Ship from different addresses?

[samlf3rd]

Hello, is it possible to have different shipping addresses in Virtuemart? What I mean is that my client has multiple store locations and so the closest store to the user would make the shipping charge go down. If someone in New York ordered a product then it would ship from the store's New York location-if they ordered from Arizona then the Arizona shipping charge would be calculated.

I guess the Virtuemart store would need multiple shipping-from addresses.

Is this possible? Is there a simple plugin/built in option for this? Would making multiple sites for different locations be the most feasible route?

TUIA (thank you in advance-did I just create that acronym?)
Sam

[jenkinhill]

Some sort of geolocation combined with rules. Not available off the peg, but these two could provide a  start to building a plugin:
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=120179.0
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=112127.0

And TIA is the standard acronym for thanks in advance. Thanks for making it more complicated.....

[samlf3rd]

Some sort of geolocation combined with rules. Not available off the peg, but these two could provide a  start to building a plugin:
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=120179.0
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=112127.0

And TIA is the standard acronym for thanks in advance. Thanks for making it more complicated.....

Haha on the TIA!
Also, I am not sure I could get that all to work properly??? The geo sure, but the advanced rules not sure of how we could accomplish that without knowing a lot about that plugin.

I only see that this may work in some fashion?:

Differentiate shipping by state

You can use the Country, Country2, Country3, State, State2 and State3 variables to distinguish various countries in the country set and also the various states of the countries:
Name="Free shipping to California"; State2 == "CA"; Shipping=0
Name="Flat rate to some other states"; state2 in list("TX", "WS", "MS"); Shipping=5

But, I still don't get how this would work together with the other plugin and actually give them different price. Also, from there would this integrate with UPS shipping module? This sounds like a nightmare of staying up until 3:00 A.M. every night eating cheetos and drinking mountain dew waking up with headaches kind of a plugin...

[jenkinhill]

No, it means hiring a developer.........

[samlf3rd]

No, it means hiring a developer.........

Is it possible to do this by simply using multi-vendor mode?

[GJC Web Design]

You have to experiment - for this sort of thing it is unlikely you will get an off the shelf answer...

Wouldn't have thought multi vendor as that is different "Vendors" offering their own products

the rules shipping plugin is very good - I use it on a lot of my projects - or there is my zipcode shipping http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/virtuemart-extensions/virtuemart-shipping/21665 - also very adaptable to different zipcodes and pricing

US postcodes are fairly nicely geographically divided so a few rules e.g. in my plugin should be able to define the from NY or Arizona blocks
then you need a schema for the shipping - by weight, value - what ever

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