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Entity Framework: Shipping code?

I'm doing a talk on the Entity Framework at a local user group next week. I'll be mentioning my own experience with the Entity Framework and I'd like to include other real world experience with the EF. My questions: Have you shipped a product that uses the Entity Framework? If so, what industry/market? If you haven't used the Entity F...

Are there any generic shipping calculators out there for DJango?

I'm in the process of settings up a website (I'm using DJango) to begin selling some toys I build and need a way of calculating shipping costs for my customers. Are there any (preferably free) shipping calculators which accept a customers address and return the cost for different delivery companies / delivery options? It would be nice ...

Web based delivery pricing system - where to start?

I've been asked to quote on how long it would take to deliver a system such as can be found here: http://cgi.tnt.co.uk/ratechecker/enter_details.asp The client basically wants to give quotes for shipping based on a number of variables such as weight, distance etc, and for it to be accessible through their website. I've thought of the ...

Shipping application required

Hi, Can anyone recommend a good FREE shipping application where I can get rates from different courier services, and perform tracking of packages. If there aren't any free ones, do the courier services themselves have API's or webservices of their own? We were thinking of creating an ASP.NET web application in C# that got quotes from ...

Where is Ubercart USPS Shipping module

I can't seem to find the Ubercart 2.x version of USPS Shipping module! This is the closest I could come, but I feel like I shouldn't be constructing the module from a source view. http://api.ubercart.org/api/file/ubercart/shipping/uc_usps/uc_usps.module/2/source There was a zip available here of a spin-off module... http://www.ubercart...

Should I integrate FedEx or UPS into my Rails app?

I'm working on integrating a shipping solution into a Rails ecommerce app. We're only going to use one shipping provider. So the question is: FedEx or UPS? I'm wondering what Rails developers think about the tech side of this question. What do you think about the APIs, ease of integration, focus on developer's needs between FedEx a...

Paypal IPN setup...Ship to Zipcode and auto calculation

Hi I have successfully setup paypal IPN on my site and its working fine. From my paypal account I have set options to ass shipping and tax calculations(only if it's Iowa). But the only issue is, on the paypal checkout page it's asking me to enter the "Ship to Zipcode" manually...if I enter and update only then the net payable is getting...

Shipping GNU/Linux Firefox plugin with shared libraries (for installation with no root access)

The application is a Firefox plugin (loaded from $HOME/.mozilla/plugins), so wrapper script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not an easy option. RPATH, as far as I know, cannot refer to $HOME and can be only absolue path. Firefox tries to dlopen it's plugin from ~/.mozilla/plugins but fails (because it depends on shared libraries installed...

Calculate a rough estimate for shipping box size

I'm trying to find the best way to calculate the box size needed for shipping. I have 3 shipping containers with different sizes. I have the product's width, length, depth, and mass defined in the database. I would like to know how to find the smallest amount of boxes needed to ship, and also the smallest dimensions of those boxes give...

Magento : call a variable from customer’s shipping address in Onepage checkout, step 3 shipping method

Hi, I need to call a variable that is a customer’s shipping address attribute, in Onepage checkout, step 3 shipping method In file app/design/frontend/default/default/template/deliverydate/onepage/deliverydate.phtml I already made successful tests in calling this variable with : $numero_point_relais = $this->getCustomer()...

How to handle PST exempt items when calculating taxes on shipping in oscommerce?

I've got a bit of a doozy here. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I'm using both Peter Mosier's instructions on how to set up Canadian taxes, and the Canada Taxes Order Total Module. I'm building a store which sells both books and DVD's, this is causing a real problem when it comes to properly calculating the taxes...

Getting a list of all packages from shipping carriers.

I've been looking at the APIs for UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc, and I can't seem to find any method of pulling all tracking info for a given user. I only see methods that pull info via a tracking number. Has anyone been able to find a way to get at this data? Seems silly to me that these huge carriers wouldn't supply this info in an easy method...

Adding Shipping To E-Commerce Application

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, ...

Magento - Category based shipping rates, is this possible?

Hi, I have searched google and the Magento forum to no avail. Is it possible to assign a different shipping rate to each category of products? Thanks Dan ...

Refactor before or after ship?

In a world where most ship dates are dictated by business needs, programmers usually ship code that works. Often, structure and efficiency of code being shipped become moot when you know code works. Unless production quality is specified (api to an algorithm for example), for code running into few hundred lines, shippable code equals cod...

Method Shipping not work with user register

Hi community, I Develop a shipping method and works it… When is a guest user this shipping method is listed in the checkout page, but no listed when user is registred. This message display “Sorry, no quotes are available for this order at this time.” Any idea? Thanks ...

Accessing shipping cost in Magento's cart and/or checkout

Please note, this question is regarding the shipping cost, not price. There is an important difference, i.e. what $$ charge the shipping method incurs for the store owner, as opposed to what is $$ charge is paid by the customer. The shipping_tablerate database table includes a cost field, which is populated in the Mage_Shipping_Model_...

Remove shipping methods completely from magento?

Hi, how can i completely remove ALL shipping methods/processes from magento? Thanks ...

How to apply shipping charge to every purchase

Hi All, I am currently working on osCommerce Site. I have installed United Parcel Service module in that. I have attached the image for the configuration which I have set. What I want is to apply shipping charge to every product. Currently problem is that i have to select the zone and if shipping address is lies in that zone then onl...

Prestashop 1.3.2 FedEx shipping module

Im having a serious problem with a prestashop shipping module for FedEx. I know this might not the place for this, but Im really running out of options. Was wondering if I could get some help... First of all Prestashop is a open source E-commerce platform. Now the problem is it has POOR shipping module capabilities. I was on the search ...