SMSA Shipping for Magento 2

SMSA Shipping is one of the best service providers in the courier industry which makes it the most cost-effective, diverse express, freight, outbound, and inbound shipping services available.

SMSA endeavour to meet the needs of citizens and businesses for domestic and international parcel delivery.

For Magento 2, we have created an add-on called SMSA Shipping for Magento 2. By installing this module, the admin will be able to provide the SMSA Shipping method to the customers for shipping the goods. Also, the admin can even generate the shipping labels and can set tracking numbers to improve business efficiency.

Features of SMSA Shipping for Magento 2

• It will allow the admin to enable or disable the SMSA Shipping module.
• The admin can set the rate according to the weight.
• Admin can create a shipping label.
• Shipping will be calculated by using the SMSA Shipping API.
• Admin can set specific countries for shipping.
• The admin can add the methods allowed for shipping.
• Facilitates the admin to set adding price for per kg in case of shipment with weight more than 15 kg.

Installation of SMSA Shipping for Magento 2

Customers will get a zip folder and they have to extract the contents of this zip folder on their system. Thus, the extracted folder has an src folder, inside the src folder you have the app folder.

You need to transfer this app folder into the Magento2 root directory on the server as shown below.

Hence, 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

So, post running the commands, you have to flush the cache from the Magento admin panel by navigating through->System->Cache management.

SMSA Shipping- Account and Pricing Details

Thus, the merchant in order to add the payment gateway to the website they must have their account at SMSA end from here.

However, the only fee required here is for shipping the order to the customer. Thus, here the cost depends on the distance between the source(merchant address) and destination(customer address). To see the respective cost details the merchant can check the same here- SMSA Shipping Rates.

Multilingual Support

For the multilingual support, the admin will navigate through Store->Configuration->General ->Locale Options. Henceforth, select the locale as German (the language into which the admin wants to translate his store content).

Module Translation

If a user wants to translate their module from English to German. Henceforth, they need to follow the path app/code/Webkul/SMSA/i18n in their unzipped Magento2 SMSA folder. Therein one can get a CSV file with the 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.

So, after editing the CSV, save it and then upload it to the path app/code/Webkul/SMSA/i18n where they have installed Magento2 on the server. So, the module will get translated into the German Language. It supports both RTL and LTR languages.

Thus, the user can edit the CSV like the image below.

Admin Configuration

After the successful installation of the module, the admin will have to configure the module. Hence, the admin will have to fill in all the details for the proper functioning of the module else it might not work.

Also, admin require to get the Pass Key from SMSA customer account.

So, the admin has to fill in all the details by navigating to Store> Configuration> Sales> Delivery Methods.

Store Information

So, the admin can add the store information by navigating to Store> Configuration.

Here, from the General tab, the admin can click on General to fill in the Store Information. Thus, post filling the Store information click on the Save Config to save the details.

Here, the admin can-

• Enter the Store Name
• Add the phone number of the store
• Provide the details for the operation hours of the store
• Enter the country of the store
• Enter the Region/ state of the store
• Input the Zip/ Postal code of the store
• City of the store
• Store street address
• Enter the street address line 2 of the store
• VAT number of the store.

Hence post entering and making selections for all the fields in the configuration settings for this module, the module is all set to be used by the customers.

Customer View

After the setup, the customer can easily use this shipping method for their purchases.

After selecting the SMSA Shipping method customer will click next to select the payment method and review the order. Thus, on the order review page, the shipping method will be displayed like this and with the cost of shipping.

By clicking on place order the order will be placed.

Admin Order Management

Now the Admin views the order from “Sales > Order” and the admin can generate invoices for the ordered products, generate shipment for the order of the products.

However,  the admin can notify the customers by sending them emails, cancel/hold the order, and even edit/reorder the product order.

After creating the Invoice, the admin will create the shipping for the order. So, you can refer to the below screenshot to understand it in a better way.

The admin post submission of the shipping can click on the Shipment Option. Here the admin can Track the shipment, Create shipping Label, Print Shipping Label, and Show Package. So, the admin can even Send the tacking details to customers from here.

Create Shipping Label

The admin click on this option to open a window to enter the packaging.

Thus, in this, the admin will add following details like-

• Type– Here the admin will specify if the Package is the document type of or not.
• Total Weight– The weight of the package is written here.
• The admin will mention the dimension of the product in length, width, and height.

Then the admin can click on the ‘Add selected Product(s) to Package’, which will enable a list of products. The admin can select a product as per choice and click on the Save button.

Remember the Save button here will enable only when to Add the selected product(s) to Package is enabled.

Print Shipping Label

The admin can print the Aramex Shipping label as shown below in the screenshot.

That’s all for the SMSA Shipping for Magento 2 still have any issue feel free to add a ticket and let us know your views to make the module better http://webkul.uvdesk.com/.