Re: Canada Post Shipping Solutions

[Avraham Serour]

I think that if canada post wants people to use their system maybe they should invest in that and implement themselves.

This is a community open source project, if this was a commercial backed project I=it would make more sense such a proposal.

I believe this would make more sense to a freelancer or company, to implement and open source a satchmo module to canada post in return to be listed as a solution provider.

All the solution providers listed are commercial, of course it would be nice to have an open source solution also listed but I don't see such a benefit in the deal

of course I may be completely wrong and there's someone willing to donate their time to code this

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Phaneendra Rao <pan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I am happy to join the Satchmo group - and thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts.  I am with Canada Post Corporation and I have been speaking with Chris Motiff and he indicated that I post my thoughts about building extensions for our shipping solutions so they can be used by the merchants to enable eCommerce.

As some of you may know Canada Post launched a number of shipping solutions www.canadapost.ca/webservices in early 2012 designed to support all business/merchants in Canada and North America so they can take advantage of the unique shipping solutions that only we are able to provide as a public organization.   

These web services are free to use and have been used by several thousand merchants and players in ecommerce ecosystem to grow business.

I here by request the Satchmo community to build and make available extensions that will enable any merchants to take advantage of our shipping solutions. 

In return Canada Post (among other things) will recognize the community on its solution providers directory that is aimed at providing greater visibility to groups such as yours.

Thanks - look forward to it. 

PHANEENDRA RAO | Manager, e-commerce Partnership Development | Canada Post | Office (613) 734-3000 x 55240 

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[Raphael]

"I here by request the Satchmo community to build and make available extensions that will enable any merchants to take advantage of our shipping solutions."

And I here by request canadapost to build and make available extensions for their own shipping solutions.

Thank you!

-- Raphael http://develissimo.com

[Chris Moffitt]

I just want to clarify here. I understand people's response to Phaneendra's post regarding Canada Post but I think it is being taken in a way that was not intended. Phaneendra did contact me off list to discuss Satchmo and how to get a Canada Post module for Satchmo. I explained the nature of the project and asked him to post here in the hopes that there may be people already working on a module or interested in helping.

I don't expect anyone to do "free" work for Canada Post nor do I think Phaneendra expects that either. I believe he was trying to reach out and engage with the community in an open manner. I would ask that we give him the benefit of the doubt. 

If you have a legitimate need for this functionality and are currently working on it or think you might in the future, let's work with Canada Post. If you don't have the need or desire, no need to work on it.

Thanks,

Chris

[Marconius Cuthemustard]

I will be starting work on integrating the new canada post functionality on one of my sites in the next couple of weeks. You can contact me for more info.

On Wednesday, 20 March 2013 10:56:31 UTC-4, Phaneendra Rao wrote:

Hello Everyone,

I am happy to join the Satchmo group - and thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts.  I am with Canada Post Corporation and I have been speaking with Chris Motiff and he indicated that I post my thoughts about building extensions for our shipping solutions so they can be used by the merchants to enable eCommerce.

As some of you may know Canada Post launched a number of shipping solutions www.canadapost.ca/webservices in early 2012 designed to support all business/merchants in Canada and North America so they can take advantage of the unique shipping solutions that only we are able to provide as a public organization.   

These web services are free to use and have been used by several thousand merchants and players in ecommerce ecosystem to grow business.

I here by request the Satchmo community to build and make available extensions that will enable any merchants to take advantage of our shipping solutions. 

In return Canada Post (among other things) will recognize the community on its solution providers directory that is aimed at providing greater visibility to groups such as yours.