Sell Online Solutions can be found by visiting our home page. ( http://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/business/ecommerce.page)

Description:

Sell Online can calculate shipping Insurance. To do this the parcel value must be passed to Sell Online in the XML message. Once the value of the parcel is sent to Sell Online from the commerce application then the changes can be configured from the shipping profile adminstration screens. An advanced Sell Online feature can be used to calculate insurance cost only when a parcel value threshold is reached.

Example:

• Insurance parcel value threshold is $600.00
• My first purchase is $450.00 before taxes. No insurance would be calculated.
• My second purchase is $750. Insurance would be calculated and added to the shipping cost.

This feature is not available for the old release 2.

Benefit:

• Merchant has the option to collect insurance costs from the consumer.
• Limited integration effort.

Integration Scale: Easy

Implementation Instructions:

Development team instructions.

1. To use Sell Online insurance calculations, the commerce application must send the parcel value to Sell Online.
• put the order value or parcel value in the "itemsPrice" tag in the XML message.
2. Insurance calculation is available as a feature from the Sell Online shipping profile. One of the advanced features is the ability to calculate insurance cost above a set value.
3. Logon to the merchant shipping profile at:
• http://sellonline.canadapost.ca/servlet/logon-ouverturesession
4. To use the insurance above a value, the commerce application must send the parcel value to Sell Online.
5. Post the form to the Sell Online server, receive response from Sell Online.
6. The shipping cost will include the insurance cost if the order is greater then the value in the shipping profile.