Hi, I have a newly installed version of DNN 05.06.02 installed with the Store Module Version 3.  I need a usps shipping provider to calculate shipping rates and provide shipping labels.  Is there anything out there like this.  I am using Pay Pal as the payment gateway.  Should I use Pay Pal for the shipping labels as well, but that still leaves me with the shipping rate calculation problem.  Is there an easy way to install a default usps shipping provider?







Thanks in advance,



MJMurton

Hi Giles,

My C# is not strong but it will be.  I have decided to use pay pal to handle shipping for now, but what I am working on is adding products and deleting products programmatically.  I noticed stored procedures in the database that are for this purpose my problem is that the catalog doesn't update, which makes me believe there is code in the ubdate event that "refreshes" the catalog.  Is there a way to add/delete products just using calls to the database?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
MJMurton

Hi Giles,

I have never heard it called n teirs before but I basically understand the idea of mvc, model-view-controller.  Now I would be happy enforcing the business roles myself through the sql requests.  My main problem is that I am going to have to hit my dnn store module and update it from a webservice running on another server which will track Quickbooks Point of Sale inventory and Inventory on Amazon simultaneously and the idea is to update the inventory on the store module based on this data.  Now I could probably create a web service on the same server as my store module that utilizes the business tier of the strore module, but I don't really know how to do that and I am in production now.  So to "touch" the web.config file from an outside server to refresh the cache would require what?  I know that I could have someone physically go to the server open the config file and close it and that would probably do the trick but that kind of defeats the purpose of programmatically updating inventory. 

Thank you for all of the input so far, I really am suprised at the level of participation on this forum especially by you, and want you to know it is definately appreciated.  I have been a fan of dnn and would like to see this module grow in importantance and functionality while remaining a standard part of the dnn community.  I must admit I wish I was a little more sophisticated as far as dnn is concerned.  Anyways, thanks again.

MJMurton