Super Ship
Advanced shipping functionality, including: Multiple flat rate; Flat rate + live rates; Allow/Disallow specific countries, states/provinces/postal codes; specific shipping methods per products (for oversized, freight, etc.); package dimensions;
Adminfoxycart_brett
(Admin, FoxyCart)
shared this idea
We have started compiling all the requests we’ve received over the years, and will be planning out our next release(s) to address as many as possible, in as flexible a way as possible.
Update 2011.02.02: We’re getting very close to wrapping up v0.7.1 as official, after which point we will be starting development of shipping improvements in earnest. We know this has been a long time in coming, but we hope that what we’re planning has all the flexibility you all need.
Update 2012.03.26: Yes, we know this has been a long, long time in coming. We can’t get too specific, but we can say that we are actually working on it, and it is largely proceeding as planned. We’ll continue to update here as we make progress.
42 comments
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aNoble
commented
It would be great if this included packaging weight
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Carolin
commented
We're in the middle of Q2 2012. Any idea of release date?
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Rick Wetzel
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In the past I used a foxycart competitor that had you set interior container measurements, and product measurements so multiple products could be shipped in one container. I hope you are considering this
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Carolin
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It feels like Super Ship is becoming a myth, It's been talked about for so long! Hope that the promised Q2 2012 launch will actually come though.
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andy whitaker
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Need address verification, i.e. confirming if address is valid and if the address is classified as commercial or residential
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Jack S
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We ship primarily with UPS, only within USA. Our wish list: for each item (or category) specify default box dimension, max weight per box or max units per box (which will trigger multiple boxes as necessary). We also need to flag items or categories that require hazmat shipping.
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Eamonn F
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Could you add a radio button next to the State/Province field that says something like "not applicable". This would be for users in places like UK who do not have State or Province. You had a forum back in 2009 that dealt with this but it does not seem that anything has been done yet. http://forum.foxycart.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1860&page=1
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Billy White
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I've seen it in the forums, but wanted to make a note of it here. Shipping label integration would be awesome.
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David Peterman
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This will be a very welcome addition. I almost had to pass on Foxycart altogether because of shipping limitations, but in the end I was able to hack together a lot of odd things to make it all work. A turnkey solution -- or at least one that only requires the most modest customization -- will be awesome
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Adminfoxycart_luke
(Admin, FoxyCart)
commented
@Stephen Rodier: How do you handle orders with products from multiple manufacturers? There are a few possibilities:
1) Don't allow orders to contain items from multiple manufacturers
2) Split out the shipping costs (similar to our current multiship functionality) and charge the customer for each shipment
3) Just charge the customer the highest rated shipment (eat the rest) and somehow prepare the XML Datafeed to indicate how the order has been split into multiple shipments to be fulfilled.Thoughts?
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Stephen Rodier
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Most of our products are drop shipped from the manufacturer. There are about 6 manufacturers so I need to be able to set the ship from location in the product categories or something like that.
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Kevin Godden
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All I would like is the customer to be able to choose between the flatrate shipping or a live rate shipping...
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dashard
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What's the current status of Super Ship?
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ajp1126
commented
I have this issue too -
"One issue I would like to see resolved is the fact that if all of the cart items add up to more than the limit in lbs. set by the courier, the shipping calculator throws and error. If we could have the ability to identify a product or category as "packaged separately", this would alleviate that problem."
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ajp1126
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My client ships via UPS and unless the buyer specifically requests to have the shipment sent WITHOUT insurance, they automatically apply insurance. If UPS insurance rates were included in the cart, that would help me out. Right now we are doing a handling fee to try and cover that cost, but it is not accurate. In some cases we overcharge the customer and in other cases we undercharge.
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ajp1126
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I will pay someone to help me customize my checkout to allow for freight shipping and orders that exceed 150 lbs. This is an urgent issue. If I can't get this resolved, I will be FORCED to switch to another solution.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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J. James Beaudoin
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I'm with Brenden. Any word on this? This would certainly be a very useful feature, as my company is in need of it (we use both the small and regular/medium flat rate boxes), and obviously don't want people to pay for the reg/medium flat rate box when they do not have to!
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Brenden
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Any news on when work on this will begin?
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Doug
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It would be great if there was a way to apply a flat rate plus a percentage of the live rates per shipping method (not just per shipper, but each method such as UPS Ground and UPS Next Day Air).
The use case is that we send our orders to a 3rd party for shipping. It starts with the live rates, which we pay the shipper a percentage markup for labor. We also add tracking, which varies per method, and package costs.
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bobbynibbs
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We need to be able to charge a flat rate for shipping initially, on the first item, and then an additional rate for each item thereafter, on that same order. Like, shipping for the first item is $11.95, and each additional item is $1.50 etc. ;)
