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Yes: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6934

If it's just paper, you could send it as documents. Otherwise, if your package is 2cm in thickness or lower, there is Light Packets Air. It's only available at the postal office or via PayPal shipping: https://www.paypal.com/ca/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-now There is an automatic shipping labels mod for PayPal, just look under my contributions.

Is this returned when you ship through the Canada Post website? If yes, then it could certainly be parsed out.

PayPal doesn't return it unfortunately. But there are two ways that it could be done: (1) Route PayPal emails to a script that parses out the tracking number and updates the order (2) Use phpOCR or similar to read the tracking number from the GIF label

The solution is:0.- Search "usps shipping labels" in contributions resulting in http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/1498

Sure, you can modify it as it's open source. I would add USPS, but I don't have a US Paypal account to test with :S

Why do you have notifySender* enabled but no senderEmail specified?

They seem to have some kind of outages with their servers. I wasn't even able to login from the Canada Post website for some time. It just said that password is wrong... But it's working again now. Always check first if you can login manually to see if it's a problem on their end.

According to the error, products_dim_type column doesn't exist.

OK, so there are two separate and independent shipping parts in osCommerce: 1. shipping module: quotes prices to your customers 2. shipping labels module: lets you print labels from the admin backend You said that for 1. zone rates works well for you. Now as far as I understand you used to ship the orders from paypal.com? Because that's actually eBay shipping, none of the other payment processors have that. This is where 2. comes into play. There are two modules worth looking into for your case: usps shipping labels (should work out of the box) PayPal Automated Labels (would have to be adjusted to work with USPS) Once you install one of these mods, you'll be able to ship directly from admin.

What does shipping have to do with your payment processor? Also, bumping is against board rules.

I don't recommend using this module, since it's not being updated and since it's an unnecessary Frankenstein-mix of the following two modules: CanadaPost Shipping Module for showing your customers all available options and rates Canada Post Automated Labels for generating shipping labels in your backend It's better to use those directly as they are more recent and each is updated at its own pace. If you want to also ship Canada Post Light Packets Air, you can do so via the PayPal Automated Labels module, as this is not available directly though Canada Post website. If your shipping rates with Canada Post aren't great, you could use eShipper Integration Module in your backend for better rates when generating labels (this applies to Regular, Expedited, Xpresspost and Priority). Try eShipper quotes first to see if their rates are better. If starting from scratch, I would probably go with the free Magento eCommerce solution. osCommerce is too dated...

Whoops, looks like I missed to include the changes to admin/includes/functions/ship_canadapost.php You need to add this function at the end of that file: function cp_post_var($var) { if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { return stripslashes($_POST[$var]); } else { return $HTTP_POST_VARS[$var]; } } I fixed this in the package with version 1.2.3.

The Estimated Shipping Costs mod does just this.

Yes, those are the ones that changed. Canada Post doesn't partner with Purolator anymore.

Yep, they changed their login process again. I have updated my original mod with the changes. Also replaced the old Purolator methods with the new FedEx methods, since Canada Post moved away from Purolator. You can backport these changes to this mod, I guess...

Canada Post Automatic Labels 1.2.2 ================================== Version 1.2.2 (2009-11-17) - Fix changed login process - Remove Purolator and add the new FedEx shipping methods Please see http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5445 to download

How does your boxes list in http://sellonline.canadapost.ca/servlet/MerchantBoxServlet look like?

Frontend part is where the customers get a shipping quote from your shop. Backend is where you do the shipments in Admin and receive labels. They are quite different things.

Where are you getting "35.0 cm x 25.0 cm x 8.0 cm"? In the frontend part or in the backend part? Because they are completely different things. The backend actually is actually hard-coded and doesn't run any boxing algorithms AFAIK. The frontend should be working, but take a look at the boxing algorithm used. Usually you need to adjust it based on your own shipping procedures.

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Why is the array statement cut off?

Bumping is not allowed on this forum. Also, good luck finding somebody who will work for you for free.

See the variable $email_txt in admin/ship_paypal.php The tracking number isn't actually returned by PayPal. You could route PayPal emails to a script that would parse out the tracking number and add into osC. Another way would be to add functions to check the shipping history in PayPal and parse out the tracking numbers. Both ways aren't really smooth, so I decided against including them, as I only use the module for light packets myself. Whoops, it's a bug. Here is the fix: // change the following line in admin/ship_paypal.php tep_db_query("insert into " . TABLE_ORDERS_STATUS_HISTORY . " (orders_id, orders_status_id, date_added, customer_notified, comments) values ('" . $order_id . "', '4', now(), '" . $customer_notified . "', '" . $status_comments . "')"); // to tep_db_query("insert into " . TABLE_ORDERS_STATUS_HISTORY . " (orders_id, orders_status_id, date_added, customer_notified, comments) values ('" . $order_id . "', '" . tep_db_input(PAYPAL_ORDER_STATUS_SHIPPED) . "', now(), '" . $customer_notified . "', '" . $status_comments . "')");

Programming skills are required for anything but a simple stock installation. Otherwise the smartest thing is to hire somebody to customize it to your business.