Transport company "Delivery" PRO Plus, a add-on for calculating, processing and controlling delivery for an online store on CMS CS-Cart

Transport company "Delivery" PRO Plus, a add-on for calculating, processing and controlling delivery for an online store on the CMS CS-Cart platform for creating a CS-Cart Multi-Vendor marketplace

Transport company "Delivery" is the delivery of your orders throughout Russia. Today, the Transport company "Delivery" is one of the largest transport companies, which is trusted with their cargo by more than 12 thousand online stores across the country. This is greatly facilitated by a well-developed network of order collection points more than 40 thousand branches throughout the country.

Transport company "Delivery" is a simple and convenient billing system. We have our own facilities that allow us to transport small-sized goods, medium-sized goods and large-sized goods, fragile items that require special transportation conditions, as well as goods that need special storage conditions.

Transport company "Delivery" has been operating in the delivery market for more than 10 years, constantly developing and offering its customers new opportunities.

Delivery of orders to CIS countries

Transport company "Delivery" delivers orders from online stores to five CIS countries-Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.

• 517 delivery points in 187 cities.
• Courier delivery to 22,000 населенныхlocalities.
• Fast processing of parcels;
• Refund of unclaimed orders;
• Cash on delivery for orders to Kazakhstan;
• Support at all stages of work.

< p>Through the integration of the online store with the Transport Company "Delivery": your customers will place orders independently.

< h2>The add-on is available in two versions "Transport company" Delivery " PRO "modifications" Transport company "Delivery" PRO Plus "

Transport company "Delivery"  PRO  – connecting to your store the ability to manage deliveries by the transport company "Delivery".

You will be able to connect an unlimited number of accounts for yourself and your suppliers that also use the Delivery service.

Transport company "Delivery"  < b>PRO & nbsp; Plusnbsp- allows you to connect more than 40 transport companies to your site plus expands the capabilities of the basic add-on.

< p>Using a single add-on for all transport companies instead of a separate add-on for each one is more convenient and faster.

When loading the checkout (this is the delivery and payment selection page), you must make a preliminary calculation of the delivery cost for all available transport companies. If you use separate add-ons, you will have to wait for each of them to request information from the delivery service.

And the more add-ons you use, the longer the checkout will take to load. The risk is high. That the buyer won't wait for the download to finish. If you use the same add-on for all transport companies, the speed of loading the checkout increases significantly. 

In addition, the PRO Plus version includes features that are not available in the basic version.

Important! To get the add-on for free, you must confirm your domain in your merchant profile. 

Brief description of the add-on's functionality

• Calculating the cost of delivery to checkout;&;;
•  Automatic order processing in the transport company; 
•  Order validation before packaging; 
•  Delivery on behalf of the marketplace or on behalf of the seller; 
•  Multi-seat shipments;  < li>Using a separate return address for different delivery methods.&li>
•  Использование отдельного адреса возврата для разных методов доставки; 
• Matching ApiShip statuses ApiShipwith those of transport companies;nbsp;
•  Bulk loading of order packaging information; 
• nbsp;СправочникTariff Guidenbsp;
•  Loading the map of pick-up points in checkout after clicking; 
•   Cargo tracking by track number; 
•  Regular testing of delivery methods in the background; 
•  Cargo collection from the warehouse; 
• Linking orders;nbsp;
•  Displaying information from the transport company in the order;  < li>Creating delivery methods from templates.li>
•  Создание методов доставки из шаблонов.

Full description of the functionality of the integration add-on of the transport company "Delivery"

One of the most important parts of online trading is the delivery of orders to the buyer. How quickly the order is delivered and how convenient it will be for the buyer to receive it largely depends вернетсяon whether the buyer will return to your online store for new purchases.

Our add-on will allow you to automate the interaction between your online store and the Delivery transport company as much as possible. You can manage your deliveries without leaving the administrative panel of your site.

< p>The add-on automatically places a delivery order based on information about the order from the buyer. At the checkout stage, the order is validated with mandatory verification of the correctness of filling in the departure and delivery addresses, phone numbers, and whether the shipment meets the tariff requirements.

Configuring delivery methods

< p>Setting up a new delivery method will not require much time and effort. Just fill in a few fields:

• pricing plan,
• delivery type if a courier picks up cargo from a warehouse, the address is pulled up from the store or warehouse address,
• type of cargo delivery, if the cargo is delivered to the pick-up point, then the address of this point, if the cargo is delivered to the buyer, the address is pulled up from the order.

You must also specify the maximum and minimum weight and dimensions of the cargo, as well as the default dimensions.

You can also enable additional services in the settings, such as:

• Viewing the attachment.
• Fitting of order items.
• Partial delivery and inspection of the attachment.

Address labels and the acceptancecertificate< / h3>

You don't have to go to the website of the transport company "Delivery" to download the accompanying documents. You can request and receive everything you need in the administrative panel of your site.

Before proceeding to the packaging of an order, you need to go to it, specify the composition, check the delivery parameters specified in the order with the actual ones, and make changes if necessary.

Once you've packed your orders, you select them from the order list and order address labels for them. Then they need to be printed and pasted on orders.

When a batch of orders is formed, you need to re-select all orders that you have 100% prepared for shipment and request a receiptand transfer certificate. You also need to print out the report and attach it to the batch to send it to the POA or courier.

Separate cargo space or multiple shipments

Let's assume that you have an order that contains both regular items, such as t-shirts, books, or a phone, and medium-sized or large-sized items, such as a microwave oven. If you calculate the cost of order delivery based on the volume weight of the entire order, the tariff operator will not allow you to do this, since the volume weight will exceed the maximum allowed for the selected tariff.

< p>The add-on supports delivery of multiple items to a single destination. In other words, an order can be packed in different boxes instead of one. At the same time, it will be charged as a single shipment.

This feature can be useful in several cases. For example, you received an order from a customer. You have some of the products in stock, and you immediately prepared them for shipment.   And one or more products should be delivered to you by the supplier in the near future. You wait for delivery, and pack the rest of the items from the order.

If the order contains large-sized items, such as household appliances. For example, you received an order for three T-shirts, a phone, and a microwave oven. T-shirts and phone can easily be packed in one box, and the microwave will go as a separate cargoplace.

For such products that require a separate cargo space and do not need additional repackaging, you can specify in the settings that separate cargo spaces are immediately formed for them when forming an orderгрузоместа.

If an item was mistakenly marked as a separate cargoitem and you need to pack it in a box with other items, you just need to change the information in the order.

< p>The storekeeper packs the order in different boxes, each of which meets the requirements of the tariff. All boxes from the same order are formed into a single batch. All products from it are listed in one invoice.

< p>Using separate cargo spaces allows you to be sure that the calculation of the delivery cost will be correct and within the tariff.

Default dimensions

< p>Unfortunately, very often suppliers have very poorly filled out product information. And very often there is no data about the weight and dimensions of the product. And they are necessary for calculating the preliminary cost of delivery.

Of course, you will still need to check all the product cards and enter all the necessary data. And how long will it take? Day, week, month? You can't delay the start of sales of a new product range for such a long time.

Our add-on uses расчетаthe default dimensions for calculating the delivery cost of such products. Specify the dimensions and weight in the settings, based on the parameters that are most common among your products.

Weight and size restrictions for the Delivery transport company

The buyer will not find out which of the tariffs is suitable for delivery of a particular order. At the stage of placing an order, the add-on compares the parameters of each product with the restrictions of the Delivery transport company's tariffs, and displays in the checkout only those delivery methods that are suitable for transporting all the goods in the order and correspond to the warehouse category.

Tracking order movement

You will know exactly at what stage the order is being delivered. The add-on automatically synchronizes the order statuses with the Delivery transport company statuses: from "Ready for delivery to the transport company" to "Delivered to the recipient". Order statuses are displayed in the administrative panel of the online store, as well as in the buyer's personal account.

If you have your own delivery service and plan to use the Transport Company "Delivery" Pro add-on in parallel, you can set up different statuses for different delivery methods to make it easier to follow the progress of orders.

Tracking by track number

You and your administrators will be able to track the delivery process by order status. However, most likely, they will not be clear to customers. They don't have time to figure out what status means. For them, the add-on allows you to track delivery by track number on the website of the transport company "Delivery" or in the app. Just щелкнутьclick on the order number or save it and paste it into the app.

Protection against accidental actions

We are all human beings, and we make mistakes from time to time. For example, your administrator may inadvertently remove a transport company from the add-on that still has undelivered orders. To avoid this, we have designed protection against accidental or deliberate errors: in the settings, you can specify which order statuses can be used to delete the transport company. This way, you can disable the contract only after all orders are in the completed status.

Address labels

Using the additional functionality, you can print your own template for the address label (not included in the add-on), or use the address label generated by the shipping company "Delivery".

A custom address label is used in more complex logistics schemes than moving from the store's warehouse to the customer. It is usually used when working with the PRO Plus version of the add-on.

Logging type

Choose the type of logging that is convenient for you in the settings:

• File system,
• The database.

All interactions of the add-on with the registration server and расчетаthe delivery cost calculation are recorded in the logging files. If there are errors in the add-on, for example, due to updating the platform or add-ons of other developers, the reason can be understood from the logging file.  

< p>The Pro Plus version includes a broader set of error tracking features.

Free shipping for buyers

For some products, you can afford to include the shipping cost in the product price. For example, if the cost of delivery to different districts of Moscow does not differ significantly for some products, you can include the average delivery cost in the product price and make delivery free for the buyer. You will not lose much in profit, but you will increase your competitiveness.

To attract attention to your products, you can arrange various promotions and discounts. However, add-ons that create promotions use additional system resources to calculate a discount for the buyer.

It is much easier to set up free shipping either at a specific rate for a particular city, region, or for the entire country. This will give you an advantage over your competitors and attract customers ' attention to your products, but it will not affect the operation of your store.

Tax

Payment add-ons require information that delivery is also an item that the buyer pays for. And нееyou also need to pass the tax rate for it. Our add-on supports transmitting the delivery tax rate for payment add-ons (this information is processed on the payment add-on's side).

Using a separate return address for different shipping methods

By default, the address from the online store window or warehouse address is used for returns. However, in some cases, it is more convenient for the product to be returned to a different address than the address of the store or warehouse of departure.

You can specify this address in the delivery method settings in the "Return address" section. You can set up different delivery methods for different categories of goods that require special storage or delivery conditions: large-sized goods, medium-sized goods, jewelry, and so on.

Information in the order about the order in the AD

After installing the add-on, a new tab "Information from the transport company" appears in the order. Immediately after creating an order, it displays the data that the store transmits to the Delivery transport company. This makes it easy to track down where the error lies if the delivery order doesn't pass validation.

All addresses involved in delivery, phone numbers, delivery parameters, and other order details. If an error has crept into one of these items, you can easily ееdetect and correct it. This speeds up order processing.

Delivery parameters

< p>Delivery parameters: the product's weight and dimensions are not always constant. The product card does not always contain accurate data, and sometimes the weight and size of the product are not specified in the card at all. In this caseрасчета, the default parameters from the delivery method settings are used to pre-calculate the delivery cost.

< p>Then the warehouse staff collects the order, weighs and measures the goods, and clarifies the data in the order. In addition, several products can be packed in one box. And when calculating the actual cost of delivery, the weight and dimensions of this box should be used. When the transport company "Delivery" accepts the cargo, they also ещеweigh and measure it again.

The entire history of changes in delivery parameters is also displayed in the order in the "Information from the transport company" tab.

Mapping statuses

< p>ApiShip does ApiShipnot have the most extensive set of statuses – only 19 options, while transport companies sometimes have a very rich set of statuses, for example, the Delivery transport company has 45 of them. The add-on allows you to independently compare the ApiShipApiShip statuses and the Delivery transport company statuses. Thanks to this, you will be able to clearly track the process of moving the order from the moment it is transferred to the transport company and until it is issued to the buyer or returned to the warehouse if the buyer did not redeem the order.

< h3>Optimize the speed of checkout when placing an order

When loading чекаутаa checkout, the Maps and Geolocation add-on loads maps of order pick-up points in the background. When rendering the map, the add-on uses server resources. As a result, the larger the city, the more pick-up points, and the weaker the server, the longer the map will take to load. In some cases, the download delay may be several tens of seconds. Not every customer agrees to wait so long for the checkout to load.

To optimize checkout loading, we removed the map loading under the button. First, the checkout is loaded, the buyer selects the payment method, enters the address, and selects the delivery method. And only after that, at the click of a button, the map of pick-up points starts loading.

Regular testing of delivery methods in the background

< p>The transport company "Delivery" has only two standard tariffs. In other words, you only need to set up two delivery methods, and everything seems to be simple and easy. On the other hand, you may need to create different delivery methods for different regions or with different additional services. And now the number of delivery methods in the online store is growing to a dozen or more. And at any time, one or more of them may no longer be displayed in the checkout due to errors.

Here are some examples of why the delivery method may disappear from the checkout or return an error:

• The contract with the transport company is disabled in the settings.
• There is a new add-on that affects the operation of delivery methods, for example: the add-on "MW: Logistics: fulfillment, cross-docking, your warehouse, points of delivery", which adds the ability to work with warehouses, and because of this, the order processing model has changed.
• The address of the warehouse that the delivery method is configured for changes.
• The order pick-up point was disabled or its id or address was changed.
• One of the store's administrators changed their contact information: first name, last name, phone number.
• The phone number or address of one of the delivery participants is filled in incorrectly.
• One of the store's administrators changed the password to the personal account of the Delivery transport company.
• The delivery region is not configured correctly.
• The delivery method's availability region has changed.
• The delivery parameters are filled in incorrectly: mainly the default weight and dimensions, as well as the maximum and minimum weight and dimensions of the shipment.
• An additional service is enabled that is not supported by the selected tariff.

ОстаетсяThe question remains, how and when will you find out? It's possible that some customers will write a review with a complaint about this moment, but most likely you will find out about this by the sharply increased number of abandoned baskets.

So that you can find out about errors in delivery methods in a timely manner, we have created an algorithm for testing delivery methods in the background. You set up testing, choose the shipping address, the buyer on whose behalf the test is performed, the product, and the frequency of testing. Then the test will run automatically according to the specified schedule. This will allow you to find out about errors and their causes in a timely manner, and therefore fix them as soon as possible.

This functionality is especially relevant if you have more than one storefront. The more storefronts and websites there are, the more difficult it is to test delivery methods manually. Automatic testing will save you time and effort for other, more important and complex tasks.

What you need to enable the add-on

First, sign a contract withthe Delivery company and get their login details for your personal account. The add-on supports connecting an unlimited number of contracts.

< p>Please note that to deliver jewelry, you will need to sign an additional contract and create a second transport company in the add-on settings.

Second, go to the site & nbsp;ApiShipand register there to get access to your personal account.

< p>In the PRO Plus version, you can connect more than 40 transport companies.

Connecting additional transport companies with the PRO Plus version

Transport company "Delivery" is a very popular transport company, but this does not mean that it will suit every customer. It's always best to give your customers the best possible choice.

However, the more integration add-ons you add to your site, the more the site load increases. We offer you one add-on that will allow you to connect more than 42 transport companies through the ApiShip serviceApiShip. One integration add-on is the minimum load on the server and database. The speed of calculating the delivery cost and rendering the checkout will not depend on the hardware capacity.

It won't take long: you install the add-on, register with ApiShip, and add any transport companies to the contract settings. After that, you can create delivery methods for different transport companies ' tariffs.

< h2>Coming soon: Tracking the delivery created by the supplier

If you sell goods from the supplier's warehouse without moving them to your own warehouse, then delivery of orders will be made on the supplier's side, and not on your site. However, you also need to track this delivery from being handed over to the shipping company "Delivery" to being handed over to the buyer.

Soon the add-on will be able to track delivery by track number or order number created in another warehouse accounting program. This is a much more convenient and informative method. It lets you not only find out the delivery stage, but also:

• Accurately track the order's location.
• Get information about the Fair Sign ID when paying by cash on delivery,
• Track the time when the cargo was delivered to the buyer.
• Check врученwhether the cargo is fully or partially delivered.
• Analyze the weight and dimensions of the shipment to make sure that the buyer has received exactly what they ordered.
• Check the number of cargo seats and much more.  

CONTACTS

< p>Up-to-date information about changes in the add-on's functionality, as well as compatibility with other add-ons, is published in our Telegram channel and in the group < /a>VKONTAKTE

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You can send a request to the support service, ask questions to managers about the work or completion of the add-on можете через via messengers,the group < /a>VKONTAKTE and yandex. mail.

- WhatsApp +7-923-364-90-07

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- E-mail: info@maurisweb.ru

Detailed instructions for using the add-on

For instructions, see < a href="https://maurisweb.ru/help/?hel... " > link. The instructions are current at the time of publication. The add-on is regularly updated and improved. There may be minor differences in add-on management and the number of add-on settings.