Magento purolator Shipping Module

The Purolator module is an easy-to-use shipping extension that enables you to integrate real-time shipping, tracking, estimates, pickups and returns directly into your Magento website. A more full featured Magento Shipping Module that does live rate lookups with Purolator and address validation.

This version supports:
▪ online rate lookups
▪ supports negotiated rates
▪ query caching (*significantly increases cart/ checkout page loads)
▪ auto creates product attributes for package length / width / height
▪ adds a weight measurement units field
▪ automatically converts multi format weights into consolidated totals for Purolator

As Canada’s largest courier company, Purolator has more people, more vehicles, more planes and more facilities across Canada than any other courier, so you can depend on Purolator for all your shipping needs.

Highlights

Provide accurate shipping estimates and shipment visibility within your online store.

Ship within Canada, to and from the U.S., and more than 215 countries worldwide

Track shipments in real-time using your Purolator Tracking Number / PIN or shipment reference

Provide a consistent and positive customer experience by offering shipping estimates, pickups and tracking capabilities on your company’s website

Take control of the customer experience from order placement to final delivery.

As Purolator systems use different lookup tables inside the post offices, on their customer site and for the backend api returned rates may differ from actual costs.
Magento EE compatible

Support

Need help? Please contact us at chlabs@collinsharper.com. Paid installation is available.

We do not test any of our modules on the Windows platform nor do we warrant or guarantee they will work on Windows.

Before installing / updating or anything else
You should always backup your Magento Database & Magento Installation files.
For more instructions on how to backup your installation please refer to these instructions.
Please read all instructions before you start so you understand all the caveats of installing this module.

To Upgrade
If you have a previous version of this module installed follow the instructions below - if you do not just skip to installation.

Unzipping and Uploading
After you have downloaded the Purolator Shipping module for your store, please use a tool like Winrar, WinZip or similar to unzip the contents of the ZIP file you downloaded. Now check the extracted files, you should see three folders "app", "design_frontend" and "js".

Then you are ready to upload your files. Open your favorite FTP/SFTP/SCP client and connect to the server with your Magento installation. Navigate to the root folder of the Magento installation, in other words the folder that contains folders like "app", "skin", "js", "lib" and more. Then, upload the extracted folders directly into the root of your Magento installation. Your FTP client will not overwrite any files, it will only upload the new files that come with the software.

Configuration
After you have uploaded the files, you need to login to your Magento administration panel and refresh your cache by going to System > Cache management. Choose "Select All" and click "Refresh", so the cache gets updated. Then, go to your System > Configuration page and select Shipping Methods. Verify that you have a new option called "Purolator" in the Shipping Methods page. If you can see it there, the Purolator module has been installed correctly.

Setting up extra fields
1. Log in to your Magento admin panel.
2. Click 'Catalog' > 'Attributes' > 'Manage Attributes'.
3. Select 'Add New Attribute'.
4. Ensure the attribute code is all lowercase.
5. Note they are decimal fields.

Testing
After you have configured the module, you need to make sure it is tested properly. Please open your Magento website in a browser, add a product to your cart, and then navigate to the shipping methods and see how it looks. Checkout and verify your shipping cost is representative of the quote amount you would get from a manual lookup.

You need to ensure these services for your purolator account are enabled

• Estimate Service à GetQuickEstimate


• Estimate Service à GetFullEstimate (this doesn’t seem to de used by your application. Can you please confirm?)


• Service Availability Service à ValidateCityPostalCodeZip