On May 6, 2008, at 5:07 AM, Ritz123 wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to understand how the shipping options work in Ofbiz -
trying to
integrate it on the ecommerce site.
Will appreciate if someone can point me to some explanation on
1. What are Ship Groups and how are they created in ecommerce app (was
looking at checkoutshippingoptions.bsh and it always passes 0 to the
ShippingEstimateWrapper for ship group !!)
Ship groups are groups of order items that share the same shipping
options. In the default ecommerce site the customer doesn't have the
ability to specify different ship groups, that is why you see that
code in the ecommerce application. On the other hand, in the order
manager application, you can define more than one ship groups (during
the checkout process).
2. Seems like currently the way shipping options work is one has to
login
and specify the shipping address - however most of the time, only a
zip code
is required to just get an initial shipping estimate before customer
logs in
-is there a way to do that out of the box?
I don't think we have support for this out of the box.
3. How are drop ship items handled? ship from should be calculated
based on
the supplier for each product and their contact mech
You can define the suppliers that offer drop shipment services for
their product in the SupplierProduct entity (there is a flag for
this): Catalog-->Edit Product-->Suppliers
4. Any other pointers understanding how shipping calculator/ shipping
option/ shipping estimate works in general (I do not need carrier
specific
info).
You can setup shipping estimate rules in the Catalog-->Store--
>Shipping and Shipping Estimates tabs; there are many options.
Jacopo
Thanks in advance
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