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Squirrelcart v6.1.0

Fastway

Overview

Fastway is a courier that offers shipping via franchises in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and South Africa.

Squirrelcart supports using Fastway for shipping within Australia only.

Fastway handles their shipping using pre-paid labels that you must buy in advance.

 

Using Fastway's API, you can obtain rate information for shipments to Australia. Learn more about Fastway.

What you can do with Endicia

Storefront features for your customers

 

Control panel features for you

Requirements
Our Fastway integration requires CURL OR fsockopen support.
Enabling Fastway

To use Fastway, you must have an API key. You must also enter your store's Australian address information on the Store Settings page.

Obtaining an API key

  1. Visit the API webpage:
    http://au.api.fastway.org/v3/docs/index.html
  2. Click Get API Key
  3. Fill out the form to obtain your API Key

 

Enabling Fastway

  1. Open your Squirrelcart control panel
  2. Click Shipping > Couriers
  3. Click the record row labeled Fastway
  4. Check the Enabled field
  5. Check the RTR Enabled field
  6. Enter your API Key in the field of the same name
  7. If you wish to use the autocomplete address feature, check the Autocomplete Addresses field. This feature is explained further down on this page.
  8. Enable at least one service in the Services fieldset.
  9. Click Save Changes
  10. Specify which labels you have purchased from Fastway, and their price. See Configuring Label Pricing below.

Configuring Label Pricing

Fastway shipping is done via pre-purchased labels and satchels (envelopes). Labels are sold by regional franchises that handle shipping from specific origins. They come in different colors corresponding to different destination areas.

Each label handles up to 5kg. For shipments over 5kg, excess shipping labels must be used, up to a maximum of 25kg.

 

For each warehouse you ship from, you must specify which labels you have already purchased and the price you paid for them. This is how Squirrelcart determines rates during checkout.

How to Configure Label Pricing

  1. Open the control panel
  2. Open a warehouse record corresponding to a location that you use Fastway to ship from, using the Settings > Locations > Warehouses link:
  3. Use the fields in the Fastway Labels & Satchels fieldset to specify the price you paid for each label for that location. For labels you do not own, leave the field blank.
  4. Click Save Changes
If you have more than one warehouse location that uses the same Fastway regional franchise, only enter your label info for one of those locations.

Address Autocompletion

With Fastway enabled, your customers can auto complete their state, city, and postal code using values they type in either the city field or postal code field. Example:

When a value is selected, the city, state, and postal code fields are automatically populated.

Enabling Address Autocompletion

Open the Fastway courier record in the control panel and check the Autocomplete Addresses field.

 

Rate Lookups

Rate Lookups During Checkout

With Endicia enabled, your customers will get live rate information (real time rates) as they checkout. This is discussed in the Real Time Rates topic.

 
Rate Accuracy

In order to make the rates presented to your customers as accurate as possible, we recommend that you enable the "Ship as a Separate Package" field on products that are shipping in separate boxes. You can then specify package dimensions below the field. Those dimensions will be sent to Endicia during rate requests.

Rate Lookups in the Control Panel

For info on this feature, see this topic.

Tracking Shipments

For info on tracking shipments via Endicia, see this topic.

Pickup Requests

For instructions on submitting pickup requests, see the separate pickup request topic.

Address Validation

We support address validation via Endicia's Dial-A-ZIP API, which can be used to correct address during checkout and when creating shipping labels. For more info on this, see the Address Validation topic.

 

 

 


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