Comments on: Pos Malaysia shipping quote – part 2

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:42:10 +0000

It’s a good question – the answer is ‘no’. The answer is only no because none of the e-commerce projects I’ve used in the past handled product volume in any meaningful way. The way I store data from the shipping agents would make it easy to add in a volume parameter, it might just take a bit of to-and-fro to establish the ‘best compromise’ for an API. I’m open to suggestions of how to build it in.

I’ve done a little bit of work on the shipping API in the last few days – a demo of a ZenCart module for someone. The basic API is an URL of the shape “WEIGHT-to-DESTINATION-ex-ORIGIN.CONTENTTYPE”. It would be easy to provide an URL like “WEIGHT-vol-LENGTH-WIDTH-HEIGHT-to-DESTINATION-ex-ORIGIN.CONTENTTYPE”. Let me know if you’d like to see a demo and I’ll work something out.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:18:32 +0000

Hi sean,

I just want to ask you whether are you implementing the script volumetric calculation pos laju for os commerce? because it seems now everyone have been using volumetric to calculate their shipping cost.

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