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This is available, however a bit outdated:

https://kryptronic.com/DEVMANUAL/Invent … ipping.php

We still have a few bits to handle on the documentation prior to public launch this month, and inventory/vendor changes from 9.0.2 need to be addressed in updated docs.  So I'll outline some points below.

- Set up your vendors correctly, using Store / Inventory / Vendors.  This is where you'd put the location for each vendor, which ends up being where your inventory items are being shipped from.

- Make sure your inventory items are tied to appropriate vendors using the Vendor field (in the Accounting tab) for Inventory Items under Store / Inventory / Inventory Items.  Also, change the Inventory Type to 'Local Warehouse Inventoried / Dropshipped (When Out)', and check your Local Inventory Level to make sure you have the right local stock listed.

When items like this go out of stock locally, dropshipping from the vendor location kicks in.  This means your shipments will be split, so if you're using custom shipping, it will be easy to isolate the different vendor shipments based on origin postal code (assuming they're different for each vendor).  That's where you can start to apply things like free shipping thresholds on dropship-only items, etc.

Perhaps you could lay out what you need to accomplish, and we could provide info on the best way to achieve what you need.

Complicated, yes. 

You should understand that when K9 processes an order with dropship item(s) in it, those dropship item(s) are not set up to be shipped locally.  The expected procedure would be for you to use the Order Manager for the order to access Inventory and Dropship Controls to manage how the inventory will be shipped.  For any dropship items in the order, you will have the option to create a Purchase Order.  You should do that, which sets you up to order the inventory to be shipped to the customer from the vendor via Purchase Order.  The vendor will receive your PO via email, fulfill it, then report tracking back to you.  You can either receive the PO in K9 and enter tracking info (and that will ship the items and complete the order) ~OR~ you can mark the items as shipped and enter tracking info (and that will close out the PO for those items).

Inventory and Dropship Controls allows you to flip the inventory source to dropship/local for all items in the order (which have not been shipped).  There you could take an order with a mix of dropship and local items and make them all dropship before issuing a PO.  Or make a mixed order all local inventory.  Or whatever you like.

I think you should try to work within the system here and accept mixed orders because you can change them after the fact.  Set your inventory up so they have proper vendor assignments, and set them up so they dropship when out of local inventory.  This will create mixed shipments in orders (some items local, some dropship).  If all items are assigned to use a custom shipping script for ratings (even if that script uses realtime or zone rates, mind you), we can do a ton to meet your requirements like adjusting free shipping thresholds, etc.  The only thing we'd require is that your local warehouse postal code (adjusted under Store / Component / Settings / Shipping Settings) is different than your vendor postal codes (adjusted under Store / Inventory / Vendors).

We can do things like adjust delivery cutoff times and free shipping thresholds, remove expedited options, change shipping options, check costs, recognize mixed shipments, etc, from within custom shipping scripts - so that's the direction you should head here.  The 2PM cutoff change for same-day dispatch is an issue, however unless you're using realtime delivery estimates, it may just be a display issue.

The big question is, right now, how are your inventory items set up to ship?  If they are using a custom shipping script, can you post it?

The shipping cutoff time is determined prior to all ratings, based on the global setting you referenced, as well as day of week, and holidays.  After calculated, the shipping cutoff time is globalized as:

$this->globals('ecom.ship_shipepoch')

And is available (and could be changed) using custom shipping scripts.  Additionally, zone-based shipping can be calculated from within a custom shipping script (by attaching to the zone-based function from within the custom script).

This is a really basic custom script that simply takes input and gets zone rates for it.  Ship epoch adjustment is in there too.

<?php 

// +--
// | Variable definition and ECOM_Ship object load
// +-- 

$info      =  $this->globals('ecom.customship');
$custom    =  array();

$ECOM_Ship =& $this->quick_object('ECOM_Ship','ecom');

// +--
// | Set shipping epoch - three days from now
// +-- 

$shipepochorig = $this->globals('ecom.ship_shipepoch');
$shipepochnew  = ($shipepochorig + (3 * 24 * 60 * 60));

$this->globals('ecom.ship_shipepoch',$shipepochnew);

// +--
// | Define zone input, exec zone function, handle result
// +-- 

$zonearray  = array('weight' => $info['weight'], 'total' => $info['total'], 'country' => $info['country'], 'postalcode' => $info['postalcode']);
$zone_rates = $ECOM_Ship->getrates_zone($zonearray,$this->build_packages($packageitems_all[$delgroup]));

foreach ($zone_rates as $num => $rateinfo) {$custom[$rateinfo['name']] = $rateinfo['amount'];}

// +--
// | Reset shipping epoch to original value, globalize result
// +-- 

$this->globals('ecom.ship_shipepoch',$shipepochorig);
$this->globals('ecom.customship_response',$custom);

?>

Yes, I am referencing the Order Manager, which is a stock function in K9 for managing orders found under Store / Orders / Order Center.  View a specific order and you will be using it's Order Manager.