How to integrate Australia Post with Shopify to completely automate the order fulfilment process?

With the Australia Post Rates & Labels App by PluginHive, you can achieve this right within your Shopify store.

Once you install the App, it will automatically configure your Store Location as the Shipping Origin. You can modify the Store details if required.

The next step is to configure your Australia Post account credentials.

- Login or Register an account at the Australia Post Developers Centre
- Click on “Register for a key” under the shipping and tracking section
- On the next screen, click on the “Complete Registration” button to proceed further.
- Now, enter the necessary details, choose the required service and enter the account number. A general API key will be generated for the selected services.
- For PluginHive customers, choose the option “Yes” and select the platform as PluginHive from the dropdown list and proceed further.
- Now, you need to select the Australian state where you will be handling your billing.
- Once your request is sent, Australia Post takes around 24 hours to accept the application. You will receive an email containing the account details.

Add the account details in the app and save. Ensure that you have enabled the Production Key. Now, your Australia Post account is successfully integrated.

The shipping costs for your orders are calculated based on the total weight of the product. So, it is important to configure weight for each of the products. If your product dimensional weight is more than the actual weight, you need to configure the product dimensions, choose the advanced packaging option and configure the right boxes.

By default, the app displays all the applicable Australia Post services at the Shopify checkout page. You can choose your preferred Australia Post services to display from the Rates tab.

You can set the display names of the services to show at the Shopify checkout page and control what you charge for the Australia Post services by adjusting the charges. You can add or deduct a percentage or fixed charge for any of the services.

With this, the app set up is complete. Now, Let’s see how the app automates the shipping process.

Add a product to the cart, and proceed to checkout. The app displays real-time Australia Post shipping rates for all the available services.

Now, Let us select Australia Post Express Post, and place the order. Now, let us place another order, but this time, let’s use Free Shipping as the shipping method.

Select the orders and generate shipping labels. You can view both the orders in the app dashboard. Here, the shipping service is set to Australia Post Express Post, the one we selected while placing the order. However, for the other order placed using Free Shipping, the app automatically selects Australia Post Parcel Post, which is the cheapest available shipping service.

Now, you can easily print shipping labels for both the orders with a single click.

Once you generate the Australia Post shipping labels for your orders, the tracking number is automatically updated in the Shopify Order details and the order is marked as fulfilled.

The tracking number is included in the Shopify “Order shipped” email, which is sent to the customers. From the Order Status page, they can click on the Australia Post tracking number to view the status of their order.

Now, initiate the pickup request for both the orders. The package will be collected by the Australia Post agent and delivered to the customer.

And there’s more. The app also helps with other features as well.

You can enable insurance for each product.
Enable Signature on delivery option.
Mark the product as Dangerous goods
You can categorise the products based on the Harmonization (HSN) code
With all these features, the Shopify Australia Post App is the best integrated Australia Post shipping app for Shopify.! So what are you waiting for? The complete Australia Post shipping solution for your Shopify store is available at $19/month.

[cybersechs]

I like how they use a gu y with an American accent for an Australian freight company :D

[asapetti]

do I need the most expensive Shopify plan to be able to use this solution?

[_mrlift]

Can you just take parcels to local post office after printing labels have been pritnted ? rather than have the parcels picked up from business adress?

[StoneHazeCraze]

How do I cancel my automatic bill for app ?

[JanneMaggs]

Can I use a smaller label than the one shown on the video. Can I customise the label?

[metalmaster]

that page size is about 75% larger than the actual LABEL size

[skankponggar]

Also is there multiple aus post apps for labels or just one

[oli]

Hi can we use this in to Business Central as well (Dynamic 365 BC)

[agnesleonardi]

Can we maximised auspost business rates? And how will that work?

How will this app work with international shippings with the different zones?