Disable carriers per product-Ship from different country

[jsherk]

If I have more than one shipping module active (say USPS, Fedex and
Custom Shipping module), is would be nice to specify, on a per product
basis, that some/all these modules should or should NOT be used for this
particular product! This would allow the Custom Shipping module to be
setup to ship certain products from different countries.

Here is example of use case:
We have an office in US and one in Australia. Almost everything we
produce and sell is produced in US and shipped from US, except for blue
widgets, which are produced in Australia and shipped from Australia.
The Custom Shipping module could be setup to use Australia post.
It would then be nice to be able to disable the Custom Shipping module for
all products except the blue widgets. And then, for the blue widgets,
it would be nice to be able to use the Custom Shipping module only, and
disable USPS and Fedex.
This could all be done from the Edit Product screen of each product with
an Enable/Disable for each shipping method.

[BFChris]

For the time being, I believe Lexiconn's Shipping add-on Module will do this for you.

See:

http://www.lexiconn.com/ecommerce/shops ... odule.html

You could "probably" also write some Javascript to hide specific shipping options based on keywords in product names.

[jsherk]

I contacted LexiConn a few days ago, and their shipping module is ONLY available to customers that host their site with LexiConn ... you cannot purchase it for use on your own site.

I never thought of JavaScript... good idea! I will have to look into that and see how that could be accomplished.

Thanks bfchris

[BFChris]

Sorry to hear that.

Lexiconn has a Javascript tutorial on how to check cart values and do different things as a result, too:

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewtopic.php?t=289

[jsherk]

Took a quick look at the JavaScript idea, but the problem is that if the user has JavaScript turned off on their browser, then it would not work, so unfortunately that idea won't work.

The only other idea I can think of is to disable the USPS, Fedex and UPS shipping options, and then create my own custom shipping module that I then have to re-write my own USPS, Fedex and UPS functions for and then this module could determine which ones to display based on products in the cart... a lot of work though... I hate to re-write stuff that has already been done.

[BFChris]

True, but very few people have Javascript disabled (and if they do they're losing out on other functions as well), so at least this is better than nothing.....

[jsherk]

Just an FYI but there are a lot of good tutorials on the lexiconn page you sent me too... very helpful stuff!

[BFChris]

Yes, the Lexiconn Tutorials are excellent....

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewforum.php?f=2

[jsherk]

Here is an even better solution that this one (Specify "Ship From Country" on a per product basis):
http://support.shopsite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7936