Posted by damienmckenna on March 9, 2011 at 10:21pm
Some notes from the Drupal Commerce shipping BOF from Drupalcon 2011.
Drupal Commerce Shipping BOF
- Problems: tare weight - packing materials, customized boxes.
- Core shipping must be an API.
- Shipping service APIs
- requirements, absolute match or don't bother.
- return dev errors that are irrelevant, obscure.
- Strong API for handling boxing
- Dropship
- Items suitable for ground shipping
- Items suitable for air shipping
- tare weight
- Box costs
- item handling
- single box - only item per box
- multiple items, same item
- multiple items, any time
- product "classes", e.g. "this box can hold 3x class A items"
- item density?
- Embarkation points / warehouses
- Shipping points (one default)
- Proximity to destination
- Item storage
- UI
- standard boxes (from shipping companies)
- customized standard boxes
- 3d display of a box, fill in the dimensions
- max weight
- shipping:
- auto-calculate items to go in each package
- auto-show the total weight
- show default tare,
- override to show tare
- Shipping label printing
- Batch operations for shipping spec updates
- Hooks for shipping estimate being displayed
- Separate module to allow live chat, "I see you're shipping 5,000 kegs to Botswana".
- Separate module to allow notifications, "We're only legally allowed to ship 4,000 kegs to Botswana".
- Hooks for every step allow for overrides at every business-logic point.
- After enabling, links to view PDF with (neophite-grade) guide for customizing basic things.
- How to Amazon et al do it?
- Classify products in general sense
- Customized packaging to minimize shipping costs
- Simple enough UI for most basic users
(the gdo CSS makes the above look all messed up, so I've attached the raw text file)
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