Is shipping calculated from warehouse location?

@scottcwilson there is a feature which enables you to input a different price based on the stock location. Did you get a chance to see that inside edit product page, product data section. There you can input product price including shipping costs which are involved due to a different warehouse location.

Thanks so much for your answer, Fahad. I was hoping it could tie in to a shipping vendor like UPS so it would know that two shipments were being made an charge accordingly. Sounds like it doesn’t have connections to the shipping modules as such, just to product pricing.

Actually this feature, stock location based price, recently added in this plugin on a suggestion from the user. You gave a nice thought that if I provide another input field on location edit page so you can add shipping charges there. So whatever the price would be, shipping charges will reflect under shipping head instead of inclusive in product prices. Correct me if I am not taking the right direction.

The trouble is the shipping charges are not known until the order is placed. If the customer is in California, and he buys an item warehoused in Ohio and another item warehoused in Florida, that will have a different cost than if the customer was in Florida or Ohio (for example).

Adding a static shipping surcharge like you are doing is very powerful, but it’s not exactly what I need.

Then you guide me because as a developer I can make it possible but as a user you can explain the scenario better.

If your existing system is calculating the shipping charges correctly on separate items, as single item in an order, not multiple items so we can go for a split. On order placement, order will be splitted into multiple orders according to the stock locations and WooCommerce will recalculate the totals for each order accordingly.

But maybe this will not work, because actually you don’t need a split but multiple shipping charges on the basis of stock locations involved in the cart items. I got it, I think.

I have the same issue with the shipping. I think two ways to solved:

1.- Split two orders

Example:
If the customer order two products, one for ohaio and one for florida. Split the orders. One from Ohaio and one from Florida.

2.- For each locations, calculate 1 shipping. 

Example:
If the customer order two products, one for ohaio and one for florida. Calculate two shipping one from Ohaio and one from Florida.

I think the second is better because the customer only will recive one email, and the vendor too. Making it easy. In addition, the price will be more understandable by the client.

This update will be very helpful.

#2 is the most intuitive for a developer but users generally don’t want to see multiple lines of shipping charges. I don’t think I have ever seen a cart do this in the real world because there would be customer pushback.

I have 9000 products with 32 stores, if the customer wants to buy 3 pairs of shoes, but I have those pairs in 3 different stores (ohaio, florida, texas). I can’t sell it with a shipping charges.

@omarcas I agree with you. Splitting order would be a good solution. But do you know that Order Splitter plugin has already a split method for this plugin. Earlier Alex and I made these two plugins together. I am pasting the relevant stuff here.

https://ps.w.org/woo-order-splitter/assets/screenshot-57.png
https://ps.w.org/woo-order-splitter/assets/screenshot-58.png

Hi Fahad, thanks for your reply. I installed the plugin but I didn’t saw the meta key “Stock Location”. I recorded a video to show you
. Do I need to do any extra step? I have the vesion 4.5.5 for Order Splitter for WooCommerce and Stock Locations for WooCommerce 1.8.6

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@omarcas let me mention here two things,

1) This split method will work in advanced version only.
2) The meta_key will appear if at least one order is in the database table having that key. These meta keys are fetched from the orders records actually.

Let me know how may I help you further. You may use the help tab to get urgent help as well.