Need help with maintaining different shipping rates at checkout for different suppliers products

[Nous333]

I'm running into a problem at checkout.  I have products that are being dropshipped by multiple suppliers.  An example of the issue I am having: one company offers free shipping on orders over $50.  Problem is, if I add a product from this company that is say, $30, and I add a product from another company that is $21, Shopify gives the order free shipping instead of charging the under $50 shipping rate for the product.   Is there a way to separate shipping rates by vendor in the checkout?  I have them entered in by vendor in the shipping settings but this obviously is not separating them 100% of the time.  In some cases it does seem to work, like when one companies shipping rate is $3 and another companies rate is $4 the total shipping will be $7 at checkout.  It might just be for items where shipping is free over a certain amount, shopify is considering the cart total, instead of the specific vendors product total.  

Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you! 

[dropship_helps]

Hi @Nous333 

We recommend adding shipping cost to the product cost and give free shipping. 

[Nous333]

Yeah except that won't work for me.  A customer might buy multiple products from this supplier and then they will have to pay shipping multiple times and will not get the free shipping over $50.    

[Nous333]

if anyone has same issue and comes across this, I solved the problem by entering the price of each product as its weight and using weight as a condition instead of price in the respective shipping profile.