I looked into the USP tools and they were such a pain
(lots of hoops the jump and brandign rules to comply with)
that we dropped them from our e-commerce solution and went
with FedEx.
The FedEx tools and integration infomation can be obtained
from
http://www.fedex.com/us/solutions/fsmapi.html
The have a API for applications and a Direct for Websites.
For Websites use the Ship Manager Direct connect
http://www.fedex.com/us/solutions/wis/index.html/ Its
basically a Tag inteface and they have COM objects to
interface with it if you are on a MS IIS platform.
We are on a PHP platform and I located a open source PHP
class to communicate with their interface.
Once you understand the Tags and the server responses
(well documented in a 112 page PDF), its straight forward
to get connected.
Their 7 step implementation process does have a few hoops
to jump (paperwork) to get qualified to use their service.
But its less cumbersome that UPS.
Hope this helps.
Keith E.
>-----Original Message-----
>Has anybody used the UPS tools for calculating shipping
and if so how did
>they go about it? I have seen the articles on
4guysfromrolla but that
>appears to be using xml component to get the data from
the ups site rather
>than using the developers tools provided by UPS.
>
>I am just not sure the best way to go about this. Anybody
with experience
>using this who could give me some pointers would be
greatly appreciated. On
>their site if you dont sign up then you dont get any
specs on the tools
>other then the standard ad crap. I have also seen some
components that want
>to charge for this apparently free service so thats not
something I am
>interested in.
>
>I would also be interested in info about the USPS and
FedEx too but found no
>similar tools on their sites.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jason
>
>
>.
>
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