Zone Issues. Separate prices & selectability.

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Joined: 05/13/2008

We now have 2 separate parts of the catalog. One for Shanghai and another for Beijing. Shanghai items should only be ordered from the "Shanghai" zone. Beijing, ditto.

And...

Shanghai Shipping is one price,
Beijing Shipping is another.

How do we ensure that beijing customers aren't ordering from the slightly cheaper Shanghai catalog and how do we charge the beijing zone more for shipping?

Cheers

Posts: 11
Joined: 05/13/2008

Still looking for information on this. I really don't want to do a separate install just for Beijing.

Cheers!

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Joined: 08/07/2007
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I would use something like a separate product class for each catalog... a Shanghai Product and a Beijing Product. Then you can add conditions to your shipping rules via Workflow-ng that check the product class of products on the cart based on the shipping address. You can return the correct shipping address that way and maybe even work out a redirect/error message using Wf-ng if the customer chose the wrong product type.

This isn't a very usability friendly solution, though... I think you'd want to have a better way of notifying customers up front if they're choosing the incorrect products for their location.