Multi-Carrier Rate Shopping Engine for ERPNext

ECOSIRE builds the Multi-Carrier Rate Shopping Engine as a proper Frappe app (its own module, DocTypes, and hooks.py wiring) installed on your ERPNext v15 or v16 bench. At its core is a Carrier Rate Request orchestration layer: given an origin, destination, weight, and package dimensions, it fans out concurrently to every carrier connector you have enabled and normalizes each response into comparable Carrier Rate Quote rows (service level, transit days, base cost, surcharges, landed total). A Rate Shopping Rule DocType lets you define selection policy per company, warehouse, customer group, or item group — cheapest, fastest, or best-value with a configurable transit-vs-cost weighting — plus hard constraints like "never ship perishables on ground" or "cap markup at 15%". Dimensional weight is computed from your carrier divisors and compared against actual weight so quotes match what the carrier will actually bill.

The engine hooks into the documents where the decision actually happens. A client script surfaces a "Shop Rates" action on Quotation, Sales Order, and Delivery Note so an agent sees ranked live quotes inline; a Delivery Note validate/before_submit doc event can auto-assign the winning carrier, write the service level, and stamp the chosen rate and margin. Customer-facing markup is applied through a rules layer so the rate you show at checkout already includes your handling margin, while the raw carrier cost is retained on the quote for reconciliation. Everything is exposed over the Frappe REST API through whitelisted methods (@frappe.whitelist()), so your storefront, POS, or a headless checkout can request get_rates() and post back the selection without touching the carrier APIs directly. A scheduler event refreshes cached zone/fuel tables and expires stale quotes, and all access is gated by Frappe role profiles and permission rules so pricing logic and carrier credentials stay locked down.

Because this is build-to-order, we start from your actual carrier mix and contracts rather than a generic template. After a short scoping call we confirm which carriers, service levels, and selection rules you need, then build against your ERPNext version, run it through UAT on a staging bench, and hand over installable source and a Git repository. Typical delivery is 2–4 weeks from confirmed scope depending on how many carrier connectors and edge-case rules are in play. You get the code, the docs, a training session, and a post-go-live support window — not a black box.