NAME

Business::Shipping - Shipping cost calculator for UPS and USPS

INSTALLATION

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

Bundle::LWP 
Crypt::SSLeay
XML::Simple
XML::DOM
Digest::SHA1
Error
Cache::FileCache
Data::Dumper
Class::MethodMaker

GETTING STARTED

 * For USPS: Sign up online for free:
 
 	- http://www.uspswebtools.com
	
	- The online signup will result in a testing-only account (only a small
	  sample of queries will work).  To activate the "production" use of your
	  USPS account, you must follow the USPS documentation.  Currently, that
	  means contacting the Internet Customer Care Center by e-mail or phone:
	    icustomercare@usps.com
		1-800-344-7779
    
 * For UPS: Sign up online for free:
 
	- https://www.ups.com/servlet/registration?loc=en_US_EC

	- You will get a User Id, Password, and Access Key from UPS.
 

USAGE EXAMPLES

* See Shipping.pm POD documentation for API and usage examples.

* This module is used by the Interchange E-Commerce software 
  (http://www.icdevgroup.org).  For a reference implementation of 
  Business::Shipping, see the UserTag/business-shipping.tag file, it implements
  a function that takes shipping-related arguments, builds a Business::Shipping
  object, then returns the calculated cost.

WEBSITE

http://www.kavod.com/Business-Shipping

The website carries the most recent version, as well as instructions for accessing the anonymous CVS repository.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2003 Kavod Technologies, Dan Browning. All rights reserved. Licensed under the GNU Public Licnese (GPL). See COPYING for more info.

AUTHOR

Dan Browning
Kavod Technologies
<db@kavod.com>
http://www.kavod.com

CREDITS

* Kevin Old <kold@carolina.rr.com> got the USPS XML generator working.
* sauoq on PerlMonks.org provided valuable commentary and ideas. 
* bbfu on PerlMonks.org got Class::MethodMaker working with SUPER.