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What Makes WooCommerce Shipping Plugins Need of the Hour for Australian E-Vendors?

Topic: Business DevelopmentPublished April 11, 2018

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As businesses have moved on the world wide web, several Australian e-store owners have established their presence online. Most of the small and medium businesses use WooCommerce as their selling platform as it offers a lot of ease. However, not everything is hunky dory at their ends. There are several shipping related problems that they face on the daily basis. Sometimes, they fail to create multiple shipping options. And sometimes, they are not able to provide their customers with the whereabouts of their parcel. When shipping process prolongs due to the above-mentioned reasons, they often end up losing customers. To get over such issues, Australian WooCommerce e-store owners have embraced Australia Post Shipping WooCommerce plugin. A tool that helps them to overcome all the shipping related glitches and helps ensure smooth deliveries. So, what is the reason behind the popularity of these plugins? What makes them the most sought after amongst the Australian e-vendors? Let us try to understand: Real-Time Shipping Rates Let us say your customers want to know about the shipping rates of a product they ordered from your e-store. Now, when they approach you to know about the same, you will probably ask them to visit the official Australia Post Website and consider the rates give on their website. The question here is, for how long you can continue doing that? Wouldn’t it be annoying for your customers to go to the official website each time and know the rates? Of course, it would be. And that’s when WooCommerce Australia Post plugin can come to your rescue. Using it, you can display live rates right from the official website of Australia Post. Also, you can also modify default AusPost service name and replace it by your brand name instead. Make Your Configurations When you are handling an e-store, you need to take care of a lot of aspects. You might have multiple warehouses and need to deliver shipments only to specific countries. You might be delivering products or parcel products. You would also need to handle cash on delivery fees, warehouse postcode and other fees. Now with so many tasks on hand, it is very important to have a robust system that enables you to make configurations like these. WordPress Australia Post Shipping extensions come with General and Advanced shipping settings that enable e-store owners to select product types and take decisions about shipment deliveries. Label Printing Made Easy As we discussed above, thousands of deliveries are made every day from the warehouse of the e-store owners to the doorsteps of the customers. There is one thing that is common about these parcels. All of them, bear a label with the logo of official Australia Post embossed on it. These labels are generated in different sizes and formats according to the parcel. Now, each time you want to generate a label and attach it, it wouldn’t be feasible for you to approach Australia Post. With the help of Australia Post shipping WooCommerce plugin, you can generate labels right from within your store and attach them with all your parcels. This saves a lot of time and efforts of e-store owners. Address Validation Discrepancies in order delivery address can have several ramifications. Deliveries can get delayed, reach the wrong address, and can also fail. How can you help customers and yourself get over issues like these? Well, you can do a lot about it! Once you integrate WordPress Ecommerce plugin with your e-store, and generate shipment, a message saying “There’s something wrong with the address” will get displayed on your screen. So, in case your customer has given wrong address or pin code, you will able to rectify it before you send the parcel out of your door. A feature like address validation saves a lot of time and efforts on the part of Admin and the delivery pitfalls can be avoided. rnIf you have a WooCommerce Store based in Australia and you’re looking for shipping related tools, you are sure to find the best ones online at cost-effective rates. So, what are you waiting for? Make a list of your requirements and get going.

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Maulik Shah is the Founder and CEO of AppJetty, a fast-growing software add-on store selling extensions and plugins for various technologies, like Magento extensions, WordPress Plugins, Sugar/Suite CRM Extension and Odoo Themes. Maulik is a tech enthusiast and writes about the various aspects of e-commerce technology.

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