shipping

Best practices for shipping software on time

Imagine you don't have the problem of feature creep, you have a motivated and stable team, clear defined problems to solve, AND you know the domain/language/tools related to your project. How do you stick to a schedule and accomplish that 1.0 milestone? What is your approach to an iterative shipping? I'd like recommendations specially ...

Best Strategies for preventing addresses with PO Boxes?

I have a client which is shipping via UPS, and therefore cannot deliver to Post Office boxes. I would like to be able to validate customer address fields in order to prevent them from entering addresses which include a PO box. It would be best if this were implemented as a regex so that I could use a client-side regex validation control ...

Computing California Sales Tax

One of the web apps I'm working on has a fairly small web store / shopping cart. As the client company is physically located in CA and has a physical location there, they're required to collect CA sales tax on all orders shipped to locations in California. For those who don't know, CA has some fairly complex sales tax rules where, esse...

Worldship Batch Import

I am trying to import a .csv file into WorldShip containing names, addresses, and zip codes. I have two profiles set up defining package weight, UPS service, bill transportation, package type, and reference numbers. Can I import just name, addresses and zip codes under a specific profile to keep the other variables constant? Or do I hav...

PHP Shipping Calculator

Does anyone know of a freeware shipping calculator for PHP? I do not want anything too fancy, and it can be compatible with any of the major US domestic shipping services. If anyone knows of one that is a plugin for CodeIgniter that would be nice. Travis ...

Postage Calculator for PHP

Could anyone point me in the right direction for a shipping calculator? I would like something simple and I don't want to sign up for too much stuff. EDIT: I do not want to deal with all the registering and stuff the API would require... I think I may just try to make one using the zone charts USPS provides. ...

How to decode U.P.S. Information from UPS MaxiCode Barcode?

I recently purchased a 2D Barcode reader. When scanning a U.P.S. barcode, I get about half of the information I want, and about half of it looks to be encrypted in some way. I have heard there is a UPS DLL. Example - Everything in bold seems to be encrypted, while the non-bold text contains valuable, legitimate data. [)>01961163522424...

.NET Packing Controls?

I'm taskd with developing a packing algorithm for parts bought from our online store. Is there a widget or control that is open-source or for sale that takes in a list of products (with dimensions / weight) and a list of possible packing boxes (with max dimensions and weight) and returns the best possible arrangement? I find it hard to...

php,xml,ups shipping: "Cannot view XML input using XSL..." Where's the bug?

Hey, so I'm deploying a shipping calculator using this function, and I'm getting this error only when I use IE. Firefox does just fine with the shipping calculator. I'm unfamiliar with this error, and google searches tell me that it's a problem with the xml format. Problem is: the XML response from UPS's shipping calculation server shoul...

How to create a "pending" order in authorize.net?

I'm a web developer looking to move a lot of clients to use authorize.net for their CC processing. I have used authorize.net once in PHP doing SIM integration for a simple site. Now the problem is, some of our clients have established processes that takes the CC info from our site, and it goes through a fulfillment process outside th...

UPS freight calculator

I have managed to get a UPS Shipping calculator working in PHP. I now found out that the standard shipping from UPS is capped at 150lbs. For anything over 150lbs, I need to ship via freight. Has anyone ever coded a Freight Calculator with UPS? The calculator I wrote for anything under 150lbs does not require a UPS account. I was hop...

Address verification

A friend just brought by 1,000 lines of USA shipping addresses. (Excel.) I've read this into a Ruby program via CSV::. Now I would like to check the mailing addresses for sanity. It doesn't have to be a perfect check. Her shipping contractor will be using a UPS program of some sort and we are just trying to minimize the number of addres...

Paypal not picking up shipping?

Hi all, this is strange, for some reason this paypal isn't picking up my shipping_1 value, yet I have done another form similar, and it goes through ok? I have no idea what's wrong with it.. <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" name="cart" id="cart" onSubmit="return checkform(this);"> <div class="shopCo...

when I integrating with FedEx shipping provider and send float weight then its getting error ?

when I integrating with FedEx shipping provider and send float weight then its getting error ? For Eg. when I send 1 LB weight then its working fine but when I send 1.1 LB then Its not working. This is used wsdl method to get the ship rate from the FedEx. ...

Magento - Shipping rates for UK, Europe, Rest of World

I would like to use table rates to specify shipping prices for UK, Europe and Rest of World. Is there an established .csv file I can use, where each county code is in one of the 3 above areas? This is what I’m trying to achieve… UK: £3.50 normal £6.50 special EUROPE: £4 normal £9 special REST OF THE WORLD: £6 normal £12 special Tha...

How to add shipping cost by finding the largest size with PHP?

At the moment I add shipping charge 65Kr. There are only four prices in the shop. I need to change the shipping charge to the following way. Product which cost 198Kr and 268Kr needs 25Kr and more than that price (418 and 498Kr) needs 65Kr. If a customer buys 198Kr and 418kr, then she needs to pay 65Kr. This means if there is one item...

Magento retrieve the 'Minimum order amount' for free shipping value

Hi, I would like to retrieve the 'Minimum order amount' value for free shipping in the 'CartController.php' class. How can I get this value ? Is Mage::getStoreConfig() will do the job ? But witch path? Thanks a lot for any suggestion! ...

City selection on UberCart checkout menu?

I want users to be able to select a City from a dropdown list when checking out with UberCart. Is there a module that offers this? If not, how do I modify this form to include only certain cities as an option? Does the shipping module allow for you to get access to the City information? Basically, I want to customly calculate the shi...

Magento: Fixed shipping cost BELOW certain basket price.

How can I set the shipping cost for Magento for all baskets that are below a certain point. Eg all baskets under £5 have fixed shipping of £1.99. Thanks. ...

Integrating Shipping with Ruby on Rails

What is the best method to include shipping quotes in my cart? The basic flow of my site is that 1.) User selects products 2.) User is shown cart 3.) repeat 1 and 2 until User wants to pay 4.) collect user details ( email, address where items will be shipped to ) 5.) make payment via active merchant 6.) order is submitted to ...