We've specced out a Physical Product module that should add fields you can use to describe physical products. This means at the very least we'll need a weight field, a dimensions field, and a packaging field (including how many per package and extensible package type selection if necessary). When dealing with weight and dimension data types, I think we can just have a field setting that lets you specify what units of measurement you use for each... or maybe just types of units of measurement (i.e. metric system, imperial system, or U.S. customary system).

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mertskeli’s picture

mertskeli commented

Would be very nice to have an option to specify what kind of weight/dimensions a shop is using, net or gross (product itself or with packaging).

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mertskeli commented

(removed duplicate)

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented
Issue tags: +beta blocker

We either need the basic dimensions / weight fields or we need to decide to postpone this until 2.0 and develop it in contrib.

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rszrama commented
Issue tags: -beta blocker

Untagging. I think it's best for this work to mature in contrib unless something drastically changes after the beta 1. I do fully intend to carry on the Physical Product development, I'm just afraid of hampering it in core while we try to sort out the best way to calculate shipping in contrib. : (

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hozt commented

We do now have a commerce shipping module, but there is a question whether these fields, specifically product weight, should be included in that module or in commerce. #1123956: Using weights in shipping

In order for integrating with any of the shipping services we are going to need the total weight of the items on the order.

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dirtysteak commented

Excited to see this move forward. I have a couple of suggestions / feature requests to lump in here.

Not sure if this is the right place for this, if there is a better place for this I can re-post it there.

1. The ability for me to tell the store the dimensions of my two or ten different sized boxes, and have it use the product dimensions to fill the appropriately sized boxes would be awesome. Even better if it could play around with the shipping quotes to see if moving products around would result in a cheaper shipping bill (<---this is def. a bonus feature)

2. The ability to give a product a warehouse location would be huge for drop-shippers, or those thinking about drop shipping. A warehouse location could have an associated address, and then multiple shipping quotes could be retrieved for products coming from different warehouses.

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rszrama commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Forgot to close this out when the Commerce Physical Product was made. Well, that's now been superseded by the Physical Fields module anyways (and will in turn depend on it). I'm developing the new Commerce Physical Product module as a helper module for other shipping method modules.

This issue as described is fixed, accomplished by: http://drupal.org/project/physical

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rszrama commented
Component: Physical product » Other

(Removing the Physical product component.)

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.