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Dreamweaver Article
Retrieving Shipping Rate Quotes in Real Time
Joseph Lowery
Table of Contents
Chances are, the more successful your online store is, the more control you'll want to exercise over your shipping costs and charges. Where physical goods are concerned, the more the store sells, the higher the shipping bills—and if you can deliver a more cost effective way of passing on shipping charges to the customers for your clients, you're golden.
In a previous Macromedia Developer Center article, "Adding Database-Driven Shipping Charge Functionality to an Online Store," I explored a developer-initiated method for setting your shipping charges within Dreamweaver. The following article discusses what the process needed to get shipping quotes from the major shipping companies in real time by taking advantage of the web services from UPS and FedEx.
As noted in the previous articles, the majority of shopping cart extensions for Dreamweaver support shipping charges in one way or another. Both Cartweaver and Interakt's MX Kart, for example, use a variation on the database-driven shipping method. WebAssist's WA eCart, on the other hand, supports the database-driven technique and added the ability to retrieve real-time quotes in the recently released version.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Dreamweaver MX 2004
About the author
Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in eleven different languages. His most recent book is the Dreamweaver CS3 Bible. Joseph is the author of the recently published CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the co-author of Dreamweaver 8 Recipes with Eric Ott. A well-known speaker, he was presented at Adobe (formerly Macromedia) conferences in the United States and Europe as well as user groups around the country. Joseph is currently the Vice President of Marketing for WebAssist.
