Shipping API error 80040b1a - Need detailed docs for UPS / USPS

[mudshark]

Tried installing the free UPS & USPS shipping modules...

I'd like to use both, but will settle for either alone if I can get it working!  They both seem to install OK but then ask for an API & that's where I hit a failure.

The first issue is that they both offer a number of APIs.
Which to select???

Connect to USPS
USPS allows me to register for an API; they do send an email with a USERNAME & PASSWORD..  Is /that/ the "API"?

The "Connect to USPS" module "General Settings" has a place to enter the "USPS User ID".  Is that the username they sent me?  There is no place to enter the password though and I get the error:

"Webservice test connection

Error 80040b1a : Authorization failure.
Perhaps username and/or password is incorrect."

BTW, there is a field called "Packaging Weight" that I have no idea what to put there.  I couldn't know a weight until an order is placed!

Connect to UPS
A "Shipping API" for "package" seems to be available and I can download it in a ZIP file which I did.  The file has a bunch of folders & files in it but how from that do I get the "API key" for the UPS module config screen?
 

 

Is there detailed documentation anywhere for how to add shipping carriers (and once this is done, payment gateways) to my PrestaShop?

[mudshark]

Error 80040b1a : Authorization failure.

 

Error is due to not being in "production" status at the USPS.

Call 800-344-7779 and ask to be moved to production status!