Create a shipping method and turn it on/off when not in use

[jdarby]

I need to create a shipping method for "Free Shipping" for all products in a particular warehouse. That part I have done. The purpose for doing this is to use it as a promotional tool and to be able to turn it on and off, is there a way to manage this?

[mazhar]

First create a new warehouse then create a shipping method Free Shipping method and then mark shipping method available for only that new warehouse. Finally go those products which you want to be shipped via free shipping and change there warehouse to newly created warehouse. That will do the trick.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

Another way to turn a shipping method on and off might be to use a group restriction. You could create a new user group called "nobody" and leave the group empty. Then when you want the shipping method to disappear, edit it and set a group restriction so it only appears for the nobody group. When you want the shipping method available, you can go remove the group restriction.

[jdarby]

Another way to turn a shipping method on and off might be to use a group restriction. You could create a new user group called "nobody" and leave the group empty. Then when you want the shipping method to disappear, edit it and set a group restriction so it only appears for the nobody group. When you want the shipping method available, you can go remove the group restriction.

I did something similar to this earlier this morning. Instead of creating a user group (I haven't played with these at all so I wasn't really sure of their function) I created an empty warehouse and associated the shipping method with it to turn it "off". When I want to turn it on, I'll have to associate my products with it.

Now that I think about it, using the User Groups may be better so that there is no printable information anywhere relating to a warehouse (on a packing slip, for example).