Exclude Availabilty Group (or Selected Customers) from a Shipping Method?

[delcorsets]

Is there a way to exclude an Availability Group, or a small group of customers, from a particular shipping method? I can see how Availability Groups can be assigned to a particular shipping method, making that method only available to that group, but I don't see how to prevent a set of customers from being offered a specific shipping method.

[Nick]

delcorsets You should be able to check assign an availability group to a shipping method by selecting a shipping method in the Shipping Settings section. Also, within the availability groups section there is an option when the group is selected under the three dots more menu.

[delcorsets]

Nick Thanks for the reply. Yes, I played with that first - that will only assign shipping methods to availability groups, I'm trying to do the opposite and prevent a group seeing a shipping method.

I have a free shipping method (created in flat rate shipping) that I want to hide from anyone in our wholesale Availability Group. I tried assigning all shipping methods except for free shipping to that group, but then during testing remembered and saw that if a shipping method is assigned to an availability group it becomes shown tho that group only and is not displayed to other shoppers.

[Nick]

delcorsets I understand now. There is not a native way to do what you are looking to achieve. In Miva everyone has access to all shipping/payment methods or a group of customers can be set to be the ONLY customers to have access to specific methods, there is no concept of a customer that does not have access to any shipping/payment methods unless assigned. This would need to be done using template logic, you could check a customer custom field and if the value is true then do not show the shipping method.

[Kent Multer]

Hi Psydde, Yes, as Nick said, this can be done with a custom field and some template code. Let me know if you want some help setting it up.