ChitChats Shipping for WooCommerce

Description

Are you located in Canada and looking to offer competitive trackable shipping rates to your Canadian, USA and International customers?
ChitChats is the unique shipping service provider that offers possibility to ship your e-commerce and personal packages via USA as if you were physically there.
It means that you will be able to offer shipping methods such as USPS First Class, USPS Priority, UPS Mail Innovation and other shipping methods with tracking for the rates similar to your USA competitors, so your customers won’t even noticed any differences of ordering from you vs other USA located companies.

WooCommerce ChitChats Shipping plugin finds shipping methods with their rates available to a customer’s destination for a current cart’s contents.
Customer then can choose preferred shipping method and proceed with it to checkout.

How does it work?

Features

• Ability to enable for Shipping Zones or globally
• Live shipping rates at WooCommerce cart & checkout with ability to control at what page rates are requested
• Include Insurance and Request Signature service
• Min and max rate cost requirement for shipping rate to be displayed during checkout
• Control max number of live shipping rates that will be displayed in the cart and checkout pages
• Ability to fetch shipping rates for each product or combine them to get better shipping rates
• Accommodate your packaging and marketing material with flexible package weight adjustments
• Charge extra handling fee or implement currency conversion with flexible shipping rate adjustments
• Speed up your website by caching and re-using previously found rates
• Easily find issues by enabling debug mode

PRO Features

• Create and print batches with Shipping Manifests PRO
• Show estimated delivery time of your shipments
• Dimension and weight based packing of the items into configurable boxes
• Ability to combine parcels to get better shipping rates
• Charge extra handling fee or implement currency conversion with shipping rate adjustments
• Display different name for selected shipping services
• Allow all or only selected shipping services
• Define product conditions that have to be matched for service to be offered during checkout
• Configurable purchase postage workflow
• Buy shipping labels in one click per order or in bulk
• Bulk purchase and download of consolidated shipping labels PDF file for multiple orders at once
• Add Auto-Print script to generated PDFs
• Easy access to tracking information for admins and customers
• Automatically notify customers about selected tracking events
• Automatically complete order on seelcted tracking events or when shipping label has been printed
• Synchronization of the shipment status with ChitChats

PRO Version of the plugin

Disclaimer

• 1TeamSoftware does not take any responsibility for what carriers are supported by ChitChats service. If unsure, please verify if your carrier is supported directly with ChitChats service support before installing this plugin.
• This plugin offers integration with third-party services (ChitChats) that may charge fees for various services including, but not limited to, live shipping rates, address validation, and printing labels. Please be advised that 1TeamSoftware is not responsible for any fees incurred from the use of these integrated services. We encourage all customers to thoroughly review the terms and conditions as well as the fee structure of the respective services prior to use. Your use of these services through our plugin constitutes your acceptance of their terms and any associated fees.

Translators

If you have created your own language pack, or have an update for an existing one, you can send gettext PO and MO file to us and we will bundle it.

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Screenshots

Installation

1. Go to WordPress -> Plugins -> Add New
2. Hit Upload Plugin button
3. Hit Choose File button and select zip file with the plugin
4. Hit Install Now button
5. Hit Activate link
6. Installation complete

Reviews

Best support, best plugin

Mark September 22, 2021

for chitchat + woo commerce users this is my secret weapon. It just works, and it’s smart. It’s well setup. Nothing weird. Good UX. Good thoughtfulness for real small business Woo sellers. Thanks guys!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.5.17

• Updated compatibility

1.5.16

• Updated compatibility

1.5.15

• Disable debug by default

1.5.14

• Added support for woocommerce blocks checkout

1.5.13

• Updated compatibility

1.5.12

• Added a warning before enabling address validation

1.5.11

• Updated compatibility

1.5.10

• Removed “Display the cheapest shipping rate only” options because this feature no longer works in ChitChats API.

1.5.9

• Convert service code to the name when it is unknown

1.5.8

• Updated compatibility

1.5.7

• Verified and updated compatibility

1.5.6

• Ability to set company as required field during checkout. It might be useful for some carriers that don’t return rates without a company name.

1.5.5

• Proxy requests to WooCommerce Objects to gracefully handle possibility that they were not initialized
• Add vendor / seller ID to rate meta, so Dokan will pick up chosen shipping methods in children orders

1.5.4

• Instance settings will be loaded only when Shipping Zones are enabled

1.5.3

• Updated language template file
• Use Cube Dimensions will only work when Combine All Boxes is enabled, so it won’t affect pre-configured box sizes
• Display live shipping rates only when live shipping rates is enabled, even when validate address is enabled
• Improved address validation so it won’t be possible to bypass it
• Various minor bug fixes

1.5.2

• Improved page detection for Page Condition setting
• Centralized handling of logging to make sure that all log messages will be recorded when debug mode is enabled
• Force calculation of the shipping costs on checkout when Page Condition is set to checkout
• Fixed an issue that plugin was using website currency for live shipping rates even when it isn’t supported

1.5.1

• Fixed how shipping rates are combined, so only matching rates for all the parcels will be displayed

1.5.0

• Added more logging message for easier bugging
• Minor HTML fixes
• Changed code to use autoloader instead of including files directly
• Fixed issue that broke plugin when weight adjustment was an empty string
• Updated language template file

1.4.4

• Round default min weight / height / length so they won’t generate html5 validation error on save
• Added HTML5 min attribute to inputs with steps, like min weight, min height and so on.
• Fixed header sent warning when validation errors were displayed after plugin settings have been saved
• New language template file

1.4.3

• Synchronized shared code changes
• Added logging of the plugin settings for easier debugging

1.4.2

• Added min length, width, height
• Improved default settings so plugin will be easier setup and use out of the box
• Updated language template

1.4.1

• Fixed the issue that new debug messages were preventing checkout

1.4.0

• Enable debug mode by default
• Ability to choose a condition for what pages live rates will be requested
• Validate products only when this option is enabled in the settings
• Error messages will be displayed in the cart for admin users when debug mode is enabled
• Updated language template
• Use thick_envelope instead of envelope for Canada

1.3.3

• Ability to control send request timeout
• In order reduce PHP memory requirement product validation has been changed to run in the chunks of 10 products at a time

1.3.2

• Synchronized shared library changes

1.3.1

• Improved simple and variable product validation when settings are saved
• Added ability to use CUBE dimensions for the parcel, it can help to save on shipping when using combine parcels feature or don’t have boxes defined
• Add support for the add-on that will allow to group new shipments into batches and create manifests for them
• added support for Chit Chats international tracked method

1.3.0

• Ability to have min and max rate cost requirement for shipping rate to be displayed during checkout
• Changed rounding to 2 decimal places
• If package contents is undefined then plugin will fallback to using cart contents
• Add support for free products
• New language template file

1.2.6

• Fixed removal of Boxes and Services
• Fixed loading of the States in the plugin settings

1.2.5

• Fixed live shipping rates to clean up after themselves

1.2.4

• Improved weight and dimension validation of variable products
• Fixed sorting of the shipping rates displayed in the cart

1.2.3

• New language template
• Slight rearrangement of settings
• Extract website and customer’s email and communicate it to API

1.2.2

• Changed parcel weight adjustment flow to first multiply weight, then add to weight and then set min weight

1.2.1

• Fixed Fixed weight adjustment for international shipments

1.2.0

• Ability to limit number of returned shipping rates
• Various bug fixes
• Moved Live Shipping Rates settings into a separate section
• Updated language template file

1.1.1

• Renamed Admin settings labels to use statements instead of questions. Also made labels and descriptions easier to understand.
• Do not cache validation result of the products
• Moved Settings link before Deactivate link on the plugins page
• Updated language template file
• Use woocommerce currency by default

1.1.0

• Ability to turn off caching, which is useful for debugging and reseting corrupted cache
• Changed to have combine boxes enabled by default
• Added notification when Shipping Zones is getting checked
• Try to use full customer address for live shipping rates when customer is registered
• Fixed default phone number to be 10000000000
• Plugin will validate API settings when settings are saved
• Plugin will validate that products match dimension/weight requirements when settings are saved
• Plugin will validate From address
• Plugin will validate that it has been added to Shipping Zones when Shipping Zones feature is enabled
• Added versioning for CSS and JS to work around possible caching when they are changed
• Parcel packer will communicate SKU of the products
• Improved how destination address is extracted during checkout process, which should improve reliability of live shipping rates

1.0.6

• Added path to debug log in the settings of the plugin

1.0.5

• Added support for the new Chit Chats Domestic Tracked method

1.0.4

• Minor bug fix

1.0.3

• Changed debug to use WooCommerce -> Status -> Logs instead of the messages in the Cart

1.0.2

• Fixed Inclusion of Delivery fees and Insurance

1.0.1

• Added links to Free Shipping and Flexible Shipping plugins
• Fixed PHP compatibility issue

1.0

• Initial release.