How to link individual products to shipping method?

-- HikaShop version -- : 6.1.0
-- Joomla version -- : 5.3.3
-- PHP version -- : 8.4

As the title says ... how to link an individual product to a specific shipping method?

What do I want to do?
Let's say, we have two types of products:

a) main products
b) parts (spare parts)

Products of typ "a" should delivered with the shipping method "default shipping". But if the customer is buying only a product of the typ "b" then the products should be delivered with shipping method "part shipping". Both shipping methods are from the same shipping plugin "hikashop manual shipping plugin" - but with different prices.

Another thing: If the customer puts a product of typ "a" AND of type "b" in the cart, automatically the most expensive shipping method should be used.

Important to know: In our case we can not handle with weights or dimensions, so we have to link each product to a specific shipping method.

How to achive this?

Hi,

I don't know of a solution which meets all of your criteria and which doesn't involve the development of a custom shipping plugin.

There are partial solutions:
- If you're ok with the shipping fee of the different products to be added together, you could have just one shipping method with its "shipping price per product" setting activated. Then, in each product, you could use the "shipping prices" area to configure a shipping fee for the product. You could even have several shipping methods, and use that mechanism to only allow some shipping methods when a product is in the cart.
- Having different warehouses for different types of products, and then linking the shipping methods to their warehouse, and the products to their warehouse would allow you to have one set of shipping methods for products of type A and one set for products of type B. The only downside is that when products from two types would be in the cart, the shipping fee would be the sum of the shipping fee for each type group.
- If you're ok with not using standard manual shipping methods, this shipping plugin supports restriction by category:
www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/downloads/prod...pping-extra-features

Hi,

the idea of restricting shipping methods per category is a nice one. Would be a great and useful addition to Hikashop! Btw. this would be the only feature I would use from the mentioned external plugin, so it wouldn't be very meaningful.

What about a feature update for HikaShop?

Hi,

Indeed, that could be something interesting to add in the future.

nicolas wrote: Indeed, that could be something interesting to add in the future.

Hm ... any idea ... ETA? :whistle:

No idea yet.
It's not easy to add, and it's not a priority since there is already a working solution with that other shipping plugin.
I've noted it on our end.
If you need this in the short term, I would recommend using that other shipping plugin.

nicolas wrote: ... It's not easy to add, and it's not a priority since there is already a working solution with that other shipping plugin.

It's not clear to me what exactly the mentioned plugin does. There is no full description and I can not contact anybody on this site because the contact form is broken and there's no email address.

So let me ask you - could you imagine to make it as individual job for me?

Hi,

You can contact the developer by email at : brainforge DOT uk AT btinternet DOT com
Replace DOT and AT by the corresponding characters. I've talked to the developer frequently over the years and his plugins for HikaShop have been well maintained up until now.

I sure could add it as an individual job for you. But it will be more expensive than just using that other plugin.