Original post from user Shipping Department
Hello. The goal is to offer all domestic UPS Services once the product hits the cart.
After successfully setting up and configuring SS with WooCommerce has anyone had difficulty actually offering different shipping options once the product hits the cart?
Seems like it would be intuitive, but quite the contrary. No-one... and I mean no-one, has been able to solve this dilemma. Thank you for the read and any insight to solving this.
-Mike
Hi Mike,
Just to be clear are you looking for solutions to offer live rates on your selling channel? ShipStation is currently working on a feature to accomplish this (we call it "In-cart Delivery Options") and is available for Shopify and BigCommerce stores (with more to come soon).
Until this feature is ready for WC, you might want to use the WC extension with USPS that would allow you to display these live rates.
I also have found that there is a free extension that will give you live rates on WooCommerce for USPS. This is not an official app by either ShipStation or WooCommerce so this is not something that either of us would be able to troubleshoot, but it might be worth a try.
Any word on this? I just setup a shipstation account, but it is pretty useless if I cannot get live rates for my woocommerce account. Your rates are much better than my current rates from UPS, and I need them to match so I don't overcharge/lose customers.
We also desperately need the "Checkout Rates" feature for WooCommerce. Is there any update on this?
I would like to add my name to the list of folks anxiously awaiting this. I kind of can't believe that we're in this position. Hard to know what the hell is going on when development was started and then stopped?!?
Sounds like ShipStation is not too eager to get this implemented, so thankfully there is a worthwhile solution in the meanwhile: Multi-Carrier ShipStation Shipping Rates for WooCommerce
Today I installed the free version and had live ShipStation rates in a couple minutes. After that I upgraded to "Pro", since we have a few specific requirements to work with. All in all it took maybe half an hour to get things the way we need. A few new orders have come in and everything seems to be working well.
For now I am going to keep the WooCommerce USPS Shipping and UPS Shipping plugins installed (each $79/yr), but if all goes well I plan to cancel these and keep just the pro version of Multi-Carrier ShipStation Shipping Rates for WooCommerce (also $79/yr, so the net result will be a 50% savings).
As a side note, we also use WooCommerce Shipment Tracking to take care of syncing the tracking # from ShipStation to include in the customer email notification. Seems to be a good setup.
Anyone aware of a ShipStation alternative that has this functionality in Woocommerce? I'm looking to expand to ship internationally and trying to keep track of all those rates just doesn't make any sense.
Is there any update on this? Are there ANY plans on making ShipStation's UPS/USPS live Checkout rates available to WooCommerce stores? Its been discussed on this forum for quite some time without any progress.
And we just received an email from ShipStation that they will begin charging $20 a month to continue using carriers that aren't offered through ShipStation (Fedex). If there are no plans to provide WooCommerce stores with a UPS checkout rate option, we may need to consider alternate shipping platforms.
I just spoke with SS today. There are zero plans in the near future to address this live rate issue. We have used SS for years but I'm looking for alternatives. SS sinking.
Just wanted to tack this on here - I was told that ShipStation reviews customer ideas and feedback regularly on their ideas board. There is already an idea posted here: https://community.shipstation.com/t5/Stores-Carriers-and-Other/Live-Shipping-Rates-for-WooCommerce/idi-p/15580
I'd suggest liking the idea and adding a comment as a good way of getting their attention.
101% expect live rates to be available. Shipstation is great but this is a major gap and creates plugin bloat to compensate. It's a real PIA to have to pay ANOTHER subscription for reliable live rates. This just means SS costs much more than than we're paying them directly. Free-ish plugins are limiting and it's fun getting rates to actually match across carriers. For the cost, native WOO plugins may be the better option unfortunately.
guess ill just go to easy ship. this multiple plugin situation with innacurate rates and only having basic features when you pay for premium 3rd party plugins just to use SS is silly
So, a workaround here for Woocommerce and UPS is to do a negative (-) price modification on your own account that will offer your customers shipping rates that are more aligned with shipstation. I was having the same issue where my account is substantially higher than shipstation, but was unable to display them on my site. By doing a negative price modification in the UPS plugin, you can essentially offer a better price to your customers. Just don't go overboard and do some testing so you're not losing money 🙂
does anyone know how to get a commercial account with ShipStation to send those rates to WooCommerce Multi Currency ShipStation Pro? the only options it allows for is UPS retail rates which are way too high, or the default ShipStation rates are way too high. ShipStation only supports Shopify, Wix, Big Commerce, and Magento.
Im amazed that Shipstation never developed a plugin-in to get their carrier rates in WOO or added this functionality to their existing plugin.
I have purchased the plugin Multi-Carrier ShipStation Shipping PRO for WooCommerce from 1Team. At first looks its returning the same rates as Shipstation "Rates" section when I am logged in.
more than 7 year people has been asking about this feature and no answer from support. can you clarify what is so hard about this
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