Having trouble with Endicia printing test labels?

I've had so many problems with Endicia it's not even funny. I've been told that the majority of people had no issues with it, but I have.

Anyways, I had finally got most things working after having the developer fix the code for Endicia. Everything seemed fine but when I went to view the label I couldn't get it to make a real label instead of a test one.

I made sure that my settings showed LIVE instead of test, and then went to fixing the code.

The problem appears to be on EDCUSPS_ManageShipmentsRequest.asp

I changed lines 855 to 859 to fix this issue, changing:

if (EDCTestMode="1") OR (request.form("submit")<>"") then
                              tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""YES"""
                         else
                              tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""NO"""
                         end if

To say:


if (EDCTestMode="1") OR (request.form("submit")="") then
                              tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""YES"""
                         else
                              tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""NO"""
                         end if


So basically I changed a <> to an =. I hope that helps someone else who might be having issues with Endicia only printing test labels. If anyone needs help making this change let me know and I can probably walk you through it.

Hey Greg,

I just spoke with one of the developers at Endicia, who said there's no way it could be related to the USPS account since Endicia handles all of the pricing.

However, I guess there could be an issue with the specific ProductCart integration that is causing it to be connected with the USPS account when Endicia wouldn't otherwise be.

Looking at the original code from 4.1sp1 update though, I see these lines between 846 and 859:

IF (request.form("submit")<>"") THEN                                                    if EDCTestMode<>"1" then                               EDCCalMode="yes"                          else                               EDCCalMode="mo"                          end if                                                                             tmpXMLOrg="<LabelRequest"                          if (EDCTestMode="1") OR (request.form("submit")<>"") then                               tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""YES"""                          else                               tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""NO"""                          end if

If I'm not mistaken here, that code is incorrect no matter how you spin it. The first if statement checks to see if form("submit") is not blank (not equal to ""), then it again checks to see if it is not blank and pushes it into test mode.

So, since the first IF statement must evaluate to <>"" for the proceeding statements to be executed, there is NO way Test can not equal YES. Since the only way you can get to that point is if form("submit")<>"".

Do you see what I'm saying here? Is the code for your client different in this instance?

How can this code EVER evaluate to anything but tmpXMLOrg=tmpXMLOrg & " Test=""YES"""? Considering that the only way if (EDCTestMode="1") OR (request.form("submit")<>"") then is executed is if (request.form("submit")<>"") is true?

Someone over at EI may want to weigh in on this.  Since 4.1 has been out a while I would be surprised if there was a glaring glitch that they had not yet identified and patched.

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Greg, do you think I should try making a new Endicia account (this will be the third account I've made with Endicia - yay!) and see if that fixes my issue with the = and <>?

A couple people I spoke to suggested that I might need to have my USPS account active before creating my Endicia account. I had some trouble, but was just now able to get a new Endicia account created. However, I'm still seeing the same issue, and making the same code change to the page fixes the issue.

Is there really no one else who's having this issue where Endicia is only sending TEST labels? I just don't see how my code can be wrong when I haven't made any modifications to it... I just compared it to the original files to be sure.