Multi-Vendor ShipStation Integration for Magento 2: Connect your Webkul Marketplace with ShipStation platform for efficient processing, fulfilling, and shipping of orders via major shipping carriers. Magento 2 Multi-Vendor ShipStation Integration will allow sellers and the admin to create shipments using ShipStation web-based software.
Please Note – This module is an add-on of Webkul Magento 2 Marketplace Module. To use this module you must have installed first Webkul Magento 2 Multi-Vendor Marketplace Module.
Features
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- The Admin can enable or disable Marketplace Ship Station Shipping method.
- The Admin can set the Marketplace Ship Station shipping method name that will be shown from the front side.
- The Admin can set allowed Carriers type.
- Ship Station shipping rate will be calculated from the seller’s address.
- The Admin can create Ship Station shipment label
- The Admin can allow sellers to save their Ship Station Credentials.
- The seller can add Invoice & Packing slip address, VAT, TAX information.
- Ability to download Invoice & shipping slip easily.
- The seller can download Ship Station Shipment Label in PDF format.
- The Admin can enable automatically export Magento orders to ship station.
- The Sellers can export order on their Ship Station Account.
- Order status will be sync automatically on Ship Station.
Installation
Customers will get one zip folder and they have to extract the contents of the zip folder on their system.
Please select the correct folder according to your Magento version (2.1.x,2.0.x or 2.2.x).
The extracted folder has an src folder inside it. Inside the src folder, you will find the app folder. You need to transfer this app folder into the Magento2 root directory on the server as shown below.
After the successful installation, you have to run these commands in the Magento2 root directory:
First command – php bin/magento setup:upgrade
Second Command – php bin/magento setup:di:compile
Third Command – php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
After running the commands, you have to flush the cache from Magento admin panel by navigating through->System->Cache management as shown below.
Configuration Of Multi-Lingual Support
Language Translation
If a user wants to translate their module from English to German then they need to follow the path app/code/Webkul/MpShipStation/i18n in their unzipped Magento Marketplace folder and will get a CSV file with name “en_US.csv”. Now they will rename that CSV as “de_DE.csv” and translate all right side content after the comma in the German language. After editing the CSV, save it and then upload it to the path app/code/Webkul/MpShipStation/i18n where they have installed Magento2 on their server. The module will get translated in the German Language. It supports both the LTR and RTL languages.
How To get Shipstation API Credentials
Before you do the module configuration you need to register yourself on the ShipStation website in order to get the API Keys & API Secret.
On the Create Account Page enter all the required fields, read all the terms & condition and submit the details.
After submit, a verification email will be sent at your entered email id.
Now you can go to your email account and can check the verification email there, click on the verification link. After which your account got verified.
Now move to the ShipStation login page enter credentials and then you are successfully logged in to the ShipStation account. Where you can manage your store in a number of ways like get insights into your sales & customer engagement, manage orders, shipments, products, calculate the rate of the shipping etc.
Now in order to get the API Key & Secret, navigate to the Account Settings -> API Settings, and there under the API Keys, you can find both Key & Secret. You can see as per the screenshot below.
Module Configuration
After successful installation of the module, you would be able to configure the module by navigating to ” Stores -> Configuration -> Sales -> Shipping methods, here you can find Webkul Marketplace Ship Station Shipping.
Now, you will be on the module configuration section as shown below in the snapshot.
Here, the admin to configure the module –
- Select “Yes” to enable the extension for use else selects “No” to disable the extension.
- Sandbox Mode-Select “Yes” to select the Sandbox mode(Test mode) else select “No” to use the Production mode.
- Enter the Shipping Title that is visible to the customers at the front-end.
- API Key– Enter the API Key for Admin’s ShipStation account.
- API Secret– Enter the API Secret for Admin’s ShipStation account.
- Weight– Select weight of the package either in Pounds or Kilograms.
- Allow Carriers–
- Ship to Applicable Countries– Here can choose either allow shipping to specific countries or all countries.
- Ship to Specific Countries– Select the specific countries for shipping the product.
- Displayed Error Message- Show error message to the customer if a country other than selected specific countries were chosen.
- Handling Fees– Can manually enter the fees charged for handling.
- Allow Sellers to Manage Shipstation Orders– Can enable the sellers to manage their orders from their respective ShipStation account.
- Show Method if not applicable – Enter the Error Message that will be displayed if “Show Method If Not Applicable” is selected as “Yes“
Now under Ship Station Order Export Setting
- Can select Yes or No to Export Order Automatically to shipstation account of the seller.
- Can Export the discount by selecting Yes or No.
- Can Export custom attributes as custom options for the configurable products.
- Export Child Products in case of configurable products by selecting the option as Yes or No.
Seller Settings
The seller can configure their online store with their ShipStation account. For this, the seller from their seller separate dashboard need to navigate through the Settings -> ShipStation Shipping
Here seller needs to enter the API Key & API Secret as generated in ShipStation account and save the configuration.
Here, the seller needs to enter his ShipStation account related API Key & API Secret. After entering the key & Secret tap the save button to save the configuration.
Front End
When the customer adds the products into the cart and goes for the checkout, he will be able to see the Webkul Ship Station Shipping on the checkout page as per the snapshot below.
The customers can also see the selected shipping method on the Order Review page as well.
Seller Order Management
When the order has been placed, the seller can see the order under “My Order History” as per the image below.
If The admin has selected “Export Order Automatically” option as “No”, then the seller has to export the order manually from the manage order page itself.
Admin Order Management
Also when the order has been placed for the admin’s product, the admin can see the order under “My Order History” as per the image below.
And find the default option for order Export/Update on Shipstation on the manage order page.
Seller ShipStation Management
Now, the seller can find the Exported orders under the orders option.
The seller can view and manage all the exported orders from his Magento store &
- Awaiting Payment Menu: From this, the seller can find the orders who’s invoice has not been generated yet.
- Awaiting Shipment side Menu: From this, the seller can find the orders who’s shipment has not been created yet.
- Shipped side menu: From here, the seller can find the orders who’s shipment has been done created yet.
- Canceled Menu: The seller can find the orders which are canceled.
That’s all for the Magento 2 Marketplace EasyPost Shipping. If you have any suggestions or customization request regarding this extension you can get back to us at webkul.uvdesk.com