Thanks for the suggestion, Jochen. When I originally set up this client's website I looked at the NZ Post website and saw that their Rate Finder was all done in JavaScript, so I reverse-engineered it and re-coded it in PHP. But then they changed it to Flash which made it a bit harder to see what was going on inside...
I would have thought that this is such a common thing to need that NZ Post would already have a service in place, but I guess not. On Jul 14, 8:48 pm, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
