How to work out shipment cost?

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Hello,

Can you guys “throw” in some ideas of how one can calculate shipment cost given distance, weight and set out rates

thank you

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Hello,
if you feel like offering DHL shipment and enjoy dealing with XML (but who doesn’t?) you could have a look at their integrated shipping solutions.

I’m not aware of, but other couriers could offer similar service too. I’d do some search and comparison in the field.

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cost = distance * cost_per_distance_unit + weight * cost_per_weight_unit
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Check out EasyPost and ExEasyPost.

EasyPost provides a unified API for retrieving shipping rates with support for multiple carriers. You should be able to calculate what you need with the data they provide.

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@idi527, as the question is tagged with “math”, I feel your answer is the most accurate here

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Thank you. checked out their documentation and something else came up. is it possible to display the given address e.g

ExEasyPost.Address.find("adr_a6fd5dd822c94bdfa1e3f2d28a4dbf9c")
    |> ExEasyPost.request()

on a map??

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sorry about the tag. couldn’t figure out which one to apply. the question was in general though

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Here’s EasyPost’s documentation for addresses.

https://www.easypost.com/docs/api.html#addresses

If you have an address you can use a service like Google Maps to display it on a map.

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thanks once again :bowing_man:t5: will definitely check it out