ChitChats Shipping for WooCommerce

Estimates ChitChats shipping rates in the cart, lets customers to choose shipping method.

Author:	OneTeamSoftware (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:	5.6
WordPress version tested:	6.5.2
Plugin version:	1.5.13
Added to WordPress repository:	13-11-2020
Last updated:	12-04-2024
Rating, %:	100
Rated by:	1
Plugin URI:	https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-chitchats-sh...
Total downloads:	3 693
Active installs:	100+
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Are you located in Canada and looking to offer competitive trackable shipping rates to your Canadian, USA and International customers?
ChitChats is the unique shipping service provider that offers possibility to ship your e-commerce and personal packages via USA as if you were physically there.
It means that you will be able to offer shipping methods such as USPS First Class, USPS Priority, UPS Mail Innovation and other shipping methods with tracking for the rates similar to your USA competitors, so your customers won’t even noticed any differences of ordering from you vs other USA located companies.

WooCommerce ChitChats Shipping plugin finds shipping methods with their rates available to a customer’s destination for a current cart’s contents.
Customer then can choose preferred shipping method and proceed with it to checkout.

How does it work?

Features

Ability to enable for Shipping Zones or globally
Live shipping rates at WooCommerce cart & checkout with ability to control at what page rates are requested
Include Insurance and Request Signature service
Min and max rate cost requirement for shipping rate to be displayed during checkout
Control max number of live shipping rates that will be displayed in the cart and checkout pages
Ability to fetch shipping rates for each product or combine them to get better shipping rates
Accommodate your packaging and marketing material with flexible package weight adjustments
Charge extra handling fee or implement currency conversion with flexible shipping rate adjustments
Speed up your website by caching and re-using previously found rates
Easily find issues by enabling debug mode

PRO Features

Create and print batches with Shipping Manifests PRO
Show estimated delivery time of your shipments
Dimension and weight based packing of the items into configurable boxes
Ability to combine parcels to get better shipping rates
Charge extra handling fee or implement currency conversion with shipping rate adjustments
Display different name for selected shipping services
Allow all or only selected shipping services
Define product conditions that have to be matched for service to be offered during checkout
Configurable purchase postage workflow
Buy shipping labels in one click per order or in bulk
Bulk purchase and download of consolidated shipping labels PDF file for multiple orders at once
Add Auto-Print script to generated PDFs
Easy access to tracking information for admins and customers
Automatically notify customers about selected tracking events
Automatically complete order on seelcted tracking events or when shipping label has been printed
Synchronization of the shipment status with ChitChats

PRO Version of the plugin

Disclaimer

1TeamSoftware does not take any responsibility for what carriers are supported by ChitChats service. If unsure, please verify if your carrier is supported directly with ChitChats service support before installing this plugin.
This plugin offers integration with third-party services (ChitChats) that may charge fees for various services including, but not limited to, live shipping rates, address validation, and printing labels. Please be advised that 1TeamSoftware is not responsible for any fees incurred from the use of these integrated services. We encourage all customers to thoroughly review the terms and conditions as well as the fee structure of the respective services prior to use. Your use of these services through our plugin constitutes your acceptance of their terms and any associated fees.

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ChangeLog

1.5.13

Updated compatibility

1.5.12

Added a warning before enabling address validation

1.5.11

Updated compatibility

1.5.10

Removed “Display the cheapest shipping rate only” options because this feature no longer works in ChitChats API.

1.5.9

Convert service code to the name when it is unknown

1.5.8

Updated compatibility

1.5.7

Verified and updated compatibility

1.5.6

Ability to set company as required field during checkout. It might be useful for some carriers that don’t return rates without a company name.

1.5.5

Proxy requests to WooCommerce Objects to gracefully handle possibility that they were not initialized
Add vendor / seller ID to rate meta, so Dokan will pick up chosen shipping methods in children orders

1.5.4

Instance settings will be loaded only when Shipping Zones are enabled

1.5.3

Updated language template file
Use Cube Dimensions will only work when Combine All Boxes is enabled, so it won’t affect pre-configured box sizes
Display live shipping rates only when live shipping rates is enabled, even when validate address is enabled
Improved address validation so it won’t be possible to bypass it
Various minor bug fixes

1.5.2

Improved page detection for Page Condition setting
Centralized handling of logging to make sure that all log messages will be recorded when debug mode is enabled
Force calculation of the shipping costs on checkout when Page Condition is set to checkout
Fixed an issue that plugin was using website currency for live shipping rates even when it isn’t supported

1.5.1

Fixed how shipping rates are combined, so only matching rates for all the parcels will be displayed

1.5.0

Added more logging message for easier bugging
Minor HTML fixes
Changed code to use autoloader instead of including files directly
Fixed issue that broke plugin when weight adjustment was an empty string
Updated language template file

1.4.4

Round default min weight / height / length so they won’t generate html5 validation error on save
Added HTML5 min attribute to inputs with steps, like min weight, min height and so on.
Fixed header sent warning when validation errors were displayed after plugin settings have been saved
New language template file

1.4.3

Synchronized shared code changes
Added logging of the plugin settings for easier debugging

1.4.2

Added min length, width, height
Improved default settings so plugin will be easier setup and use out of the box
Updated language template

1.4.1

Fixed the issue that new debug messages were preventing checkout

1.4.0

Enable debug mode by default
Ability to choose a condition for what pages live rates will be requested
Validate products only when this option is enabled in the settings
Error messages will be displayed in the cart for admin users when debug mode is enabled
Updated language template
Use thick_envelope instead of envelope for Canada

1.3.3

Ability to control send request timeout
In order reduce PHP memory requirement product validation has been changed to run in the chunks of 10 products at a time

1.3.2

Synchronized shared library changes

1.3.1

Improved simple and variable product validation when settings are saved
Added ability to use CUBE dimensions for the parcel, it can help to save on shipping when using combine parcels feature or don’t have boxes defined
Add support for the add-on that will allow to group new shipments into batches and create manifests for them
added support for Chit Chats international tracked method

1.3.0

Ability to have min and max rate cost requirement for shipping rate to be displayed during checkout
Changed rounding to 2 decimal places
If package contents is undefined then plugin will fallback to using cart contents
Add support for free products
New language template file

1.2.6

Fixed removal of Boxes and Services
Fixed loading of the States in the plugin settings

1.2.5

Fixed live shipping rates to clean up after themselves

1.2.4

Improved weight and dimension validation of variable products
Fixed sorting of the shipping rates displayed in the cart

1.2.3

New language template
Slight rearrangement of settings
Extract website and customer’s email and communicate it to API

1.2.2

Changed parcel weight adjustment flow to first multiply weight, then add to weight and then set min weight

1.2.1

Fixed Fixed weight adjustment for international shipments

1.2.0

Ability to limit number of returned shipping rates
Various bug fixes
Moved Live Shipping Rates settings into a separate section
Updated language template file

1.1.1

Renamed Admin settings labels to use statements instead of questions. Also made labels and descriptions easier to understand.
Do not cache validation result of the products
Moved Settings link before Deactivate link on the plugins page
Updated language template file
Use woocommerce currency by default

1.1.0

Ability to turn off caching, which is useful for debugging and reseting corrupted cache
Changed to have combine boxes enabled by default
Added notification when Shipping Zones is getting checked
Try to use full customer address for live shipping rates when customer is registered
Fixed default phone number to be 10000000000
Plugin will validate API settings when settings are saved
Plugin will validate that products match dimension/weight requirements when settings are saved
Plugin will validate From address
Plugin will validate that it has been added to Shipping Zones when Shipping Zones feature is enabled
Added versioning for CSS and JS to work around possible caching when they are changed
Parcel packer will communicate SKU of the products
Improved how destination address is extracted during checkout process, which should improve reliability of live shipping rates

1.0.6

Added path to debug log in the settings of the plugin

1.0.5

Added support for the new Chit Chats Domestic Tracked method

1.0.4

Minor bug fix

1.0.3

Changed debug to use WooCommerce -> Status -> Logs instead of the messages in the Cart

1.0.2

Fixed Inclusion of Delivery fees and Insurance

1.0.1

Added links to Free Shipping and Flexible Shipping plugins
Fixed PHP compatibility issue

1.0

Initial release.

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