About this plugin
Drusoft Shipping for Econt is a high-performance, conflict-free WooCommerce integration for Econt delivery services in Bulgaria. Real-time shipping rates, two-step waybill generation, courier pickup requests, and full order management — all through the official Econt API.
Important Compatibility Note
This plugin is currently not compatible with the WooCommerce Block Cart and Block Checkout pages. Please ensure your store uses the classic shortcode-based Cart ( [woocommerce_cart] ) and Checkout ( [woocommerce_checkout] ) pages.
For Your Customers
- Dynamic Checkout Experience — Real-time city, office, and automat (APS) selection directly on the checkout page.
- Multiple Delivery Types — Choose between delivery to Address, Econt Office, or Econt Automat (APS).
- Smart Street Search — Built-in autocomplete for Bulgarian street names with intelligent prefix handling (e.g. “ул.”, “бул.”).
- Region-Based City Filtering — Cities are filtered by the Bulgarian province selected at checkout.
For Merchants
- HPOS Compatible — Fully supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.
- Automated Data Sync — Uses Action Scheduler to keep Bulgarian cities and Econt offices/automats up to date in the background.
- Waybill Management — Generate, print (PDF), and cancel waybills from the order edit screen.
- Courier Pickup Requests — Request a courier pickup directly from WP admin, with automatic skip of weekends and Bulgarian bank holidays.
- Dedicated Econt Orders Page — Filtered admin list of every Econt order with bulk Generate / Print / Cancel actions.
- Bulgarian (bg_BG) Translation Included.
Also Ship via Speedy or Sameday?
This plugin has siblings for the other Bulgarian couriers: Drusoft Shipping for Speedy and Drusoft Shipping for Sameday (offices, address delivery and easybox lockers). All three share the same checkout UI, settings layout, and admin order-management screens — once you’ve learned one, the others feel familiar. Install as many as your store delivers with; each keeps its own checkout selection.
External Services
This plugin relies on the Econt API, a third-party service provided by Econt AD (Econt Bulgaria), to deliver its shipping functionality. The plugin cannot operate without a valid Econt API account.
What the service is
Econt AD is a courier and logistics company operating in Bulgaria. Their JSON API allows merchants to calculate shipping rates, create shipments (waybills), manage deliveries, request courier pickups, and retrieve location data (cities, offices, automats, streets).
What data is sent and when
Authentication: every request is sent over HTTPS with an Authorization: <private_key> header. The Store ID is only stored locally to identify the merchant in the WooCommerce settings and is not transmitted on every request.
- Recipient address data (city, street, num, office/automat code, postcode, phone, email) — sent when calculating shipping rates on the cart/checkout page and when creating a waybill after order placement.
- Sender address data (name, phone, email, city, street, num) — sent when creating a waybill and when requesting a courier pickup.
- Shipment details (weight, COD flag, currency, package count, item descriptions) — sent when creating a waybill.
- Waybill identifiers (internal id, shipment number) — sent when cancelling a shipment, requesting a courier pickup, or generating an Air Waybill (AWB).
- Location queries (city ID, street name) — sent when the customer searches for cities, offices, automats, or streets, and during the daily background sync of the full Bulgarian nomenclature.
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Service links
- Econt API documentation (Shipments / Nomenclatures): https://ee.econt.com/services/
- Econt Terms and Conditions: https://www.econt.com/en/general-conditions
- Econt Privacy Policy: https://www.econt.com/en/privacy-policy
Econt API Endpoints
This plugin communicates with two Econt API hosts:
- delivery.econt.com — Orders, payments, grouping (demo: delivery-demo.econt.com )
- ee.econt.com — Nomenclatures and Shipments (demo: demo.econt.com/ee/ )
All requests are authenticated with an Authorization: <private_key> header.
Location Data (Nomenclatures)
- POST /services/Nomenclatures/getCities.json — Full list of Bulgarian cities. Used by the background syncer to populate the local wp_drushfe_cities table.
- POST /services/Nomenclatures/getOffices.json — All Econt offices and automats (APS). Used by the background syncer to populate the local wp_drushfe_offices table.
- POST /services/Nomenclatures/getStreets.json — Streets within a specific city. Used by the checkout-page street autocomplete and cached per city in a 24h transient.
Pricing
- POST /services/OrdersService.getPrice.json — Calculates the shipping price for a recipient address, delivery type, and weight. Used live at cart/checkout each time the customer changes their selection.
Shipment Management
- POST /services/OrdersService.updateOrder.json — Creates a waybill draft. Used by the waybill generator on order status change or via the manual “Generate Waybill” action.
- POST /services/OrdersService.createAWB.json — Promotes a draft to a committed Air Waybill, returning the shipment number and PDF URL.
- POST /services/OrdersService.deleteLabel.json — Cancels a single waybill draft by internal id. Used by the per-order “Cancel Shipment” action.
- POST /services/Shipments/LabelService.deleteLabels.json — Bulk-cancels committed AWBs by shipment number. Used by the Econt Orders bulk “Cancel” action.
- POST /services/Shipments/ShipmentService.requestCourier.json — Requests a courier pickup for one or more shipments. Used from the per-order “Request Courier” action; auto-retries on national holiday rejections.
Rate Limiting & Caching
The plugin minimizes API calls through several strategies:
- Local database tables — Cities and offices are synced once per day via Action Scheduler and queried locally.
- Transient caching — Per-city street lists are cached for 24 hours.
- Session storage — Cart selections and the most recent shipping quote are stored in the WooCommerce session, so unchanged selections do not re-quote.