WP EasyCart Extension Guides
Full online documentation for the WP EasyCart eCommerce plugin!
Full online documentation for the WP EasyCart eCommerce plugin!
ShipStation is a great extension that connects your WP EasyCart orders to ShipStation for shipping methods, label printing, and automated customer notices for all things shipping, tracking, and labeling. If you need a more automated way of shipping and tracking with your customers, then ShipStation is a great way to streamline the fulfillment and shipping process.
First, you will want to visit www.wpeasycart.com -> members area to download your ShipStation plugin. You may install into WordPress just like any other plugin by visiting your WordPress administrative area -> plugins and uploading it.
You will need to sign up for a free trial account or acquire a new ShipStation account to utilize their services. Please check with them and their website for more information at www.shipstation.com.
Once you get into your ShipStation account and control panel, please visit the ‘Account Settings‘, which is the gear icon in the top right corner. From here, you will select ‘Account‘ and then ‘API Settings‘.
Next, you will want to generate API keys to acquire the API key and API secret. Simply click the button to generate those keys.
In order to finish the connection, go to the WP EasyCart -> Settings -> Third Party menu. From here you should see the ShipStation settings that allow you to enter the API key and API secret that you generated. Be sure to check that there are no spaces at the end of your keys
Note: You may enter an ‘Order Key Prefix’ if you have multiple stores so you can tell which location/website the order is coming from.
You can choose to import orders if you have previous orders you would like to have inserted into the ShipStation manager. ShipStation will let you brand your emails and shipment communications to your liking.
Simply enter the order number/range that you would like to have imported and select ‘import’ to run that process. You should see the orders appear in ShipStation.
In order to automate, ShipStation requires you to setup product dimensions, weights, and other settings. WP EasyCart will send the products to ShipStation, but you must go through products and configure their specific settings on ShipStation. This allows them to create more accurate packaging and shipping costs.
You can learn more about this at ShipStation, but we would like to bring this great option to your attention. Instead of leveraging the WP EasyCart shipping emailer we recommend using ShipStation, which will be more reliable in many cases (many servers are not set up properly for automatic email notifications that do not go to spam) and offer additional options that the EasyCart does not offer. Please visit the branding area in your ShipStation Account => Selling Channels => Store Settings and select edit from your store and then select the branding tab to setup your logo and color scheme within ShipStation. Once you do this, you can notify customers via your ShipStation account that includes a link to track the package on a BRANDED shipment tracking page:
To us, this is a very cool feature that gives your customers piece of mind about their order a shipment.
For more information on ShipStation and the options within your ShipStation Account, please visit the ShipStation help guide.