nopCommerce 3.80 roadmap and estimated release date. Let's discuss

Dimensional weight support would be nice. This would be very helpful on multivendor structure. So we can import dimensional weights and calculate shipping costs a lot easier.

Agreed! give it a weight and calculate dimensions that would work in a cubic volume scenario without having to enter width, height, depth for something

dianoche wrote:
Could you please provide more info? How exactly will it be configured and calculated?

a.m. wrote:

This is for ups
https://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/ship/packaging/dim_weight.html

For metric we use (LxWxH)/3000

We calculate our shipping costs based on dimensional weights.

IE;
DW       City    0-600 Km     Over 600 Km
1-5 dw   1,70      1,90         2,10
6-10 dw  1,90      2,28         2,56
11-15 dw 2,13      2,68         3,10
16-20 dw 2,45      3,15         3,66
21-25 dw 2,76      3,61         4,21
26-30 dw 3,08      4,06         4,78
30 dw ++ 0,10      0,11         0,12

So if we can create a dw entry on product page we can make system to calculate shipping cost based on dw automatically. All of our vendors provide us dw information. Idk if the situation is same for others. These numbers are based on your agreement with shipping firm.

What we do is use max amount to calculate costs. Which means last column. If the item's dw is 12, it costs $3,10.

Ups also add fuel cost on this. To solve this issue there can be a setting that we can increase the cost as percentage. IE this month it is 2.05%, next month it can be 3,0%

Maybe a plugin may work better for this. But it would make things a lot easier for multivendor users.

dianoche wrote:

Thanks a lot for detailed explanation. I've just created a work item

Hi Guys! what you think to add "category page". Now in menubar we have "product" and when we click it - nothing happened. Maybe this is possible to create page with all categories (we can decide to show only main or tree of categories").

Then when we click "product" we are moved to page with all categories (pictures"). Now "Products" is unclickable... and I think this is not the best solution. What you think?

@AM for dimensional weight you can calculate it based on the length x width and height and divided by a factor determined by the post provider or courier..

OR reverse engineer it so someone enters a weight and you reverse the algorithm to calculate a length width and depth that will work so users don't have to enter lengths,widths and depths for all their products where if you have 1000's of products of varying sizes (i.e. car parts) it can get pretty tricky:


For AusPost:
The cubic weight is the parcel's volume in cubic metres, multiplied by 250. To work this out, use the formula below:

Height x length x width x 250 = cubic weight

For example: 0.5m X 0.3m X 0.4m
= 0.06m x 250
= 15kg cubic weight

What you think to add new view in admin panel "back in stock subscription". Where we can see list of products with numbers customer waiting for?

Something like:

Products Name    -- 10 subscribe.
Products Name2    -- 10 subscribe.

What you think?

Edit: This can help to decide which product we should buy.

May be it is silly question. Can nopcommerce make the Vendor email unique or at least the vendor with same name and same email can not be added ?

Zyje_sobie wrote:
Thanks a lot for suggestion. Please find this work item here