>Hello James,
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>>I just went to the UPS web site and looked at their tool offerings, but I didn't see web services. What are you trying to accomplish?
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>Our UPS Worldship is integrated with our Order Entry program (VFP) so it can pull the customer address info by using the order number as a key. It then populates a lineitem table with date, tracking number, cost, etc. I would like to populate fields for guarenteed delivery date, actual delivery date, time, who signed, etc. I can then generate management reports showing late deliveries, etc.
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>I have done this with FedEx by sending a CGI Script with the tracking info stuffed into it, then parsing the resulting returned HTMP page. This is automatically done every few hours for packages not yet delivered and the info is available to the operators for cust service.
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>I can do the same for UPS, or I can use one of the other methods available.
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>I just figured lots of people would be doing this and wanted to get feedback on which methods were in use and how well they integrated with their VFP apps.
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>Thanks for your reply, I think this is a prime area where web services should be available.
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>Bob

I just thought of something. Why don't you use the UPS XML tools to build your own web service and then give others access to it?