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Description:

Many merchants have items for sale in their stores that do not need to be packed in a parcel to be shipped. Before Release 8.0 the merchant had to customize their commerce application to do 2 calls to different profiles to get this result. The other alternative was for the merchant to add "special" boxes in their shipping profile just for the product. Merchants with 15 to 20 boxes found difficultly with controlling the correct box selection.

Now merchants can identify ready to ship items in the same transaction as items that are best shipping in boxes. This will simplify the effort of the merchant and make the shipping cost calculation faster.

Benefit:

• Merchants can have a single profile to handle items that can be shipped as is with their regular shipping goods.
• Merchants have less boxes in their shipping profile.
• The shipping cost calculation is faster.

Implementation Instructions:

Development team instructions.

1. Implement the standard Sell Online interface
• Add a ready to ship indicator to your database.
• Update your SKU's with the ready to ship indicator
• In the XML message in the item details add <readyToShip/>.
• Many items can be checked for shipping cost at the same time, just list each item in the XML message.
• Test it with the browser in the developers resources.
• Submit the transaction.
2. Pickup DTD from our site
3. Additional notes:
• Sell Online will reply with a list of the boxes selected.
• Each ready to ship item will be listed as a box.
• Each box will repeat the items to be packed in the box using the description text that is sent from your server.
• The actual weight of the box is given as the expediter weight; the volumetric equivalent of actual weight will be given as well.
• Canada Post requires you to report the larger weight on your manifest.