RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
Which reinforces my thought that this is a question for your ACCOUNTANT. NOT for this mailing list. -Original Message- From: Dennis Powers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? >> Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? >> right cuz you pay taxes on goods, not services. Taxes are determined state by state. In Connecticut you pay taxes on the Product + shipping cost. Best regards, Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Web Design and Hosting Company 690 Wolcott Road - P.O. Box 6028 Wolcott, CT 06716 USA tel: (203)879-2844 fax: (203)879-6254 http://www.uxbinternet.com/ http://dennis.uxb.net/ = This e-mail message has been scanned and certified Virus free = This e-mail message has been scanned and certified Virus free [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
Dennis is correct. I would suggest you get in contact with a local SBA or State agency to help you determine applicable tax laws for shipping, etc. Also, certain goods may or may not be taxable as well. Steve -Original Message- From: Dennis Powers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? >> Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? >> right cuz you pay taxes on goods, not services. Taxes are determined state by state. In Connecticut you pay taxes on the Product + shipping cost. Best regards, Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Web Design and Hosting Company 690 Wolcott Road - P.O. Box 6028 Wolcott, CT 06716 USA tel: (203)879-2844 fax: (203)879-6254 http://www.uxbinternet.com/ http://dennis.uxb.net/ = This e-mail message has been scanned and certified Virus free = This e-mail message has been scanned and certified Virus free _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
>> Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? >> right cuz you pay taxes on goods, not services. Taxes are determined state by state. In Connecticut you pay taxes on the Product + shipping cost. Best regards, Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A Web Design and Hosting Company 690 Wolcott Road - P.O. Box 6028 Wolcott, CT 06716 USA tel: (203)879-2844 fax: (203)879-6254 http://www.uxbinternet.com/ http://dennis.uxb.net/ = This e-mail message has been scanned and certified Virus free = This e-mail message has been scanned and certified Virus free [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
I would have said 'before' always, but it sounds like someone has experience otherwise? Its been 'before' in every state I've done an ecommerce site in. Anyone know any specifics? If Mary Jo Sminkey (CFWebstore) is listening in, I'm sure she knows. -- --- Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com --- -- [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
No, that's a good question. I think Tony is right cuz you pay taxes on goods, not services. Right? Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -Original Message- From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? Shows you how often I do commercial sites. ;-) Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? Thanks! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire, soyez avise que toute divulgation, distribution, copie, ou autre utilisation de ces informations est strictement prohibee. Si vous avez recu ce document par erreur, veuillez s'il vous plait communiquer immediatement avec l'expediteur et detruire ce document sans en faire de copie sous quelque forme. WARNING: --- The information contained in this document and attachments is confidential and intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any other use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this document and attachments without making any copy of any kind. _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
That's what I'm figuring...but someone else had just advised me otherwise. Doh. Stace _ From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? before, im pretty sure. your paying taxes for the goods. not the shipping costs. ...tony tony weeg senior web applications architect navtrak, inc. www.navtrak.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? Shows you how often I do commercial sites. ;-) Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? Thanks! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire, soyez avise que toute divulgation, distribution, copie, ou autre utilisation de ces informations est strictement prohibee. Si vous avez recu ce document par erreur, veuillez s'il vous plait communiquer immediatement avec l'expediteur et detruire ce document sans en faire de copie sous quelque forme.. WARNING: --- The information contained in this document and attachments is confidential and intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any other use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this document and attachments without making any copy of any kind. _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
It depends on the State. Some states charge tax on the shipping as well. they gotta get every cent they can you know. -Original Message- From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? before, im pretty sure. your paying taxes for the goods. not the shipping costs. ...tony tony weeg senior web applications architect navtrak, inc. www.navtrak.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? Shows you how often I do commercial sites. ;-) Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? Thanks! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire, soyez avise que toute divulgation, distribution, copie, ou autre utilisation de ces informations est strictement prohibee. Si vous avez recu ce document par erreur, veuillez s'il vous plait communiquer immediatement avec l'expediteur et detruire ce document sans en faire de copie sous quelque forme.. WARNING: --- The information contained in this document and attachments is confidential and intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any other use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this document and attachments without making any copy of any kind. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
before, im pretty sure. your paying taxes for the goods. not the shipping costs. ...tony tony weeg senior web applications architect navtrak, inc. www.navtrak.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] 410.548.2337 -Original Message- From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 3:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Do you apply tax after shipping costs? Shows you how often I do commercial sites. ;-) Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? Thanks! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire, soyez avise que toute divulgation, distribution, copie, ou autre utilisation de ces informations est strictement prohibee. Si vous avez recu ce document par erreur, veuillez s'il vous plait communiquer immediatement avec l'expediteur et detruire ce document sans en faire de copie sous quelque forme.. WARNING: --- The information contained in this document and attachments is confidential and intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any other use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this document and attachments without making any copy of any kind. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
OT: Do you apply tax after shipping costs?
Shows you how often I do commercial sites. ;-) Do you apply applicable taxes before or after the shipping costs? Thanks! Stace AVIS IMPORTANT: --- Les informations contenues dans le present document et ses pieces jointes sont strictement confidentielles et reservees a l'usage de la (des) personne(s) a qui il est adresse. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire, soyez avise que toute divulgation, distribution, copie, ou autre utilisation de ces informations est strictement prohibee. Si vous avez recu ce document par erreur, veuillez s'il vous plait communiquer immediatement avec l'expediteur et detruire ce document sans en faire de copie sous quelque forme. WARNING: --- The information contained in this document and attachments is confidential and intended only for the person(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any other use of the information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this document by mistake, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this document and attachments without making any copy of any kind. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: UPS Shipping Costs
Don't feel too bad...I'm up to 7 on many and climbing :( > How many times are you going to send the exact same message? We're up to > four at the moment. > > Michael J. Sheldon > Internet Applications Developer > Phone: 480.699.1084 > http://www.desertraven.com/ > PGP Key Available on Request > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Chiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 16:22 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: UPS Shipping Costs > > > My client registered as an end user, so I have access to the requirements > for their different tools. I've run into a snag, and that also may be why > you are getting the $0.00 returned. The tools require you to send it as > url encoded type. I think it's something similar in function to the > enctype you have to use when you use a browser for file uploads. > > Well, I had an example script, and I just use URLEncodedFormat on the > fields that contained data that needed conversion, but that didn't satisfy > the CGI script. It recognized that I wasn't sending an encoded format, so > it stopped at that point. I've searched the documentation, and I can't > see any way to use CFHTTP to pass the information properly. > > I don't know if this is a recent thing or not, but it bugs me. I had the > UPS guy in a meeting, and he assured me that I wouldn't have any problems > using Cold Fusion. > > At this point, I think I'm going to go the route of AbleShipper. The > zones and rate tables are free on the UPS site, and it cannot be too hard > to import those into a table once a year or so. > > Mike Chiu > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yoyoman.insync.net > "No one who believes in him will be put to shame." (Romans 10:11) > > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: UPS Shipping Costs
How many times are you going to send the exact same message? We're up to four at the moment. Michael J. Sheldon Internet Applications Developer Phone: 480.699.1084 http://www.desertraven.com/ PGP Key Available on Request -Original Message- From: Michael Chiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 16:22 To: CF-Talk Subject: UPS Shipping Costs My client registered as an end user, so I have access to the requirements for their different tools. I've run into a snag, and that also may be why you are getting the $0.00 returned. The tools require you to send it as url encoded type. I think it's something similar in function to the enctype you have to use when you use a browser for file uploads. Well, I had an example script, and I just use URLEncodedFormat on the fields that contained data that needed conversion, but that didn't satisfy the CGI script. It recognized that I wasn't sending an encoded format, so it stopped at that point. I've searched the documentation, and I can't see any way to use CFHTTP to pass the information properly. I don't know if this is a recent thing or not, but it bugs me. I had the UPS guy in a meeting, and he assured me that I wouldn't have any problems using Cold Fusion. At this point, I think I'm going to go the route of AbleShipper. The zones and rate tables are free on the UPS site, and it cannot be too hard to import those into a table once a year or so. Mike Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yoyoman.insync.net "No one who believes in him will be put to shame." (Romans 10:11) -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
UPS Shipping Costs
My client registered as an end user, so I have access to the requirements for their different tools. I've run into a snag, and that also may be why you are getting the $0.00 returned. The tools require you to send it as url encoded type. I think it's something similar in function to the enctype you have to use when you use a browser for file uploads. Well, I had an example script, and I just use URLEncodedFormat on the fields that contained data that needed conversion, but that didn't satisfy the CGI script. It recognized that I wasn't sending an encoded format, so it stopped at that point. I've searched the documentation, and I can't see any way to use CFHTTP to pass the information properly. I don't know if this is a recent thing or not, but it bugs me. I had the UPS guy in a meeting, and he assured me that I wouldn't have any problems using Cold Fusion. At this point, I think I'm going to go the route of AbleShipper. The zones and rate tables are free on the UPS site, and it cannot be too hard to import those into a table once a year or so. Mike Chiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yoyoman.insync.net "No one who believes in him will be put to shame." (Romans 10:11) -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
Maybe www.goship.com would help? Steve - Original Message - From: "Cold Fusion Newsgroup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:31 AM Subject: Re: shipping costs > John, > > We are building shipping tables for one of our national distributor's sites, > but some smaller retailers don't want to spend the money to build those > tables into their sites. I've looked at AbleCommerce but didn't notice the > Able Shipper tag. I'll check it out.thanks. > > Laura > > - Original Message - > From: John Fix 3rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:36 AM > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > > Laura, > > > > Since UPS only changes their rates once per year, you could always > implement > > a "local" rate lookup on your own rate data. Our Able Commerce > storefronts > > use a tag they created called Able Shipper. It consults rate charts on > our > > own web server and avoids the UPS site bottleneck. I don't know if they > > make this tag available as a stand-alone, but they might > > (www.ablecommerce.com). > > > > John > > www.cornells.com > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:07 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > > > > Shane, > > > > We initially thought it was general internet traffic too, but this occured > > more than 50% of the time over a 2 week period and not always at peak > > internet times. That's when we contacted UPS. They now have these > > extensive "on-line" tools based on java, etc., that are just too time > > consuming to implement -- but, hey, they're free :) > > > > We're now trying to steer our customers to a standard shipping price as > > opposed to individually calculating shipping per order. Not all are happy > > with this, tho', so we are searching for alternatives. > > > > Laura > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Shane Witbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:50 PM > > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > > > > > I experienced the same timeout. Possible it was an internet connectivity > > > issue rather than too much traffic at UPS? I did a tracert on the > problem > > > and tracked it to Concentric.net today. Just a thought. > > > > > > Shane > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:05 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > > > > > > > Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks > > using > > > it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. > > > > > > FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does > pricing > > > and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). > > > > > > --- Ben > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > > > > > > > We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the > UPS > > > site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > > > produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > > > strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > > > their servers. > > > > > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > > > > > Laura > > > > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM > > > Subject: shipping costs > > > > > > > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not > > understand > > > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > > > charset="iso-8859-1&qu
Re: shipping costs
John, We are building shipping tables for one of our national distributor's sites, but some smaller retailers don't want to spend the money to build those tables into their sites. I've looked at AbleCommerce but didn't notice the Able Shipper tag. I'll check it out.thanks. Laura - Original Message - From: John Fix 3rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:36 AM Subject: RE: shipping costs > Laura, > > Since UPS only changes their rates once per year, you could always implement > a "local" rate lookup on your own rate data. Our Able Commerce storefronts > use a tag they created called Able Shipper. It consults rate charts on our > own web server and avoids the UPS site bottleneck. I don't know if they > make this tag available as a stand-alone, but they might > (www.ablecommerce.com). > > John > www.cornells.com > > -Original Message- > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > Shane, > > We initially thought it was general internet traffic too, but this occured > more than 50% of the time over a 2 week period and not always at peak > internet times. That's when we contacted UPS. They now have these > extensive "on-line" tools based on java, etc., that are just too time > consuming to implement -- but, hey, they're free :) > > We're now trying to steer our customers to a standard shipping price as > opposed to individually calculating shipping per order. Not all are happy > with this, tho', so we are searching for alternatives. > > Laura > > - Original Message - > From: Shane Witbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:50 PM > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > > I experienced the same timeout. Possible it was an internet connectivity > > issue rather than too much traffic at UPS? I did a tracert on the problem > > and tracked it to Concentric.net today. Just a thought. > > > > Shane > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:05 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > > > > Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks > using > > it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. > > > > FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does pricing > > and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). > > > > --- Ben > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > > > > We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS > > site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > > produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > > strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > > their servers. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > > > Laura > > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM > > Subject: shipping costs > > > > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not > understand > > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. > Are > > > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the > > prices > > > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > > Content-Type: text/html; > > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1">
RE: shipping costs
Laura, Since UPS only changes their rates once per year, you could always implement a "local" rate lookup on your own rate data. Our Able Commerce storefronts use a tag they created called Able Shipper. It consults rate charts on our own web server and avoids the UPS site bottleneck. I don't know if they make this tag available as a stand-alone, but they might (www.ablecommerce.com). John www.cornells.com -Original Message- From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shipping costs Shane, We initially thought it was general internet traffic too, but this occured more than 50% of the time over a 2 week period and not always at peak internet times. That's when we contacted UPS. They now have these extensive "on-line" tools based on java, etc., that are just too time consuming to implement -- but, hey, they're free :) We're now trying to steer our customers to a standard shipping price as opposed to individually calculating shipping per order. Not all are happy with this, tho', so we are searching for alternatives. Laura - Original Message - From: Shane Witbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: RE: shipping costs > I experienced the same timeout. Possible it was an internet connectivity > issue rather than too much traffic at UPS? I did a tracert on the problem > and tracked it to Concentric.net today. Just a thought. > > Shane > > -Original Message- > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks using > it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. > > FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does pricing > and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). > > --- Ben > > > -Original Message- > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS > site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > their servers. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > Laura > > > - Original Message - > From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM > Subject: shipping costs > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the > prices > > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > > > 5.5.2650.12"> > > shipping costs > > > > > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > > back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > > -- > > > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > se
Re: shipping costs
CLASSIC!! I will give this a shot :) - Original Message - From: Bud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:02 AM Subject: Re: shipping costs > On 5/30/00, Cold Fusion Newsgroup penned: > >We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS > >site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > >produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > >strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > >their servers. > > > >Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > I haven't noticed it, but perhaps you could wrap the tag in a loop > with condition: > > > > > Ben's tag > > > Should keep looping until either an error or a price more than 0.00 > is produced. UPS should love that. LOL > -- > > Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.twcreations.com/ > 954.721.3452 > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
As I responded to Shane, they now have more complex shipping tools they want to get the general public to use. I spoke with more than one person at UPS, and they were NO help whatsoever. They said if we had repeated problems timing out, we should discontinue using that tag. All we want to do is allow our clients the option of "real-time" pricing via UPS. If you suggest contacting them again, I will, but I spent the better part of the week before Easter talking with those people and got nowhere. Laura - Original Message - From: Steve Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 10:09 PM Subject: RE: shipping costs > Who told you that at UPS. That is not the company policy and I think the > managers would like to know who said that in the meantime. Call UPS back and > have your call escalated. If the suggest against using it, what do they > recommend. Again always make sure you document who and when you talked to > someone. > > If they can handle traffic two days before Christmas, they have plenty of > bandwidth to handle a tag in the early afternoon. Something else is amiss. > > - Steve > > > > -Original Message- > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS > site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > their servers. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > Laura > > > - Original Message ----- > From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM > Subject: shipping costs > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the > prices > > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > > > 5.5.2650.12"> > > shipping costs > > > > > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > > back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > > -- > > > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
Shane, We initially thought it was general internet traffic too, but this occured more than 50% of the time over a 2 week period and not always at peak internet times. That's when we contacted UPS. They now have these extensive "on-line" tools based on java, etc., that are just too time consuming to implement -- but, hey, they're free :) We're now trying to steer our customers to a standard shipping price as opposed to individually calculating shipping per order. Not all are happy with this, tho', so we are searching for alternatives. Laura - Original Message - From: Shane Witbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: RE: shipping costs > I experienced the same timeout. Possible it was an internet connectivity > issue rather than too much traffic at UPS? I did a tracert on the problem > and tracked it to Concentric.net today. Just a thought. > > Shane > > -Original Message- > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks using > it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. > > FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does pricing > and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). > > --- Ben > > > -Original Message- > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS > site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > their servers. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > Laura > > > - Original Message - > From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM > Subject: shipping costs > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the > prices > > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > > > 5.5.2650.12"> > > shipping costs > > > > > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > > back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > > -- > > > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
On 5/30/00, Cold Fusion Newsgroup penned: >We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS >site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This >produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they >strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to >their servers. > >Has anyone else experienced this problem? I haven't noticed it, but perhaps you could wrap the tag in a loop with condition: Ben's tag Should keep looping until either an error or a price more than 0.00 is produced. UPS should love that. LOL -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
Have you guys tried the CF_Intershipper tag from DesertRaven.com? I've tested it and am deploying it on a project I'm using. It will give you FedEx, UPS, USPS, and others. It seems pretty stable. You need to set up a FREE account with Intershipper.com to use it. Dave - Original Message - From: Shane Witbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: RE: shipping costs > I experienced the same timeout. Possible it was an internet connectivity > issue rather than too much traffic at UPS? I did a tracert on the problem > and tracked it to Concentric.net today. Just a thought. > > Shane > > -Original Message- > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: shipping costs > > > Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks using > it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. > > FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does pricing > and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). > > --- Ben > > > -Original Message- > From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: shipping costs > > > We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS > site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This > produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they > strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to > their servers. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem? > > Laura > > > ----- Original Message - > From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM > Subject: shipping costs > > > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the > prices > > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > > > 5.5.2650.12"> > > shipping costs > > > > > > > > Hey CF people, > > > > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > > back based on location? > > > > Shawn Regan > > > > > > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > > -- > > > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- -- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit > http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or > send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in > the body. > > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: shipping costs
Who told you that at UPS. That is not the company policy and I think the managers would like to know who said that in the meantime. Call UPS back and have your call escalated. If the suggest against using it, what do they recommend. Again always make sure you document who and when you talked to someone. If they can handle traffic two days before Christmas, they have plenty of bandwidth to handle a tag in the early afternoon. Something else is amiss. - Steve -Original Message- From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shipping costs We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to their servers. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Laura - Original Message - From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: shipping costs > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey CF people, > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > 5.5.2650.12"> > shipping costs > > > > Hey CF people, > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: shipping costs
I experienced the same timeout. Possible it was an internet connectivity issue rather than too much traffic at UPS? I did a tracert on the problem and tracked it to Concentric.net today. Just a thought. Shane -Original Message- From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: shipping costs Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks using it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does pricing and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). --- Ben -Original Message- From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shipping costs We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to their servers. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Laura - Original Message - From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: shipping costs > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey CF people, > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > 5.5.2650.12"> > shipping costs > > > > Hey CF people, > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: shipping costs
Nice, so they create an API and document it but they don't want folks using it? I thought too much traffic was a good thing! Hum. FYI, I am trying to wrap a revamp of that tag, new CF_UPS tag does pricing and a lot more (tracking, comparisons of shipping options, etc). --- Ben -Original Message- From: Cold Fusion Newsgroup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shipping costs We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to their servers. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Laura - Original Message - From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: shipping costs > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey CF people, > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > 5.5.2650.12"> > shipping costs > > > > Hey CF people, > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: shipping costs
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA73.519B9FF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thanks guys Shawn Regan --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA73.519B9FF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" RE: shipping costs Thanks guys Shawn Regan --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA73.519B9FF0-- -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
We have experienced the CF_UPSPrice tag timing out when contacting the UPS site recently, especially in the early afternoon East Coast time. This produces a shipping price of $0.00. When discussing this with UPS, they strongly suggest NOT using this tag. It is sending too much traffic to their servers. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Laura - Original Message - From: Shawn Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: shipping costs > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey CF people, > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > charset=3Diso-8859-1"> > 5.5.2650.12"> > shipping costs > > > > Hey CF people, > > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = > shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = > they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = > back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > > > > > --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. > -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
On 5/30/00, Shawn Regan penned: >I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are >most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices >from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? I personally tries to cover alot of bases in my cart. 1. Get prices from UPS (Thanks to BF's tag) 2. Flat fee per order. 3. Fee per item 4. Fee based on $x.xx for 1st pound and $x.xx for each addt'l pound. One thing to remember if you go the UPS online route is, the max weight per item is 150 lbs. So, if you sell 3 - 60 lb. items and do one call to UPS for 180 lbs. you'll get an error. I set mine up to where it will loop to UPS for each item, or based on when it gets to a certain weight or not at all. Another fine line is, if you're selling things that are small and light and other things that are heavy, the looping can get tricky. If you go to UPS 5 times for 1/2 lb. items, it returns that first pound charge for each item. So, that way it may return 75 bucks when in reality it may only cost you 15-20 if you can get all 5 one lb. items in a small package. In that case, I set it to loop at the weight of the heaviest item. -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Re: shipping costs
Shawn, I use CF_UPSPrice. It works really well and is well documented. You can search for it in the Developers Exchange on Allaire's site. Cam Wilson - Original Message - From: "Shawn Regan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: shipping costs > > Hey CF people, > > I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are > most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices > from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? > > Shawn Regan > -- > Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk > To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
shipping costs
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hey CF people, I want to find out what people are doing to calculate shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price back based on location? Shawn Regan --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable shipping costs Hey CF people, I want to find out what people are doing to calculate = shipping costs. Are most people setting a global shipping price, or are = they pulling the prices from the shipping service and getting a price = back based on location? Shawn Regan --_=_NextPart_001_01BFCA64.2CF037D0-- -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
