NAME

Business::Shipping - Shipping cost calculator for UPS and USPS

INSTALLATION

 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 make test
 make install

DEPENDENCIES

 Bundle::LWP 
 Crypt::SSLeay
 XML::Simple
 XML::DOM
 Digest::SHA1
 Error
 Cache::FileCache
 Data::Dumper
 Class::MethodMaker

GETTING STARTED

 * For USPS: Sign up online for free:
 
        - http://www.uspswebtools.com
        
        - The online signup will result in a testing-only account (only a small
          sample of queries will work).  To activate the "production" use of your
          USPS account, you must follow the USPS documentation.  Currently, that
          means contacting the Internet Customer Care Center by e-mail or phone:
            icustomercare@usps.com
                1-800-344-7779
    
 * For UPS: Sign up online for free:
 
        - https://www.ups.com/servlet/registration?loc=en_US_EC

        - You will get a User Id, Password, and Access Key from UPS.

USAGE EXAMPLES

 * See Shipping.pm POD documentation for API and usage examples.

 * This module is used by the Interchange E-Commerce software 
   (http://www.icdevgroup.org).  For a reference implementation of 
   Business::Shipping, see the UserTag/business-shipping.tag file, it implements
   a function that takes shipping-related arguments, builds a Business::Shipping
   object, then returns the calculated cost.

WEBSITE

 http://www.kavod.com/Business-Shipping

The website carries the most recent version, as well as instructions for accessing the anonymous CVS repository.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2003 Kavod Technologies, Dan Browning. All rights reserved. Licensed under the GNU Public Licnese (GPL). See COPYING for more info.

AUTHOR

        Dan Browning
        Kavod Technologies
        <db@kavod.com>
        http://www.kavod.com

CREDITS

 * Kevin Old <kold@carolina.rr.com> got the USPS XML generator working.
 * sauoq on PerlMonks.org provided valuable commentary and ideas. 
 * bbfu on PerlMonks.org got Class::MethodMaker working with SUPER.