently than non-supplier products).

+ Don't include the product (product packaging) with any other products NOT from that supplier.

- if product doesn't have a supplier, then just do things normally.

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Thank you Tony!

Now I need to talk to my shipping person to see if that's how they want to handle this new product.