Features

This module is currently being used on numerous high traffic X-Cart stores, providing them with accurate shipping rates, increasing profitability.

• Display FedEx real-time rates for FedEx Ground, Home and Express services
• Choose whether to display your FedEx account's discounted rates or the list rates
• No more importing rate tables and adjusting fuel surcharges
• Customer can specify whether shipping to business or residential address so that the appropriate FedEx Home or FedEx Ground service is made available. X-Cart currently does not allow the customer to make a distinction.
• Validates the customer's state and zip code ship to information via the FedEx server and returns error if not valid.
• Optionally adds phone validation to customer registration form to ensure value is correctly formatted for FedEx
• Optionally adds "PO Box" address validation to customer registration form to ensure "PO Box" address are not entered as FedEx will not ship to them.
• Optionally display FedEx tracking info directly in the history order template
• Optionally display delivery dates for FedEx Express services alongside shipping cost.
• Optionally display FedEx tracking info directly in the history order template
• Configure options from within the X-Cart admin interface.
• Specify which FedEx signature option you ship with (effects returned ship rates).
• Specify drop off location type, packaging and package dimensions (effects ship rates).
• Requires a FedEx account and meter number (instructions for obtaining these provided)
• Requires PHP compiled with CURL support (with SSL) (mod uses https protocol). Check your store's admin summary for libCURL or CURL executable.
• Installation requires some modification to X-Cart files (install patches and instructions provided).
• Demo available. Please contact us to receive access information.
• **Note** This version does not print shipping labels. If you need this functionality, which could save you hours of administration time, select the FedEx real-time rates and labels for X-Cart version.

Case studies

• Giordanos Pizza utilizes the FedEx real-time rates and labels mod for their FedEx Overnight Pizza delivery service. A customization made for Giordanos enables the customer to select a delivery date within certain allowed dates into the future.
• Scott Houston The Piano Guy utilizes the FedEx real-time rates and labels mod to save hours of admin work previously required to generate the labels separately from X-Cart. Further customizations made for Scott were validating shipping address to ensure no PO Boxes entered (FedEx won't ship to these), and automatically specifying the FedEx signature option depending on subtotal.