Question! We have multiple warehouses but we don't...
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victor
04/21/2023, 3:18 PMQuestion! We have multiple warehouses but we don't want to work with multiple shipments right now (we transport the goods to one warehouse first). I tried setting stock_splitters config but it does not seem to disable it. In the checkout its still visible
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kennyadsl
04/21/2023, 4:10 PM
In Solidus the “warehouse” is from where the shipment starts, so I think what you are trying to do is not supported out of the box.
Conceptually, a stock location in not a real stock splitter, it’s more a stock container.
kennyadsl
04/21/2023, 4:10 PM
Is there a specific reason for you to stock your items into multiple stock locations?
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victor
04/21/2023, 4:11 PMWe have a physical store and warehouse
victor
04/21/2023, 4:12 PMItems at times are not available at both locations
victor
04/21/2023, 4:14 PMHowever, they are relatively close by. So we often opt to gather split order (move them to one location) and then ship them.
victor
04/21/2023, 4:15 PMIn essence. The problem would be solved if only ONE shippingmethod needs to be selected (equal for both) and the fee is also one shipment.
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kennyadsl
04/21/2023, 4:15 PM
Got it. The only thing that comes to mind is:
1. hiding these details at checkout: you only let people choose the rate for the first stock location (you can sort stock locations so that it always pick the main one)
2. at checkout completion, if needed, you perform a stock movement (programmatically) to move the required stock from one location to the other
3. at that point you can merge (programmatically) the two shipments
kennyadsl
04/21/2023, 4:16 PM
but as you pointed out, you’ll have the shipping rates on both shipments, you need to always have 0 shipping cost on shipments after the first one
kennyadsl
04/21/2023, 4:17 PM
we’ve done that in the past, it’s doable, but I can’t recall too many details at the moment. I can ask the team if needed
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victor
04/21/2023, 4:17 PMSounds fair
victor
04/21/2023, 4:21 PMI will have a closer look. I was hoping there is a cleaner solution, but I fear how associations are set up where orders have shipments which have rates its a bit hard to relate one rate to the total order
victor
04/21/2023, 4:21 PMIf you hear from your team please do share!