Adding Shipping To E-Commerce Application

Question

I recently built an ecommerce application which resides in Joomla (our CMS), uses a database back-end for product catalog / order tracking and is fully integrated with Authorize.Net (http://www.authorize.net) for processing payments. Obviously the missing piece of the puzzle is a shipping method.

Our shipping needs are fairly simple, we want to be able to ship to the continental US and would be happy with offering a strict flat rate as all of our merchandise is very similar in size/weight.

The only real hook into the shipping company I need is one that creates the shipping request in their system and allows our shipping department to print out a label, slap it on the box and be done. I checked out the UPS Developer Kit but it seems completely overkill for my needs.

Any suggestions on what shipping company/api method that will suit my needs would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

-- Nick

Answer 1

What's wrong with the UPS API? I've used this PHP script to integrate with UPS for a small scale web app that generated free return shipping labels for a companies clients.

http://code.google.com/p/php-ups-api/