Product Vendors – Only show products in delivery range

  • Resolved vt94

    (@vt94)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    I need to create a store where vendors will sell their products. But this specific products will be delivered by the seller themselves. Which means, that they should have an option to set their zip code and delivery range. Then the customers should only see the products which could be delivered to their own zip code.

    I am a programmer and know some PHP, but have never done any WordPress work. Can you give me any advice and tips, how I should tackle this?

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  • Plugin Support Hannah S.L.

    (@fernashes)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hey there,

    You can let vendors create their own products on your site and manage the delivery process themselves using the WooCommerce Product Vendors plugin:
    https://woocommerce.com/products/product-vendors/

    That plugin includes the per product shipping option:
    https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/product-vendors/#section-20

    Once the customer gets to the checkout, they’ll see which (if any) shipping options are available. This is how Woo works by default and isn’t related to the product vendors question.

    If you want to only show products based on the customer’s location, there are some options — are you looking into doing this per country? Or per something like zipcode?

    Thread Starter vt94

    (@vt94)

    Hey, thank you so much for your reply.

    I would need to do this bis range (or zip code in range). So the vendor needs to add their address(or at least zip code) and their delivery range (x kilometers).

    The Thing is, that all vendors will sell roughly the same product and in bulk. So a user should put in his zip code and select the specific type of product he wants. Then the shop should display all (and only) the vendors who ship to his location.

    Maybe it could even be possible to let every vendor only have one product of each type (but with a huge amount). So they could select “I have X amount of type Y”.

    I guess this project could be described as a “vendor in you area comparison”-page rather than a “shop”. Does that make sense?

    I want to thank you again and hope I will hear from you soon. Have a great day ??

    Plugin Support Hannah S.L.

    (@fernashes)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hey there,

    Thanks for the additional information!

    Trying to show customers products that are available based on location is a bit tricky. When working with bigger areas like cities or countries, it becomes easier – zipcodes are rather granular, so doing things like setting zipcodes as taags on the product and then filtering is awkward and not a great user experience.

    Our vendors plugin doesn’t have an option for this, but I did notice a possible option with a different vendors plugin:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/show-vendors-based-on-postal-code/

    I hope that helps you in the right direction!

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