SMSA Shipping for Magento 2 Multi-Vendor allows the sellers to provide SMSA Shipping method for shipping thier products to the buyers.
SMSA endeavors to meet the needs of citizens and businesses for domestic and international parcel delivery. The origin of delivery should be Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirates. From these origins, the product can be delivered to all the allowed countries by admin.
Note:
- This module is an add-on to Webkul’s Multi-Vendor Marketplace module. To use this module, you must have install Multi Vendor Marketplace .
Features
- Allows the admin to enable or disable the SMSA Shipping module.
- The rate can be set by the admin based on the weight.
- A shipping label can be created by the admin.
- The weight cost stated by the admin will be used to calculate shipping.
- For shipping, the admin can specify specific countries.
- Allows the admin to specify a per-kg price for shipments weighing more than 15kg.
Installation
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-
| 1 | <strong>php bin/magento setup:upgrade</strong> |
Second Command –
| 1 | <strong>php bin/magento setup:di:compile</strong> |
Third Command –
| 1 | <strong>php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy</strong> |
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 SMSA Express Shipping service 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 weight cost, set by the admin or vendors 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.
- Enable- Here, the admin can enable or disable the module.
- Title- The admin can give the title to be displayed on the customer side.
- Method Name- The admin can customize the method name as per the choice.
- Sandbox Mode- Here, the admin can enable/disable sandbox mode.
- Pass Key- The admin has to write Pass Key.
- Price for first 15 kg- The admin can set the price for the first 15 kg.
- Price for Additional per Kg- Additional charges can be set by admin, above 15 kg.
- Ship to Applicable countries- The admin can set applicable countries to avail of this service.
- Ship to Specific Countries- The admin can select specific countries.
- Sort Order- Here, the admin can set the sort order to display.
- Show Method if Not Applicable- The admin can set the method to be displayed even if it is not applicable.
- Display Error Message- Here, the admin can customize the error message as per the choice.
Customer View
After the setup, the customer can easily use this shipping method for their purchases.
Thus, when any buyer adds the product to the cart then there will be an option to fill up the zip/postal code. Henceforth, then shipping methods and prices will be displayed on the cart page like this screenshot.
After clicking on the “Proceed to checkout” the customer will be redirected to the checkout page, here the customer will have to select the 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.
Invoice
After viewing the order the admin will create the Invoice for the order. However, the invoice post creation is visible in the invoices section of the side panel.
Here, the invoice will contain all the shipping information and the cost of shipping for that particular 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 SMSA Shipping label as shown below in the screenshot.
Workflow – Seller’s End
The sellers can save their SMSA Shipping configuration details if the admin has set the option “Allow Sellers To Save SMSA Shipping Details” to Yes.
NOTE: The shipping rate for SMSA Shipping Shipping rates are calculated based on the weight of the product(s) to the address of the Buyer.
Order Management – Seller’s End
After the buyer has placed the order, the seller can see the order under “My Order History” .
After that, the seller will able to generate invoices for their ordered products, generate the tracking number and shipment for the orders of their products.
Even the seller can notify the customers by sending them emails, cancel/refund the order and also print the order.
Once the seller generates the shipment and invoice, the seller will able to see the complete order details.
Shipment Information :
The seller can see the complete details of the shipment as shown below.
SMSA Shipping Slip:
The seller can click on “SMSA Shipping Slip,” and then the label will get downloaded as shown below.
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