Travis Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I am running an online business which contains preorders.Preorders are the ordering of products prior to the release date.The problem I have is if the customer was to order a preorder product and a product that is not a preorder product, the freight is calculated with them together. However if the preorder item didn't come out for weeks I would have to send out the non preorder item immediatly. This may cause me to lose money on the freight as it would not be calculated for 2 seperate shipments.However this would also be affected if the customer was to order 2 preorder items which could be coming out at the same time or near the same time and also ordering a non preorder product. The non preorder product is shipped by it self and the other 2 preorders would be shipped together so it would be 2 freight rates, which may be different, but not 2 rates.Also when the release date of the product occurs it should no longer be preorder, or maybe about 3 to 5 days before.I am unsure how to place such a system on the PrestaShop website. Also a button saying "Pre-order Now!" on preorder items instead of "add to cart" might be appropriate.Any suggestions on how to do such a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TropischBruin Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Have a look here.Maybe you can use that as a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 It would help by displaying the products, however it does not answer the problem of the customer being able to purchase the products prior to a release date, with specific postage higher enough to fulfill, the delivery of the preorder items purchased for their own release dates. These release dates should be the "expected release date" as these dates may change without notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 Any more ideas please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 Has anyone else had this problem? How did you fix it?I really need people to be able to order these items without me having freight issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 anyone got any more idea on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SettleR Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I also want a answer on this topic. I will not be able to run my shop with prestashop if my costumers wouldnt be able to preorder products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 Its more comforting when I am not the only one with this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Posted April 21, 2009 Author Share Posted April 21, 2009 Anyone know a solution to this issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowscan Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Well not one e-commerce script that i checked has this, and i could really use this also. Anyone has one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monji Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I would also like to know how to do this.Did anyone figure it out yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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