Implementing a shipping quote

  • Hi All
    I deliver in my local area but can anyone tell me how to implement a shipping quotation system in Woocommerce where more distant customers select products but don’t pay until I send them an invoice with their choice of shipping included. The products are hardware with many differing weights and sizes.

    Thanks

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by allansjackson.
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  • Have a look into “Request a Quote” plugins. Basically a customer will browse your store and create a shopping list. Then they send off the list, with their email, to the store for a quotation.

    I have this one:
    https://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-request-a-quote/6460218?s_rank=3
    which was good for me.

    There are several other similar plugins:
    https://codecanyon.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=request+a+quote&as=0&referrer=homepage

    Also have a look at WordPress and WooThemes plugins.

    Another way would be to setup PayPal such that the customer authorises an amount, but the vendor takes payment later and can vary the amount by I think its 10% to allow for actual costs.

    The generality though is that this is troublesome for customers. To my knowledge the big on-line sellers don’t do it this way, and that tells us something. They try to find a way to calculate the shipping somehow.

    Thread Starter allansjackson

    (@allansjackson)

    Hi Lorro
    Thanks for the reply. The stuff on offer is just so varied in size and weight that the request a quote method seems to me to be the best answer.

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