Rate Shopping Different Carriers Within 1 Order
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Natalie Savoie
We would like the ability to rateshop multiple carriers for one order containing more than 1 package. Example if one order has a large chair and a small mousepad going to a remote location, we would like FedEx Ground to ship the chair, and Canada Post to ship the small package. This avoids us incurring the remote handling fees on both items if they both ship with FedEx.
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Artem Nickolsky
There is a problem in this approach - FedEx and UPS offer consolidation discounts. It means that if you will have order with 2 boxes, and you estimate them separately from each other, sum of prices for individual estimates will be higher than price for consolidated order with 2 boxes, which will lead to inaccurate rate shop. To illustrate, you may get result like this:
Fedex consolidated 2 boxes: 12$
Fedex price for first box separately: 10$
Fedex price for second box separately: 10$
Canada Post price for first box: 7$
Canada Post price for second box: 7$
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Canada Post will win, but you will overpay 2$ (14$ vs 12$) because you estimated Fedex as 2 individual boxes without Fedex consolidation discount.
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Nicolas Méthot
Edward, I think the whole purpose of this request is they do not know which order needs to have this done to, otherwise they would be doing it manually.
The feature could split and rate shop all orders, so that the system finds the least expensive option, always.
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Natalie Savoie
Nicolas Méthot Exactly! We would like the system to rateshop each individual package per order. If the order has 2 packages, we would like each package rateshopped separately. In the end, maybe it ends up that 1 package goes Canada Post, and the other one goes FedeEx. Instead of both going FedEx.
Edward Aguiar
Natalie Savoie what would be the rules to know how the order needs to be split and and how what carriers/services to use? Your feedback may help us understand better the process