Shopping Cart Programming
Common Carrier API
Shipping API Programming
FIRST TIME ON THE INTERNET!
Introducing the new Platinum API! Never before seen on the internet – a freight API to provide real-time freight quotes for small package and common carrier freight, with so many features to allow
factories and distributors with multiple sites, or even resellers, the ability to sell online!
Try out Verango Media's Veracart Shopping Cart too! We chose Veracart to integrate most of the needed programming already! Easy to use, one page to enter all the information for your products, and you're in business! Read More about Veracart
CONTROL YOUR SHIPPING WITH EASE!
Using our new PLATINUM API, you can add accurate shipping costs for all your products, shipping from any location!
All obstacles are gone! Now you too can sell online! Let us help you integrate accurate, real-time shipping rates
and give your customers cheap rates, or even let them decide how it ships! Easy to integrate, easy to use! It works!
| The Problem | The Solution Using PLATINUM API |
|---|---|
| I found out that all the real time freight quote programming available on the internet today only allows shipping from one site. | The PLATINUM API allows you to assign an origination zip code to each product you sell which is read by the API, with rates obtained for each line item within the cart prior to your customer processing the sale. Ideal for resellers and companies with many warehouses or factories! |
| What about when I sell two items in the same sale, and each one ships from a different site? | The PLATINUM API takes each line item in your cart separately, instead of the total of the cart, as it is with all freight quote programming now. |
| What if I have some items that are small, and some very large or heavy? | The PLATINUM API has the ability to first discern by line item in the cart whether that item qualifies for small package freight or common carrier, and the appropriate real-time quote is obtained. |
| What if I have multiple items in the cart, some coming from the same place, some not? | The PLATINUM API is designed to couple like origination zip code products together prior to going out for that query. A query is obtained for every other item in the cart separately. |
| What happens when multiple real-time quotes are obtained? | Those quotes are returned and bundled as one shipping cost in the cart prior to your customer processing their order online. The PLATINUM API can also give you the functionality of separating the cost for small items versus common carrier items on the checkout page prior to processing the sale, even listing the cost of shipping for each item in the cart.....to give your purchaser choices to make. |
| This almost sounds too good to be true. Isn't the functionality of such a programming integrated into the cart also? | Most definitely...so, we can provide you a cart and the PLATINUM API together, or we can let you program the use of the API, with your options, into your cart, where we send you instructions for connection to the api. |
| Regarding the classes of freight, can I assign each product the freight class it will ship by, for common carrier items? | Most definitely, in fact it's necessary. |
| Let's say I sell used items...they are sometimes cheaper when identified as such. Can your PLATINUM API allow me to assign whether my items are used, instead of new? | Yes, the common carrier portion requires you to identify which of yourproducts are new and which are used. |
| How about the various types of packaging which applies to freight company prices, can you allow me to identify if my products are a pallet, bale or drum? | Yes. Its actually required to return accurate rates. |
| OK, here's a good one. I have an item that is 3" x 6" x 108". If a customer orders 30 of them, the bundle dimensions will be much different than if your PLATINUM API considers all thirty as separate shipment sizes. Now what do I do? | You don't worry. Our PLATINUM API has shown no difference in returned rates, whether you enter 30 eaches of that item (and dimension), or 1 each for the bundle size those 30 items would create. You are still welcome to use one or the other as you wish. |
| OK, I'm sold, tell me about this cart. | We have integrated most of the needed parameters with Verango Media, who supplies Veracart, one of the easiest to use cart we have ever discovered. Their cart has the fewest number of pages to navigate - to assign all text, image, prices and other parameters as we have discussed above....and the PLATINUM API is already built in to Veracart's Gold and Platinum program. Their is no red tape, great prices and you get the api too. |
| OK, so tell me all the things I can assign to my products in this PLATINUM API / CART COMBO... | Name or Title of product Text Text size Text color Part Number Price Sale Price Discount Options Live or not (maybe discontinued for a time) Color Weight Origination zip code or warehouse shipping from Class of freight Whether inventoried (monitored) Dimensions Shipping package sizes based on qty ordered Shipping options (Fedex, UPS, DHL, common carrier) Pages of your web site you want product shown on Various attributes for add on sales |
| One problem, I already have a cart, can you still help me configure mine to do all that? | Yes we can! Just click on the sign me up link below and fill out your information. One of our staff will contact you quickly, and discuss with you the programming you will need to do to get started. It basically covers the parameters needed to be assigned to the products for accurate rates, checkout page appearance and choice options, and noting a few things on the confirmation of order email received by both your purchaser and for the web site owner too. |
| What languages does your api cover? | Anything. The api is written using http request, sending and receiving XML, so you're covered for java, .net, php, ruby, perl, coldfusion, etc. |
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WHY FREIGHTAPI?
Making it easy to add shipping costs to your web site shopping cart, for common carrier and small package items!. Use FreightAPI to gain the most from your online store and minimize the shipping issues that plague many businesses.
United Parcel Service
Federal Express
FreightQuote.com
DHL.comAll About FreightAPI
What’s a freight API? Its the programming module needed
by the shopping cart company processing your online web sales, to tie to a freight carrier’s computer for
real-time quotes, based on to/from zip codes, weight, size of shipment and class of freight.
FreightAPI
P.O. BOX 6487
Laguna Niguel, CA 92607
Tel 1-866-427-2662
Fax 1-866-484-3722
What is an NMFC code?
This code comes from the National Motor Freight Classification Handbook, issued by the National Motor Freight
Traffic Association, Inc., who have categoried all types of shipped product into two identifiers. The first, a
two or three digit "freight class" which most people are familiar with, is assigned to each of your products, charged
at a specific rate. Secondly, to get to the freight class ification, they start with a 5-6 digit code, the "NMFC code",
which is much more specific to your product. The NMFC code is based on whether your product is made of iron, steel or wood,
knocked-down or assembled when shipped, operated by battery or gas, a food stuff, a boat or a piece of lumber.
If you would like to obtain this manual, or learn what specific code number refers to your product,
please call 703-838-1810 or go to their website at www.nmfta.org.