eCart with UPS using real-time shipping quotes

[sandy170299]

I have been using eCart for some time now but have always created my own shipping lookup tables and have calculated shipping costs based on weight ranges. Now, one of my clients is interested in possibly using UPS and utilizing real-time shipping quotes. I have two questions.

1. They are potentially going to be shipping some very large items and were wondering, if they used real-time shipping quotes, if they could somehow override certain products' shipping charges and have those calculated separately? I couldn't find any documentation on such a scenario as this.

2. Is there some documentation that would indicate to me WHERE in the checkout process these shipping charges would actually show up on screen for the customers? Am I correct in assuming that the client would NOT see shipping charges calculated while they were adding items to the cart, and would only see the shipping charges after the API call and those charges would appear on their final checkout page?

Can someone shed some light on this so I know how to advise my client in moving ahead with their project?

Thank you :)

[Ray Borduin]

Yes you can... there are no tutorials for it... basically if you set the weight in the cart to zero it will be ignored from the UPS shipping charge. Then you can use another column to store that items shipping charge and add an additional shipping rule to account for it.

They could not see the shipping charge until after they enter their address.. so that is where it appears in our checkout wizard. If you ask the address earlier, you could easily move that functionality earlier in the process.

[sandy170299]

Thanks, Ray. I think I'm going to encourage them to just go with the UPS rates. Let me see if I understand this correctly...

After the customer presses "checkout" on the checkout page, they are redirected to the confirm page. Is this where the shipping information will be displayed using UPS real-time shipping quotes?

I just want to know what to tell them in detail because I know they'll ask!

Thanks, Ray :)

[Ray Borduin]

That is correct.