Shipping from 2 different locations and choosing best option for customer?

[carlou5]

I am running Prestashop 1.6.1.7 for my site and I have installed the "Connect to UPS" module to calculate shipping. As far as I can tell, you can only input 1 address into the UPS module. This is a problem because I would like to calculate shipping for 2 locations and choose the most affordable option for the client depending on their location.

 

I have created 2 warehouses with their respective locations (Florida and Texas). But when I try to purchase an item, it is only calculating shipping out of Florida regardless of how close the customer's address is to Texas.

 

My client wants to be able to automatically calculate shipping and which warehouse to ship from, depending on the customer's location. Is this something that I can do natively or through a module?

 

Thanks

[El Patron]

In 1.6, my understanding from looking at code (been sometime since I have) is PS will select the warehouse with most sales of that product.  Which really makes no sense.  I'm not sure if this was improved in 1.7.

 

When writing Shipping Commander we looked at how others were handling multiiple warehouses, i.e. how do we determine which warehouse to send a product from.  I agree proximity is heavy signal .  A novel idea we saw being used, and this  was more for say US and Chinese warehouse of same product,  that on product page both warehouses were displayed with their associated shipping costs and time delay.  This was on banggood.com

 

but to answer question, I am not aware of a module that extends base warehouse selection logic.  we would consider building this logic (custom) for any serious clients.