Australia Post WooCommerce Extension vs KeenToDesign Shipping with Australia Post for WooCommerce

Australia Post WooCommerce Extension is a WordPress Plugin that integrate the Australia Post service, it will calculate the shipping cost and the delivery time for your customer. The plugin supports Regular Post and Express Post (Own Packaging). The plugin supports Shipping Delivery Time. The plugin supports The new Shipping Zones which introduced in WooCommerce 2.6.0 Upgrade to Pro Now Documentation Pro Features Domestic Shipping All the domestic shipping options are supported: Regular Post, Express Post and Courier Post. You can anytime, disable/enable one or all of these options. Default Size and Weight In case you don’t want to add weight and dimensions for all of the products you have or even you missed adding this information to one of them. The plugin allows you to set a default weight and dimensions of your product in case of the product’s information are missing. Debug Mode The debug mode is an excellent tool to test out the plugin’s settings and shipping prices as the plugin will be only activated for you. Also, it will display debugging information at the checkout page if the Debug Mode is enabled. Delivery Time Give your Cart/Checkout pages a professional aspect by displaying an estimation of the delivery time. International Shipping A wide range of international shipping options are supported: Economy Air Economy Sea Standard International Express International Courier International Custom Boxes I bet you that you want to give your customers the most accurate shipping price. That’s why we have the feature of Custom Boxes, where you can add all of your shipping boxes information. Then the plugin will use this information to calculate the most accurate shipping price. Custom Titles We are eager to grant our customers the maximum options for customizations, other than adding your own shipping boxes, you can even rename every shipping option title to be displayed on the Cart/Checkout pages. Shipping Tracking Give your customers a peace of mind by providing the Australia Post tracking number on the order page. Then a shipping tracking link will be created at their account and also will be included in the order emails. Prepaid Domestic Shipping Domestic satchels make sending easy, giving you a fixed price upfront so you’ll always know your postage costs. Regular Post Small Satchel (500g) Medium Satchel (3kg) Large Satchel (5kg) Express Post Small Satchel (500g) Medium Satchel (3kg) Large Satchel (5kg) Courier Post Medium Satchel (3kg) Letters Shipping If you sell small-sized items, you can always enable the letters option to save your customers high shipping prices and increase sales. Supported letters options: Domestic Letters Options Regular Small Letter Regular Large Letter Regular Large Light Letter Regular Large Medium Letter Regular Large Heavy Letter Express Post Small Envelope Express Post Medium Letter Express Post Large Envelope Priority Small Letter Priority Large Light Letter Priority Large Medium Letter Priority Large Heavy Letter International Letters Options Standard Letter Express Letter Courier Letter Registered Small Letter Registered Large Letter Registered Small Envelope Registered Large Envelope Economy Air Light Letter Economy Air Medium Letter Economy Air Heavy Letter Courier Shipping As it was mentioned before, the plugin supports Courier shipping and prepaid courier satchels in case you need to deliver your product at the same day. Keep in mind that the courier network is available from metropolitan to metropolitan locations. Handling Fees and Discounts If either you need to add a handling fees for your shipping order, or if you want to reduce the shipping costs for your customers. We set an option for that where you can add an amount value to reduce or increase the shipping cost. The value can be either a number or a percentage, positive for handling fees and negative for discounts. Extra Cover Here is another feature to give you or your customers a peace of mind. You can enable the Extra Cover option in case your item’s lost or damaged in transition, you should be qualified for compensation. Signature on Delivery You want to make sure that your package was delivered to the right person? No problem. Just enable the Signature on Delivery option. Separate Extra Services Awesome. Another customizing option. Sometimes you want your customers to have the option whether they want Extra Cover or Signature on Delivery with their order. You only need to enable this option. But keep in mind to also enable Extra Cover or Signature on Delivery. Display the Cheapest options Cut to the Chase and provide the cheapest option to your customers without putting them in the hustle of choosing from many options. Upgrade to Pro Now Documentation

A simple, lightweight shipping plugin that connects your WooCommerce store directly to Australia Post so your customers automatically see real shipping prices at checkout. No manual rate tables, no guessing. What it does in plain terms When a customer adds items to their cart and enters their delivery address at checkout, the plugin quietly contacts the Australia Post API in the background, tells it the total weight and size of the order and where it needs to go, and Australia Post sends back the exact price. That price is then shown to the customer as a shipping option, live, accurate, and automatic. No more overcharging customers on shipping. No more absorbing losses because your flat rate was too low. Just the real Australia Post price, every time. What the customer sees At checkout, instead of a flat “Shipping: $10.00”, they see real options like: Australia Post Parcel Post ($8.50) 3 to 5 business days Australia Post Express Post ($14.20) 1 to 2 business days You can rename these to anything you like, for example “Standard Delivery” and “Express Delivery”, so it looks professional and on-brand. What you control as the store owner Which services to offer Parcel Post, Express Post, or both. International services too if you ship overseas. Service renaming Show “Standard Delivery” instead of “Parcel Post” so customers understand what they are choosing. A handling fee Add a flat amount on top of every rate, for example $2.00 for packaging. You can also use a negative number to discount. A fallback rate If Australia Post cannot return a price for some reason, show a fixed rate instead so customers can still checkout. GST Optionally strip the 10% GST from the rates if WooCommerce is already adding tax separately. Delivery time display Show or hide the estimated delivery days next to each option. Debug mode See exactly what the plugin is sending to Australia Post and what it gets back, useful for troubleshooting. How it handles products with no dimensions set If a product in your store does not have weight or size data entered, the plugin uses a set of default dimensions you configure so it never breaks at checkout and always returns a rate. Best suited for This plugin works best for small to medium sized items that can fit in a single parcel or satchel. It is ideal for stores selling: Books and stationery Clothing and apparel Accessories and jewellery Cosmetics and beauty products Homewares and gifts Electronics and small gadgets Toys and games Art prints and posters Phone cases and tech accessories Supplements and health products Pet accessories and supplies Candles and skincare products Baby clothing and accessories Craft supplies and hobby items Greeting cards and gift wrap DVDs, Blu-rays and media Sunglasses and eyewear Bags and wallets Socks, underwear and activewear Kitchen utensils and small cookware Sports accessories like water bottles, resistance bands and gym gloves Music accessories like picks, strings and small instruments Office supplies and desk accessories Basically if it fits in a standard Australia Post satchel or a small to medium parcel box, this plugin will calculate the rate accurately. It is not recommended for large or bulky items such as furniture, whitegoods or oversized equipment. Technical basics Rates are cached for 15 minutes so it does not hammer the Australia Post API on every page load The cache clears automatically whenever you save your settings Requires a free API key from Australia Post, takes a few minutes to register at developers.auspost.com.au No subscription fees. The plugin only contacts the Australia Post API to fetch live rates (see “External services” below). Compatible with WooCommerce shipping zones, add it to any zone including international zones Supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) Works with WooCommerce block-based checkout External services This plugin connects to the Australia Post Postage Assessment Calculator (PAC) API, an external service operated by Australia Post, to obtain live shipping rates for domestic and international parcels. Without this connection the plugin cannot calculate rates, which is the plugin’s core function. What is sent and when: The plugin sends a request to the Australia Post API every time a customer reaches the checkout (or cart) page and a shipping calculation is required, except when a cached result from the last 15 minutes can be used. The data sent in each request is: the origin postcode (configured by the store owner), the destination postcode and country (entered by the customer at checkout), and the package weight, length, width, and height (calculated from the cart contents, falling back to the configured default dimensions when a product has none). The Australia Post API key (configured by the store owner) is sent in the AUTH-KEY HTTP request header to authenticate the request. No customer name, email address, street address, IP address, or other personal identifier is sent. The endpoints used are: https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au/postage/parcel/domestic/calculate.json for domestic shipments https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au/postage/parcel/international/calculate.json for international shipments This service is provided by Australia Post. By using this plugin you agree to the following Australia Post documents, which are linked here for your reference: Australia Post Terms and Conditions: https://auspost.com.au/terms-conditions Australia Post API Licence Terms of Use: https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/api-licence-terms-of-use.pdf Australia Post Privacy Statement: https://auspost.com.au/privacy