Drusoft Shipping for Econt vs Speedy And Econt Shipping

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.

This plugin adds the checkout functionality to chose from offices of Speedy and Econt couriers in Bulgaria. The functionality might get extended to other countries by simply adding parameters to respective API calls. Functionality provided offload list of regions, cities and offices for Econt and Speedy in the Bulgaria update the offices’ data on daily basis generates select boxes for the region-city-office bundle for each courier provides option for delivery to home address hides all shipping methods available (since other way of chosing them is used) shows how much order value left till free delivery with selected delivery option Plugin settings allow to set the following credentials to access Speedy and Econt APIs shipping labels shipping fees free shipping from currency to be used Prerequisites contact Speedy courier to provide you with API access store username (should be digits only) and password provided in the settings Setup steps install and activate plugin create 1 fixed_fee shipping method open plugin’ settings and specify all the parameters requested click [Save] button wait till data is refreshed (for first set – wait for 1 minute, for subsequent change – at 3:05 AM daily) add few items to your cart and proceed to checkout verify checkout process is smooth and no errors are raised when placing the order Note This plugin creates tables and populate data from respective APIs asynchronously. So, please expect empty regions/cities/offices lists for first few minutes after plugin activation. Donation If you wish to donate to support this plugin please do this to one of the non-profits you adore. They need it more.