On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Super Steve<[email protected]> wrote: > > I need to set up a shopping cart that can calculate shipping charges. > > Everything will be shipped via NZ Post's International Economy rate, > and only international needs to be catered for (won't sell within NZ). > > I see NZ Post has a nice Rate Finder that works all this out but I was > wondering how other people automate this. > > Some time ago I ask NZ Post if they had any plans on making some sort > of service available where I could automate their Rate Finder by > sending parcel details to them and getting back a freight price. They > said they were thinking about it but I've heard nothing since. Does > anyone know if anything like this is available? It would certainly > save having to change things when the rates change (as they did > earlier this month). > > Thoughts / ideas on handling this?
Hi, you can always use the NZ Post website as a ratefinder - any http based service is easily turned into an API. The problem is that you have to change everytime they change their website. If you have a client for whom this is important enough, you should be able to keep up with these changes. Usually it'll take Nz Post a couple of grand and endless meetings to make any change and you should be able to keep up to date with maybe 2h per change. Its likely there are only 2-3 changes per year max, probably much less. Hope this helps. Kind Regards, Jochen Daum Chief Automation Officer Automatem Ltd Phone: 09 630 3425 Mobile: 021 567 853 Email: [email protected] Skype: jochendaum Website: www.automatem.co.nz > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
