RE: UPS WorldShip Question

Thanks Doug.  My customer knew of those, but the idea that they can't ship if 
their internet connection is down is bad.

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Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:29 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: UPS WorldShip Question
>
>
> Art,
>
> >Does worldship have an interface where I can send a rating request
> >(from/to zip, weight, service level, etc.) from As/400 to Worldship
> >and have it return the shipping charges?
>
> Not to my knowledge, but if you have an internet connection you could code an
> interface to the UPS Online Tools.  These are a series of XML (or HTML) based
> APIs which you can use for sending queries to UPS and getting back instant
> quotes, tracking status, signature tracking, address validation, yada, yada.
>
> Just implement the APIs for rate quotes and pass it your from/to zip codes,
> weight and package options, etc and it can return the associated costs.
>
> I've never got around to setting this up myself, but it is one of my back 
>burner
> projects.  See
>
> http://www.ec.ups.com/ecommerce/it_pro/what.html
>
> Doug
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