This module integrates ConnectShip with Commerce Shipping 2.x. ConnectShip is a web service that serves as an abstraction layer for every carrier's shipping rate calculation API. This means through one service call you can rate a shipment for USPS, UPS, and FedEx.
Unfortunately, there is no generally available web service that you can use to get these rates. You have to be running their Windows based server application and connecting to that to submit web service calls in XML format. As such, I don't see this module being generally useful except as an example for how to integrate carrier calculated rates into checkout using Shipping 2.x.
Installation and configuration
You must have access to a ConnectShip server with valid API credentials before you can consider using this module. This module depends on:
This module is a CCK text field formatter that will assume the text field contains a valid AOL screen name and display that screen name as a status indicator.
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