Tradewind CSV Exporter for Australia Post

Tick the orders you want to ship, choose Export AusPost manifest from the Bulk actions dropdown, and download a CSV that Australia Post's bulk shipping tool accepts as-is. Orders are split by destination automatically, so you get a Domestic file, an International file, or both, with no reformatting and no retyping addresses. The plugin is free and sends nothing anywhere. It reads your orders and writes a file. Built around what Australia Post actually rejects Getting the columns right is the easy half. Most of the work in this plugin is in the values, because the importer refuses a file for reasons it explains badly:

• Whole-centimetre dimensions. Australia Post rejects any dimension with more than 4 integral digits or more than one decimal place, which a calculated measurement such as 9.18 or 13.65 trips instantly.
• Item weight never below the declared contents. On international manifests each content line is rounded up to the 0.001 kg floor, so a parcel of many sub-gram pieces can declare more across its contents than the order weighs. That is rejected with "the input shipment request is invalid for item content weight". The exported weight is always the larger of the two.
• Customs values of at least 1. Free lines and fully discounted lines would otherwise trigger "Parcel Contents - Value is in error".
• Minimal quoting. PHP's own CSV writer quotes any field containing a space, which produces a header row Australia Post cannot match against its required column names. This plugin quotes a field only when the value truly needs it.
• The Schedule 8 declaration. Australia Post requires every domestic parcel to state whether it contains Schedule 8 or medicinal cannabis. Leave the column out and the upload still succeeds, but MyPost asks for the answer again the moment you open an order to edit it, one order at a time.

Package size that reflects what is in the box Rather than stacking every item, products are packed into your configured parcel footprint: each product's volume is totalled, divided by a configurable packing efficiency to allow for air between items, and spread across the base area. A satchel of thirty flat pieces no longer exports as thirty layers deep. The parcel is also never shallower than the bulkiest single item it has to contain, measured in its best-fitting orientation. Dimensions and weights are converted from your store's own units, so a shop measuring in millimetres or grams still exports correct centimetres and kilograms. Weight works the same way as height. The order's product weights are summed, then raised to your minimum package weight whenever they come in under it, so packaging, padding and products carrying no weight at all never export a parcel lighter than the one you lodge. Signature on delivery, resolved in three steps

1. The customer's own choice, read from the order and from the order's shipping line, so a flag attached to the chosen shipping method is picked up either way.
2. Any shipping method you list as requiring a signature, for services where the signature is a property of the rate rather than a customer choice.
3. Your configured default.

Pro add-on CSV Exporter Pro is a separate, paid add-on for stores that need more: customs descriptions and HS codes per product, variation or category (including 10-digit US codes), marking orders as exported with a warning before a duplicate upload, and importing tracking numbers back onto orders from a CSV. Everything described above stays in this free plugin. For developers Filters: apcsv_content_line (one customs content line, with its item, product and order), apcsv_order_description, apcsv_order_edn, apcsv_customs_missing, apcsv_delivery_address, apcsv_order_signature and apcsv_signature_meta_keys. Actions: apcsv_export_ready (the export notice is about to show) and apcsv_exported (a manifest was written). Links

• Plugin page and version history at bloodweb.net, including downloadable sample manifests
• Full documentation
• Jack Ewers, who builds it

Privacy This plugin makes no external requests. It does not phone home, check for updates from anywhere but WordPress.org, load remote scripts, or transmit order data to any third party. The CSV is built on your own server and sent straight to your browser as a download. Not affiliated with Australia Post This is an independent plugin. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Australia Post. "Australia Post" and "AusPost" are trademarks of the Australian Postal Corporation and are used here only to describe what the plugin is compatible with.

1. Install and activate the plugin. WooCommerce must be active.
2. Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping > AusPost CSV Exporter.
3. Fill in your sender ("Send From") details. These are deliberately empty on a fresh install, and the export refuses to run until Name, Address Line 1, Suburb, State and Postcode are set, rather than producing a manifest with no return address.
4. Set your package defaults: description, parcel length and width, minimum height, packing efficiency and minimum weight.
5. If you ship internationally, set your customs defaults: item description, HS tariff code, Export Declaration Number, reason for export and country of origin. These are also empty on a fresh install, and international exports wait until the item description, HS tariff code and EDN are set. Domestic exports are not held up.

To export, go to WooCommerce > Orders, tick some orders, choose Export AusPost manifest from Bulk actions and click Apply. A notice appears with a download button for each manifest that applies. To export a single order, open it and choose the same entry from the Order actions box.

4.3.1

• Renamed to Tradewind CSV Exporter for Australia Post. Only the displayed name changes: the plugin's directory address, its settings and everything it exports are untouched.

4.3.0

• Security: exported fields that begin with =, +, - or @ are now written as text, so a customer name, address or product title cannot run as a formula when the manifest is opened in Excel, LibreOffice or Sheets. Phone numbers are unaffected: a value made only of digits and phone punctuation is left exactly as it was so Australia Post still accepts it.

4.2.0

• Renamed to Bloodweb CSV Exporter for Australia Post at the WordPress.org directory's request: a plugin name needs a distinctive term of its own in front of "for Australia Post". The plugin folder changes with it, so this version installs alongside an older copy rather than over it. Deactivate and delete the old one first. Settings are untouched: they are stored under the same option names.
• Dropped the pre-3.0.0 compatibility shims: the clk_auspost_ option migration, meta key and filter aliases. Nothing runs that version any more.
• The fallback package weight is now a Minimum Package Weight: a floor under every parcel, rather than a value used only when no product in the order has a weight. Orders that weigh less than it now export the minimum, so packaging is accounted for instead of being declared away. Whatever you had saved carries over as the new minimum, and setting it to 0 keeps the summed product weights exactly as they are.

4.1.1

• Readme: describes the Pro add-on's tracking import accurately.

4.1.0

• Hooks for add-ons: per-line customs values, the parcel description, the EDN, the customs check, and actions when an export is ready and when a manifest is written.
• A link to the optional Pro add-on in the settings footer and on the Plugins screen, hidden once the add-on is installed.

4.0.2

• International exports now wait until the item description, HS tariff code and Export Declaration Number are set. Fresh installs no longer default to one store's jewellery customs values. Domestic exports are unaffected.
• The default domestic delivery service is now STD.
• Error messages are translatable, and the plugin passes WordPress.org's Plugin Check.
• Tested against WooCommerce 11.1.

4.0.1

• Added documentation, plugin page and author links to the Plugins screen and the foot of the settings screen.

4.0.0

• Renamed to CSV Exporter for Australia Post for the WordPress.org directory. Existing settings are kept: the internal option prefix is unchanged.
• Added the Schedule 8 / medicinal cannabis declaration to domestic manifests, so MyPost stops asking for it order by order after an import.
• Renamed the bulk action to "Export AusPost manifest".
• Tested against WordPress 7.1 and declared WooCommerce as a required plugin.

3.0.0

• Renamed every function, option, hook and filter to the apcsv_ prefix. Settings are migrated automatically on first load.
• Signature on delivery now also reads the order's shipping line, and any shipping method marked as signature-required.
• Orders with no shipping address fall back to the billing address as a whole, instead of exporting blank recipient columns.
• Fixed a fatal error on WooCommerce below 5.6, where get_shipping_phone() does not exist.
• Fixed an unticked signature checkbox reading as "no choice made" and falling through to the store default.

2.6.0

• Australia Post's reworked CN23 categories, keeping B2B and B2C sales apart. Values saved under the old list are migrated on read.

2.5.0

• Export a single order from its Order actions box.
• Sender details are no longer pre-filled with another business's address, and the export stops until yours are set.

2.4.0

• Parcel height always clears the bulkiest product in the order.
• Customs values of at least 1, and parcel weight that always covers the contents it declares.

2.3.0

• Volumetric package height with configurable packing efficiency.

2.2.0

• Whole-centimetre dimensions, fixing "Item Height is in error" on upload.
• Dimensions and weights converted from the store's own units.