How to Setup Shipping

I'm lost on the shipping situation.

I need to set up shipping for USPS and FedEx.  I want the customer to be able to choose the method, for example: 1st Class Mail, Parcel Post, Priority Mail, Express Mail, FedEx Home Delivery, FedEx Ground, FedEx 2 Day, FedEx Standard Overnight, FedEx Priority Overnight, FedEx First Overnight, FedEx Same Day.

I see the shipping methods and some rate calculators.  How do I set up the methods to choose the right rate calculator and how do I specificy how to ship.

Also, I'm going to use a warehousing service in the future and would need to know guidelines for setting up a generic API.

I would like to see this as well.  I have tried to set up shipping options for UPS, but I only get a very small subset of their shipping methods shown.

Ideally, the shipping selection page would show UPS, USPS, FedEx and others optionally.

Hope someone responds to this topic soon.

You can select only one shipping rate computation method (USPS or FedEx)

OK, how do I setup USPS?  What's with the username and password?

What kinds of shipping can I do from USPS?  1sr Class Mail, Parcel Post, Priority Mail, Express Mail?

That's very limiting for my customers who may have either a FedEx or UPS accout, or wish to use USPS.

Here's another wrinkle: some of my customers have their own FedEx/UPS accounts and want to use them to ship.  Is there a way you can think of to do so?

Tom

Does anybody know how to setup the shipping for USPS?

>OK, how do I setup USPS?  What's with the username and password?

In order to get USPS rates, you need to register on the USPS site.

USPS Web Tools

Web Tools sign up

When you register, you will receive credentials to use for the rate requests. I haven't used USPS rate lookups in a while (and not with this cart), but you may have to send test data to a test server before you can use the production server for live rates.

Access to Production Server - http://www.usps.com/webtools/htm/Development-Guide-v3-0b.htm#_Toc205879403


>What kinds of shipping can I do from USPS?  1sr Class Mail, Parcel Post, Priority Mail, Express Mail?

It looks like the NopCommerce v1.40 USPS shipping rate computation method (Shipping\Nop.Shipping.USPS\USPSComputationMethod.cs) is set by default (in USPSStrings.Elements) to get ALL services (though the returned rates will probably vary depending on package weight in the request -for example, the max weight for first class parcel service is 13ozs).

USPS Rate Calculator API Reference - http://www.usps.com/webtools/htm/Rate-Calculators-v2-3.htm


UPDATE (7-May-10): After receiving your USPS credentials, send an email to USPS Internet Customer Care Center (address is in your USPS registration email) and ask to have your profile updated for production. This is needed since you won't be able to get any rates using the testing server with the nopCommerce USPS shipping rate computation method (testing server uses RateV2 and nopCommerce uses RateV3 and you will receive error message "API Authorization failure. RateV3 is not a valid API name for this protocol").

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Some of my customers have BOTH FedEx and UPS, and would like to be able to select on or the other.  Further, they would like to use own account.

How can it be so difficult to have this, other than your repeated "you can't do it"?

ANYTHING is possible.  You just need to rewrite some of the code.  If your a developer then how about having a go and then contributing your code to the community?

Mostly because I'm not an ASP developer.  You want embedded systems, come see me.  Otherwise, I'm trying to get A solution set up which will best suit my needs.

I guess that the vast majority of users of nop are only final sellers, not manufacturers who have distribution or industrial accounts.