USPS CANNED TEST FAILED

[acuser777]

I'm using a demo copy of ac 7.03 on my localhost.
In integrated carriers, i tried to add to USPS user id (that i just created) and ran usps tests. below is what i'm getting

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USPS Canned Test Results

Rate Calculator : Test 1 FAILED
Error Number : 80040b1a
Error Message : Authorization failure. You are not authorized to connect to this server.

Rate Calculator : Test 2 FAILED
Error Number : 80040b1a
Error Message : Authorization failure. You are not authorized to connect to this server.
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please advice what is the problem here... is usps looking for correct domain name or something or ablecommerce has disabled this feature in demo may be.. ???

thanks

[mazhar]

Read following topic about how to setup USPS
http://help.ablecommerce.com/mergedProj ... s/usps.htm

[acuser777]

I'm stuck at #2 of "register with USPS". The link "run usps tests" give me error below:

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USPS Canned Test Results

Rate Calculator : Test 1 FAILED
Error Number : 80040b1a
Error Message : Authorization failure. You are not authorized to connect to this server.

Rate Calculator : Test 2 FAILED
Error Number : 80040b1a
Error Message : Authorization failure. You are not authorized to connect to this server.
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please advice...

[mazhar]

I think this is because you have not yet activated your USPS registration. If this is the case contact them to activate it.

[acuser777]

ok. that was the case. since run test link was on top and activated checkbox at the bottom, i thought the tests must pass before usps will activate the account for production.

I was able to add USPS (priority,express), UPS (ground,2nd day) and FedEx (saver,overnight) accounts to ablecommerce. I created a test item with 1 lbs weight and 16 x 10 x 8 dimensions. added to cart, estimated the shipping. USPS and UPS did showed up perfectly. But FedEx estimates didn't showed up in test mode = enabled. But it did worked in test mode = disabled. FYI.

thank you for your help.

[Logan Rhodehamel]

I am questioning the usefulness of the canned tests. USPS seems to change the rules for them. Once before the tests changed and we had to update the integration - the integration still worked fine but the tests appeared to fail because the response was not exactly what was expected.

If you get an error on the canned tests, I would not sweat it. Just activate the account. I am going to log a bug request to remove that step from our integration completely.