Shipping Plugins
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Built-in Shipping Plugins
EShop supports 8 popular built-in shipping plugins which are included into the EShop package core and they are ready for you to use immediately after you completed installing EShop on your site:
- Flat Shipping
- Price Shipping
- Item Shipping
- Free Shipping
- Weight Shipping
- Quantity Shipping
- AusPost - Postage Assesment Calculator Shipping
- UPS Shipping
Go to EShop -> Plugins -> Shipping to access to shippings section of EShop. From the list of shipping plugins, you should only publish the shipping plugins that you want to use for your store and unpublished the remains shipping plugins.
We also developed some other shipping methods as Flat Shipping Pro, USPS Shipping as extra add-ons which can be found at: http://joomdonation.com/add-ons/eshop-add-ons.html
Install a new shipping plugin
Sometime, you will need to use a shipping plugin which is not a built-in shipping plugin. In this case, you might have to purchase it at http://joomdonation.com/add-ons/eshop-add-ons.html (if it is available) or develop it by yourself (or hire someone to develop it for you). Once you got the shipping plugin package, you will need to install it. Following are steps to install a new shipping plugin:
- Go to EShop -> Plugins -> Shipping.
- Scroll to bottom of the page.
- Click on Browse button to browse to the shipping plugin package.
- Click on Install button to process the installation.
Config a shipping plugin
Click on the shipping plugin name on the list to config it. Each shipping plugin has parameters to allow you define the shipping cost and the conditions to make that shipping plugin to be available for customers to choose.
In the next parts, we will guide you how to configure shipping plugins in EShop: