[Feat]: Adding Secured Funds to Fedex COD API Endpoint

[Riz0]

Feature Request Is New

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Description of the feature

Hi guys,

Is there any chance to add the option to allow for secured and guaranteed funds to be enabled with Fedex when using COD on shipping label creation? Easypost API for FedEx currently only supports the "CASH", "CHECK", and "MONEY_ORDER" options for cod_method, and none of these options show as "Secured" on the resulting FedEx label.

I requested the respective API docs from my Fedex contact in hopes that it could be helpful to the devs in implementation of that feature. Ground COD has three options:

Any payment Type
Guaranteed Funds
Currency

Whereas Express COD has two options:

Secured Unsecured

I have attached some of the page I found in the developer settings:

FedEx Web Services

https://www.fedex.com/en-us/developer/web-services.html

FedEx Developer Portal (SOAP/REST)

https://developer.fedex.com/api/en-ca/home.html

Image Reference:

https://support.easypost.com/attachments/token/nlYkPSjzjs0Vk0coHetEf47xW/?name=fedex_securedfunds.png

Just a brief explanation of its purpose from the Fedex site:

"If the shipper marks secured payment on the c.o.d. airbill, we will collect a cashier’s check, official check or money order. If the shipper marks an unsecured payment, we will collect a personal check, certified check, cashier’s check, official check, money order or company check. Cash, traveler’s checks, “com” checks, credit cards and counter checks will not be accepted in payment of any c.o.d. amount. "

Can anyone please tell me if there if such an endpoint in easypost or if it will get enabled in the near future? Allowing only unsecured payments is incredibly problematic as it allows for the eventuality of bounced personal checks. Thanks again

[nwithan8]

Hello! Thanks for reaching out!

This isn't something that would need to be added to the client libraries, but would require an update to our API in general. We have forwarded this information to the proper channels and we'll let you know of any updates!

[Riz0]

Hello,

Thanks for letting me know. I'm guessing there is no public repo where I can follow for such updates to the easypost API? Hoping I can know when it gets implemented so I can start using it immediately. Thanks again

[nwithan8]

Hello again!

We don't currently have an update on this for you, unfortunately, as we need a bit more information.

If you could please contact our support team, they will be able to get all the information needed to spec out your feature request, and will handle communicating updates to you. You can reach them at support@easypost.com.

I'm going to go ahead and close this ticket, as it does not currently require an update to this specific codebase. Thanks!