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Trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates
I'm trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates. Using
shipping rates given to you from different couriers (user enters rates) , excelsheet will calculate best rate for a given weight,destination and origin. |
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Trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates
You could have the various tables with lookup and then cull out the best
one. A formula or macro could do this. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Crys" wrote in message ... I'm trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates. Using shipping rates given to you from different couriers (user enters rates) , excelsheet will calculate best rate for a given weight,destination and origin. |
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Trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rat
Sorry my excel is very rusty. What do you mean by l"with lookup"? I'm
imagining trying to make several tables, one for each courier company, calculating cost based on rate sheets they give me. I'm imagining the 1st sheet would be where I would enter my shipping item information, with a summary of prices (calculated on courier sheets). Do you know if anything like this already exists? Of course one of the problems I'm facing is couriers like to make comparing prices very difficult. No one calculates their rates the same as anyone else. Some include flat rates, some are variable. Some include fuel surchages, some have surchages as extra. Some calculate distance based on Kms or miles, some have flat rates between different zones. Some have base charges... I can tell you I'm getting very confused! LOL "Don Guillett" wrote: You could have the various tables with lookup and then cull out the best one. A formula or macro could do this. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Crys" wrote in message ... I'm trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates. Using shipping rates given to you from different couriers (user enters rates) , excelsheet will calculate best rate for a given weight,destination and origin. |
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Trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates
You mean the user has to enter in rate tables for each carrier at the
resolution of weight, destination, and origin. (and possibly number of items). I suspect the user would prefer to call the carrier and ask them to quote a rate, then select the lowest or if they have that information, just run their finger down the paper table and figure out which is cheapest. Usually the selling point of this type of thing is that it includes the tabular data. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Crys" wrote in message ... I'm trying to develop a shipping calculator to compare courier rates. Using shipping rates given to you from different couriers (user enters rates) , excelsheet will calculate best rate for a given weight,destination and origin. |
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