What are you trying to do?
My client has a really light weighted product (Calendars) can be post by letter. The postage cost for letters was $4.8 using C4 size. Instead of the cheapest parcel, it would be costing $8. And they can fit 3 of the same item in that letter. So its 3 for $4.8, instead of 1 for $8. But they are fine with 1 for $4.8.
Background:
I am currently doing the craft commerce shipping category + shipping methods to enable post via letter. Although there are only 4 types of regular letters sizes in Australia Post, but I had to do 8 shipping categories, because my client also required some products aren't available for pickup.
By the way, the height of the API was the thickness of letters, and it can't be greater than 20 mm.
So maybe do a pre-check for the heightof each variant, if it's greater than 20 mm. We don't have to try to call letters API.
And letter postage option should be strictly limited to the items that are provided with dimensions. If the variant only provided weight, we can skip the domestic letter shipping.
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3 years ago
What are you trying to do? My client has a really light weighted product (Calendars) can be post by letter. The postage cost for letters was $4.8 using C4 size. Instead of the cheapest parcel, it would be costing $8. And they can fit 3 of the same item in that letter. So its 3 for $4.8, instead of 1 for $8. But they are fine with 1 for $4.8.
Background: I am currently doing the craft commerce shipping category + shipping methods to enable post via letter. Although there are only 4 types of regular letters sizes in Australia Post, but I had to do 8 shipping categories, because my client also required some products aren't available for pickup.
What's your proposed solution?
Using API to check if the item can be shipped with letters, and get the estimate as well. Domestic: https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au/postage/letter/domestic/service.json International: https://digitalapi.auspost.com.au/postage/letter/international/service.json
By the way, the
heightof the API was thethicknessof letters, and it can't be greater than 20 mm. So maybe do a pre-check for theheightof each variant, if it's greater than 20 mm. We don't have to try to call letters API.And letter postage option should be strictly limited to the items that are provided with dimensions. If the variant only provided weight, we can skip the domestic letter shipping.