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In WooCommerce, customer selects shipping method at checkout after adding products into cart. It is a better flow, in my opinion.

Hi Liew,

Thank you for your reply,

I know what you are saying and I would be inclined to agree with you, but as its my boss’s company and that’s the way he wants it done, little old me who wants to keep his job needs to find a resolution that boss man is happy ??

It should be your job as the IT expert to point out when a superior’s conception is flawed and that there’s a better way. As a customer, I may not know on first cart addition whether I want to collect or deliver. I want to wait until I’m done shopping before I decide.

If you don’t feel that you can go there, I get it. Just sayin’ ??

If you need specific functionality, I suggest asking over at WooCommerce’s dedicated support for extension suggestions. If you cannot find anything to implement such an unusual flow, you could custom code a solution. In JS, listen for the add to cart button’s click event. If a collect/deliver choice has not yet been made, display a modal with an appropriate form. Cache the selections for later use.

When they get to the checkout page that has shipping options, pre-select the desired options from the cached selections.

@bcworkz

Thank you for your message, although I do have to admit “IT Expert” is a very big stretch lol we are a small business of 5 people and i was employed as the purchasing manager but because my knowledge with IT, is albeit slightly wider than everyone else’s in the company i have been tasked with this job lol

Right so both comments in here are saying its backwards for my boss to want his checkout method like this (which I’m glad) the main reason he wants it like this is because we have 2 shops and currently if you are trying to order online every time you try to add a product to the basket you need to select its location first (could get very annoying) so if there was a way i could at least solve that, so that a customer can select their multiple items and then only have to choose the “store location” just once for that online order instead of with every item and its variable that will put on to a near winner i think ?? would you happen to know if this is at all possible?

Ashley

my knowledge with IT, is albeit slightly wider than everyone else’s

That does make you the local expert then ??

There is a WooCommerce extension that let’s customers choose where they can pickup products they purchase. Local Pickup Plus. There is an annual fee involved. It does let managers specify what products are available at different locations. Customers could in theory put together an order where they’d need to go to multiple locations to collect everything.

Pickup is optional, customer’s could select shipping methods from a separate shipping extension. I’m not intimately familiar with this local pickup extension, but I think customers choose a location per product. I’m unsure if the selection defaults to the last chosen location or if it needs to be selected each time. If the default behavior is undesirable, it can likely be fixed with some custom JS. At least the framework of managing locations is already done for you.

If you need more information, there’s a live chat thingy in the bottom right corner of the above lined page. There might be other suitable extensions, this is the one I happened to already be aware of. For more options, try the breadcrumb links on the above linked page that are just below the main menu.