Apply an external BigCommerce delivery rate

Question

At present, BigCommerce has companies such as FedEx for calculating tariffs for the delivery of goods, and our client asked us to use an external transport service, which by default is not included in BigCommerce: Aramex.

Aramex has its own API, and I need to get client details and product information from BigCommerce so that I can send them to the Aramex API to calculate the speed. Then I need to display this indicator, which should be part of the whole price when the total amount is displayed.

What is the best way to do this? Should I use custom validation? In general, how to get this data when the client checks?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, doing this using a third-party platform such as BigCommerce is almost impossible unless they specifically create code to enter custom shipping costs.

You can use AJAX to display the delivery speed on the page without any problems, but there is no way to apply this course to an order or save it in the database at present. (You can save it as a custom field or in notes, though).

I tried BigCommerce among many other platforms and decided to take a special route due to similar problems.