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Currently BigCommerce has companies like FedEx to calculate shipping rates for products, and our client has requested us to use an external transportation service which is not on BigCommerce by default: Aramex.

Aramex have their own API and I need to get customer details and product details from BigCommerce, so that I can send them to the Aramex API for rate calculation. Then I need to display this rate, which is to be part of the whole price when the final amount is displayed.

What is the best way to do this? Should I use a custom checkout? In general, how does one get this data when a client is checking out?

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    I have the same problem and haven't find anything yet from Google? Bigcommerce API documentation seems to have no method to add custom shipping method. – aakash Jun 03 '14 at 01:00
  • NO it doesn't, i haven't seen any yet – Jay Jul 04 '14 at 12:43
  • Hi @Jay, Have you solved your issue. Actually I am also stuck with the same in Woocommerce . So could you please reply have you find any solution or not ? – 5eeker May 10 '15 at 17:55
  • Hi @adi, Unfortunately we decided to handle shipping in ways that Bigcommerce provides. And i did not find a solution that directly solves this problem. – Jay May 11 '15 at 12:25

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Unfortunately, accomplishing this with a third-party platform like BigCommerce is near impossible unless they specifically build code for you to input custom shipping costs.

You could use AJAX to display the shipping rate on the page without any issues, but there is no way to apply that rate to the order or save it to the database at this time. (You could save it as a custom field or in notes though).

I tried BigCommerce among many other platforms and decided to go the custom route due to similar problems.

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