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Shipping Live Rates for Royal Mail for WooCommerce

Offer Royal Mail shipping methods in WooCommerce with real-time rates. Show dynamic prices at cart and checkout based on weight and addresses.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version2.1.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.4 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update27 Oct 20267d ago
Active installations400Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Shipping Live Rates for Royal Mail for WooCommerce version 2.1.4 as active, updated 7d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

The best free plugin to display the Royal Mail live rates in your WooCommerce store

Use this free Royal Mail Live Rates plugin for WooCommerce to offer your customers the Royal Mail shipping methods for domestic and international shipping.

Save time and set everything up effortlessly in your shop in just 5 minutes!

A connection with the Australia Post API allows you to display real-time prices based on the products’ weight, shop location, and delivery destination.

Features

  • Automatic shipping cost calculation and displaying the Royal Mail live rates in cart and checkout
  • Domestic and international Royal Mail services
  • Royal Mail services’ shipping cost calculation based on the cart weight and the shipping destination
  • Limiting services only to those available for the customer’s address
  • Manual Royal Mail services limiting and possibility to choose which services should be displayed
  • Possibility to set fixed fallback amount in case no Royal Mail rates were returned
  • Free shipping over the amount threshold
  • Package default dimensions and weight
  • Possibility to include optional compensation/insurance
  • Optional exclusion of tax from Royal Mail shipping rates
  • Dedicated debug mode for easy troubleshooting

PRO Features

  • Automatic multiple products box packing algorithm based on their weight and volume
  • Possibility to define custom boxes used for shipping and specify their size, weight and padding
  • Fixed and percentage handling fees or discounts for Royal Mail rates
  • Multi-currency support

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Royal Mail Shipping Services supported by our plugin

  • STL1 – 1st Class Service
  • STL2 – 2nd Class Service
  • STL1S – Signed For 1st Class
  • STL2S – Signed For 2nd Class
  • SD9 – Guaranteed by 9am
  • SD9S – Guaranteed by 9am with Saturday
  • SD1 – Guaranteed by 1pm
  • SD1S – Guaranteed by 1pm with Saturday
  • OLA – International Standard
  • OLS – International Economy
  • OSA – International Signed
  • OTA – International Tracked
  • OTC – International Tracked and Signed
  • T24 – Tracked 24
  • T48 – Tracked 48
  • T24S – Tracked 24 with Signature
  • T48S – Tracked 48 with Signature

Actively developed and supported

000 WooCommerce stores worldwide use our plugins. We constantly develop them, earning the reputation of authors of stable and high-quality solutions. We are also praised for providing excellent technical support.

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The power of Table Rate

The Royal Mail Live Rates plugin for WooCommerce is now compatible with Flexible Shipping – the most powerful Table Rate shipping plugin for WooCommerce. This provides greater control over delivery costs and allows you to take advantage of both live rates and condition-based shipping costs.

You can now combine the prices from the Royal Mail Live Rates plugin with costs calculated based on price and weight. Moreover, when using Flexible Shipping PRO, you get access to 15+ conditions, such as shipping class or product categories. Try for free with Flexible Shipping!

Conditional Shipping Methods

Extend the default functionalities and conditionally display or hide the Royal Mail shipping methods in your WooCommerce store with the Conditional Shipping Methods plugin. Define the rules when the specific shipping methods should be available to pick by your customers and when they should remain hidden.

Hide the Royal Mail shipping methods based on numerous conditions:

  • Product (Product, Product tag, Product category, Shipping class)
  • Cart (Cart total weight, Cart total value)
  • Destination & Time (Day of the week, Time of the day, Location)
  • Other shipping methods and shipping methods with zero cost.

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Docs

View the dedicated Royal Mail WooCommerce Live Rates Documentation

Why should you choose our Royal Mail WooCommerce Live Rates plugin as a shipping integration in your shop?

Our Royal Mail for WooCommerce plugin is a free Royal Mail integration that allows you to display live rates for Royal Mail services in your shop. It combines the powerful and useful features with Royal Mail quality and reliability as a world-renowned trademark. Trust our experience and move your business forward with our latest plugin!

Interested in plugin translations?

We are actively looking for contributors to translate this and other Octolize plugins. Each supported language tremendously helps store owners to conveniently manage shipping operations.

Your translations contribute to the WordPress community at large. Moreover, we’re glad to offer you discounts for our PRO plugins and establish long-term collaboration. com.

Head over here and help us translate this plugin:

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • royal mail
  • royal mail live rates
  • royal mail rates
  • royal mail shipping
  • royal mail woocommerce
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.4 · PHP 7.4
Update activity27 Oct 20267d ago

“Tested up to” is directory metadata supplied by the plugin author. WP PlugIndex does not turn an older declaration into a claim that the plugin is incompatible.

Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version2.1.32.1.4
WordPress compatibility7.1.37.1.4
Version2.1.22.1.3
WordPress compatibility7.1.27.1.3
Version2.1.12.1.2
Version2.1.02.1.1
Version2.0.322.1.0
Version2.0.312.0.32
WordPress compatibility7.1.17.1.2
Version2.0.292.0.31
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.1
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