Combined Shipping Methods

[lesliekirk]

I need to be able to have a shipping method that is only allowed to be used for one product combine itself with the shipping methods available for other products when those products are also included in the basket.

In other words, when only product B is ordered it has a special Price Table Based Shipping method that works great if just that product is in the basket. I have that method assigned to the product and in the Shipping Method rules for this method I have "Exclude This Method Unless Permitted by Products" and I have Allow for all the other methods. If you check out with just this product in the basket you are only offered the one method (which is how it is supposed to be.

But if you add other products to the basket there is a "No valid shipping methods are available for your order. You will be contacted regarding shipping when your order is processed." message.

What I need is for the amount that shipping would be for product B to be added into the other shipping methods.

Or is there any to have Price Table Based like fee added to this product and then exclude it from the other shipping method which is the UPS Developer Kit?

I am sooo close to getting this Build a Gift Basket product completed. This is the final piece of the puzzle.

[Jim McCormick]

Leslie,

There is nothing built in that will allow you to do that. Copernicus makes a module that may help but I haven't see it in use in a very long time and I have no idea if it would be compatible with v9:

http://www.cbstech.com/miva-modules.html#CSM

The module allows a customer to split their basket items which then allows you to use different shipping methods for each item. It also requires that the customer click on 'Advanced Shipping' for it to work and that might make it unusable or at least user unfriendly for your situation.

[lesliekirk]

Well crap. One step forward and two steps back. This is really starting to feel like Mission Impossible...

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Could you create the special shipping method with some SMT rules? And after doing that, insert the derived cost as another basket charge? We've done this, but used a backend module to both calculate the shipping charge and ADD it to the costs derived from one or more built in shipping methods.

[Brennan]

We've done things like that is the past in template code. You can take the shipping Miva calculates and via template code add the shipping for the custom product and then update the shipping charge. Let me see if I can find some code for you.

[lesliekirk]

Leslie,

There is nothing built in that will allow you to do that. Copernicus makes a module that may help but I haven't see it in use in a very long time and I have no idea if it would be compatible with v9:

http://www.cbstech.com/miva-modules.html#CSM

The module allows a customer to split their basket items which then allows you to use different shipping methods for each item. It also requires that the customer click on 'Advanced Shipping' for it to work and that might make it unusable or at least user unfriendly for your situation.

I was just thinking about this module. In addition to needing a special shipping method for a single product, I would also like to be able to have multiple shipping addresses. I know I can create custom fields for the addresses, but shipping can't see that. This is a gift basket site.

[afiumano]

I need to do this same thing. Is this still "mission impossible" without template coding?