Drusoft Shipping for Econt vs ShipBG for WooCommerce

Drusoft Shipping for Econt is a high-performance, conflict-free WooCommerce integration for Econt delivery services in Bulgaria. Real-time shipping rates, two-step waybill generation, courier pickup requests, and full order management — all through the official Econt API. Important Compatibility Note This plugin is currently not compatible with the WooCommerce Block Cart and Block Checkout pages. Please ensure your store uses the classic shortcode-based Cart ([woocommerce_cart]) and Checkout ([woocommerce_checkout]) pages. For Your Customers Dynamic Checkout Experience — Real-time city, office, and automat (APS) selection directly on the checkout page. Multiple Delivery Types — Choose between delivery to Address, Econt Office, or Econt Automat (APS). Smart Street Search — Built-in autocomplete for Bulgarian street names with intelligent prefix handling (e.g. “ул.”, “бул.”). Region-Based City Filtering — Cities are filtered by the Bulgarian province selected at checkout. For Merchants HPOS Compatible — Fully supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage. Automated Data Sync — Uses Action Scheduler to keep Bulgarian cities and Econt offices/automats up to date in the background. Waybill Management — Generate, print (PDF), and cancel waybills from the order edit screen. Courier Pickup Requests — Request a courier pickup directly from WP admin, with automatic skip of weekends and Bulgarian bank holidays. Dedicated Econt Orders Page — Filtered admin list of every Econt order with bulk Generate / Print / Cancel actions. Bulgarian (bg_BG) Translation Included. Also Ship via Speedy? This plugin has a sibling for the Speedy courier: Drusoft Shipping for Speedy. Both plugins share the same checkout UI, settings layout, and admin order-management screens — once you’ve learned one, the other feels familiar. Install both if your store supports delivery via either courier. External Services This plugin relies on the Econt API, a third-party service provided by Econt AD (Econt Bulgaria), to deliver its shipping functionality. The plugin cannot operate without a valid Econt API account. What the service is Econt AD is a courier and logistics company operating in Bulgaria. Their JSON API allows merchants to calculate shipping rates, create shipments (waybills), manage deliveries, request courier pickups, and retrieve location data (cities, offices, automats, streets). What data is sent and when Authentication: every request is sent over HTTPS with an Authorization: header. The Store ID is only stored locally to identify the merchant in the WooCommerce settings and is not transmitted on every request. Recipient address data (city, street, num, office/automat code, postcode, phone, email) — sent when calculating shipping rates on the cart/checkout page and when creating a waybill after order placement. Sender address data (name, phone, email, city, street, num) — sent when creating a waybill and when requesting a courier pickup. Shipment details (weight, COD flag, currency, package count, item descriptions) — sent when creating a waybill. Waybill identifiers (internal id, shipment number) — sent when cancelling a shipment, requesting a courier pickup, or generating an Air Waybill (AWB). Location queries (city ID, street name) — sent when the customer searches for cities, offices, automats, or streets, and during the daily background sync of the full Bulgarian nomenclature. Data is transmitted only when the corresponding action is triggered (a customer changes their selection on checkout, a merchant generates a waybill, the background sync runs, etc.). Service links Econt API documentation (Shipments / Nomenclatures): https://ee.econt.com/services/ Econt Terms and Conditions: https://www.econt.com/en/general-conditions Econt Privacy Policy: https://www.econt.com/en/privacy-policy Econt API Endpoints This plugin communicates with two Econt API hosts: delivery.econt.com — Orders, payments, grouping (demo: delivery-demo.econt.com) ee.econt.com — Nomenclatures and Shipments (demo: demo.econt.com/ee/) All requests are authenticated with an Authorization: header. Location Data (Nomenclatures) POST /services/Nomenclatures/getCities.json — Full list of Bulgarian cities. Used by the background syncer to populate the local wp_drushfe_cities table. POST /services/Nomenclatures/getOffices.json — All Econt offices and automats (APS). Used by the background syncer to populate the local wp_drushfe_offices table. POST /services/Nomenclatures/getStreets.json — Streets within a specific city. Used by the checkout-page street autocomplete and cached per city in a 24h transient. Pricing POST /services/OrdersService.getPrice.json — Calculates the shipping price for a recipient address, delivery type, and weight. Used live at cart/checkout each time the customer changes their selection. Shipment Management POST /services/OrdersService.updateOrder.json — Creates a waybill draft. Used by the waybill generator on order status change or via the manual “Generate Waybill” action. POST /services/OrdersService.createAWB.json — Promotes a draft to a committed Air Waybill, returning the shipment number and PDF URL. POST /services/OrdersService.deleteLabel.json — Cancels a single waybill draft by internal id. Used by the per-order “Cancel Shipment” action. POST /services/Shipments/LabelService.deleteLabels.json — Bulk-cancels committed AWBs by shipment number. Used by the Econt Orders bulk “Cancel” action. POST /services/Shipments/ShipmentService.requestCourier.json — Requests a courier pickup for one or more shipments. Used from the per-order “Request Courier” action; auto-retries on national holiday rejections. Rate Limiting & Caching The plugin minimizes API calls through several strategies: Local database tables — Cities and offices are synced once per day via Action Scheduler and queried locally. Transient caching — Per-city street lists are cached for 24 hours. Session storage — Cart selections and the most recent shipping quote are stored in the WooCommerce session, so unchanged selections do not re-quote.

ShipBG connects your WooCommerce store to the Bulgarian courier accounts you already use. You connect your own carrier accounts, and the plugin brings live delivery prices, pickup-point selection, waybill creation, label printing and tracking into WooCommerce. Supported carriers: Speedy Econt Pigeon BoxNow Sameday PostOne Direx Main features: Live rates in checkout — show delivery prices from your connected carriers for address, office or locker delivery. Pickup-point map and search — customers choose offices and lockers directly in checkout, with typo-tolerant search. No extra checkout clutter — ShipBG works with the normal WooCommerce address flow and suggests nearby pickup points when possible. Waybills from the order screen — create shipments without copying order data into carrier portals. PDF and ZPL labels — print one label or generate labels in bulk for many orders. COD support — send cash-on-delivery details to supported carriers while payouts stay under your own carrier contract. Tracking updates — sync shipment statuses back to WooCommerce and show customers a tracking timeline. Returns and cancellation — start returns or cancel shipments from WooCommerce where the carrier supports it. Flexible delivery pricing — set free-shipping thresholds, fixed prices or merchant subsidies by carrier, delivery type, order value or weight. Checkout resilience — optional merchant-configured fallback rates can keep checkout available during temporary API or carrier outages. Classic and Blocks checkout — supports both WooCommerce checkout experiences. HPOS compatible — uses WooCommerce order APIs, not direct postmeta writes. Requirements: WordPress 5.0 or higher WooCommerce 8.0 or higher PHP 7.4 or higher A ShipBG account Your own account or contract with each carrier you want to enable External Service Usage: This plugin relies on the following external services: ShipBG API (https://shipbg.com/api/v1) — Required. This is the core backend the plugin is an integration for. What it’s used for: real-time shipping rate calculation, shipment creation, label generation, shipment tracking, pickup-point search, address autocomplete/geocoding, returns, cancellation and account connection. What data is sent, and when: * Order details, customer shipping address (name, street, city, postcode, country, phone, email), and parcel dimensions/weight are sent whenever the merchant calculates rates at checkout or creates a shipment from the admin order screen. * Free-text address queries are sent when a customer uses the pickup-point map or address autocomplete at checkout. * Shipment IDs are sent when the merchant refreshes tracking status, downloads a label, cancels a shipment or starts a return. * A store-identifying OAuth token is sent with every request (configured once during setup). Terms of Service: https://shipbg.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://shipbg.com/privacy-policy A ShipBG account is required for the plugin to function. OpenStreetMap tile server (https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/) — Browser-side only. What it’s used for: Rendering the pickup-point selection map on the classic WooCommerce checkout page (via Leaflet). What data is sent, and when: Only the customer’s browser requests map tiles. Each request contains the tile coordinates (z/x/y) the map needs to render the visible area. No personal data, order data, or plugin-specific data is sent. Terms of Service: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ Privacy Policy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy