bpost shipping

Bpost Shipping Manager is a service offered by bpost, allowing your customer to choose their preferred delivery method when ordering in your Woocommerce webshop.

The following delivery methods are currently supported:

• Delivery at home or at the office.
• Delivery in a pick-up point or postal office.
• Delivery in a parcel locker.
• Delivery in one of the shop points.

The plugin offers following advantages:

• Provide access to a wide choice of delivery methods
• Offer value added services (insurance, notification)
• No manual input/input document (csv/xml/…) required
• Configurable delivery costs, based on promotion rules of Woocommerce
• Labels generated by bpack in different formats compliant to industry standards
• Electronic data exchange for 100% data quality
• No validation requirements. Print & ship!

Real time interfacing with your bpost shipping manager account means that your shop orders are automatically added to the bpost portal.

No more hassle and 100% transparent!

Get more informations on bpost Shipping Manager
http://bpost.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/158702

Prerequisite

You need a bpost Shipping Manager active account.
More info to suscribe this service here: http://www.bpost.be/site/fr/business/send_post/parcels/shippingmanager.html

Please be sure you defined a valid default sender address in the Shipping Manager backend; as well as prices for each weight range, for each shipping method.
Check also the other Shipping Manager backend prerequisites detailed in https://bpost.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/4000070401-prerequisites-configuration-default-sender-address-and-price-range-configuration

For any other question, do not hesitate to access bpost online support pages at https://bpost.freshdesk.com/solution/folders/4000015009

Features

Based on the bpost Shipping Manager account settings :

• display allowed delivery methods
• enables bpost only for countries allowed in bpost Shipping Manager backend
• takes into account shipping costs, per country, per weight
• takes into account error, confirm and cancel pages
• creates orders in bpost Shipping Manager backend once orders are finalized in the shop
• adds custom fields “phone” and “email” address fields to be filled in within the bpost Shipping Manager if delivery address chosen in the shop is different than the billing address
• plugin is trilingual: fr_FR, nl_Nl and en_EN

Usage notice

bpost shipping is not allowed and will display an error message:

• if total weight of the order is above 30 kgs or the equivalent in OZ
• if cash on delivery payment mode is selected

bpost shipping supports:

• free shipping coupons from standard Woocommerce feature – NOT requiring that “Free delivery” method is active!
• free shipping for some shopping cart amount AND/OR some countries (to be defined in bpost shipping settings in Woocommerce) – in this case, shipping costs defined in bpost Shipping Manager backend are overriden

bpost shipping does NOT take into account the Woocommerce “shipping classes”, nor the VAT/taxes configured to apply on the shipping costs.
Indeed: shipping costs are always “VAT 21% inclusive” in bpost Shipping Manager backend.

bpost shipping costs depending on the parcels weight are managed through the values defined in bpost Shipping Manager backend, and all prices are (belgian) taxes included.

Compatibility

bpost shipping plugin is compatible with Woocommerce as from 2.4.8

bpost shipping plugin requires PHP 7.2 or higher

bpost shipping plugin has been tested and is compatible with the following extensions:

• Ogone Payment Gateway for WooCommerce – http://www.woothemes.com/products/ogone/
• WooCommerce PostNL Parcelware – https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-postnl-parcelware/
• UPS WooCommerce Shipping Method Plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/ups-woocommerce-shipping-method/
• WPML Multilingual CMS – https://wpml.org/
• WPML String Translation – https://wpml.org/
• WPML Translation Management – https://wpml.org/
• WPML Media – https://wpml.org/