Different Shipping Options for Retail and Wholesale

[ProjectA]

I am trying to setup up different shipping options for the Retail and Wholesale(login req) accounts. The only difference will be that the Retail side will have free shipping based on price. Does anyone have experience with this?

[kastnerd]

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[kastnerd]

simplest way would be make retail users a group. Shipping options can be controlled by group. There is some code posted in this board how to make users automatically part of retail group. Im not sure how well this would work for a user before he logs in tho.

[ryanstowasser]

If I am reading this correct, you want to restrict wholesale users from getting the free shipping.

Kastnerd has it right if you want to provide wholesale users more options, but you can't set a shipping method to exclude user group and still provide those options to the public out-of-the-box.

[triplw]

I really need to have this feature too. Different shipping options for retail and wholesale. The same way the shipping zones and product pricing rules are set up. Right now if I have shipping methods for "ALL" and some for "Wholesale", the wholesale group sees all the methods. Does anyone know how to accomplish excluding groups from ship methods? BTW, I do not require a login to check out.

Thanks

[mazhar]

Well this will happen because the methods are allowed to anyone and user who belongs to wholesale also falls within anyone set. If you want them to see only their respective methods then I guess you would need to create one group for ALL as well. This will introduce a new problem that user will not be able to checkout without login because there will be no shipping method available to them. If there is any common method to wholesale and normal customers then you can make it available to anyone by keeping it for all and assign all others to their receptive groups.