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Shipping Rates - Res vs. Business

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Topic: Shipping Rates - Res vs. Business

Posted By: Confetti
Subject: Shipping Rates - Res vs. Business
Date Posted: 21-July-2007 at 10:59pm

At Check-Out, the customer manually chooses if the Shipping Address is Residential or Business. Per this selection, the rates returned are different. (I am using the demo program online). Since some people know this, or some people are legitimately confused (They run there "Business" out of there Residence), there is a possibilty that we must eat the difference. Going to the Fedex site to manually calculate a price, there is as well only a selection box. Going to UPS site they now have a validator. Question: Does the API built in to PC, Validate the address, or does it simply take this Customer chosen selection?

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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 23-July-2007 at 3:50pm

Hi Confetti,

When ProductCart requests the rates it uses the customer selection. FedEx doesn't include that capability into their API, but we will check on UPS.