ShipStation Live Rates for WooCommerce

ShipStation negotiates discounted rates with 100+ carriers. The official ShipStation plugin for WooCommerce cannot show those rates at checkout. ShipStation's own Checkout Rates feature covers Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, and Wix. WooCommerce is not on the list. So your checkout falls back to flat-rate tables, and flat-rate tables leak money on every heavy or long-distance order. The Baymard Institute found that 48% of shoppers abandon their cart when shipping costs come in higher than expected. Without live ShipStation checkout rates, you are guessing what shipping will cost - and either eating the difference or losing the sale. 1TeamSoftware built ShipStation Live Rates for WooCommerce to close that gap. Real carrier quotes on your cart and checkout pages, using the negotiated rates you already pay for inside ShipStation. Buyers pay what shipping actually costs. You stop subsidizing it. Every 1TeamSoftware shipping plugin ships with full HPOS and Blocks checkout support, and this one is no exception. It also connects to a wider ecosystem of shipping, fulfillment, and marketplace tools - detailed below. The best part? Live ShipStation rates at cart and checkout, rate caching, insurance, and signature support are completely FREE. Upgrade to PRO anytime for label printing, two-way order sync, returns, bulk PDF labels, automatic tracking emails, and multivendor origin support. Already on ShipStation Gold or higher? The plugin uses the carriers and negotiated rates already inside your account. Since May 19, 2025, ShipStation restricts API access to a paid Gold subscription. If you are on a lower tier, the API will not return rates. Check shipstation.com for current plan details. Not on Gold yet? See our ShipEngine plugin instead - it works without a ShipStation subscription. Why Store Owners Choose 1TeamSoftware

• ShipStation live rates at checkout - Real carrier quotes appear as soon as the buyer's address is entered, on the pages you choose
• Your negotiated ShipStation rates - Uses the carrier pricing already inside your account, including USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL
• 100+ carriers - Any carrier connected to your ShipStation dashboard, available the moment you paste your API key
• API v1 and v2 support (PRO) - Order sync and rate quoting via the ShipStation REST API, with PRO unlocking the v2 endpoints for labels, tracking, and insurance
• Blocks checkout and HPOS - Works on both classic and Blocks-based WooCommerce checkout, with full High-Performance Order Storage support
• Multivendor origin (PRO) - Per-vendor rates and labels for Dokan, WCFM, MultiVendorX, and YITH

How We Compare The official ShipStation plugin for WooCommerce imports orders and prints labels but cannot show live rates at checkout. This plugin shows live rates at checkout for free, plus free insurance and signature support. PRO adds dimension-based box packing, return labels, and multivendor origin support on top. A Connected Shipping Ecosystem We have been building WooCommerce shipping plugins since 2016, and thousands of stores rely on them across multiple carrier integrations. This ShipStation WooCommerce plugin is one piece of a larger suite, built by the same team to work together:

• Marketplace fulfillment - Shipping Labels for WCFM and Shipping Labels for Dokan let marketplace vendors print their own labels
• Cart splitting - Shipping Packages breaks a cart into independent shipments
• Label automation - Instant Labels automates purchasing and email delivery
• Advanced rate rules - Flexible Shipping Per Package adds table-rate conditions
• Batch documents - Shipping Manifests groups shipments and prints manifests
• Multi-location orders - Package Orders splits orders by ship-from location

A single-purpose rate plugin cannot match this, and neither can the official extension. Stop Losing Money on Flat-Rate Shipping Charge a flat $10 for shipping and the actual carrier cost comes in at $24. You eat $14. Do that on 100 orders a month and you have lost $1,400. Run the same math for a year and the leak becomes hard to ignore. The reverse is just as bad. Charge $20 flat on a light order that costs $7 to ship, and you are overcharging the buyer - which costs you conversions on the orders you would have won on price. ShipStation live rates at checkout solve both sides. Heavy orders cost more. Light orders cost less. Long-distance shipments price correctly. Dense local deliveries price correctly. The buyer pays what the carrier charges, plus whatever margin you configure. Real Carrier Quotes, Not Estimates Most WooCommerce shipping plugins estimate based on weight bands or generic tables. 1TeamSoftware pulls the actual negotiated rate from your ShipStation account for the exact origin, destination, weight, and dimensions of the order. Buyers see what ShipStation would charge you, plus any fixed fee or percentage markup you apply. No surprises on either side of the transaction. Live Rates at Cart and Checkout Every cart gets a real quote based on weight, destination, and your negotiated ShipStation 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 to protect your margin
• Group items into one parcel (PRO) or quote per product for the cheapest rate
• Add a fixed fee or percentage markup to rates
• Include insurance and request-signature services
• Cache recent quotes so a busy checkout stays fast

Which Carriers Can I Show at Checkout? Any carrier connected to your ShipStation account. The most common are:

• USPS - Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, Ground Advantage, Media Mail
• UPS - Ground, Next Day Air, 2nd Day Air, Worldwide services
• FedEx - Express, Ground, Home Delivery, Freight
• DHL - Express, eCommerce, Parcel
• 100+ regional and international carriers - GLS, Evri, Australia Post, Canada Post, Royal Mail, Purolator, and more

You choose which carriers and services appear at checkout, per shipping zone. Whitelist the services you actually sell, hide the rest. Order Sync with Your ShipStation Account PRO connects WooCommerce to your ShipStation dashboard through a two-way ShipStation WooCommerce integration powered by the ShipStation API (v1). Order sync replaces the manual copy-paste that most ShipStation for WooCommerce workflows still rely on. When you buy a label inside WooCommerce, the order is pushed into ShipStation so your dashboard reflects the same fulfillment state. When you process orders inside ShipStation instead - through automations, routing rules, or batch workflows - the tracking number and shipment status flow back into WooCommerce automatically. One source of truth. No copying and pasting tracking numbers. No marking orders complete in two places. Built for Modern WooCommerce

• Blocks checkout - Full support for the WooCommerce Blocks-based checkout experience
• Classic checkout - Works on the legacy shortcode checkout unchanged
• HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) - Compatible with WooCommerce's modern order storage
• PHP 7.3 through 8.3+ - Broad host compatibility
• WordPress 5.6 through 7.0 - Tested across the supported range
• No coding required - Configure everything from WooCommerce shipping settings

How It Works

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

FREE vs PRO FREE includes:

• ShipStation live rates at cart and checkout
• Insurance and signature on demand
• Rate caching and debug mode
• Per-zone or global rates, rate adjustments, insurance PRO adds:
• API v1 order sync: push orders to ShipStation and import tracking back
• One-click and bulk label printing (single PDF)
• Return labels
• Box packing into your real boxes (dimension and weight)
• Automatic tracking and customer notifications
• Multivendor origin rates: Dokan, WCFM, MultiVendorX, and YITH

Upgrade to PRO Get ShipStation Shipping PRO from $29/month or $149/year to add label printing, order sync with your ShipStation dashboard, bulk PDF labels, returns, 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 "ShipStation 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

1.4.19

• Updated compatibility

1.4.18

• Updated compatibility

1.4.17

• Updated compatibility

1.4.16

• Improved compatibility with PHP 8.2

1.4.15

• Updated compatibility

1.4.14

• Updated compatibility

1.4.13

• Disabled debug by default

1.4.12

• Added support for woocommerce blocks checkout

1.4.11

• Updated compatibility

1.4.10

• Added a warning when enabling address validation

1.4.9

• Updated compatibility

1.4.8

• Updated compatibility

1.4.7

• Verified and updated compatibility

1.4.6

• 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.

1.4.5

• 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

1.4.4 2021-10-04

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

1.4.3

• 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

1.4.2

• 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

1.4.1

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

1.4.0

• Added more logging messages for easier debugging
• 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

1.3.6

• Round default min weight / height / length so they won't generate html5 validation error on save
• Added HTML5 min attribute to inputs with steps, like min weight, min height and so on.
• Fixed header sent warning when validation errors were displayed after plugin settings have been saved
• New language template file

1.3.5

• Optimized speed of loading of the carriers, services and package types

1.3.4

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

1.3.3

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

1.3.2

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

1.3.1

• Fixed the issue that new debug messages were preventing checkout

1.3.0

• 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

1.2.3

• 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

1.2.2

• Synchronized shared library changes

1.2.1

• 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

1.2.0

• 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

1.1.9

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

1.1.8

• Added more log messages to ShipStation get rates method
• Minor bug fixes

1.1.7

• New language template

1.1.6

• Improved weight and dimension validation of variable products
• Fixed sorting of the shipping rates displayed in the cart

1.1.5

• Preserve services when API is not failing to return services after cache has expired
• Improved re-request of services and package types when API has failed before that

1.1.4

• Fixed issue when stamps is returning multiple rates for the same service but with the different package type in the service name, we will pick the one with the matching package type to the requested one

1.1.3

• New language template
• Slight rearrangement of settings
• Extract website and customer's email and communicate it to API

1.1.2

• Changed parcel weight adjustment flow to first multiply weight, then add to weight and then set min weight

1.1.1

• Fixed Fixed weight adjustment for international shipments

1.1.0

• Ability to limit number of returned shipping rates
• Various bug fixes
• Moved Live Shipping Rates settings into a separate section
• Updated language template file

1.0.1

• Renamed Admin settings labels to use statements instead of questions. Also made labels and descriptions easier to understand.
• Do not cache validation result of the products
• Moved Settings link before Deactivate link on the plugins page
• Updated language template file

1.0

• Initial release.