Endicia for Mac is your complete USPS postage-printing solution. Easily feed one through your printer, it'll come out with postage. Domestic and International mailing labels are generated easily. Download Endicia CONNECT for Windows. Download Endicia Connect for Mac. After installation, Endicia CONNECT will open. Sign in with your ENDICIA Username and Password. You will be returned to Endicia Online to complete your postage preparation and printing. That's all there is to it.
A simple option for interacting with Endicia for Mac by printing and responding to postageusing their XML Interface. This makes it easy for integrating into existingworkflows like:
- listening and responding to a postage queue server as packages are being prepared
- printing labels and then sending back the postage and tracking information to the database
This project is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Endicia.
Requirements
- Endicia for Mac -- installed and setup with an active account
endiciatool
-- installed from the Extras folder of the Endicia for Mac disk image- node modules (
node-xml
) -- install withnpm install node-xml
orgit submodule init
Usage
Call the
send
method, passing your DAZzle XML request and a callback function. The callback may receive threearguments: err
, packages
, and raw
. If an error occurred, err
will be non-null and an Error
object. The raw
argument is the untouched STDOUT from endiciatool
. The packages
argument will be a JavaScript object of package IDsand their parsed output values, similar to:If
endiciatool
cannot be found in $PATH
, you may explicitly specify it:![For For](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126013748/532146954.png)
Demo
Endicia For Pc
While these have the Test flag set to prevent them from using real postage, they will still try to print the test label.
easy.js - super simple, static example showing how to invoke the module
jsonify.js - very similar to the core
endiciatool
but will output the JSON instead of XML. Will accept the DAZzleXML via STDIN or as a file path in the first argument![Endicia For Mac Download Endicia For Mac Download](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126013748/524842857.png)
Unit Tests
To run, you will need
vows
- use npm install vows
or git submodule init
License
Copyright 2011 Danny Berger <[email protected]>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associateddocumentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation therights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permitpersons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of theSoftware.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THEWARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS ORCOPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OROTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Endicia may be just the ticket for commercial applications, but the stamp feedstock is prohibitively expensive for most household mailing needs. It adds about $0.105 to the cost of postage, or, as little as 7 cents additional if you buy 2000 labels at once. If the USPS added 10 cents to the First Class rate, the public would have a collective conniption. Prospective buyers should also know that Endicia is the only supplier for the stamp feedstock for the LabelWriter Turbo label printers. This monopoly (synonym for price-gouging) is said to 'protect' the user from illegally printing unauthorized stamps, but it is not clear just how such a risk could arise, or, who would be liable for such unauthorized postage. Add to this the fallibility of the LabelWriter printer (400 Turbo), which occasionally allows a jam-up with the sticky side of the label rolling around the platen, and you have mega-potential for additional expense. The software warns you that you have to have enough labels on the roll to complete a multiple-stamp printing, but it doesn't tell you what happens when the first (or subsequent) label in the queue jams the printer. Simply put, you lose (at least part of) the value of your print order. For example, if you wanted to print 100 First Class stamps and the first one jammed, Endicia charges you for the full 100, a loss of $44 at the current rate. This is truly unnecessary when modern print drivers can 'know' the hardware status of the printer in real time and prevent excessive loss from inevitable hardware failures. The final straw on the dromedary's back is that the user cannot specify a particular postage value for an individual stamp but must choose from a very limited drop-down menu--UNLESS (you guessed it) you purchase an Endicia postal scale (a $106 value at this writing ;) that transmits the stamp value back to your computer so that you can be correct to the penny! There are workarounds, of course, such as printing one stamp at a time, or going to the Post Office. One final caution if you decide not to go back to the old-fashioned lick-em-'n-stick-em, save the last 2 or 3 passwords that you have used on your Endicia account so you can log in successfully even if their last system restoration has lost track of your most recent password.