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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

The best free plugin to display the Australia Post live rates in your WooCommerce store Use this free Australia Post Live Rates plugin for WooCommerce to offer your customers the Australia Post shipping methods for domestic and international shipping. Save time: enter your Australia Post credentials and set everything up in your shop effortlessly in just 5 minutes! A connection with the Australia Post API allows you to display real-time prices based on the products’ weight, shop location, and delivery destination. Features Automatic shipping cost calculation and displaying the Australia Post live rates in cart and checkout Domestic and international Australia Post services Australia Post services’ shipping cost calculation based on the cart weight and the shipping destination Limiting services only to those available for the customer’s address Manual Australia Post services limiting and the possibility to choose which services should be displayed Possibility to set fixed fallback amount in case no Australia Post rates were returned Free shipping over the amount threshold Package default dimensions and weight Optional exclusion of the GST from Australia Post shipping rates Dedicated debug mode for easy troubleshooting Australia Post WooCommerce Live Rates PRO coming soon! Want more? Sign up now for the PRO version and get the 20% discount when it’s released! Sign up for Australia Post WooCommerce Live Rates PRO now → PRO Features – Coming soon with the Australia Post WooCommerce Live Rates PRO Automatic multiple products box packing algorithm based on their weight and volume Possibility to define custom boxes used for shipping and specify their size, weight, and padding Fixed and percentage handling fees or discounts for Australia Post rates Custom Origin allowing to use a different shipper’s address than the default defined in the WooCommerce settings Multi-currency support 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 Australia Post 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 Australia Post 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 Australia Post 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 they should remain hidden. Hide the Australia Post shipping methods based on numerous conditions: 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 Australia Post WooCommerce Live Rates Documentation Why should you choose our Australia Post WooCommerce Live Rates plugin as a shipping integration in your shop? Our Australia Post for WooCommerce plugin is a free Australia Post integration that allows you to display live rates for Australia Post services in your shop. It combines the powerful and useful features with Australia Post quality and reliability as a world-renowned trademark. Trust our experience and move your business forward with our latest plugin! 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/octolize-australia-post-shipping/