basically, I want to be able to make somehow custom lists of what country belongs to a certain region and divide the world in about 6 general shipping regions. User specifies his country of origin and the system knows his shipping region. Are there any lists out there, somewhere, that are considered common use?
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[edited by: lorax at 9:14 pm (utc) on Feb. 16, 2005]
dmmh
8:23 pm on Feb 16, 2005 (gmt 0)
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Staffa
11:27 pm on Feb 16, 2005 (gmt 0)
6 general shipping regions
The world is already divided in 6 regions = 6 continents Just list all the countries of one continent together ;o)
incrediBILL
2:06 am on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)
Your best best is to integrate a shipping API from a company (USPS, UPS, FEDEX) that ships internationally and just let them pick the rate per country in real time. It'll make life in the long run so much easier.
dmmh
4:53 am on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)
theres a small problem. Im not the one shipping. this is for auctions on my site. so person a from country f ships to person b from country r, all kinds of scenarios here. Cant use any fixed rate or something, as it will differ per country
incrediBILL
7:07 am on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)
That's not much of a problem - the seller picks the shipping method and specified his point of origin, the transaction then computes shipping from seller to buyer. Many ecommerce systems that support drop shipping already compute shipping from the seller to shipper. If your buyer has multiple sales per order from multiple sellers then the cart has to compute each shipping rate per seller.
dmmh
7:29 am on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)
Im looking at UPS site now, but I cant find much that helps me to automate this process. Since I am dealing with DVDs here and have the weight of each in the DB, I am able to compute a forced shipping rate if needs be. But I do need some sort of webservice though. Cant find much :S
