Posted by tobi — 10:30 AM Oct 16
At Shopify we are shifting our attention to shipping in the near future. ActiveMerchant supports an impressive 30+ payment gateways and its time for the library to become more than ActivePayments: we want ActiveShipping.
To this end i’d like to collect all the shipping related code you may have floating around. Have you integrated with UPS? Canada Post? Any shipping service? Do you have a script to generate shipping labels? Bar codes? Implemented First Fit / Best Fit Descending Packaging algorithm ?
If you have anything to contribute under your copyright or if you can
persuate your employer to relicense such snippets of code under the
terms of the MIT license for our new project please send an email
to tobi
The more code we can scrape together from contributions the sooner we can release another unified access layer for such services and the more likely it is that we get it right.
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Dave Myron 17 Oct 17:56
What’s the prospect of using code from other open source projects like OSCommerce? Last time I checked (3-4 years ago) they had several modules for shipping.
Brian Kaney 18 Oct 12:18
Hey, as far as label generation and courtesy quoting are concerned, we maintain the popular PHP (http://freshmeat.net/projects/fedexdc/) and Perl libraries for FedEx (http://search.cpan.org/author/JPOWERS/Business-FedEx-DirectConnect-1.01/DirectConnect.pm). They are used by OSCommerce (and others) and are quite mature.
We’ve also worked with USPS, UPS and DHL and have some unpublished Ruby libraries for them as well.
Contact me or Jay, we’d be happy to help.
- Brian
tobi 18 Oct 21:55
Dave: osCommerce code is GPL so we cannot really use any of it because of GPL tainting. We may turn to their code for directions though!
Brian: Please join the active merchant mailing list and post what you have got! We would love some proper starting points, we should definitely work together on this
Jeff Lin 23 Oct 14:33
My business partner and I have years of experience building retail and e-commerce software, and have done UPS integrations before. We’d be willing to throw something together for what it’s worth.
Soft Man 25 Oct 04:36
Man you don’t even know how long I’ve waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget (that doesn’t work since Haloscan bypasses that code).
Jacques Marneweck 01 Nov 13:46
Tobi, where is the Active Shipping mailing list?