[ic] Multiple Ship To's

[Paul Stearns]

Alright I lied, there is a $4.00 surcharge for shipping to Canada.

Sorry....

Paul

Paul Stearns wrote:

> Mike:
>
> The shipping charges question is not as big an issue to me as the problem of
> ordering 5 widgets (one part number), and being able to ship each of the widgets
> to 5 different people. The reason that shipping charges are not a big problem
> for my implementation is that the shipping charge is the same no matter where
> the products are shipped. I.E. The five widgets would cost $29.75 to ship
> whether they all go to NY, FL,  MN or CA or are split in any way possible.
>
> Paul
>
> Mike Heins wrote:
>
> > Quoting Webmaster (webmaster@aboron.com):
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: interchange-users-admin@lists.akopia.com
> > > > [mailto:interchange-users-admin@lists.akopia.com]On Behalf Of Paul
> > > > Stearns
> > > > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 10:40 AM
> > > > To: interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
> > > > Subject: [ic] Multiple Ship To's
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In December I had indicated that I would try to rewrite the shipping
> > > > module to handle Multiple Ship To's.
> > > >
> > > > I have been unable to do this, due to a variety of higher priority
> > > > items, both business and personal.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else endeavoured to handle Multiple Ship To's?
> > > >
> > > > What I need is the protypical gift shop store where a person might order
> > > > 10 items, either different or the same, which are to be shipped to
> > > > anywhere from 1 to 10 different addresses.
> > > >
> > > > The Construct something Demo is tantalizing in that it allows the entry
> > > > of multiple ship to's but it does nothing with the data.
> > >
> > >
> > >   This is not entirely true - the construct demo, as it installed itself
> > > on my machine, takes the line by line ship-to:'s and writes them into the
> > > individual order files in the orders/ directory.  Although I would like
> > > this information to display in the GUI, I have not had time to pump it in
> > > (yet).  So I just manually check the orders.  We get less than 6 orders
> > > a day, so it isn't a difficult thing to look at.
> > >
> > >   Eventually, when we finish educating our shipping people, I will have
> > > the entire order with credit card and ship-to:'s get encrypted and
> > > e-mailed to the fulfillment person. (but they're still complaining about
> > > having to get adjusted to Eudora and the new web insterface for phone
> > > orders)
> > >
> >
> > Yes, and foundation in the next version will have a better implementation.
> > But it still will not address what is usually the question, multiple
> > shipping calculations line-by-line. Very possible, but there are a lot
> > of pitfalls to it.
> >
> > Our PSG group has done this on a custom basis, and they might be able
> > to help the original poster with that. To reach sonemone who can help
> > you there, just send email to sales@akopia.com.
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