Well the Customer's account number can be used for the actual transaction. The problem was I was having trouble obtaining it since the customer was out of town. I finally did obtain it earlier today ...

However I'm kind of back to square one because even having the account number and the documentation they don't give you the connection URIs ... you have to complete their certification which apparently consists of your app running some test scripts ... they also don't tell you how much that costs though they mention there is a fee. The company is definatly not interested in paying an unknown cost and wasting time with that, especially when what you get for it is rather dubious, especially for a small company.

It's all very frustrating, you would think that FedEx would be happy to make getting a package rate fairly simple in whatever format you want as someone will probably use that information to charge their own customers and give FedEx more money. But they do not.

As for calculating myself ... nah, I'll use WWW::Mechanize to get rates from the form on their website before I calculate myself.