Restrict Shipping Choice For Group of Products

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Hi-

I have multiple products on my website, the majority of which ship to my customers from directly from my location (United States). However, I’m starting to sell a new group of products that will drop shop directly to my US customers from Canada via Canada Post. Here’s my questions: (1) How do I set this group of product to ONLY trigger the Canada Post shipping option in checkout (not USPS, FedEx or UPS)? (2) And vise versa - not allow any of my US products to trigger the Canada Post shipping option in checkout?

Hi,

You can't for example restrict your products to a shipping method, but you can restrict your products to one of your user group, and set your regarding your customer address. So your US customers will be able to purchase your US goods, and your Canadians customers to purchase your canadian goods.
Using the User Group FTW For Hikashop plugin will probably help you.

Thanks for your reply! I understand what you're suggesting. However, ALL of my customers are from the US (my shop is set up for the continental US only). It's just some of my products [Group A] ship from Canada via Canada Post (available to all my US customers). The rest of my products [Group B] ship from the US, once again to the same US customers, so grouping my customers doesn't sound like it will work - as they are all located in the US. So it sounds like there is no way to ship a certain group of products [Group A] by Canada Post ONLY and the rest of my products [Group B] by Fed Ex, USPS and UPS?

Hi there,

I can see two possibilities to do this. First, I think you can use HikaMarket to create different vendors (one for the canadian shop and one for the american shop) and link these vendors to the specific product of each country. Then, you should be able to specify a shipping method for each vendor which would solve your issue (I however suggest you to try this on our demo website to see if it's exactly what you want).

Second option is to edit the view shipping of the checkout (in Display>Views) and add a php check to display the right method according to the product selected. It will require some php skills. But in this case, you may face problems if the user want to buy product from 2 different countries, because Hikashop cannot handle multiple shipping method for a single order. So the HikaMarket solution is probably the best. You can ask on the dedicated forum if you need more info about it.

Thank you for your suggestions! The HikaMarket sounds like like it would work in this situation. I'll do some research on it as you suggested.