Advanced shipping to handle
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Hi good morning everyone and happy new year to all the community
First of all sorry for my english is not one of the bests but i will try anywayI’m having a really complex shipping matter to handle in Woocommerce.
I’m building a spare parts website for a client and get stuck in the shipping I don’t know how to handle it.
So I will explain the matter and hopes someone can help me.
All the client needs for the shipping :
1) – For the international shipping he wants to use Fedex and Chronopost (for fedex he
wants to be able to show the live rates for clients in the checkout).
2) – For the national he want to use Colissimo and Chronopost (Because we are in
France and they have better prices).
3) – And obviously a platform that can connect to woocommerce and import all orders,
so that when we will recieve an order the guys in the store doesn’t have to
access the wordpress dashboard but go to an external platform to be able to see
all the orders and be able to print the labels to begin shipping products.I’ve tested a plugins named Flexible Shipping For FedEx, connected it with the api from the client’s fedex account, And chooses weights based shipping to calculate shipping rates and it works but the rates are not accurates.
For fedex api to reply with a live rate they want to know the weight and the Packaging
dimensions L×W×H. So I think the pluging is taking the weights and chooses between fedex’s standard packaging.
The only problem is that spare parts have really different volume weight ratio : for
example they will be air filters that have a big volume but less weight and other spares that have more weight than volume.
And let’s consider a client orders (1 air filter, 2 pistons, and 8 O-rings) I can do the sums of products weights to get the final weight but how can I calculate the final packaging dimensions to get a more accurates live rates from fedex API ??Maybe it’s not the right way to think about the problem, hopes someone can rederect me
to the right road.
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