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UPS shipping integration
Integrating UPS online rates
Setting up your Ecommerce Plus template to automatically use the
UPS Online® Tools Rates & Service Selection 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" using the menu on the left.
From the Shipping Type dropdown menu select UPS 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, go back to the admin home page by clicking on "home" on
the left menu. Click on the text link near the bottom of the page
which says "Register with UPS" and follow the steps in
the registration wizard.
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 UPS 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 UPS online shipping calculator
at www.ups.com.
If you receive the following error at this stage . . .
This measurement system is not valid for the selected country
. . . then this means that you have to return to the Ecommerce
Plus admin section, "main settings" page to change the
Shipping units you are using from lbs and ounces to Kilograms or
vice-versa.
Oversize packages
For each OS1 package, set the product weight
to be 30 pounds.
For each OS2 package, set the product weight to
be 70 pounds
UPS pick up
The way that you deliver your packages to UPS for
delivery can affect the total cost of delivering the package.
You can change the UPS Account Type by setting the following in
your vsadmin/includes.asp file . . .
upspickuptype="03"
The code in quotes there would be taken from the following table...
01 - Daily Pickup
03 - Customer Counter
06 - One Time Pickup
07 - On Call Air
19 - Letter Center
20 - Air Service Center
Remember to enclose the code above in double quotes. Also, please
note that these options are not exactly the same
as you might find on the UPS website but we hear that is something
that UPS are working on.
UPS tracking tool
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 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"-->
UPS negotiated rates
For high volume shippers it is possible to display
your UPS Negotiated Rates as shipping charges if required. In the
admin section on the left can you click on "shipping
methods" then on "UPS Admin" you should see the
dropdown there for selecting Negotiated Rates. Then follow the
instructions there. You should use your UPS Shipper Number in the
registration process when you "Register with UPS".
It is a requirement when using negotiated
rates to include not just the zip but also the state code and this
is
true for both US and Canadian addresses. All you have
to do to enable this is install the US
/ Canadian updater
This will put the Canadian Provinces
in the drop down menu on checkout as well as the US States and
enable the system to include the state/province
code. After running the script you will need to reset any tax levels
and make sure both the US and Canada are set as "Home Countries" in
the countries admin page. |
