Question

I am using wordpress and wp eCommerce for my products, I am using UPS for shipping and I created an account with UPS and got the API and information I have entered under shipping is correct and I have checked all the right boxes.

I know that the UPS Shipping only does the calculations, however is there a way so when a user places an order, it goes into My UPS account with a tracking number or something similar. I got an email back from wp-ecommerce saying this

You would ship the product the way you would regardless of having the online store. In most cases this means going to your UPS system and creating a shipping label. At this point you will be provided a tracking number that you can then enter into the store sales log for that order. A notice will then be delivered to the person with the tracking information.

Is that the best way to do my shipping or does anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,
J

Answer 1

This is the only way available for WP eCommerce at the moment:

I am unaware of any WP plugin that does anything but fetching shipping rates from UPS – you’d have to get someone to write you custom plugin that can also generate shipping digest and submit it to UPS to get a shipping label.

Here’s some code you could start with to make such a plugin

$xmlRequest1='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<AccessRequest>
<AccessLicenseNumber>ACCESS LICENCE NUMBER</AccessLicenseNumber>
<UserId>UPS USERNAME</UserId>
<Password>UPS PASSWORD</Password>
</AccessRequest>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ShipmentAcceptRequest>
<Request>
<TransactionReference>
<CustomerContext>Customer Comment</CustomerContext>
</TransactionReference>
<RequestAction>ShipAccept</RequestAction>
<RequestOption>1</RequestOption>
</Request>
<ShipmentDigest>SHIPMENT DIGEST</ShipmentDigest>
</ShipmentAcceptRequest>
';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://wwwcie.ups.com/ups.app/xml/ShipAccept");
// uncomment the next line if you get curl error 60: error setting certificate verify locations
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
// uncommenting the next line is most likely not necessary in case of error 60
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xmlRequest1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3600);

//if ($this->logfile) {
//   error_log("UPS REQUEST: " . $xmlRequest . "\n", 3, $this->logfile);
//}
$xmlResponse = curl_exec ($ch); // SHIP ACCEPT RESPONSE
//echo curl_errno($ch);

$xml = $xmlResponse;

preg_match_all( "/\<ShipmentAcceptResponse\>(.*?)\<\/ShipmentAcceptResponse\>/s",
$xml, $bookblocks );

foreach( $bookblocks[1] as $block )
{
preg_match_all( "/\<GraphicImage\>(.*?)\<\/GraphicImage\>/",
$block, $author ); // GET LABEL

preg_match_all( "/\<TrackingNumber\>(.*?)\<\/TrackingNumber\>/",
$block, $tracking ); // GET TRACKING NUMBER
//echo( $author[1][0]."\n" );
}

echo '<img src="data:image/gif;base64,'. $author[1][0]. '"/>';

Code source: http://webcollage.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/ups-label-print-with-php/

And here http://webcollage.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/ups-shipping-confirmation-code-in-php/ you’ll find how the shipping digest looks like