Isn’t it lovely to have an e-store brimming with orders? Of course, it is. But, for ecommerce store owners in Australia, the agonies begin with that. That is because, after they have all customer orders placed on their website, there is a lot of data they need to deal with. And of course, ensure that the orders reach their customers on time. Now, whenever they enable shipping for their parcels, they need to manually enter the orders into official Australia Post eParcel Portal.
Imagine exporting all the data of your orders every time your customers place an order, creating a CSV file and importing that to the eParcel portal! Doesn’t it sound like a time consuming and tedious task to undertake? Let’s say you export the data to some shipping app and take care of all the shipping from there. But does that app keep your data secure? The answer might be no. This is when you are in dire need of a Magento Australia post eParcel extension.
Send Parcels to the Right Address
Humans are prone to make mistakes. But the question is, how many can you afford? Sending someone’s parcel to someone else, or discovering the address is unclear can cause several issues. You might lose a customer who is buying from you for the first time, or disappoint someone who is a loyal buyer. Even if it is the customer who has made a typo while providing their address. Also, you cannot blame customers as it can come across as rude.
Solution? A feature that fixes this problem even before it occurs. Several Magento based E-parcel extensions available in the market come with the Address validation feature. It has validation features for both; frontend as well as admin. For the frontend, whenever your customer adds a pin-code, they will get the suggestion of cities with a command that asks them to enter the correct address. Thereafter, during consignment generation, if the address is wrong, the Admin gets the list of possibly correct cities. This keeps a lot of issues at bay.
Manage the Consignments
The number of consignments, the size, and type of them keep changing based on the business you have. Now, since the official Australia eParcel works for all Australian ecommerce store owners, it might have some limitations with generating customized articles. The extension enables you to create customized articles even if it is for a single shipment. Not just that, you can also save the parameters for the defined weight and dimension and use it for some other time.
Australia post eParcel shipping extension also enables you to send consignments for label printing by creating automatic manifests for them. And after you have submitted the consignments and generated labels, you can also generate return labels by submitting return label request. It is also possible to create and download consignment labels in bulk.
Customize Shipping Rules
You might or might not want to follow the general shipping rules. In the case of which you can set your own shipping rules and create the shipment range. You can apply the rule along with shipping costs using the extension. In case you want to charge your customers with extra shipping costs or manage charge codes for a particular shipping rule, you can also do that. This feature brings in a lot of freedom for Australian e-store owners who are bound by shipping rules.
Apart from the above-mentioned facilities, you can also manage shipping methods for your e-store using a superior quality extension wherein you can define them, set charge codes and do much more.
Tell Me About an eParcel shipping extension that Works for Me
Oh! We would love to. We have an extension that we have loved to develop being Australia Post’s official partner. Here’s what you can do using it:
- Manage Shipping Methods
- Verify Addresses
- Provide Shipment tracking
- Set Shipping Rules
- Create Manifest Summary Reports
- Generate Bulk Labels & Shipments
- Generate Mass Consignments
With all these features in place, Australian e-store owners do not have to visit the official Australia Post eParcel Portal for managing eParcel shipping. Also, Magento 2 Australia post eParcel extension helps you save the finances spent on printing labels every time one has to attach them to the shipment parcel. Using it, you would be able to do it right from within your store.
Getting over shipping and labeling issues is easy. But only if you want to. All it asks is for you to have a demo of our extension, integrate it to your e-store and get going. If you are skeptical about any of the features, you can read about them in detail on our e-store. Feel free to ask questions if any and we will be more than happy to assist you!
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