Magento Canada Post Shipping Module

This Canada Post Shipping Module is one of the most sophisticated online shipping services available today. Magento uses your product's weight and dimensions to calculate the most accurate rates possible using Canada Post's unique features.

A Canada Post account records information such as the warehouse postal code, handling charges, pick-up times, fulfillment times, delivery options, and box sizes. Using their Sell Online account, you will be able to enter the types of boxes used for packaging. Magento and CanadaPost use this information to determine the appropriate box size for a customer’s order, as well as calculate the specific delivery costs. Using Canada Post's Shipping module, as integrated with Magento, you can present accurate shipping costs for any delivery point in Canada, USA, and worldwide.

In order for Sell Online™ to calculate order specific rates you will need to record the dimension and weight of your inventory. Remember that once this data is captured, you will not be required to measure and weigh each parcel for shipment.

Note the installation requires some modification to the product attributes.We also offer a professional version that is Magento Enterprise compatible and automatically creates all product attributes for you.

Packing and Cost Optimization

The Right Fit for Your Business
The Canada Post shipping module is the first online shipping solution that maximizes packing efficiency.

Advantages

For your customers

Predictability: specific delivery dates

Costs: shipping fees based on weight and distance – not flat rates

Security: increases confidence through Canada Post delivery

Satisfaction: full return service

Control: choice of shipping options that best suit their needs and budget

For your business

Ease-of-Use: unique integrated software maximizes shipping efficiency

Productivity: eliminates the need to measure and weigh parcels

Support: offers packaging guidelines for shipping

Support

Need help? Please contact us at chlabs@collinsharper.com. Paid installation is available.

Before installing / updating or anything else
You should always backup your Magento Database & Magento Installation files.

For more instructions on how to backup your installation please refer to these instructions.
Please read all instructions before you start so you understand all the caveats of installing this module.

To Upgrade
if you have a previous version of this module installed follow the instructions below - if you do not just skip to installation.

Before Installation
1. You must have FTP access to your server.
2. In FTP navigate to 'app/etc/modules/'.
3. Delete 'CanadaPost.xml'.
4. Next, navigate to 'app/code/local/Mage'
5. Delete the CanadaPost folder (all files in it).

Installation
This module requires you have an account with Canada Post. They have great instructions here.

It is very important to configure boxes on the sellonline.canadapost.ca admin.
▪ This module currently only supports English
▪ It expects all measurements to be metric
▪ it will select default measurements based on the weight threshold of products (if the L W H of a product is not set)
▪ It has a optional product attribute called ready to ship, this allows you to set a product as ready to ship and Canda Post won't try and put it into another box

Let's begin!

1. You must have FTP access to your server.
2. Extract the archive to your local computer.
3. Open the Magento root folder, upload the app folder.

Finishing Installation
1. Log in to your Magento admin panel.
2. Click 'System' > 'Cache Management'.
3. 'Select All' and 'Refresh' all cache.
4. Click 'System' > 'Configuration'.
5. Scroll down, on the left side navigation in the 'Sales' group click 'Shipping Methods'.
6. Select the module and enter your details.
7. Select ‘Save Config’ to save your settings.

The module requires:
▪ you to have a Canada Post sell online account
▪ for the most accurate quoting all products need to be setup with Length, Width, Height and Weight information
▪ port 30000 be open for outbound connections on your server to the sellonline.canadapost.ca server
▪ you to have ftp access to your Magento installation
▪ all Length, Width, Height are in cm
▪ default L W H values (low and high) set and the weight threshold set
▪ you configure your shipping settings properly in the Magento backend

Setting up Attributes
1. Log in to your Magento admin panel.
2. Click 'Catalog' > 'Attributes' > 'Manage Attributes'.
3. Select 'Add New Attribute'.
4. Ensure the attribute code is all lowercase.
5. Note they are decimal fields.

Adding Attributes to an Attribute Set
1. Click 'Catalog' > 'Attributes' > 'Manage Attribute Sets
2. Click 'Default'.
3. When the page loads, drag the fields ( L, W, H, Readytoship) to the left pane and save configuration.

Testing
Add product to your shopping cart, checkout and verify your shipping cost is representative of the quote amount you would get from a manual lookup.

If you have issues:
Download this file and send its results with your support request (if the script does not return anything ensure you have port 30000 opened for outbound tcp connections).

FAQs
Q: In your installation document, you stated:
You need to setup product attributes of

Length

Width

Height

Readytoship

I understand length, width, height section, but what value needs to go for "Readytoship" attribute?
A: Ready to ship is a flag for the Canada Post system to know it should not attempt to put the item into a box with other items and treat it as it is already boxed.

Q: Weight threshold - you said "it will select default measurements based on the weight threshold of products (if the L W H of a product is not set)", so does it mean default weight of the product? what value needs to go in here? decimal place weight?
A: If the product has no LWH depending if the weight falls above or below this value, the product will be assigned the low LWH or the high LWH.


For paid installation support feel free to email or call us.

Collins Harper

We do not test any of our modules on the Windows platform nor do we warrant or guarantee they will work on Windows.