josephcocoa

@mike we had many shipping methods because customers could pick where they were wanting an item delivery for free (there was a network of locations) and we had programmatically added each one as its own shipping method. This permitted us to have these locations easily reportable and made a nice user experience. We ended up having to make a single shipping method and then ask on the next page where they would want it to be delivered. This works, but was significantly more complex than simply looping an array of locations and adding them as shipping methods.

Either way, we were able to work around this limitation, but it would have saved myself and my team significant effort and let us focus on other, more important aspects of this implementation. While bringing the drop down option back isn’t something that needs to happen, the documentation certainly needs to be updated with clear examples on how to manually edit themes to provide such functionality along with not showing the option as available in the documentation. That being said, I really appreciate all of the effort you and your team make on improving woocommerce and I look forward to supporting you all with more plugin purchases in the future.

So we’ve got a customer that has local pickup but needs a variety of options for this local pickup (specifically, where will they be picking it up). We were using a simple dropdown list so they would just select the location from the dropdown, with each location being a shipping method. It was dynamically added. With this change, we now have a giant list of methods with no way to trim them down. This gives a bad user experience, which in turn impacts sales and the professional look of the theme. It’s bad enough that we’ve disabled local pickup for now and just had people type in which location they plan on picking it up from, but this hurts our automation stuff and adds a lot of overhead. Any recommends on how to deal with this?