BG Couriers for WooCommerce

Changelog

0.4.5

• Fixed: on a phone the courier menu was cut off at the edge of the screen, and the street field was a few characters wide. Both had one cause. The delivery fields sit in a cell of WooCommerce’s order table, and such a cell is never narrower than the widest thing in it that cannot shrink – the town and office boxes draw the chosen value on a single unbroken line, so the cell insisted on 350px, more than a 360px phone has to give once the theme keeps a label column beside it. The table then grew wider than the screen. With “to address” open the office row is hidden, the table fits again, and the same arithmetic spent what was left on the house-number field and left the street around 70px. The cell now asks for 143px, and on a narrow screen the room goes to the street name rather than the number.
• Fixed: the checkout could be scrolled sideways on a phone. The office list’s hidden <select> – the one the search box replaces – was being stretched back to the width of its longest office name by one of the plugin’s own rules. It is out of flow, so nothing looked out of place; it simply reached past the right edge and gave the whole page a horizontal scrollbar (a 320px screen scrolled to 419px).
• Changed: the delivery fields now lay themselves out for the space they are given, not for the size of the screen. How much room they get is the theme’s decision – the same phone leaves them 171px on one shop and 280px on another – so in a narrow column the street name takes a line of its own, block/entrance/floor/apartment go two and two, and the Map button beside the office list becomes the same pin the address row uses. Wide columns are unchanged.
• Changed: the courier box takes the whole row on a phone. It shared it with the theme’s label column, which kept about 130px of a 320px screen for a heading this row does not have.
• Changed: everything you tap is big enough to tap. Fields, delivery tabs and the map buttons are at least 44px on a touch screen, the (i) that says who the delivery is paid to is no longer a 15px dot, and every field is set at 16px – below that, iOS zooms the page in the moment a field is focused and the customer has to pinch it back.
• Fixed: the street box answered in English. “Please enter 2 or more characters” and the rest of the search box’s own messages were never translated, because they come from the dropdown library rather than from the plugin. They go through the plugin’s own translations now.

0.4.4

• Changed: a courier can be switched on before it is set up. Enabling one used to be refused until its credentials were saved and validated – which was impossible for two of them, whose “send parcels from” address can only be picked off a list their own API returns once the credentials work. The switch is yours now; underneath it the tab lists what is still missing, and the checkout is what withholds the courier until the list is empty.
• Fixed: a courier with missing credentials, or credentials marked as needing re-validation, is no longer offered at the checkout. The ✕ beside a credential field marks it for re-entry and deliberately keeps the stored value, so the courier went on quoting and pricing with credentials the shop had just called into question – and could not print a label for any of it.
• Fixed: a courier with every delivery option switched off was still offered, priced as a delivery to an office nobody had left enabled.
• New: the tab says when a courier is not in any shipping zone. It is the usual reason a courier that is on, validated and fully configured never appears at the checkout, and nothing anywhere used to mention it.

0.4.3

• Fixed: switching a courier on saved it off. The toggle on a courier’s tab disabled its own checkbox while it saved, and a disabled field is not part of the form that gets sent – so the setting arrived empty and was stored as “off”. This affected every courier and had been there since the toggle was added: one you had just enabled came back disabled, and one you were setting up for the first time could never be switched on at all.
• Fixed: a settings save that failed said nothing. It looked exactly like one that worked – the switch turned green and nothing was written. A failure is now shown, with the error the server gave, and a courier is no longer enabled on the strength of a save that did not happen.

0.4.2

• New: Европът, a seventh courier – to its offices and to an address, with live prices for every destination, labels, tracking and cancellation. Which end the parcel leaves from is a setting rather than an assumption: Европът prices the whole journey, and the same parcel costs 4.59 counter-to-counter against 6.52 door-to-door, so a shop that hands its parcels over at an office would otherwise be quoted for a collection it never asks for.
• Fixed: the price shown for a delivery paid at the door was short by the courier’s VAT. That row followed the shop’s own “show prices with tax” setting – but the courier charges its VAT whatever a shop displays, so the customer was told 2.20 and handed the courier 2.64. Measured on a live shop for every courier; each was short by exactly its own VAT.
• Fixed: four couriers quote a price that already includes VAT, and the shop was adding it a second time. Pigeon, Econt, Express One and Европът all return a total that looks exactly like a net one, and only their printed waybills say otherwise. A shop charging the delivery with the order billed 3.11 for a delivery Pigeon collects 2.59 for.
• Fixed: a shop that does not calculate tax was charging its customers less for delivery than the courier invoices it. The delivery price is handed to WooCommerce for the shipping tax to be added on top, and a shop with tax calculation switched off adds none – while the courier invoices its VAT all the same. Sameday quoted 1.37 for a locker parcel and invoiced 1.66 for it.
• Changed: the fixed and fallback delivery prices you type in, and BOX NOW’s flat rate, now say that they are without VAT – they are used as the shipping rate’s cost, which is what that means.

0.4.1

• Fixed: a courier you had switched off was still offered at the checkout. Everything else respected the switch – the cart estimate, the map, the office lookups – but the shipping method itself never asked, so a courier left in a shipping zone kept pricing and kept being shown while its own settings tab said it was off.
• New: automatic labels can now be decided per courier, not once for the whole shop. Each courier’s tab has its own answer: follow the general setting, on, or off.
• Changed: for a courier that comes for the parcel as soon as a waybill exists, automatic labels now start off. Most couriers are asked to collect in a separate request, so issuing the waybill early costs nothing; Sameday has no such request – creating the shipment is what puts it in that day’s collection list, and the courier arrives within a couple of hours. A waybill issued the moment an order is paid therefore sends a van to a parcel nobody has packed. Shops that were already running keep whatever they had.

0.4.0

• New: Express One, a sixth courier – to its offices, to an address, and to its EXOBOX lockers, with live prices for each destination, labels, tracking, cancellation and a courier request. Its street list is its own: Express One refuses an address it was not given a street id for, so the checkout offers only streets it knows rather than letting one be typed and refused hours later at the packing table.
• New: Express One carries no cash on delivery to a locker (the courier’s own rule), so the checkout stops offering наложен платеж the moment a locker is chosen, says why, and prices the delivery without a collection fee it will not charge. A waybill that would collect nothing is refused before it is printed.
• Fixed: a parcel nobody weighed was quoted at 100 g and posted at a kilo – every courier. The checkout priced a shipment lighter than the one the label went out with, and the difference came out of the shop on every order for a product with no weight on it.
• Fixed: “Re-issue waybill” could be stopped by the waybill it was replacing. If the courier had already voided the shipment itself – a collection it refused, a parcel it never took – clearing the dead number was reported as a failure, and the shop was left unable to issue a new label for a parcel nobody was coming for.
• Fixed: the phone number is now required on the block checkout too. It was required on the classic one; on the block checkout WooCommerce’s own setting decided, and a shop that had it optional sent orders to the courier with no number to call.
• Changed: a new shop no longer charges the delivery inside the order total. Collecting a fee and paying it straight out again puts turnover through the books that the shop never keeps, so the customer now pays the courier at the door and the price is shown for information. A shop that was already running keeps exactly what it had.

0.3.8

• New: the checkout can insist on an e-mail address – a setting, off by default. The plugin makes the field optional (a waybill is built with the phone number), and until now a shop that needed the address had to edit its theme.
• Fixed: a Pigeon Express parcel that came back never moved the order. The journey home travels under a second waybill the order was never told about.
• Fixed: “Request a courier” now names every ticked order it leaves out, instead of quietly shrinking the list you are about to confirm.
• Fixed: an address the shop cannot deliver to now says so, and offers the way back – it used to end in WooCommerce’s “check your address” about an address with nothing wrong with it.
• Changed: the map’s town field opens its whole list when you press it; it used to answer only to typing.

0.3.7

• New: Request a courier – tick the orders, pick a day, the courier comes for those parcels (Speedy, Econt).
• New: Pigeon Express can collect from your address instead of you dropping parcels at its office.
• Fixed: cancelling an already-cancelled Sameday shipment reported a failure and left the waybill on the order.
• Changed: BOX NOW is no longer told what a prepaid parcel is worth, unless you turn it on.

0.3.6

• Fixed: cash on delivery was never priced. The courier’s fee for collecting the money was missing from every quote – on 50 EUR: Econt +0.78, Pigeon +0.75, Sameday +0.50, Speedy +0.40.
• Fixed: deleting the plugin now removes its settings, tables and label PDFs.
• Fixed: a Speedy cancel could report failure when the courier had cancelled.
• New: Econt partial delivery (частична доставка), off by default.

0.3.5

• Fixed: delivery was quoted about 20% high until a town was chosen – the pre-town price carried its VAT and was then taxed again.
• Fixed: the interactive map and the checkout could show different prices for the same office.

Older entries: https://github.com/dangoriaynov/bg-couriers/blob/main/docs/CHANGELOG.md