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I know I’m jumping into this conversation a bit late but I also just wanted to add my vote for a shipping module/plugin that can accurately calculate shipping from multiple locations. I’m working on setting some new dropship sites and want to do it on magento. however, despite all the other fantastic features, this is a big drawback for me. If anybody manages to building something good, I would be interested in hearing about it.

Thanks,

Aaron

yea, I need this as well

I’d like to add in my vote for this, too.  Drop shipping is a pretty common practice that would prove really useful, especially to a website I’m developing right now.

I really like Magento a lot but the lack of this feature prevents us from using Magento.

We have 2 warehouses in our metropolitan area and another some 2000 miles away stocked with products local to that area. We will be adding another warehouse some 1000 miles away soon. We also dropship some very large or expensive items directly from our vendors. We currently use CS-Cart (which is a commercial product) which handles this beautifully with its Suppliers feature. This feature not only allows for stocking items at a specific origin, it also can dispatch an email to the “supplier” for just the products which that location should ship. It calculates shipping using the supplier zip code and does so properly even with online shipping calculators (UPS, USPS, FedEx). This solution is not perfect since it does not handle products stocked at multiple locations but even if the developers provided only equivalent features, Magento would be usable for many more shop owners.

Since I am spouting off here about shipping, I might as well voice my other shipping needs:
1) The ability to identify products which must ship in a separate box and then properly pass that information to shipping calculators, including online calculators;
2) As voiced by others, the ability to calculate dimensional weight. At a minimum, being able to designate an item as oversize and being able to add additional shipping on a per-item basis;
3) The ability to specify that an item requires a shipping quote before checkout can be completed. We ship many large products on pallets which require that we ship them by freight (truck). If properly implemented, this could also be a stop-gap solution when an item can be shipped from multiple warehouses (as long as your overlap is only for a few items).

Shipping is an area that is really complex and I recognize that sometimes only a custom solution is called for. However, in many cases, as the multiple shipping origins cited above, a “common” approach will at least greatly increase the addressable market for Magento as a possible solution. All of the above items could be used by many shopowners to creatively solve real-world problems and help to increase adoption of Magento.

I see it has been quite a while since this topic was first posted and i was wondering if anyone had any idea if this feature/module has been built yet?
i really need this as well…
if not what have you been doing in the meantime to adjust pricing/shipping?

Hi

we also ship from several places and would like some solution to this problem
the most basic option is to set up shipping prices per specific product . i do not understand why in the catalog, in the product details , magento did not include an option to set up a specific shipping rate for this product ( different products have issues other than weight such as size and fragile).

Yea this is definitely a must have module.

check out my thread for the creation of this module/ extension
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/22376/