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Add "request shipping quote" as a shipping option

We are an art gallery and frame shop so some of our items (hardware) are easy to categorize for flat rate shipping but our art is not. Each piece is vastly different and requires special packing on top of shipping.

I know there is a dynamic shipping extension but the $150 yearly subscription is a bit steep for the frequency of our online art sales. I am trying to find a good solution that allows us to pick and choose which items can go through check out with shipping calculated automatically and and which items are held in checkout for us to manually enter a shipping cost.

Any advice on how to achieve this is appreciated!

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  • Christine Dorothy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I tested the Contact for Shipping Quote plugin.
    https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-contact-for-shipping-quote

    On the quote request admin page, the product is not showing variation descriptions. So let say if a customer put in the cart a T-Shirt with Variation A and another T-Shirt with variation B, who ever is providing the shipping quote will just see "T-Shirt x1, T-Shirt x1" without any indication for the variation. I have asked the developer if he could enable the variation description. He said sometime in the future.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I tried hard to find the solution, until I learned about this request.
    There are different products in my shop that need different shipping rates based on the size and the weight as well as on the package itself (amount and weight of padding and the box itself).

  • Joe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be great. We're looking for the following...

    Hi,

    I have a woo site with extensive custom shipping logic. I'm looking to simplify things... The end goal would be to do this logic...
    1. If a cart contains a product with a shipping class "freight"
    then
    2a. notify the customer
    2b. change the place order to "request a quote"
    then
    3a. shop managers receive quote
    3b. shop managers calculate custom shipping
    3c. shop manager sends quote back to customer with accurate shipping costs to complete the order
    then
    4. customer places order.

    Is this possible? Any ideas?

    Thanks.

  • Mark Tolley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This option would be fantastic for us. We sell large decorative screens with lots of shipping issues, so very difficult to specify one size fits all. Request a quote would be awesome.

  • Michael commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am also needing a Request for Shipping Quote option for specific products. Will it be added anytime soon?

  • David Wilson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need the same ability so we can provide shipping from the printer who creates our books to authors and bookstores while providing a discount.

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