Managing Drop Shipping from multiple companies
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I talked to two separate manufacturers today who told me about their drop shipping programs. They sound very appealing to me, but I am not sure how to handle the shipping. Each manufacturer I talked to said they can either ship direct to me or ship direct to the customer. With either option we are talking about $4-6 shipping.
My question is what if a customer chooses multiple products from multiple manufacturers when checking out? How can I manage the shipping costs properly?
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@IRJ said:
I talked to two separate manufacturers today who told me about their drop shipping programs. They sound very appealing to me, but I am not sure how to handle the shipping. Each manufacturer I talked to said they can either ship direct to me or ship direct to the customer. With either option we are talking about $4-6 shipping.
My question is what if a customer chooses multiple products from multiple manufacturers when checking out? How can I manage the shipping costs properly?
Sounds like you need a table in the relational database that has a supplier column for each product in a product table. Then the supplier table can have a column for shipping costs.
You'd then use Php to grab the data and calculate.
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The vendor is going to give me the exact weight of each item and told me to allow for a 10% variance. They generally ship at costs, so that variance should give me a little room and a tiny bit of profit.
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I think I can configure all this through woocommerce
