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USPS shipping module now available

2 Comment(s) | published by Aleksey B. on Monday, February 01, 2010

Since the Open Beta started we have been recieving valuable feedback from the community.  We have been able to fix and update many minor problems in the application and installer since the start of testing. We also added some features as a result of discussions with our testers. Among the added features are:

• Added the product search feature
• Integrated a better syntax highlighter - CodeMirror
• Added the product image ordering feature
• Added the top category products feature
• Added the custom payment method, which allows to create custom payment pages, for example for the bank transfer payments
• Major optimization work done - the pages open faster and with less memory usage

A couple of days ago we created a shipping moduile to support USPS integration.

We faced only one issue with the USPS integration. It uses its own country name list, instead of relying on the ISO country codes. We learned that people have issues using the USPS service in other shopping carts because of this. USPS expects specific country names, for example Great Britain should always be Great Britain, but not United Kingdom. As we usually do, we solved the problem on the system level. In our implementation you can name countries in your database as you like, even in your national language. LemonStand will find a correct USPS country name by the country ISO code and will send a correct name to the USPS gateway.