Real-time custom courier rates

Site URL: https://zingsco.com

Our client gets custom rates with FedEx and would like to integrate these custom rates with checkout in real-time. We tried to use Easyship as a 3rd party integration, and they connect Fedex with Squarespace - but Easyship cannot integrate with those custom rates at checkout. Does anybody know how we can make this happen? Is there a 3rd party that can do this? Is there some code we can use?

With Easyship, Fedex sees the Squarespace activity in real-time, but there is no way to tell the customer what they should pay, except for the default Squarespace Fedex rates.

17 minutes ago, dale said:

Our client gets custom rates with FedEx and would like to integrate these custom rates with checkout in real-time.

This isn't yet possible on Squarespace. Real-time rates are only available in the US at full retail rates, and aren't available elsewhere.

So if I understand you, Squarespace cannot accept shipping API's. And no 3rd party can help us?

On 4/26/2022 at 12:42 PM, paul2009 said:

Correct. 

Squarespace has a legacy solution for US-based users who are shipping domestically but it can only calculate real-time (non-discounted) shipping fees with FedEx, UPS, and USPS rates. 

They do provide an API (the Squarespace Orders API) that can be used to integrate with third party shipping extensions (Easyship, Shippo and so on) but it does not provide order information until after a customer has placed their order when the shipping charges must already have been charged, making it impossible for third parties to develop a solution for real-time rates.

Hello paul. Does now SquareSpace offer something like this ? Live rates calculation from saia.com. Looking forward to hear from you

58 minutes ago, mc-reator said:

Does now SquareSpace offer something like this ?

There are no changes real-time courier rates since this the previous answer in 2022. 

15 hours ago, paul2009 said:

There are no changes real-time courier rates since this the previous answer in 2022. 

Thank you Paul for your answer. Is it not possible with any kind of code ? I researched a bit and saia.com offers the api to get their rate quote so any code or api from squarespace that can help ? 

1 minute ago, mc-reator said:

Thank you Paul for your answer. Is it not possible with any kind of code ?

Correct. It is not possible because Squarespace block all code on the checkout page. APIs cannot be integrated.

I appreciate this isn't what you hoped, but I hope it's helpful to have a straightforward answer 🙂.

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