Does anyone know if there's a way to integrate multiple shipping addresses into a Shopify website? Currently they only support one address per order. The website I'm currently working on is a gift shop so needs to allow customer the option to ship each item to a different address.
So far the only workaround I've come up with is to add shipping address fields as line item properties on the product page and disable/hide shipping fields in the checkout area. However, the concern then becomes sales tax. For this website any items shipped Washington State are subject to tax. So, I either need find a way to integrate multiple shipping addresses into the checkout or figure out how to add some sort of javascript/jQuery to calculate Washington State taxes on the product page and have it included in the product price when added to cart.
Any ideas about how to make this work would be appreciated, whether it's multiple shipping addresses or a product page tax calculation.
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I am facing a issue in shopify. The issue is I am listing products on a page with price. But i want whatever first 3 products customer click should be free for them. The fourth one they click should be of price set on backend.
So basically all products will have price. But first 3 client select should be free for them. Is this customization possible in shopify?
You have two choices. One, you use Shopify Plus, and with that you are free to script the checkout and change prices to free on items in the checkout. Or two, without Plus, you are free to use Discount Codes to bring the price of a checkout down to zero for items that meet criteria you setup. Those are your only sane choices at this time.
I am a shopify partner, I am trying to get around the the variant limits of shopify by coding an app and also because my client has a complicated formula for calculating the price. I don't have a problem with the part that adds the information for my variants to the order, however when I want to modify the price based on the user selection, it doesn't seem an easy task to do.
I came across couple of apps which does the same thing by adding a new product or variation which is not optimal for my use case, is there any app that does the job without adding extra information to the database, if so, how?
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Unfortunately, Shopify doesn't give us a lot of options to edit prices of items dynamically. Here are the two options that I know of that will allow you to adjust the price of a product directly - however, both have limitations.
Using Shopify Script Editor
If you're working with a Shopify Plus merchant, you can use the Shopify Script Editor to dynamically adjust the prices of products, provided that the direction you adjust is down. You cannot increase the price of a product using the script editor - so for your use case, the list price would have to be the most expensive possible price that the item sells for, which you would then discount appropriately using the app.
Using draft orders
Using an app, you can use Shopify's Draft Order API to create an order with custom discounts and/or create completely custom items that are independent of the products set up in the product database.
The basic flow for this is that when the customer clicks 'checkout' you halt the normal navigation, send the cart contents to your app, create a draft order with the appropriate pricing, then supply the front-end code with the draft-order checkout/invoice URL so that you can send the customer there instead of the normal checkout. This has several limitations, however, including that prices of existing products can only be discounted, not increased, and the fact that Shopify will not allow a customer to use discount codes on a draft order invoice - once an order is set up this way, Shopify's assumption is that all prices are final.
Disclaimer: Sorry if someone sensible doesn't like a response with a link :) I'm not related to this app I'm just a user.
On a project with complex pricing, we use the app Wholesale Pricing Discount by Wholesale Helper we liked because is easy to import multiple pricing by-product and relate it by customer.
this app does not multiply the products, they use customer tags. maybe that can give you some guidance.
An important rule on Shopify is you can't increase the price by API on an order, you can just reduce i
We have built an e-commerce web application (Node backend, Vue frontend). We process the payment using Stripe, but many brands have asked us if the order and inventory control can be done in Shopify. We are trying to figure out the best way integrate a payment module into Shopify so that the brand can manage the fulfilment and inventory through Shopify.
It seems we should use the Order API to create an order and mark it as paid. But how do we know that the product is in stock, and what are the cost for shipping and tax from Shopify when creating the order? I think we can use the Product API to get inventory levels, but where is the shipping and tax endpoints?
If I understand the Order API correctly, we need to tell Shopify what are the shipping costs and tax costs, when a new order is created. Is that right? How could we possibly know those figures? Seems like there should be an endpoint to calculate shipping costs and get a product's tax rates so that we can then pass those figures back into the Order API. Am I missing something?
I thought maybe we are supposed to create an order that has financial_status: pending first to get shipping and tax rates back (does it even give you those?), then update the order to either cancel_reason: customer or cancel_reason: inventory if those rates are too expensive and the order is declined? But surely we need to know what shipping methods are available to the customer in order to tell Shopify which one to use, right? Or does it by default choose the cheapest one when creating an order?
Notes:
We know the customers shipping address
We don't know where the product is warehoused (Shopify does I think)
We don't know the weights or dimensions of the product (Shopify does I think)
This answer is a little bit late, but i hope, i can help others that are struggling with the same issue.
First i would recommend to set up all Shipping Rates and Taxes in Shopify. There are plenty of manuals to achieve this:
https://help.shopify.com/manual/taxes#general-process-to-set-up-taxes
https://help.shopify.com/manual/shipping/rates-and-methods/calculated-rates
After this there are different possibilities to calculate your shipping and tax cost.
Your shipping cost can you get via the active_shipping API, which can be found here:
https://github.com/Shopify/active_shipping
Or the following Shopify Application: https://apps.shopify.com/boxify
However, you may need to know size and storage location for theese solutions.
The taxes can you get via the country in the Admin API, there is a specific key-value pair for this:
https://help.shopify.com/api/reference/country
I hope that's enough information to get closer to solving the issue, for at least someone.
I need to implement shopping cart for my website. I decided to store carts in database rather that in session. My website serves as a platform for selling items between users. That said, users can edit their own products any time.
I understand that I can't just use product ID in the cart, because user need to get whatever he put to the cart. If the product is being changed after he put it to the cart, it shouldn't affect what he ordered, correct?
How is it usually solved? Should I copy entire product to the cart? Or maybe rather save versions of particular product and link to them? Another idea would be to inform customer on checkout that the product changed.
How is it solved in popular e-commerce platforms?
I understand that I can't just use product ID in the cart, because
user need to get whatever he put to the cart. If the product is being
changed after he put it to the cart, it shouldn't affect what he
ordered, correct?
the product price is going to change. the inventory is going to change. if a product goes out of inventory you want the customer to know so they can make another choice. if the product price has gone up or down, the cart should reflect the current price. so that means the cart will check the product table for the product pricing and inventory at different steps before the final transaction.
as part of the cart to product lookup -- if the pricing has changed you can alert the user. just as important - if the customer has ordered quantity 4 of a product, but the inventory has gone down to just 3 of them -- you have to change the cart and make it very obvious to the customer what just happened.
there are only two things the cart is responsible for - the product id, and the quantity to be sold. anything else stored in the cart is just to make it easier to display the product on the cart page or information needed for the merchant.
In the UK some items have VAT charged on them while others don't. To import orders into our back office system we need to know whether tax was charged on particular items in the order. Ideally we'd also like to know how much tax was charged on each line item.
This information isn't shown in any of the example responses given in the online docs. Is it possible to get it via the API?
This is currently not available for individual line items, all that is available is the overall taxes charged. You could use this and taxable field on Product to attempt to divide the taxes charged.