Ecommerce Shipping

Extracting data from the WWW

Address data

http://www.ecomorder.com/techref/taxship.asp An example that looks up addresses from phone number, corrects addresses, finds rates online and calculates exact sales tax for addresses in the state of California. It then moves on to accept an eCheck payment, send order confirmation and email the sales department. This script is for sale w/o support for $100 and with support for $500. Contact the web master.

Insane legal terms on shipping API's

James Newton Says: " FedEx Shipping service? " +

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• Contact Management

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  James Newton says: For the love of... STOP standing in line in front of me at the Post Office just to buy stamps! Use an on-line postage service.
   
• http://www.intershipper.net the Intershipper API provides a way to get quotes and tracking information from all major carriers via one consistent (XML based) interface.
  • http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/phpshop/phpshop/modules/ISshipping/lib/Intershipper.inc?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup PHP script to use intership.net
• http://grd.fedex.com/cgi-bin/rii2000.exe?func=entry The Fedex's Ground Internet interface is very nice, simple and not overly stupid in the legal department
• http://www.usps.com/ncsc/
  • https://secure.shippingapis.com/registration/ The US Postal Services insane legal agreement for use of its web API. They make you agree that you will only use the API for USPS shipments. So you can NOT look up a zip code to ship a package via UPS. And they will seriously try to verify that you use this ONLY for USPS. I asked and was told that I could not even use the API in a system where the customer MIGHT pick another service. E.g. you can not display competitive rates.
    And did you know that you are specifically prohibited from using the sample code? "The sample code, the documentation, and the trademarks/logos provided on this site and in hardcopy form are the intellectual property of USPS protected under U.S. laws. The information and images presented may not be reproduced, republished, adopted, used, or modified under any circumstances." Why would you publish sample code and then prohibit it's use?
    Apparently the password field in the request is not checked. It must not be empty, but "password" works just fine.
    People who are having trouble getting thier code working tend to post it an forget to remove thier userid, so if you google for "<RateV2Request USERID="...
  • http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tep/catalog/catalog/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php PHP code to get a rate quote from the web API. As if anyone would want to agree to their terms.
  • http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/sw/Scrape-USPS-ZipLookup/Scrape-USPS-ZipLookup-1.0.html
  • http://ribbs.usps.gov/aec.htm Appears to be a pay per use system for address correction and ZIP+4 lookup.
• UPS
  • http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tep/catalog/catalog/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php PHP code to get a quote from the UPS quick cost rate calculator via http get.

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