How to Create a Custom Shipping Method
When you implement a custom shipping method, you must create a shipping cost calculator to calculate the shipping charges for an order, and then integrate the shipping cost calculator with your Commerce Server Core Systems application.
To create a custom shipping method
Create a pipeline component that calculates the shipping cost. For more information about how to create a pipeline component to calculate the shipping cost, see How to Create a Shipping Cost Calculator.
Note
The ShippingMethodRouter pipeline component will call the shipping cost calculator pipeline component when the customer chooses to ship items via the associated shipping method.
Use the Pipeline Component Registration tool (PipeReg.exe) to register the pipeline component. For more information about registering a pipeline component, see Building Pipeline Components.
Follow the procedure in the topic How to Create a Shipping Method to create the shipping method. For the ProgId property, provide the ProgId that you specified in the source code for the pipeline component.