I have a client who sells car parts and wants to be able to conduct sales
on line, including credit card processing.  That means we're going to have
to calculate shipping costs, I think, so that his site knows the entire
price of the order at the time of placing it.

Up until now,  he's been able to get away with processing the order,  then
personally working out the best way to ship the goods,  calling the courier
or shipping company,  then calling his customer back with the total value
of the order then processing the credit card transaction manually.     This
was a workaround a couple of years ago when we first built the site, but it
is too cumbersome now and we need to automate it.

How are the rest of you handling shipping costs?    The goods,  being car
parts,  are sometimes really bulky, like a racing seat,  sometimes small,
like a set of spark plugs,  sometimes heavy like a Diff assembly or a
gearbox or an alloy racing wheel hub.

Is there any shipping company handling all-around-Australia shipping that
would have an API that I could use to work out the value of the shipping
costs?   UPS and FEDEX  do this in the USA,  and presumably are
possibilities for us here too,    Is there anyone else I should consider?

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Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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