Paypal and calculating international shipping?

Question

Hi All,

Does anyone have advice on how one can calculate shipping to a foreign country with PayPal? I am developing in PHP.

-JT

Answer 1

PayPal is an online payment processing company, not a shipping company. To calculate shipping costs you'll need to work with the API of a shipping provider. Each provider has their own API:

UPS: https://www.ups.com/upsdeveloperkit?loc=en_US

USPS: http://www.usps.com/webtools/

FedEx: http://fedex.com/us/developer/

DHL: http://www.dhl-usa.com/xml/index.asp