Shipping differ by product

[FredW]

Running ShopSite 10 sp2 r2.

Setting up products for use of BuyAnywhere buttons.

Most of our products ship by UPS by weight or size. I have tested setting up products by both units of measure and UPS handles it OK.

My question is for those products that do not ship by UPS. These ship either by USPS or by freight. Is there a way to define shipping options by product?

Thanks in advance.
Fred

[Jim]

No, you can't assign a different shipping method on a product by product basis. If a shipping method is enabled it will be available for every product. The exception to this is if you are using a realtime shipping company (UPS, USPS, FedEX) where you can specify weight and container information. In this case the shipping company will only return their shipping options that are available to the package weight, sized, etc and the destination where the the package is to be shipped.

[hiamps]

It sure would be VERY handy to be able to exclude shipping methods per Item. We are always having people choose Flat Rate when the item can't fit in the box...Another dreaded phone call......

[FredW]

It sure would be VERY handy to be able to exclude shipping methods per Item. We are always having people choose Flat Rate when the item can't fit in the box...Another dreaded phone call......

Agree with your statement. I went to your site to check it out and wonder how did you get the larger products (Art-Supplies-Easels.htm#2746) " to price USPS so high?. Did you set this deliberately higher than the FedEx rate so your customers would use it instead of USPS flat rate shipping? If you did, would you mine sharing how that is working for you?

I am considered, for each product, changing the USPS shipping definition to 'non-rectangular' and set the girth to over 130 inches (larger than US postal allows), so shipping via USPS would not be an option. It creates an error message on the shopping cart saying the package it too big to mail, and I'm not sure I like that, but it is better than the alternative.

Thanks in advance,
FredW