Product custom fields and shipping methods

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My shop has about 500 products and it is still under construction.

Many of my products contain solvents and other materials which must be treated differently for shipping purposes (i.e. some products cannot be sent overseas, some must go via courier etc). There are 6 variants for shipping, and I have created a custom field in products which shows which of the 6 'shipping categories' the product falls into. This category shows up in the front end (product page) and in the cart. So good so far.

I am confused how I now go about configuring the shipping methods to reflect the 'shipping category' of the products. For example, a Shipping Category 'D' product means that the shipping to EU countries is by Courier only. Naturally, I want it to be clear on the checkout that as this is a category D product, shipping to the EU for this product is by courier only.

I have read the shipping tutorials, but cannot find any way to configure this. Please can you advise the way forward?

Hi,

You'll have to use the warehouse system of HikaShop.
So in the menu System>Warehouses, you configure the different warehouses you want, one per type of product, you assign the products to the warehouses on the product edition page. Or you can also do it automatically with mass actions you can configure via the menu System>Mass actions:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/167-massaction-form.html
And then, you configure the shipping methods for each warehouse.
On the checkout, the system will group the products per warehouse and will display the shipping methods available for each group.
If one group doesn't have any shipping method available, then an appropriate message will be displayed and the customer won't be able to finish the checkout.

Thanks. This looks like it will work.

Can I just check that the cart module automatically detects your delivery address and thus presents shipping options based on where your post code is located around the world?

Hi,

You sure can check since the system is able to do that.
But note that it's not based on the post code, but on the state/country selected by the customer in his address. The post code won't allow you to know the country of the customer since countries have overlapping post code formats.

Greetings,

I am trying to do this same thing with a product. I have created the "Warehouse", assigned it to the Product and now I'm at the create manual shipping step. In my setup, the option to add a warehouse is greyed out. See my attached screenshot.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks,
Bill

@cubewebdesigns:

Hi,

What do you mean by "greyed out"? What happens if you click on the "edit" pencil icon?

(If you click on it but then can't select your warehouse, you should start a new thread... it wouldn't be "this same thing" then.)

Greetings and thanks for the rapid response...

absolutely nothing happens, the 'pencil' and 'trash can' are un-clickable, which is why I assumed they were greyed out.

Bill

Hi,

Please change your popup system in order to use "vex".
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/3...-hikashop-2-6-1.html

Regards,

Thanks Jerome, that did the trick. How the heck did I miss that.... LOL

Bill