Fedex residential shipping

I am noticing fedex shipping quotes are low. Apparently Fedex charges an additional fee for shipping to a residential address.
The api allows you to specify a ship to address as residentail, but when I set this in eCart, it has no effect.
$Shipping_PackageArray[$Shipping_PackageIndex]["RESIDENTIALDELIVERY"] = "";
I tried setting this to 1 or true to no effect.
In searching through the code for RESIDENTIALDELIVERY it is mentioned several times in WA-eCart_FedEx_PHP.php, but the code is all commented out.
Do you have a workaround for me to have fedex calculate for residential addresses?

in the WA-eCart_FedEx_PHP.php file, look for:


$FedEx_XML .= "<v10:Residential>0</v10:Residential>";



and change it to:
$FedEx_XML .= "<v10:Residential>1</v10:Residential>";

OK, found a workaround.
If you make the change Jason suggested above, you must also set the fedex service to GROUNDHOMEDELIVERY or else it throws an error.

Also, please note there are 3 instances of $FedEx_XML .= "<v10:Residential>0</v10:Residential>"; in that file, 2 of which have to do with the shipper address, which you dont want to change.

However, if you give the user a choice to choose residential or business address, the logic is easy to set fedexService to either GROUNDHOMEDELIVERY or FEDEXGROUND, but there is no easy way to change the logic in WA-eCart_FedEx_PHP.php to be either residential (1) or not (0).

Any chance of an update here? Or at least incorporating that into eCart 6?

Thanks!
Tom

I have logged this as a bug in our system so the engineers can look into it.

We've got the FedEx shipping up and working properly, however our client is requesting we give the residential option. My concern here is the options with WebAssist don't seem to coincide with what FedEx is telling. According to FedEx, we need to pass a residential flag of 'true' for residential shipping. All well and good, but on the WebAssist side, that appears to only apply to Ground deliveries. According to FedEx support, this surcharge applies to all shipping methods, not just ground.

Can anyone offer further enlightenment here?

I would just hard code the flag in the fedex include file.

They probably want to update the recipient address... that is on line 120. You can change:
$FedEx_XML .= "<v10:Residential>0</v10:Residential>";

to:
$FedEx_XML .= "<v10:Residential>1</v10:Residential>";

There are actually three places that could be updated. The Shipper Address, the Recipient Address, and the Origin Address. They are on lines 106, 120 and 134 respectively and can be updated similarly where necessary.

The client is actually requesting their customers be able to select residential vs commercial, rather than hard coding it one way or the other. So we'd have to get it to some how automatically update that data.

If changed where you indicate, does that pass that variable for ALL shipping methods (overnight, 2-day, etc.) and not just ground delivery? David Buchholz, who is helping me with this site, seemed to think the webassist code was only passing that residential flag for ground delivery, which seems to conflict with what I'm hearing from FedEx.

Updating those lines will update it for ALL types. By default we only automatically set the Shipper to residential if you are using ground, but updating it in the file would change it for everything.

You could save a session variable based on the user selection and then use that in the xml instead of hard coding it.