The Postage Rate Calculator component for LaGarde's StoreFront 5.0 allows you to determine shipping charges real-time.  This component communicates directly with the supported shipping carriers'  servers to determine an estimated shipping cost. This component replaces the existing carrier based shipping functionality.

Benefits

• Determine estimated shipping charges real-time
• Automatically selects an available shipping method if the customer selects an invalid method - No more carrier based shipping has failed messages because of the customer's mistake
• Let the customer preview their shipping charges from any page before finalizing the order - helps increase sales since many potential customers will abandon an order rather than give up personal information just to find out what the order total will be.

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