If you wish to use your UPS negotiated rates for real-time shipping rate calculation instead of standard list rates you must install this update. This update fixes a bug in earlier versions where enabling negotiated rates in your store's UPS settings did not function properly. [More]

If your BV Commerce store gets real-time shipping rates from UPS you must install this update before June 3, 2024 or your store will no longer receive UPS real-time shipping rates. [More]

The following document will walk you through the steps to setup UPS OAuth credentials for use with the UPS rating and shipping APIs. [More]

This week we've seen reports of issues getting real-time shipping rates back from UPS's Rating API. We tracked the issue down to incompatible cipher suite support for TLS 1.2 between the server running BV Commerce and the UPS Rating API server. The intermittent nature of this problem seems to indicate that the change was made by UPS and was slowly rolled out to their server farm. Windows Server 2012 seems to be the most susceptible to this issue. Using IIS Crypto's default cipher suite settings ... [More]

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC, or simply PCI) is enforcing a deadline for the transition to TLS 1.2. All payment gateways, including Authorize.Net and PayPal, will require TLS 1.2. In turn, your site must support TLS 1.2 or you will be unable to process credit cards. Other services, such as UPS, are also enforcing this requirement. If you recently experienced problems with UPS real-time rates on your store, this is likely the reason. A non-exhaustive list of servi... [More]

Late last week we began receiving reports that UPS real-time rates were not displaying on merchant websites, and those reports have only intensified over the weekend. This issue does not affect all BV Commerce websites, but all versions can be affected. [More]

Make sure your customers receive their holiday gifts in time for Christmas Day with this handy reference of shipping cut-off dates for UPS, FedEx, and USPS (and their respective shipping methods). [More]