FedEx shipping questions

I have used the FedEx add-on on a previous site with good results. However, I am wanting to set it up on a current site and not quite sure how to go about doing this. In this case, my client is paying for shipping and so the customer using the shopping cart does not need to have shipping costs calculated for them. However, what I would like to do is have the site integrated with FedEx so that the customer can track their package. I would also like it so that as much as possible is automated, as if the shipping costs were being estimated. Does that make any sense? This would be so that my client does not have to call FedEx every time an order is ready to be shipped. Is the FedEx module able to do this? or is there something else that I need to do for this to happen?

A lot of vendors offer this. I know that fedex and ups and the USPS have a feature like the one you are describing. Also a Canadian company named purolater has recently developed one. I only mention them because they have released a really good tech video on how to integrate.

check it out

http://www.contentfolder.com/purovideo_tut_1_uncut/

-James

thanks so much for the info ... for now we have decided to drop the price and have FedEx calculate the shipping costs.