You could maintain rate and distance tables for the various shippers and size and weight info for your products -- or do it the easy way:
1) set a minimum for each type of shipment (Overnight, 2nd day, etc), 2) calculate additional cost based on item price and/or number of items -- whatever makes sense 3) optionally set a threshold where shipping is free HTH Dick On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 07:35 AM, Yager, Brian T Contractor/Sverdrup wrote: > I'm developing a shopping cart. Can anyone give me some ideas as to > how to > calculate shipping? I know the first question is going to be "Who is > doing the > shipping?". The answer to that is "I don't know". Whoever the owner > of the > shopping cart wants. It could be UPS, Fed Ex, USPS...If there are > ways to > calculate all of these (based on some criteria), I would love to know. > I > appreciate any and all help on this. > > Thanks, > > Brian Yager > President - North AL Cold Fusion Users Group > http://www.nacfug.com > Sr. Systems Analyst > Sverdrup/CIC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (256) 842-8342 > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
