Under System->Configuration->Shipping Methods->Dropship you are able to configure the store wide settings of Dropship. In most circumstances you can leave many of these options to their default, as they are there for advanced control of the extension.
| Switch | Description |
|---|---|
| Default Warehouse | The warehouse to use for products that are not assigned to a warehouse |
| Use Parent Shipping Group | Use parent shipping group for bundle&configurable items. If set to Yes will look at parent items when determining warehouse, otherwise child items |
| Create shipment email | Switches on/off the ability to automatically create shipment emails & pending shipments for each warehouse in the order |
| Display merged shipping rates | Customer sees merged shipping rates and is oblivious to different vendors/warehouses in cart if present |
| Always Show Warehouse and Item Breakdown | Always show warehouse name and products within split checkout |
| Weight Unit to Display | Determines what unit of weight to display against each item ordered when “Always Show Warehouse and Item Breakdown” is set to “Yes” |
| Show Bundled Breakdown at Checkout | Display both bundle parent and bundle child products at checkout |
| Warehouse description | Instead of displaying “warehouse” in various screens to customer can select your own choice of text |
| Explanation text | Only applies to split checkout. Displayed at bottom of shipping method selection in one page checkout – providing details of why shipping is split |
| Explanation URL | Only applies to split checkout. URL for text above to link to |
| Ignore Dropship in Shipping Calculations | Switches off Dropship for any shipping calculations. Essentially then Dropship is just in use for splitting the order at end into separate warehouses for separate emailing and shipments |
| Use Default Warehouse when In Stock | When a product is shown as ’In Stock’ on your store then the Default Warehouse will be used to ship this item |
| Use Cart Price in Calculations | Normally Dropship will pass in to each warehouse the totals for the items in that warehouse. But when this is set to true passes in the cart price to each warehouse. Please use with extreme caution, if unsure set to No |
| Weight adjustment | Percentage to adjust weight by |
| Use Common Warehouse | Use a common warehouse between items rather than nearest (Dropship Nearest only) |
| Vendor SKU Attribute Code | Use this attribute value on the shipment email sent to each warehouse |
| Show Additional Information at Checkout | Show a simple date field and text field at checkout. |
| Calculate handling fee | Calculate additional handling fee |
| Handling applied | Apply handling fee per item or per order |
| Handling fee | Handling fee to apply |
| Show error message if no rates returned | If no rates can be found will show this error message, as long as no other shipping carrier errors are present |
| Displayed error message | Error message |