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Setting up with FedEx
Setting up your Ecommerce Plus template to use FedEx
shipping rates to automatically calculate your shipping costs is
a simple matter. Just follow the
steps below.
Firstly, log in to the admin section for your Ecommerce Plus template
and click on "Main Settings" and scroll down the page.
From the Shipping Type dropdown menu select FedEx Shipping.
On the same page you will see a setting "Shipping Units" where
you can define the weight units that are used to define your product
weights. Please note that the shipping units are limited in some
countries. Notably, the United States is limited to specifying
product weights in lbs and ounces.
Now click on Shipping Methods from the left hand menu and click
on Register with FedEx
and follow the steps in
the registration wizard. Once you are registered you will want
to choose the shipping methods you want to accept on your store
so click on the Edit Shipping Methods button and check the appropriate
choices.
You are now ready to test your system. Try adding a product to
your cart where you know the weight of the product. Then in the
checkout phase after filling out your customer and shipping information,
you should see the available FedEx shipping options along with
the associated costs. You should do a couple of tests to make sure
they match what you would expect from the FedEx online shipping
calculator at www.fedex.com.
FedEx
tracking
It's possible for customers to track their orders from a page
on your site - if you don't have the tracking page, all you
need to do to enable it for the ASP version is take a copy of
products.asp
and
call
it tracking.asp
Then go to HTML view and change the line
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incproducts.asp"-->
to
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/inctracking.asp"-->
For the PHP version save products.php as tracking.php then go
into HTML view and change
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incproducts.php" ?>
to
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/inctracking.php" ?>
FedEx
delivery services
You can choose the delivery options for FedEx with these additions
to vsadmin/includes.asp or vsadmin/includes.php depending on which
version you are working from.
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