I have already posted this issue but would like to bring together all the posts i've found onto one discussion. We all need a solution for this problem as I believe this is a critical feature for any marketplace. Can you imagine if ebay had this problem. I'm not a programmer and I'm not saying anything negative about Ubercart or Marketplace as I believe they are excellent modules and I thank the contributors for their time and effort, but we need to find some kind of solution. Any ideas, even if we have to commission a module?

Thanks in advance guys

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shunting commented

In essence, marketplace still thinks of the site as a store.

We need marketplace to think of the site as a mall. The sellers need control over the addresses and the payment method.

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rickh commented

i'd think tghis would be standard on a module like marketplace. i'm not being critical because i can't do better, it just makes more sense this way.

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nicktr commented
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The seller address functionality already exits.
Go to user/(UID)/selling/view e.g. user/2/selling/view with user 2 having seller permissions. You can also get to it from 'My account' --> ' click here to view your products'
You'll then get your seller control panel - see attached pic.
Then click the 'settings' button on the bottom row of buttons.
This gives you a form you can fill in with default shipping address. It then automatically populates your new products with this address as the default shipping from address. It also gives you the option of updating the default shipping address for all products belonging to that user.

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rickh commented

can the functionality not be added as an automatic selection on setup. this would be great as trying to explain this to users would be a major problem.

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shunting commented

@3 Rick: Thanks. Now, if it were possible to use something other than flat rate shipping....

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frozen10 commented

So basically if I have this correct, if using marketplace, we can't use ups , fedex, or usps for calculating seller's shipping based on their products?

I'm going to be using a payment system adaptive paypal api that sends the payments directly to each seller, but I was wondering if it also separates each sellers shipping costs appropriately?

Does flatrate even do that?