Epicor & UPS integration

Epicor ERP 10
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Hi Epicor community,

We would like to integrate Epicor with UPS.
Our knowledge is limited, it seems the platform to do so is called WorldShip.
I reached out to EpicCare and they referred us to our Client Account Manager.
It seems they sell the integration with QuickShip/Agile.

If anyone is familiar with this concept, could you please share your wisdom?

Regards,
Shizar

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@Shizar115 You can write an integration with WorldShip, but Epicor owns QuickShip and the integration is out of the box and QuickShip keeps adding more features to make it even tighter with Epicor like freight rates from inside sales orders.

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You could write something custom but QuickShip works really well. Integrates with all major carriers and handles everything from domestic shipping to filling international paperwork. It’s pretty easy to setup and get working too.

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Thank you @gpayne
How would I go about integration with WorldShip? Is there a reference to use?

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Thank you @chaddb ,
Would you be able to refer me to some documentation around WorldShip integration?

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You don’t use WordShip. QuickShip connects directly to the UPS API.

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@Shizar115 I would not recommend this course of action, but there are developer resources on UPSs site.

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I agree with everyone else, you can certainly do your own integration with World Ship but Quick Ship is a good product that works really well and will save you a ton of development and troubleshooting time with upgrades. I would vouch that in the long run it would be much cheaper.

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reinventing the wheel is always more expensive. I have seen people go down the road of “we can write that interface to ‘xyx product’”, only to find that they spend THOUSANDS of dollars to build in inferior product that they must maintain. Examples of this include trying to build a better UPS integration, a better Sales Tax integration, etc. In the end, I have also seen customers decide after 2-3 years to purchase Epicor’s prebuild integration because they could not get their custom integration to a satisfactory level.
Both Quickship and Avalara are good products that are well integrated.

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Thank you @chaddb
Thank you @gpayne
Thank you @MDiekhuis
Thank you @timshuwy

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We used Worldship/Agile combination for 5 years and have moved to Quickship. Quickship does a lot more. With the extra features, its more of a pain to maintain though. Worldship took care of itself very well.

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We use (used?) a third-party product called OzLink (Descartes is the company).

It works.

I had no say in the decision - at the time, someone new just went and signed a contract and then mentioned it to IT.

At that point I said, You know, Epicor has this thing called QuickShip… But we were already locked in.

So, maybe it’s another option to look at. It’s only UPS - not FedEx or anything else. And I don’t know how the pricing is.

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Hi @kylepbsps ,
Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
Could you please let me know what kind of maintenance?

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Thank you @JasonMcD

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Quickship has a lot of patching in my opinion to keep it operational. We use UPS and FedEx so maybe changes on their end require bug fixes.

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We have looked at QuickShip numerous times but have not ventured down that path yet. We integrate UPS Worldship through Service Connect (since 2013). If we were building it from the ground up, we would probably use API’s. UPS has been very helpful in creating the input/output files needed.

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we also use ozlink at one of our companies.

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