Multi-Carrier ShipEngine Shipping Rates & Address Validation for WooCommerce

Show real carrier rates at checkout and stop guessing at shipping costs. ShipEngine gives you deeply discounted rates from 100+ carriers - this free plugin puts those live rates right on your WooCommerce cart and checkout pages, validates the shipping address before the order is placed, and works with the ShipStation API too. Flat-rate shipping leaks money on every heavy or long-distance order, and surprise shipping costs abandon carts. ShipEngine Shipping for WooCommerce fixes both: buyers pay what shipping actually costs, and you stop eating the difference. The best part? Live rates at cart and checkout, address validation, and rate caching are completely FREE. Upgrade to PRO anytime for label printing, returns, bulk labels, tracking, and multivendor support. Why Store Owners Choose This Plugin

• Live rates at checkout - Real carrier quotes appear the moment a buyer enters their address
• 100+ carriers - USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL and more, through your existing ShipEngine account
• Address validation - Catch typos before the order, cut failed deliveries and reships
• Works with ShipEngine and the ShipStation API - Auctane is consolidating ShipEngine into the ShipStation API; the plugin works under either name and your current key keeps working
• Fast checkout - Recent rates are cached and reused, so busy checkouts stay snappy
• Sandbox mode - Test your full setup before going live
• WP-CLI and AI assistant - Configure and diagnose from the command line

Live Rates at Cart and Checkout Every cart gets a real quote based on weight, destination, and your negotiated ShipEngine rates:

• Show rates on the cart page, checkout, or both - your choice
• Enable rates globally or per shipping zone
• Cap how many carrier options appear at checkout
• Set a min and max rate cost to protect your margin
• Group items into one parcel or quote per product for the best rate
• Add handling fees, markups, or currency conversion
• Include insurance and request-signature services

Address Validation That Prevents Failed Deliveries One wrong address becomes a return-to-sender, a reship, and a support ticket. This plugin validates the shipping address through ShipEngine before checkout completes, so typos and missing units never become your problem. How It Works

1. Connect - Paste your ShipEngine (ShipStation API) key
2. Choose - Pick the carriers to show, and set any rate rules
3. Go live - Buyers see real rates at checkout

FREE vs PRO FREE includes:

• Live rates at cart and checkout
• Address validation
• Rate caching and sandbox mode
• Per-zone or global rates, handling fees, insurance PRO adds:
• One-click and bulk label printing (single PDF)
• Return labels
• Box packing into your real boxes (dimension and weight) and multi-parcel combining for the cheapest quote
• Automatic tracking and customer notifications
• Multivendor origin rates: Dokan, WCFM, MultiVendorX, YITH
• Order auto-completion

Upgrade to PRO Get ShipEngine Shipping PRO to add one-click and bulk label printing, return labels, automatic tracking emails, configurable box packing, and full multivendor support - all from the WooCommerce order screen.

Automatic Installation

1. Go to Plugins → Add New in WordPress admin
2. Search for "ShipEngine Shipping"
3. Click Install Now, then Activate
4. Configure under WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping

Manual Installation

1. Download the plugin ZIP file
2. Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
3. Choose the ZIP and click Install Now
4. Activate, then configure under WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping

1.3.19

• Refreshed the WordPress.org listing: a clearer, benefit-led description, a populated FAQ, and new screenshots showing live rates, settings, label printing, and tracking. No code changes.

1.3.18

• Updated compatibility

1.3.17

• Updated compatibility

1.3.16

• Improved compatibility with PHP 8.2

1.3.15

• Updated compatibility

1.3.14

• Updated compatibility

1.3.13

• Disabled debug by default

1.3.12

• Added support for woocommerce blocks checkout

1.3.11

• Updated compatibility

1.3.10

• Added a warning when enabling address validation

1.3.9

• Updated compatibility

1.3.8

• Updated compatibility

1.3.7

• Verified and updated compatibility

1.3.6

• Ability to set company as required field during checkout. It might be useful for some carriers that don't return rates without a company name.

1.3.5

• Proxy requests to WooCommerce Objects to gracefully handle possibility that they were not initialized
• Add vendor / seller ID to rate meta, so Dokan will pick up chosen shipping methods in children orders

1.3.4 2021-10-04

• Instance settings will be loaded only when Shipping Zones are enabled

1.3.3

• Updated language template file
• Use Cube Dimensions will only work when Combine All Boxes is enabled, so it won't affect pre-configured box sizes
• Display live shipping rates only when live shipping rates is enabled, even when validate address is enabled
• Improved address validation so it won't be possible to bypass it
• Various minor bug fixes

1.3.2

• Improved page detection for Page Condition setting
• Centralized handling of logging to make sure that all log messages will be recorded when debug mode is enabled
• Force calculation of the shipping costs on checkout when Page Condition is set to checkout
• Fixed an issue that plugin was using website currency for live shipping rates even when it isn't supported

1.3.1

• Fixed how shipping rates are combined, so only matching rates for all the parcels will be displayed

1.3.0

• Added more logging message for easier bugging
• Minor HTML fixes
• Changed code to use autoloader instead of including files directly
• Fixed issue that broke plugin when weight adjustment was an empty string
• Updated language template file

1.2.5

• Round default min weight / height / length so they won't generate html5 validation error on save
• New language template file
• Fixed header sent warning when validation errors were displayed after plugin settings have been saved

1.2.4

• Changed how pre-loaded carriers, services and package types are stored to use wordpress options instead of transients

1.2.3

• Synchronized shared code changes
• Added logging of the plugin settings for easier debugging

1.2.2

• Added min length, width, height
• Improved default settings so plugin will be easier setup and use out of the box
• Updated language template

1.2.1

• Fixed the issue that new debug messages were preventing checkout

1.2.0

• Enable debug mode by default
• Ability to choose a condition for what pages live rates will be requested
• Validate products only when this option is enabled in the settings
• Error messages will be displayed in the cart for admin users when debug mode is enabled
• Updated language template

1.1.3

• Ability to control send request timeout
• In order reduce PHP memory requirement product validation has been changed to run in the chunks of 10 products at a time

1.1.2

• Synchronized shared library changes

1.1.1

• Improved simple and variable product validation when settings are saved
• Added ability to use CUBE dimensions for the parcel, it can help to save on shipping when using combine parcels feature or don't have boxes defined

1.1.0

• Ability to have min and max rate cost requirement for shipping rate to be displayed during checkout
• Changed rounding to 2 decimal places
• If package contents is undefined then plugin will fallback to using cart contents
• Add support for free products
• New language template file

1.0.2

• Fixed removal of Boxes and Services
• Fixed loading of the States in the plugin settings

1.0.1

• Improved weight and dimension validation of variable products

1.0

• Initial release.