• Magento Commerce

Customizations for Shipping Module in Magento Commerce

Introduction:

The venture of this article is to draw attention towards customizing different enabled shipping methods for different products. Basically, Magento supports default shipping methods, where each shipping method can be done as a separate module or integrated into the same module, only if, they share same functionality. This article will refine a way of, how shipping methods can be customized on various scenarios, which we built for one of our valuable client.

Standards followed for the built

Size of a product We built or customized a shipping module depending upon the size of a product. For an instance, if a product size is less than 42" – FedEx shipping method need to be used and in other case, if a product size is 42" & above – Freight need to accomplished and then we use to weight vs. destination table to ship.

Setting attribute for shipping Depending upon the size of the product, attribute will be set – For instance, if YES is set, freight is required and need to use shipping tables. If NO is set, shipping should be defined is FedEx.

Factors for restructuring shipping module

• Basic Magento rule is one order – One Shipping Method, however we broke the rule by having one shipping method per item.
• Major challenge was to analyze the changes, how the customizations would affect the Database structure and we did restructure the Database structure very promptly & effectively.
• User end – Changes made to Order, Invoice and Credit memo.
• Similarly in Admin section, shipping customizations built made to get reflected to Order, Invoice and Credit Memo.
• Shipping customization built reflected on the order confirmation email.
• Shipping customization built reflected on the Print Invoice & Order.

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