Shipping Services

Getting the correct shipping service to flow from the ecommerce system to the shipping system can be easy or challenging.

Many systems make it easy. For example, with eBay it is a reliable flow of shipping service. Other systems (like Amazon) may give only generic shipping service names (like “expedited” and “standard”) which may not map automatically.

Many cart systems (Magento, Zen Cart, OsCommerce, etc.) let you set your own shipping service names. In these cases, My.ShipRush will try to map the shipping service read from the cart to a real “hard” shipping service (like Priority Mail).

This works best if you use shipping service names that are expected.

Best Way: Use the Full Name.

If the service name comes in and is an exact match, that will give the most reliable results. This means that in Zen Cart, have the service name set up from this list:

  • USPS First Class
  • USPS Priority
  • USPS Media Mail
  • USPS Parcel Post
  • USPS Express
  • USPS Intl Express
  • USPS Intl Priority
  • USPS Intl First Class

OK Way: Use Partial Name.

A partial match will work, but use care. For example, “First Class” could match both domestic and international First Class services, and therefore may give inconsistent results.

The following list should work properly for domestic shipping

  • First Class
  • Priority
  • Parcel Post



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