Shipping scenario challenge

[fourmat]

Hi Guys, I have a challenge for you. My client has a difficult shipping scenario for me to tackle.

1) Free Shipping to the 48 continental US
2) Anyone outside of the continental 48 needs to call for a shipping quote.
3) One set of products ships free to a commercial address, and a fixed fee to a residential address. This is the tough one...

I have several contributions set up: Commercial/Residential, Individual Shipping, Free Shipping Only (Shipping Module) among others. I have everything worked out except the scenario where the commercial/residential addresses come into play.

Does anyone have any ideas how to accomplish this?

My first instinct is to create a flag that turns the individual shipping on and free shipping off when the delivery address is set to residential, but I'm running out of talent on the locations of where to do this. I would assume that this must be accomplished in checkout_shipping.php but it looks as though a lot of the decisions that are key to getting this working with individual shipping are made in the shopping_cart.php file upstream of the customer entering the residential/commercial information.

Would it be possible to set up a Zone scenario that keys on the residential/commercial information?

Thanks!

FourMat

[jpf]

The mod: Collect Residential / Commercial info for shipping
Is a good start - but all it does it pass the info to UPS or FEDEX modules for inclusion in there pricing structures.

Now if you take that into another module (like flat fee) where
if residential_address=true then(shipping = resfixedfee + shipping)
etc...

OR every one get FLAT FEE and then with this flag -
if commercial = true then shipping=0


Good Luck!

[fourmat]

Thanks for the reply JPF.

I think that I'm going to start out in a more simple way. I created a couple of product attributes for the individual products that have the fee tacked on. One for Delivery to a commercial address, the other for a residential, then tack the added fee onto the residential. This may not be the ultimate solution but it should work for now, and it isolates the added fee to only the products that are affected.

Here is a question on product attributes: How do I get the radio button style of attribute options to show up without adding stock to each attribute?

We aren't tracking stock. I know I can just add a non zero number to each attribute, but that's a pain in the rear to try to keep up with.