magento - Send tracking with shipment

Question

I have tried again and again from writing modules to hacking together some code and editing the shipment api, which saved tracking in the sendEmail() method (i know that's bad, i reverted it) and still have yet to find a solution to this issue.

currently we have the site setup so we send out the order information to a quickbooks intermediary and then receive it via xmlrpc as a shipped order. the weird thing is, the tracking information never gets sent with the shipping email and always comes up as a custom tracking number even though it is a UPS number. Am I crazy here, or am I completely missing something ? I've overthought this to the point of mild insanity. Any direction would be great.

edit: we are using the fishbowl quickbook integration.

I've scoured stack and many many blogs trying to find a proper answer to this question. including: Magento Automatically send tracking email Programmaticly send email when shipping tracking number is set

thank you so much for your time.

Answer 1

At the risk of frustrating you further, maybe try looking at a better API than the UPS API? That sounds like a pretty frustrating integration with a lot of potential failure points. I'd try looking at something like Ordoro or EasyPost.