Pick up in store for only employees

[Trivashop]

Hi,

We would like to offer the "Pick up at store" functionality exclusively to employees who are tagged as such in our system. However, I'm unable to create a custom rule to achieve this in our current Shopify setup. I was wondering if you might have any suggestions or solutions for non-Shopify Plus users?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Best regards,
Rebecca

[PaulNewton · Accepted solution]

Hi @Trivashop first double check if any currently used shipping-apps support using things like customer tags for offering different delivery methods; generally apps using the carrier service api. Otherwise digging through the app forum or the app store itself may be needed.

If custom shipping is not a workable solutions here's some alternatives,

Generally the sanest approach is a separate locked down store, try to negotiate multiple billing price if going this route.

The second store doesn't even really need a storefront-website, employees just need to be directed there with the store specific variant ids, such as in a cart-permalinks.

For a single store scenarios the next sanest is a members\employees only area with specific products(possibly duplicates) and shipping profiles/shipping apps , either with a single store, or two stores and using buy-buttons to put the products on the main store in the members area.

Apps like locksmith can be used to gate content and products.

Either approach can be a good test-bed for developing future customer facing features.

Alternatively automate editing the order to change it's shipping. 💣 unless offering local-delivery as orders with local-delivery may not be editable .

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/demonstration-order-editing 

If you need to pursue this development then contact me by my email for services, or if you have access private message by clicking here (sloooower).
Contact info in forum signature.
ALWAYS please provide context, examples: store url, theme name, post url(s) , or any further detail in ALL correspondence.

Good Hunting. 

[PaulNewton · Accepted solution]

Hi @Trivashop first double check if any currently used shipping-apps support using things like customer tags for offering different delivery methods; generally apps using the carrier service api. Otherwise digging through the app forum or the app store itself may be needed.

If custom shipping is not a workable solutions here's some alternatives,

Generally the sanest approach is a separate locked down store, try to negotiate multiple billing price if going this route.

The second store doesn't even really need a storefront-website, employees just need to be directed there with the store specific variant ids, such as in a cart-permalinks.

For a single store scenarios the next sanest is a members\employees only area with specific products(possibly duplicates) and shipping profiles/shipping apps , either with a single store, or two stores and using buy-buttons to put the products on the main store in the members area.

Apps like locksmith can be used to gate content and products.

Either approach can be a good test-bed for developing future customer facing features.

Alternatively automate editing the order to change it's shipping. 💣 unless offering local-delivery as orders with local-delivery may not be editable .

https://tasks.mechanic.dev/demonstration-order-editing 

If you need to pursue this development then contact me by my email for services, or if you have access private message by clicking here (sloooower).
Contact info in forum signature.
ALWAYS please provide context, examples: store url, theme name, post url(s) , or any further detail in ALL correspondence.

Good Hunting. 

[dave_shipperhq · Accepted solution]

Hi @Trivashop - You may need a third-party shipping app to configure shipping rules based on customer tags. You can take a free trial of ShipperHQ and configure your use case with the help documentation provided. Let me know if you have any questions.