Shipping Live Rates and Access Points for UPS for WooCommerce vs Precision Live Rates for WooCommerce

The best free plugin to display UPS live rates in your WooCommerce store Provide your customers with automatically calculated shipping rates for numerous UPS services and let them choose their preferred Access Points. You’ll integrate the plugin in just 5 minutes. How does it work? The shipping cost is calculated automatically online via UPS API connection, so your clients will see every UPS shipping option in the checkout with its real price. There’s no need to “create an application” on the UPS website. You can offer delivery to a UPS Access Point, too. Allow your customers to pick up packages when and where it’s best for them. Enable Access Points support to let the plugin suggest the nearest points for the customer’s address and save the point to the customer’s order. 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Features Automatic shipping costs calculator for UPS live rates Pickup types selection Shipping cost for UPS services based on cart weight and shipping address OAuth one-click authorization with your UPS account (REST API) Alternative connection via UPS Access Key (XML API) UPS negotiated rates Nearest UPS Access Point Limiting services only to those available for the customer’s address Manual UPS services limiting UPS SurePost services available for United States shipments Ability to add insurance Fallback cost in case of connection problems with the UPS API All currencies supported by UPS Debug mode Compatible with WooCommerce Shipping Zones Free shipping threshold UPS Labels extension compatibility PRO Features Automatic box packing for multiple products based on weight and volume UPS Access Points selection and search Fixed value and percentage handling fees/discounts for UPS rates Flat rate for UPS Access Points Estimated delivery date displayed at checkout Advanced estimated delivery date with maximum time in transit, cutoff and lead time Excluding certain days of the week from the estimated delivery date Destination address types Custom boxes with box weight and padding Various box packing methods Multi-currency support using WooCommerce currency switcher plugins Delivery Confirmation Upgrade to PRO Now → Available UPS services UPS Express UPS Standard UPS Worldwide Expedited UPS Worldwide Express Plus UPS Worldwide Saver UPS Worldwide Express Freight UPS Worldwide Express Freight Midday UPS 2nd Day Air UPS 2nd Day Air A.M. UPS 3 Day Select UPS Ground UPS Next Day Air UPS Next Day Air Early UPS Next Day Air Saver UPS Simple Rate SurePost Less than 1 lb SurePost 1 lb or Greater SurePost BPM SurePost Media Mail Actively developed and supported Over 250.000 WooCommerce stores worldwide use our plugins. We constantly develop them, earning the reputation of authors of stable and high-quality solutions. We are also praised for providing excellent technical support. Join the community of our satisfied plugin users: bet on quality, and let our plugins do the rest. The power of Table Rate The UPS Live Rates plugin for WooCommerce is now compatible with Flexible Shipping – the most powerful Table Rate shipping plugin for WooCommerce. This provides greater control over delivery costs and allows you to take advantage of both live rates and condition-based shipping costs. You can now combine the prices from the UPS Live Rates plugin with costs calculated based on price and weight. Moreover, when using Flexible Shipping PRO, you get access to 15+ conditions, such as shipping class or product categories. Try for free with Flexible Shipping! Conditional Shipping Methods Extend the default functionalities and conditionally display or hide the UPS shipping methods in your WooCommerce store with the Conditional Shipping Methods plugin. Define the rules when the specific shipping methods should be available to pick by your customers and when not to. Hide the UPS shipping methods based on: Product (Product, Product tag, Product category, Shipping class) Cart (Cart total weight, Cart total value) Destination & Time (Day of the week, Time of the day, Location) Other shipping methods and shipping methods with zero cost. Buy Conditional Shipping Methods now → Docs View the dedicated Flexible Shipping UPS WooCommerce documentation Support Policy We provide limited support for the free version in the plugin Support Forum. Please upgrade to the PRO version to get priority e-mail support, as well as all PRO features. Upgrade Now → Why should you choose our UPS Live Rates plugin for WooCommerce as a shipping integration in your shop? UPS is a well-known and trusted brand – one of the leaders in its category. It delivers 18 million parcels and letters worldwide every day. Integrate UPS services with your WooCommerce store via the UPS API. Provide your clients with a choice of the brand they trust. Integrate UPS services with your store within a few moments and offer dynamic UPS rates to your customers. Allow your customers to choose the Access Points service. Give your customers access to more than 27,000 locations across Europe and North America to pick up their online purchases. This plugin fully integrates with WooCommerce. It lets you add UPS shipping methods to your store’s shipping zones in the WooCommerce shipping settings. Interested in plugin translations? We are actively looking for contributors to translate this and other Octolize plugins. Each supported language tremendously helps store owners to conveniently manage shipping operations. Your translations contribute to the WordPress community at large. Moreover, we’re glad to offer you discounts for our PRO plugins and establish long-term collaboration. If you have any translation-related questions, please email us at [email protected]. Head over here and help us translate this plugin: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/flexible-shipping-ups/

Precision Live Rates brings real, account-accurate UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, and Stamps.com prices into WooCommerce’s cart and checkout. No flat-rate guesswork, no aggregator markups bolted on top of the carrier rate, no rate drift between cart and checkout. The numbers your customers see are the same numbers you’d see on the carrier dashboard for the same parcel. Under the hood, the plugin packs each cart into the smallest viable parcel using a true 3D bin-packing algorithm (volume-then-SKU-then-product-id deterministic sort, ships-alone overrides honored, custom-packed dimensions for soft goods supported), POSTs the parcel to ShipEngine over HTTPS, dedupes the rate response by carrier+service, and caches the result on your server so identical carts don’t trigger redundant API calls. The same RateService::quote() entry point feeds Classic Checkout, Blocks Checkout, and the WP-CLI wp precision-rates test-rate command — so cart, checkout, and your terminal all return byte-identical rates within the cache TTL. The diagnostic surface is built for real-world support load. The Rate Test admin screen captures every quote attempt’s full request and response from ShipEngine into a 1-hour transient and surfaces it inline (collapsible, color-coded by HTTP status) so when a customer reports “no shipping options,” you can see exactly which carrier returned what. The Services screen auto-discovers every carrier:service_code flowing through the rate filter and lets you uncheck the ones you don’t want shown. The Plugin Status panel on the Overview tab reports the running version, saved API key state, active carriers, cache TTL, and current markup at a glance — so verifying “is the new code actually live with my settings” is a glance, not an SSH dive. Privacy and compliance are first-class. The plugin transmits only postal codes, country codes, and parcel dimensions to ShipEngine — never customer name, email, IP, billing address, or order ID. Suggested privacy-policy boilerplate auto-registers with WP’s Settings → Privacy editor on activation. Personal-data exporter and eraser hooks are wired so the WP Tools → Export/Erase Personal Data flows recognize the plugin as compliant. EU/UK merchants can flip on a Settings → Privacy toggle to render a “Shipping rates calculated using ShipEngine — Privacy policy” line under the cart and checkout shipping options. Highlights Real carrier rates via ShipEngine’s /v1/rates endpoint — UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL Express, Stamps.com all behind a single API key. Or connect UPS / USPS directly with your own developer credentials. True 3D bin-packing via the dvdoug/boxpacker library. Define your box catalog under WooCommerce → Box catalog and items pack into the smallest viable box, ships-alone items respected. Cart = checkout, byte-identical, within the cache TTL. Single quote pipeline shared by Classic Checkout, Blocks Checkout, and WP-CLI. Encrypted credentials at rest via sodium_crypto_secretbox, derived per-install from wp_salt('auth') . AUTH_KEY. The plugin refuses to encrypt anything when AUTH_KEY is missing or matches the WP install placeholder. Per-carrier markup to bridge negotiated rates to retail-equivalent prices. ShipEngine returns each carrier’s negotiated rate (UPS often runs 30-50% below ups.com retail); set “UPS markup %” to 65-75 to display retail-equivalent prices without overcharging USPS shipments. Rate Test diagnostic screen captures the raw request/response of every quote — when checkout shows a price you didn’t expect, this is the source of truth. Services whitelist auto-discovered from carrier responses; uncheck what you don’t want shown to customers. GDPR-compliant out of the box. Privacy policy boilerplate, WP exporter/eraser hooks, opt-in cart disclosure line. i18n-ready — English (source), Spanish (es_ES), French (fr_FR) bundled. Other locales contribute via translate.wordpress.org once the plugin lists, or via pull request to the repo. HPOS-required. No legacy order-table compatibility shims. Modern WC only. Out of scope The plugin is intentionally focused on rate calculation. It does not purchase shipping labels, generate manifests, schedule pickups, sync tracking webhooks back to order status, or integrate with multi-vendor marketplaces (Dokan, WCFM). For label printing and fulfillment, use ShipStation / ShipEngine’s own dashboard or a separate WC label plugin. Privacy & data handling This plugin transmits cart/shipment data to a third-party rate aggregator (ShipEngine, https://www.shipengine.com/) over HTTPS to calculate live carrier rates. Specifically, on each rate quote the following is sent: Origin postal code + country (and optionally street/city/state, as configured in plugin settings) Destination postal code + country (and street/city/state if the customer supplied them) Parcel weight and dimensions, computed from the cart contents The customer’s name, email, phone, IP address, billing address, and order ID are NOT transmitted. Successful rate responses are cached on your server for a short, merchant-configurable duration (60–3600 seconds, default 60). The cache is keyed on parcel dimensions and origin/destination ZIP only — it is not keyed on or attributable to any individual customer. EU/UK merchants should turn on Settings → Privacy → “Display privacy disclosure on cart/checkout” so a small “Shipping rates calculated using ShipEngine — Privacy policy” line renders under the cart and checkout shipping options. Suggested privacy-policy boilerplate is auto-registered with WP’s Settings → Privacy → Policy guide editor on plugin activation. The plugin also registers no-op personal-data exporter and eraser hooks with WordPress so the Tools → Export Personal Data and Tools → Erase Personal Data flows recognise it as compliant — there is nothing per-customer to export or erase, but the hooks are present so the privacy admin’s audit trail correctly accounts for the plugin. Full data-flow documentation, including the GDPR / CCPA / Quebec Law 25 compliance summary, is in PRIVACY.md at the repo root. ShipEngine’s own data-handling practices are at https://auctane.com/privacy-policy/ (Auctane is ShipEngine’s parent company). External services Precision Live Rates calls third-party shipping APIs to obtain live carrier rates. No external service is called until the merchant has explicitly enabled and configured at least one carrier source. The data sent is limited to what is needed to compute a shipping price — see the Privacy & data handling section above for the exact payload. ShipEngine (https://www.shipengine.com/) * What it is: a rate-aggregation API that fronts UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL Express, and Stamps.com. * What is sent: origin postal code, destination postal code + country, parcel weight + dimensions, and the configured ShipEngine carrier IDs. No customer name, email, IP, or order ID. * When it is called: on the cart and checkout pages when WooCommerce asks for shipping rates and the cached rate has expired (default 60 seconds). * Why: to compute live shipping prices that match what the carrier itself would charge. * Terms of service: https://www.shipengine.com/terms-of-service/ * Privacy policy: https://auctane.com/privacy-policy/ (Auctane is ShipEngine’s parent company) UPS Developer APIs (optional, https://developer.ups.com/) * What it is: UPS’s official rate API. * What is sent: same shape as ShipEngine, plus the merchant’s UPS account number. * When it is called: only when the merchant has explicitly enabled UPS direct under Settings → UPS direct and saved valid UPS developer credentials. * Why: lets merchants who have a direct UPS contract bypass ShipEngine and quote against their negotiated rate sheet. * Terms of service: https://www.ups.com/upsdeveloperkit/agreement * Privacy policy: https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/legal-terms-conditions/privacy-notice.page USPS Developer APIs (optional, https://developer.usps.com/) * What it is: the United States Postal Service’s official rate API. * What is sent: origin and destination postal codes, parcel weight + dimensions. * When it is called: only when the merchant has explicitly enabled USPS direct under Settings → USPS direct and saved valid USPS developer credentials. * Why: lets merchants who have a direct USPS account quote against USPS retail rates without ShipEngine in the path. * Terms of service: https://www.usps.com/terms-conditions/general.htm * Privacy policy: https://about.usps.com/who/legal/privacy-policy/welcome.htm