FedEx sent out an email today advising that customers using FedEx Web Services, FedEx Ship Manager® API and FedEx Ship Manager® Direct solutions will be unable to process transactions. We thought you should know. Info from the email below:

Please be advised of the following important update from FedEx. Customers using FedEx Web Services, FedEx Ship Manager^® API and FedEx Ship Manager^® Direct solutions will be unable to process transactions within the affected environment.

June 1, 2011 update:

Start Date and Time	End Date and Time	Duration	FedEx Systems Affected
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8 a.m. CT	Wednesday, June 1, 2011 5 p.m. CT	9 hours	Rating, Shipping and Tracking (Test Environment)

June 11, 2011 update:

Start Date and Time	End Date and Time	Duration	FedEx Systems Affected
Saturday, June 11, 2011 9 p.m. CT	Saturday, June 11, 2011 11 p.m. CT	2 hours	Rating, Shipping and Tracking (Production Environment)
Saturday, June 11, 2011 9 p.m. CT	Sunday, June 12, 2011 3 a.m. CT	6 hours	Dispatch (Production Environment)

June 11, 2011 extended support hours:
FedEx service representatives will be available Sunday, June 12, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT for your convenience. Support hours will be in addition to our regularly scheduled support hours. If you have questions or need technical assistance following the update, please call 1.877.339.2774 and say “Web Services” at the prompt.

We regret any inconvenience due to these service interruptions; however, please ensure that your appropriate team members are aware of these important updates.

Thank you for using FedEx. We appreciate your business.

The FedEx Web Integration Solutions Team

FedEx’s recent API change from the Ship Manager API to the Web Services Shipping Module has been a bit of an issue.  Luckily, the guys at ezOSC were already on it!  They were able to create a module that integrates ezOSC, osCommerce, CRE Loaded, and OSC Max seamlessly with the newer FedEx Web Services API.  Did I mention it has Multi-vendor support?  Yes! This module fully integrates into all multi-vendor osCommerce based software.

If you would like this module for your store please contact ezOSC – Toll Free (800) 961-7427

With high-volume stores usually the biggest time-consuming hangup is shipping.  Working together with ShipRush and/or Endicia, we can help your store integrate seamlessly!  Print Labels, link with your pre-existing shipping accounts, Auto-Print Packaging lists, Bulk Shipping, and more!

If you are interested in getting your store setup with, ShipRush, Endicia, Zebra Label Printing and more, please contact us for a custom quote.

Call Today! – 1 (800) 961-7427

Print Thermal Labels Directly From Your Browser

Works with ALL PHP Based Carts!

Available NOW!  Call For Price! 1 (800) 961 – 7427

For the first time, you can now print shipping labels (UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL) and barcode labels, through the admin of your shopping cart without having to re-enter the information into secondary desktop software. Atwoodz, Inc. originally developed ezPRINT for their ezOSC shopping cart, but is available for any open source shopping cart!

Working hand-in-hand with UPS developers, Atwoodz, Inc. has developed a software solution that allows you to streamline your customer fulfillment process!  Currently the software works with ezOSC, osCommerce, ZenCart, CubeCart, Xcart, CRE Loaded, and the even Magento.  They can also customize this application to fit any application as well.  Please contact Atwoodz, Inc.  with any questions concerning this HUGE time saving piece of software.

Begin your drop shipping business using our FREE shopping cart

If you’re new to e-commerce and considering drop shipping, then you probably have one important factor driving your decision… You don’t have a lot of money. The upfront cost of starting a business endeavor ultimately comes with the fear of failure. It comes with the fear of not succeeding and parting with a rather large sum of cash that you may never recoup. Fortunately, the internet offers a number of business models with relatively low risk, and Drop shipping is the perfect example.

If you are not really familiar with the term, it simply means you are setting up a store front to a sell a product that you actually never touch or see. You have no inventory, which means you have no need for costly storage or other charges associated with managing your product supply. It also means no inconvenient trips to the post office. Everything you sell is sitting in a warehouse somewhere that manages everything from handling your inventory to shipping it to your buyer.

So what do you do? In the most basic sense, really all you are doing is connecting the buyer with the drop shipping company you chose to do business with. You list the products in your online shopping cart, often times using the same images and descriptions of your parent company. When you receive an order your dropship supplier is automatically notified and the product is shipped from the wholesaler’s warehouse at a reduced cost. The difference is your profit.

So how do I go about setting up this shopping cart? There are a lot of free options out there but many of them don’t offer variation in distinguishing your store front from others. ezOSC.com is one of the few we know about that offers a wide variety of templates to make customizing your store into something great easy.

With the free version you will be able set up your store front with a complete functioning shopping cart. The interface is both friendly and powerful, allowing you the freedom to quickly build a well structured product display. All transactions are handled using SSL which will increase your customer’s confidence ultimately leading to higher sales.

ezOSC offers additional paid online store solutions that provide even greater customization and features for the “pro seller.” But, for now, go free, earn a few bucks, make a profit, and then make a business investment.

ezOSC 3.1 (b2b) with Drop Ship / Multi-Vendor Capability

Benefits Include:

• Positive Cash-Flow
• No Inventory
• No trips to the post office
• Saving Office / Warehouse / Storage space
• Being able to spend money on Marketing and not Product
• Provide a More Competitive Price

Features Include:

• Specific Shipping Per. Vendor
• Order Automation
• Import Vendor Catalog
• and more!

Drop shipping / multi-vendor support is available in our business 2 business version of ezOSC 3.1.  ezOSC  is based on osCommerce.  If you would like to drop ship or update your current osCommerce shopping cart for drop shipping capability, please contact us.