How to set order-wise shipping in Mulitvendor Marketplace for opencart

Shipping is an amount of a particular kind of cargo that is sent to another country on a ship, train, aero plane, or other vehicle. With the help of Multivendor module admin can manage shipping according to the country, zip code of buyer’s address and product weight. Admin can set impact price on the shipping amount based on the country, zip code and weight. Buyer can see how the shipping amount fluctuates with the change in county, zip code and weight.

  • This module also helps the admin to add several seller name, county, zip code, weight, price at a time via Excel File upload.
  • Admin can set different shipping rates for different seller based on country, zip code and weight.
  • Admin can set impact price on the existing shipping rates based on zip code for a particular country.
  • Admin can set impact price on shipping rates either for a particular zip code or for a range of zip code.
  • Admin can set impact price on shipping rates either for a particular zip code or for a range of zip code.
  • Admin can set impact price on shipping rates either for a particular weight or for a range of weight.

How to set order wise shipping:

First go to: Purpletree Multivendor->Shipping Rates.

After that you can view following page and click on manage shipping option link.

1 order wise

After that you can view Manage shipping option page. Status must be enable for set order wise shipping rates.

Admin have two type of shipping

  • Product-wise
  • Order-wise

Order wise shipping have three type shipping charges.

  • Flat Rate Shipping
  • Advanced Shipping
  • Flexible Shipping

Admin should have to select order wise shipping. After that we will have to select above shipping charge.

Order-Wise > Flat Rate Shipping:

This is traditional Shipping method means shipping charge which is chosen,

will be applied to cart according to shipping Type defined.

It denotes a uniform shipping rate that is applicable for shipping, weight, customer country and zip code. The flat rate shipping method is based according to different shipping zones. Shipping charge which is chosen will be applied to cart according to shipping Type defined.

You can view following page.

2 order wise

For Example: if you have set flat rate shipping charge 20 after that customer  will place order then only 20 will apply shipping charge per order only.

Order-Wise > Advanced Shipping:

This shipping charge will calculate from shipping rates defined for each seller products. If No shipping charge is found even for 1 or more products in cart, then customer will not be able to checkout using Purpletree Shipping Method. Before using this shipping method make sure all shipping. Mulitvendor allows you to define different shipping costs for per order, based on customer location. These shipping costs can be added to shipping methods, or used as order- wise advanced shipping.

Admin can set order-wise> Advanced shipping charge and view following page.

3 order wise

For Example: if you have set flat rate shipping charge 20 after that customer  will place order then only 20 will apply shipping charge per order only

Order-Wise > Flexible Shipping:

Flexible Shipping is the most advanced shipping for multivendor extension allowing you to calculate shipping costs based on weight, location and weight of per product. If not found then Flat Shipping charge will be applied. it Combined with the multivendor marketplace. In product wise flexible shipping, when customer try to checkout Non Seller products, first for each product it will look for shipping charge from Shipping Rates. If not found then Flat Shipping charge will be applied.

Admin should select order-wise shipping type after that should select flexible shipping type and fill flexible shipping charge.

4 order wise

For Example: if customer place order and then he does not find any advanced shipping charges after that purpletree shipping will apply flat shipping charge.

More details of Purpletree Opencart Multivendor marketplace can be found here.