WooCommerce Live Shipping Rates at Checkout Integration

Often referred to as “Live Rates” or “Live Shipping Rates” is the shipping rates customers see at checkout when adding items to their shopping cart. In order for your WooCommerce store to show third-party shipping rates at checkout (ie: your discounted shipping rates through ShipNerd) you must add our PlugIn to your store.

How to Install our WooCommerce Shipping Plugin

(1) Please integrate your WooCommerce store to ShipNerd directly through our website:

(2) Download our ShipNerd’s WooCommerce Shipping Plugin

(3) Login to your WooCommerce store, and click on “Plugins”, and then “Add New Plugin”. You will then see an option to “Upload Plugin” which you will need to press . Select the downloaded file from ShipNerd, and click on “Activate Plugin”

(4) Once installed, you will see ShipNerd’s plugin installed

(5) You can now enable this Plugin within ShipNerd. To activate, simply go to “Account Settings”, scroll down to to “Integration Live Rates” and toggle the setting to “on”. Once enabled, you’ll be able to obtain your unique WooCommerce “Live Rate ID”, and API token from ShipNerd.

Head on back to your WooCommerce store, and click on WooCommerce -> Settings -> Shipping -> ShipNerd to input the Live Rates ID and API token obtained from ShipNerd:

Once enabled, ShipNerd’s WooCommerce shipping integration will enable you to show accurate discounted shipping rates to your customers at checkout (with estimated transit times) and hopefully improve conversions!

You’ll notice the word “accurate” in the sentence above… it’s one thing to show shipping rates, but it’s another to show accurate shipping rates. Couriers charge on the greater between actual weight (how much the product weighs) and dimensional weight (the size of the box that you’re shipping). Introducing… ShipNerd’s Product Book

ShipNerd’s Product Book and Smart-Sync

ShipNerd’s Products book enables you to sync your WooCommerce products with ShipNerd and easily configure dims (and weights) for your products, and have our live rates integration quote based on weights and dims (not just weights). You can easily enter your product weights into ShipNerd either using our UI, or by editing an exportable CSV file of your products.

Taking it a step further, we developed our proprietary “Smart-Sync” technology. ShipNerd’s Smart-Sync intelligently synchronizes your marketplace products, saved shipping packages and marketplace orders (in real-time) to ensure the shipping live rates you’re showing on your WooCommerce store are accurate. We strongly suggest configuring your products and saved packages prior to enabling live rates — otherwise you’ll show shipping rates, but they may not be accurate.

Streamlining Shipping with WooCommerce Live Rates

Aside from shipping rates, our WooCommerce Live Rates integration will also show your customers the estimated transit time for delivery. These estimates come directly from the courier based on your origin shipping address and the customer entered destination delivery address. Our integration allows you to disable the transit time estimator and simply show the courier name and service level if preferred.

Naturally there are other expenses that go into shipping such as packaging supplies, packaging materials, etc — all of which have a cost. This is why our WooCommerce shipping integration also allows you to add a margin to the cost of shipping you’re showing at checkout. You’ll be able to add a margin in either $ or % – and by service level. For example, you can choose to add a $5 (or 5%) margin to cover off the cost of boxes and packaging so that your customers pay a little more for ground shipping, but have a different margin for air shipping options.

There’s no cost to using our WooCommerce shipping integration – it’s totally free (just like ShipNerd). Simply pay for what you ship 🙂 👍