NAME

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

INSTALLATION

See INSTALL file for more details.

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

REQUIRED MODULES

Archive::Zip (any)
Bundle::DBD::CSV (any)
Cache::FileCache (any)
Class::MethodMaker (any)
Config::IniFiles (any)
Crypt::SSLeay (any)
Data::Dumper (any)
Devel::Required (0.03)
Error (any)
Getopt::Mixed (any)
LWP::UserAgent (any)
Math::BaseCnv (any)
Scalar::Util (1.10)
XML::DOM (any)
XML::Simple (2.05)

GETTING STARTED

 * For USPS: Sign up online for free:
 
    - http://www.uspswebtools.com/registration/
	
	- (More info at 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
   
   - (More info at http://www.ec.ups.com)
   
   - Once you get a User Id and Password from UPS, you will need to login and
     select "Get Access Key", then "Get XML Access Key".
 

USAGE EXAMPLES

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

* Business::Shipping 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.
  
* The "Shopping Cart" Wobject for the WebGUI project, by Andy Grundman 
  <andy@kahncentral.net>.
  http://www.plainblack.com/wobjects?wid=1143&func=viewSubmission&sid=654
  http://www.plainblack.com/uploads/1143/654/webgui-shopping-cart-1.0.tar.gz

* Let the author know if you are using Business::Shipping in your website, 
  application, etc. so it can be mentioned here.

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

* See CREDITS file.