When we first started Spiffy Stores, one of the first features we added was a shipping rate calculator for Australia Post. Remember, this was back in the day when live shipping rates were a bit of a novelty in ecommerce software.
So it is with great pleasure that we are now able to offer our online store owners an enhanced version of the Australia Post shipping rate calculator which supports the full range of Australia Post’s parcel shipping services.
Included in this release is support for the following new services –
- Parcel Post Satchels
- Express Post Satchels
- Express Post Platinum
- Express Post Platinum Satchel
- Registered Post International
- Pack and Track International
This new support comes from the recently announced Australia Post initiative to boost their support for the rapidly growing online shopping and delivery market. As part of this initiative, a new international tracked parcel product called “Pack and Track International” has been introduced, initially supporting parcels between Australia and the United States.
We’re pleased to be announcing this support as part of our ongoing commitment to support Australian small business and to provide them with the best tools available to help them run their online ecommerce ventures. We’re also proud to be offering this support to our Australian store owners, when other so-called “market leaders” just ignore Australian businesses and concentrate on the North American market.
We’re also introducing some exciting new technology into our Shipping Rate calculators that automatically splits up a customer’s order into multiple parcels. This is a real boon when you’ve got a mixture of heavy and bulky items to ship with your normal standard weight items, and it means you won’t have to worry any more about losing money because of incorrect shipping rate calculations.
This technology is unique to Spiffy Stores and is one of a range of advanced features that are designed to make running an online store as easy as possible.
Existing store owners can activate the new services by going to the “Shipping carriers” section of the Store Toolbox. More information about the new services can be found in our knowledge base.
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Is there any way you can integrate with Aust Post eParcel to print labels, or import order details into their system?
Hi Paul
We’d love to do this. Unfortunately we’ve been unable to get any sort of documentation out of Australia Post to be able to make this happen. If you have any info on the required format for files for importing into the eParcel system, please send it through to us at support@spiffystores.com
Cheers!
Shawn
I was just wondering if you had any advances on the e-parcel system?. Currently we use e-parcel but it requires a double handling of downloading then uploading the altered excell spreadsheet. I would imagine it would (or at least should) not be too hard to automate the process somehow.
Hi Alec
As I said to Paul… we’re unable to find out anything about their file formats from Australia Post. If you have any information that could help us to make the process easier for all store owners to get info into e-parcel, please give me a call on 1300 727 334.
We now have a deep integration with eParcel. Check out our article at https://www.spiffystores.com.au/blog/2017/07/18/spiffy-stores-fulfilments-and-australia-post-eparcel-a-new-partnership/