Shipping Charges allocated to individual sellers?
| Project: | Ubercart Marketplace |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0-beta4 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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I've been looking forward to a multi-seller development. Thanks for the great work!
However, I can't figure out any way that shipping charges can be allocated to the individual sellers.
It seems that the shipping calculation works ok and is charged to the customer. But, earnings credited to the sellers seem to ignore shipping fees - i.e. all shipping fees apparently go to the store and the seller does not get reimbursed. It would be a challenge to "sell" this arrangement to sellers.
Is there something I'm missing, or a fix in progress? I realize this is likely not simple to implement, but as the shipping module apparently can be set to charge based on packaging each item separately, perhaps that's a beginning point. Those calculated charges could be added to the amount due to the seller (preferably with some accounting of the calculation - $xxx cost + $x shipping, or a separate line item in the seller's report).
Meanwhile, a semi-acceptable workaround occurs to me - sellers must price their products as inclusive of shipping (but they would have to guess at costs and would lose the commission on the shipping amount as well). And perhaps expedited shipping could be added as an "attribute"?
#1
Many complexities exist with charging shipping costs per seller, as you have guessed. In version 2 for Ubercart 2 and Drupal 6 (release date unknown), this will likely be a feature. Currently, you have to tell sellers to include shipping charges in their prices. Since products will appear more expensive, perhaps offer free shipping on your orders to attract customers (who will really be paying shipping anyways).
#2
Thanks for your reply - it is much as I suspected. And I think the option of expedited shipping as an attribute will work OK for those who want to offer such.
Meanwhile, I look forward to Drupal 6 - I understand it handles memory better, an I am constantly getting out of memory errors when working withing the admin area.
#3
Hi,
Does someone managed to did it?
I also need seller to get the shipping fees included in their commissions as they ship the products directly.
#4
I need this feature as well for a D5 install I'm working on. I knew it wasn't implemented and also decided it would be too large of an undertaking to do myself for the scope of the project.
With that said, I've come up with a work around. You can create a flatrate shipping item of 0. Then have all your sellers enter in their own shipping prices for each item.
I've actually created 3 regions, USA, Canada & Mexico, International...so I let my sellers choose prices to shipping to each of these regions. Not the best solution, but works for now.
Look forward to this feature myself.