Design
The MinMaxShip object is a Component Object Model (COM) object that exposes a set of COM interfaces to the Order Processing pipeline (OPP).
The MinMaxShip sample object, which is included in the Commerce Server 2000 Software Development Kit (SDK), calculates the shipping total for all "shipments to process" in an order by taking the sum of the list prices for the items in a shipment, multiplying it by a percentage, and comparing the product to some specified minimum. The larger number in this comparison is then stored in the _shipping_total key for the shipment.
All shipping components, except the Splitter component, should be registered with the ShippingMethodRouter pipeline component. The Splitter component should be configured from the Pipeline Editor and the code. The remaining components should be configured from the Business Desk Shipping Method module.