Daniel wrote:I'll look into this. maybe need to add a method for spliting weight depending on max weight a shipper can provide. also need some message to tell people to contact the store owner about shipping.
the next version is nearly ready. i need to just finish off the invoice numbers.
Yes,Daniel! you said the point! I think some user are not only the retailers, but also wholesalers. For example, when they sell single product to end-customer, they can select FREE SHIPPING, but if they do wholesale, most of the goods will be shipped by DHL,UPS,Fedex,EMS etc. it's very hard to calculate the shipping cost by the system.
There are two method to slove the problem:
1) As you said, add a method "Shipping cost based on weight"(As we will descpibe the weight for each product, the system is easy to calculate the total weight), then we can upload DHL.xls(for example DHL charge rate sheet), then the system will calculate the shipping cost for customers.
2) For wholesales, there have an adding choice"Contact US for shipping cost", after they select the button, they will receive a letter such as "Dear Customer, thanks for your order, we will send an invoice with shipping cost for your reference in 24 hours"
Another suggestion is:
We can approve customers for two type:"End-customer""Wholesale customer", end-customer just can only see the retail price(all customer can see the retail price even they don't register in website),"Wholesale customer" can check all the price. because some sellers don't want to let the end-customer know the wholesale price.