Filling out an online courier booking from

[jasmineTea]

Hello - can anyone kindly advice how to get started with the below - thank you all. 
 
Brief: To automate completing an online a courier booking form - some user input may be required in the form of pop-up text boxes or drop-downs - this is fine.
 
Source input data, (contact details and delivery address), available in 3 sources: 1) Email 2) Sage ACT 3) saved as a text file 
 
This data passed to a webpage courier booking form. The form spans 9 pages. many thanks in advance for any pointer and help for looking at this. 
 

 

Page 1: Select service
Action needed: Mouse click to confirm service - normally we use the same provider, in this case option 2

 

 
 
 
Page 2:Collection details
Action needed: Collection address details to be entered (clicking the magnifying glass brings up saved addresses), or if easier can be hard coded into the workflow? 
 
 
 

Page 3: Delivery details
Action needed: Delivery address details to be entered source as mentioned earlier available in 3 formats 

 

 

Page 4: Contents and value
Action needed: Enter contents (Normally the same item), Value is a variable(user entry?), checkbox ticked and then next button
 
 
 
 
Page 5: Summary confirmations
Action needed: Either to select checkout or add another item
 
 
 
Page 6: Confirmation again
Action needed: Button press
 
 
 

Page 7: Select date and time from drop downs.
 Action needed: Collect date is normally the current selected value, Ready from has 4 options, and  the required one is always the 4th item (12pm) 

 
 
 
Page 8: Insurance
Action needed: There are 3 boxes and it's always the left box to be selected. 
 
 
 
Page 9: Place Order
Action needed: Click place order button 
 
 

Cheers for taking the time to look at this. 

[Vero]

@jasmineTea Welcome to the forum

 

I would suggest first contacting the company and finding out whether they have an API through which this could be done. It would be a much more reliable and predictable way to proceed with a checkout like this.

 

While it's theoretically possible to click buttons and fill in fields, the moment the company moves a button or changes a checkbox, everything breaks. If they're a large company, they'll likely have this whole system underpinned with an API where you can submit information and receive responses. 

[jasmineTea]

ty - and normally the api is coded with what language?

[vitor]

2 hours ago, jasmineTea said:

normally the api is coded with what language?

Any general purpose language would do. It’s a web service so you’d be doing http requests.