Royal Mail Shipping Plugin

Hi,

There is no specific plugin for Royal Mail. I think they don't have an API to dynamically calculate the shipping rates like UPS, FedEx or USPS.
So you need to manually create shipping methods for the different shipping fees you want to support on your website.
Note that BrainForge has an improved manual shipping plugin available here to better support UK post codes if you need to have shipping fees based on UK post code ranges:
brainforge.co.uk/shop/product/5-plg_hikashopshipping_bfmanual

Hi,

Well, yes and no.
The APIs available there allow you to create an integration to send the order details to Royal Mail and get back a label (so that you can print the label to put on the package) and track the package.
It's basically the same function that can be done with the MyParcel shipping plugin:
www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/245...shipping-plugin.html
So it doesn't help to calculate the shipping fees automatically. You would still need to manually enter the rates like before.

Hi,

Well, the MyParcel plugin is for the MyParcel shipping system.
So it would require developing a Royal Mail plugin for the Royal Mail shipping system.
It was just to give an understanding of what such plugin could do.
You could modify the MyParcel plugin for the Royal Mail plugin, yes. That would basically mean rewriting the whole plugin besides a few lines of code for the structure of the plugin. It's like payment plugins: they are all based on the same structure. So you can use the PayPal payment plugin to write the Stripe plugin, but if you look at their code, besides a few lines of code which the same because they use the same HikaShop triggers, same HikaShop variables/functions, most of the code is actually different.

Hi,

There was no development on that end so far.

However, if you would like us to work on such a plugin for you, that's possible. That would require implementing the API here:
developer.royalmail.net/node/1877912
What we did with MyParcel is interesting:
Someone really needed for his website and proposed for us to work on it. He paid us and allowed us to sell it later on on our marketplace. The advantage is two folds for him:
- It is cheap based on the amount of work necessary (otherwise a plugin like that would cost thousands of euros to develop)
- we then keep on maintaining it down the road for everyone, including him
For us, it allows us to justify the development with the bare minimum of funds up front.
If that's something you would be interesting in, we can further discuss it via our contact form:
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html

Hi,

If you want to do it on your end, that's totally possible. I would recommend basing yourself on the MyParcel plugin code since you need to add the same kind of capabilities.

Hi,

Well, if you want us to work on it, and you have funds (around 700€) and a Royal Mail account (so that we could run tests while developing the plugin), we could do it.
Otherwise, you would indeed have to wait for the plugin to become available in the future.

Hi,

What has been written throughout the years here still stands as far as I know.

There is already a plugin to setup shipping rates for Royal Mail here:
www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/downloads/prod...pping-extra-features

Regarding an integration with the label API of Royal Mail, so far, now one was willing to invest in its development.