Freight Shipment Integration

[ZPCAC]

We are interested in integrating our checkout to include a freight option for certain items and for when a customer purchases enough product (in weight) to qualify for a truck shipment.
Also, we are interested in using other freight options than the ones offered (UPS Freight for example)

How would we go about offering these shipping modalities ?

Thanks !!

[AbleMods]

The only freight integrations I've seen are custom build shipping gateways for specific carriers. They're usually not that hard to build, just depends on how well the freight carrier's API is designed. I built one for Yellow Freight a few years back that only took 3-4 hours.

Able does have support for level-based shipping methods based on weight. If you combine that with the use of the Warehouses feature, you could easily control which products would have the additional freight methods available during checkout.

[ZPCAC]

AbleMods
Thanks for the response, what do you mean by "level-based shipping methods" ?

[AbleMods]

In AbleCommerce, you can create shipping methods that compute a shipping charge based on a range of values. In the UI, these are referred to as 'Vary by Cost', 'Vary by Weight' and 'Vary by Quantity'.

The concept is based on levels. Each level represents a range of numbers. For example, you might need to calculate shipping based on weight. So you might create a 'Vary by Weight' shipping method with these levels:

1lb - 10lbs $5.99
11lbs - 20lbs $ 13.99
21lbs - 50lbs $25.00

This is known as level-based since one shipping method has multiple levels of which only a single level will apply. If your customer has 17lbs of product in their basket, the shipping charge would come out to $ 13.99 based on the levels defined above.

Make sense?

[ZPCAC]

AbleMods
Thanks for the info ! Yes makes sense.

Sent an email over to jpayne@ablemods.com for an estimate on some custom work (freight integration), is this a good contact for you ? Looking to get a time and price estimate.

Thanks!

[AbleMods]

Got your emails, thanks. I'll respond later this morning after I do a little homework on the integrations you need.