Shipping Label API

Loremonger

I posted this before as a PayPal shipping API. Of course, tonight, PayPal shipping is offline.

Are there any options for creating online shipping labels directly from our Brick Owl stores?

Enoch

Lawrence

Could you expand further. I print shipping labels with a label printer. Are you talking about something where you pay for postage and print a label? As in, you want some sort of button on Brick Owl to pay for USPS postage and print a shipping label with postage included?

DadsAfol

We have written some office automation pages using the BO API. One program lists the orders we currently have in progress and displays a "ship me" button. Clicking that button sends the address, order number, value, etc. to the Endicia application which pre-populates everything for the postage label. So what Enoch is looking for is doable, but the question is whether you want to try to support direct integration with shipping software or not. The Endicia program has a built in listener looking at a specific file location that you place an XML block into, so all the activity is client-side.

Lawrence

Ah, I took a brief look at stamps.com earlier. I don't mind doing quick integrations, but both Stamps.com and Endica looked like a fair chunk of work. I'm happy to create things like structured URLs for example if its appropriate to any of the services. Otherwise bigger integrations will come later on.

Loremonger

You two have pretty much hit on exactly what I was asking for. Thanks for looking into it.