In a nutshell, you can’t. With Vendor Shipping, part of Pro, you can have a flat rate per product. Any other shipping solution would be on your own to find/write/source.

Flat rate already exists. If you mean “max rate”, that didnt make it into v1.3.0. Still trying to sort it out, if it’s even possible.

If there was an easy alternative we wouldnt have to spend a week coding the correct way to do it. 🙂 I wish there was!

No good news to report.

Kristen – I am using a plugin called “WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping Plus” by Mangohour ($29.95) alongside Wc Vendor shipping. (I know this is not recommended) But, it appears to be working for me. It can configure things in many different ways per shipping classes.

For example – for a T-shirt shop I have set up, it allows a flat rate for one shirt and an additional unit cost for each included shirt in the same order. Even 1-5 additional at one cost, 5-10 at another, and so on. Once understood it was highly configurable. And I’m no genius at this stuff.

No guarantees – but for me it seems to be working. But no telling if it will continue to work with WC Vendor upgrades in the future. (I have not upgraded to Ver. 1.3.x yet.)

Thanks konakid, not sure it works for me, I am using WC Vendors Pro?

It sounds similar to what I need to give my vendors better shipping options. Nobody wants to charge shipping per item because they can ship up to 3 products usually in the same package, so no need to charge more than once. At the moment, in ordern to create a ‘Free shipping’ marketplace environment, my vendors have added the shipping fee on to the products, which A makes the products look very expensive and B it still charges the customer shipping per item technically, and they pay twice if they buy two products, three times if they buy 3, so not ideal at all.

Ben, are you talking about a max flat rate for Pro end of summer-ish? Is there any alternative I could use until then?

Thanks guys,
Kris

Thanks for your support Anna! Its great you are looking into it.

I dont understand why it is so difficult. Why cant vendors just enter a price for shipping, say 5 and that amount get applied at checkout to all the products from that vendor. That would solve all of my problems (hope everybody else’s as well)

Ben, can’t it work as a combination of ‘Default shipping rate’ and ‘Only charge once even if more than one product is purchased’?
– If vendors tick that box, then the default shipping fee gets applied to the order, not products.
– If vendors dont tick that box the default shipping is charged per item.

Hey Anna, thanks for explaining a bit, makes more sense now.
I know Ben and Jamie are legends and are always trying to please 😉

It is just so hard to explain to vendors that they cant charge a flat rat (max rate) or per weight, because almost oll of them sell either on their own shop where they have those shipping options, or they sell with platforms, where shipping is sorted too. So vendors do know that its possible.
My vendors are quizzing me all the time and its uncomfortable having to say ‘no sorry you cant because’ if I dont even understand why its not possible.

What about the flat rate option in the shipping settings, what exactly does that mean when it says it will overwrite Pro shipping settings? Which PRO shipping settings do I need that I cant have with a flat rate? I am unclear on this, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kris

One reason is due to the fact that woo does not recognize “vendor” and separate things on the cart level. So things are separated via product, and the wcv shipping is designed to recognize things per product…

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. 🙂 WooCommerce handles carts in a very different way, because they assume that admin owns all the products. When shipping calculations are done on a vendor level, they run through the order and do them one product at a time, independent of each other, not all as a batch of all vendors products at once.

What we’re looking at doing is:

– Pro Dashboard > Settings > Shipping > [x] Charge a maximum of $__ for all of my products per order

– Pro Dashboard > Product > Shipping > [x] Charge no more than $__ regardless of the quantity purchased

This is what we’re working on, we’re not sure if it can be done, but we’re working on it (now).

We do fully understand that our shipping system has limitations and is not for “everyone”. But what is? Before Pro’s vendor shipping, you could only use WooThemes Per Product Shipping which did the exact same thing as Pro’s Vendor Shipping does, except our vendor shipping gives you twice as many options in comparison. It worked perfectly fine for the last 5 years of thousands of marketplaces using WC Vendors. 🙂 Once Vendor Shipping came out, all of a sudden this became a huge deal for about 10-15 of us here, and we do hear you, we’re just not able to provide you with a solution — yet. We *are* working on it. But the more I have to tell you we are working on it the longer it takes to make it happen. We are just two people! 🙂

Thanks everyone for explaining! Sounds complex but I have faith in the boys 🙂

Ben, this option sounds perfect (like the max-rate)
‘– Pro Dashboard > Product > Shipping > [x] Charge no more than $__ regardless of the quantity purchased’
By ‘quantity’ you mean across all different products from that vendor, so basically per order per vendor?

Coupon + vacation mode:
Until then, could vendors use a coupon to offer free shipping when
A) more than x amount of products are being purchased by Vendor A?
or
B) A minimum $ has been spent with Vendor A?

I can see the coupon options being for a product discount and a ‘free shipping’ tick box. But is there a way to make option A or B work?

I had a look and also searched the forum but cant find the answer.

Big thanks,
Kris

The coupons arent even capable of doing A or B, so that’d be a no. We just use Woo’s coupons, we dont have our own coupon class. If Woo can do it, we can do it. If not, nope! 🙂

It does exactly what it says. If I am a customer and I buy qty 1, it charges me the shipping cost inputted. If I buy quantity 5, it charges me 5 shipping charges. If that box is checked, and I order 5 of the same item, it charges me once for shipping.

Does anyone know if the “WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping Plus” by Mangohour plugin works with WCvendors pro?

I’m pretty much ready to launch our site, but shipping is the massive problem – and we really can’t launch unless I find a way to do it 🙁

Per item shipping just is not an option for us as some customers order 1 item, some order 4 items – so there is no way to set an amount that is going to charge anything close to what actual shipping charges would be (vendors are going to be undercharging or overcharging on almost every order)…. and our items are reasonably low priced per item that adding a shipping charge onto each item really isn’t possible. We really need (at minimum) the flat (maximum) rate.

(I’d even be happy enough if every vendor charged $8 domestic and didn’t get to configure their individual prices or offer international – that’s better than nothing)

We can’t use the table rate shipping option because those charge the shipping cost to the admin (don’t they?) and the vendors on my site are paid 100% commission (admin gets no payments)

I mean when konakid said it was working – does that mean it allows the vendor to specify shipping charges in classes, and have it give the shipping to the vendors?

hi ben, you stated that shipping per quantity applied if I’m not check the “Charge once per product for national/international shipping, even if more than one is purchased.”

you said:
“It does exactly what it says. If I am a customer and I buy qty 1, it charges me the shipping cost inputted. If I buy quantity 5, it charges me 5 shipping charges. If that box is checked, and I order 5 of the same item, it charges me once for shipping.”

seriously, it’s not working for me

Sorry ben, I’m just alittle bit frustrated since I didn’t find any option for me to make it work.

I already set the shipping fee by country code and state code. Let say shipping fee $7

When I make an order, I add a Product A with 2 quantities but the shipping feed still $7. It should be $14.

Maybe we can use woocommerce coding in your shipping fee option *[qty]

Example: country US state LA shipping fees 7*[qty]

Maybe it’s help me a little bit to determine which product can have per quantity shipping fees or have a flat rate shipping fee

Hope to see an option for this ben. Thanks

I leave it unchecked ben.

The calculation of the shipping fee still in charge once mode. No matter how many the product is purchased.

Or I’m missing something in other settings? Please advise. Thanks

Hi Ben,

Has there been any progress on this topic? We are also suffering from this ‘limitation’ and wondering if this will be sorted out in a short term.

Thanks for the support!
Regards,
Oscar

Hi Anna,

Thanks for the update 🙂

Thanks for the share Chris 🙂

Would you consider re-selling your customised table rate shipping plugin? Considering it’s WC Vendors Pro specific.

@ruandeyzel – I have never really thought about that. Let me talk with our developer and see what he things. To be honest, neither one of us has time to support it, so I would be a bit leery simply for that face.

@fervous – Yes, it will give each vendor their shipping amount at checkout. When a customer checks out, they see a combined total, but when the payment is processed, each vendor gets their own entered amount. I would love to be able to break down each vendors order, and display them separate at checkout, sort of like having multiple carts displayed at once, and then have a single payment pay for them all, but right now that is pretty far down the dev list, and we need to start making money first…haha

@digitalchild, it actually works better. 🙂 Brett P. is the one who wrote it, and it has some cool admin features too. For instance, I can log in as the admin, go to the shipping page, and then veiw/edit any vendors table. Makes it easy when they are having issues.

I’ll talk with him, since it’s his plugin, and then shoot you over an email.

Hi anna and other,

I just new with WC vendor pro, this plugin is very excellent but now just hope that you will deliver a system to charge only one time the shipping by vendor, i think it’s very important mutch more than a table rate shipping or other.

Good job and waiting for new version with this upgrade

Sorry for my English, French user.

Hi Anna when is the next release scheduled to be delivered? I too need to be able to specify shipping prices based on weight and location. Did you know that WC marketplace managed to bridge this gap by integrating their marketplace with the table rate plugin. So whenever you create a new vendor it automatically creates a new shipping class with the vendors name. Then all you have to do is to specify the weight, price and assign it to that shipping class ( vendor). Seems like they were able to figure it out!

Hi Ben and Jamie,

I don’t know if my reply went through – so resending just in case.

I am switching over to WC Vendors from Dokan and think that Dokan had a smart solution to the shipping problem that has been expressed in this thread. I have attached screenshots of how they divided up shipping to give you a better idea.

Basically, in the store’s shipping settings, vendors can set a basic shipping price to be applied once when a customer purchases a product from their store (e.g., $20). The vendor can also set a shipping price to be applied for every unique product that same customer purchases (e.g., $5) as well as an additional quantity shipping price if the customer buys 2 of the same product (e.g., $3, so instead of charging the customer $5 twice, it charges $5 and then $3 for the second item of the same product. The total shipping cost would be $20 + 5 + 3= $28). The screenshots demonstrate this.

Moreover, when a vendor creates a new product, they can override the store’s shipping settings. So, for example, if one of their products weights more than the others and therefore costs more to ship, for that specific product the vendor can set a shipping price of $7 instead of $5 as well as different additional quantity price of $4 instead of $3.