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Thread: Shipping intergration for LTL freight tracking

  1. 05-20-2009, 12:51 PM #1
    ChinaToddm is offline Junior Member
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    Default Shipping intergration for LTL freight tracking

    Does anyone know the steps required to add RTA shipping for an LTL carrier?

    Almost 80% of my products ship with trucking companies who all have tracking URL and most even have xml ablity

    what would be the best way to integrate it so when I mark an order as shipped it will function the same as UPS or other carries and send a URL with the pro number to a customer

    Here is an example of instructions for one of my carries for an HTML link

    http://works.pittohio.com/mypittohio...ogy/TC_b2b.asp

    in the HTML example it request I use the URL

    http://works.pittohio.com/myPITTOHIO...rsEmailAddress

    could I simply create say in this example a RTA shipping like this?

    RTShipping.PITT.UserName
    RTShipping.PITT.Password
    ShippingTrackingURL.PITT add the above URL here

    but my question is to get to pass through the checkout where would I add and what AppConfig Parameters would I need to put in to generate this information below and pass thought the cart so we can just put in the pro number and name PITT to automaticly generate the email when we mark an order shipped then the ASP will send the order notification with tracking information to our customer?

    How do I get the APPCONFIG Parameters to parse the below information?

    pro=POEproNumber&referrer=YourCompanyName&Email=th eUsersEmailAddress

    Then add the carrier PITT here ShippingTrackingCarriers

    I use Pitt Ohio, YRC, ABF and R&L Primary and know they all have tracking pro numbers and should be able to set up the automatic tracking

    I also occasionally use UPS freight and Fed ex freight

    All of my trucking companies all have Pro numbers and similar tracking processes
  2. 05-21-2009, 10:50 AM #2
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    This is all very possible, yes, but not by just adding AppConfigs. The carriers would need to be added to the RTShipping class, as the XML formats are generally proprietary (eg. you could not just change the URL and use the UPS xml format). also, you will likely need some logic as to what type of shipment gets shipped by what carrier (eg. you don't want someone picking conway for a 3lb box of pencils).

    I am sure one of our devnet partners would be able to handle this for you
  3. 05-21-2009, 08:45 PM #3
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    We sure can ;-), please contact Jan at ecommerce@compunix.us for a quote on the cart shipping modification above.
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  4. 05-21-2009, 09:52 PM #4
    ChinaToddm is offline Junior Member
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    Default I sent your company an email

    Thanks for the help I am email jan to see what can be done