Kind of related to the above - but what is the correct way to handle digital-only goods in checkout flow? It seems like the Solidus state machine requires a shipping address to be present before an order can transition into the

:delivery

state. I know that stock locations can be marked as

fulfillable

or not to help support this, but I don't see any exemptions in the checkout state machine looking for that property.

https://edgeguides.solidus.io/cookbook/redefining-checkout-steps You can override the checkout flow using that DSL. If you have a way to detect that the entire order is digital, you can skip shipping.

Thanks - that's very helpful. It looks like other parts of the flow (like selecting shipping rates) may not work fully if there is no address present, though.

If you set the No Shipping profile up on the digital products, it shouldn’t be an issue.

Oh? How do you do that? I'm not sure I follow what "No shipping profile" means.

In your admin, create a “No Shipping” or “Shipping not required” shipping category, then set that on the product:

So I've done that - but in the estimator, it fails to find shipping rates for that category.

Did you add the

remove_checkout_step

above? You shouldn’t even see the shipment method if so.

Hmm - I didn't remove the checkout step, but as a temporary thing I updated the

Order.ensure_shipping_address

to return true if the order is all digital.

Throw this in a decorator and try checkout again. If you’re mixing digital/physical products, you’ll want to add a method to determine if you need shipping.

module Spree
  module OrderDecorator
    Spree::Order.class_eval do
      remove_checkout_step :delivery
    end
  end
end

Interesting - let me give that a try. Thanks, Chris!

yep