Providing Saturday delivery but restricting it to certain prodcuts

[kenwen]

Hi all,

I want to set up an option for Saturday delivery BUT only for certain products - problem is I have absolutely no idea how to do it

Any ideas greatly appreciated

Ken

[Kermy]

Only an idea, but you could create a component offering an optional Saturday surcharge, and apply this to every product you want to offer the delivery on. When users check out, any items with the surcharge would be shipped by saturday delivery.

It could be possible to use Javascript to check through a list of allowed items, and compare that list to what is in the cart. If the items are not allowed, the Saturday Delivery option is removed from the list of shipping classes. This would take quite a bit of script modification, but certainly do-able.

Someone else may have another solution...?

[Guest]

Hi Ken,

You can try the following work around if you have set shipping by "Total Weight".Go to the product ,create a component called "Special Saturday Delivery" ,check "Component as Seperate Orderline". Go to the "Prices" tab and specify the price. In the "Layout" tab of the product,specify a weight say 1000kg. Go to "View|Business Settings|Shipping and Handling", go to the delivery methods (First Class Post , Second Class Post)and specify the following for the Weight Vs Cost table

Weight in kg -- Cost
1000 --------- 0.00

When a customer adds this product, the special delivery charge will be added automatically.

[wjcampbe]

@Sumiya - that would have the effect of making everything between the previous highest value in the weight table and 1000kg free - would it not?

For that to work, we would need two entries, one at 999kg to preserve the shipping cost on normal items - or am I missing something?

[kenwen]

from the looks of it the best plan would be to add a component that customers can select for Saturday delivery.

thanks for all the advice!