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Signing up to use UPS real time shipping rates
Question
How do I sign up for the UPS online tools in order to use UPS real time shipping with CactuShop?
Answer
The first step is to go to the 'My UPS' sign-up page. You must accept the Ts and Cs in order to proceed. Next enter your basic contact information - if you are a developer you should enter your contact information rather than your client's. Finally you choose a username and password.
Once you have your 'My UPS' account, you need to register with them as an end-user of their online tools. Log onto your 'My UPS' account and then visit:
www.ups.com/e_comm_access/toolintro?loc=en_US&WT.svl=SubNav
Select the Get Tools link (there are two, one on each side of the page). When the Get Tools page opens, choose the link to the UPS Rates & Service Selection in the Standard Tools section. You may need to provide the additional information requested before you can proceed. Once you have registered for the online tools, you will receive a developer's key by email. The developer's key gives you access to the UPS documentation for implementing the online tools, and is also needed to retrieve a UPS Access Key, which, in turn, is required to actually communicate with the UPS web services.
UPS offers two varieties of services, one HTML-based and the other rooted in XML. You must select the XML option to use the account with CactuShop.
Once you have the account and the online tools setup, and have your developer keys, you can set up the UPS config settings in the back end of CactuShop with the appropriate values to connect and retrieve data using your new account.