[spree-user] Question concerning shipping methods in Spree 1-3 Stable

Hi all,

One of my customer requires a non trivial shipping strategy (similar to the advanced setup in http://guides.spreecommerce.com/developer/shipments.html)

The products can be classified in four shipping categories (Ultra-light, light, medium and heavy)
Products can be sold to different zones (US, Canada, Europe and rest of world)
The shipping rate calculator are all Flexi rates:
For instance
USA, Heavy 15$ first item, 10$ for each additional item
Canada. Heavy 10$ first item, 7$ for each additional item
USA, Light 5$ first item, 2$ for each additional item
etc..


Following the instructions on the guide, it is pretty straight forward to setup the shipping categories that would work when the user only selects products from one categories only (i.e add only heavy items or light items to the cart).

As soon as the user however decides to add a heavy item AND a light item, I am having a dilemma understanding how to model that with spree.

If the rule for match is "one", then when checking out, both shipping methods for light and heavy in Canada are available, which is clearly wrong.
if the rule for match is "all", then I get the error that no shipping method is available for a mixed cart.

I am sure there is a way to model that correctly but I am just not sure how.

Thanks for any input on that.

Take care,
Michael

Thanks for the reply Alberto

This solution works if and only if you have two categories (Light and Heavy) . Things get more complicated with three (Light, Medium and Heavy)
How would I model one light and one medium item in a shopping cart?

Following settings:
Light=>all
Medium=>one
Heavy=>one

It would work for Light + Medium
But the combination Heavy + Medium would create two shipping methods (Medium and Heavy). One of which is actually wrong :(

Cheers

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Alberto Vena wrote:

You are right Michael, I was assuming you just have 2 categories for each
country. Actually, I don't think it's doable with default Spree shipping
methods.
Maybe you'll have to overload some methods which choose the eligible
shipping methods changing it so it will take just the first of them if
multiple are eligible. This suppose you have to sort them on a priority
base before selecting the first.

Could something like that work?

--
Alberto Vena

http://nebulab.it/

Il giorno lunedì 3 giugno 2013, alle ore 14:58, Michael Sevestre ha
scritto:

Thanks for the reply Alberto

This solution works if and only if you have two categories (Light and
Heavy) . Things get more complicated with three (Light, Medium and Heavy)
How would I model one light and one medium item in a shopping cart?

Following settings:
Light=>all
Medium=>one
Heavy=>one

It would work for Light + Medium
But the combination Heavy + Medium would create two shipping methods
(Medium and Heavy). One of which is actually wrong :(

Cheers








On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Alberto Vena wrote:

Hi Michael,

I had a similar scenario for one of or clients.

Try putting "all" to Light shipping rate and "one" to Heavy one. This way
to just have one (or more) Heavy product will make the shipment Heavy.
Instead, if all elements are Light, the Light shipping will be applied.

Let me know if this works.

Cheers

--
Alberto Vena

http://nebulab.it/

Il giorno sabato 1 giugno 2013, alle ore 23:20, Michael Sevestre ha
scritto:

Hi all,

One of my customer requires a non trivial shipping strategy (similar to
the advanced setup in
http://guides.spreecommerce.com/developer/shipments.html)


- The products can be classified in four shipping categories
(Ultra-light, light, medium and heavy)
- Products can be sold to different zones (US, Canada, Europe and rest
of world)
- The shipping rate calculator are all Flexi rates:
- For instance
- USA, Heavy 15$ first item, 10$ for each additional item
- Canada. Heavy 10$ first item, 7$ for each additional item
- USA, Light 5$ first item, 2$ for each additional item
- etc..

Following the instructions on the guide, it is pretty straight forward to
setup the shipping categories that would work when the user only selects
products from one categories only (i.e add only heavy items or light items
to the cart).

As soon as the user however decides to add a heavy item *AND *a light
item, I am having a dilemma understanding how to model that with spree.

If the rule for match is "one", then when checking out, both shipping
methods for light and heavy in Canada are available, which is clearly
wrong.
if the rule for match is "all", then I get the error that no shipping
method is available for a mixed cart.

I am sure there is a way to model that correctly but I am just not sure
how.

Thanks for any input on that.

Take care,
Michael

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Michael Sevestre wrote:

Yes that's what I was thinking too. But I am surprised that one has to
hack in the code in order to get that feature going
Can someone tell me if this scenario would work out of the box in Spree
2.x with the split shipments feature?