Live UPS and FedEx Tracking using WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro
Shipment tracking plays an important role in E-commerce. Not only it helps customers to keep an eye on their packages, but also helps store owners to check whether the products are getting delivered timely.
For WooCommerce store owners there are two ways you can keep a track of your orders. You can use many advanced shipping plugins for shipping carriers like UPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Royal Mail, etc. which support shipment tracking directly from your website. Or you can use a dedicated tracking solution for your store which tracks your orders for almost any shipping carrier.
Yes!
WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro is an advanced order tracking plugin which provides order tracking for almost any shipping carrier. And the best part is, in case you are using UPS or FedEx as your complete shipping solution then this plugin will provide you live order tracking on your WooCommerce store.
In this article, we will discuss how this plugin allows you to track your orders in real-time and provide a live tracking facility for UPS and FedEx.
WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro
WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro is among the top WooCommerce order tracking plugins you can get online. The plugin features advanced order tracking functionality along with some of the unique order tracking features that will make order tracking easier for you and your customers. It can help you track your packages shipped via almost any shipping carrier that supports shipment tracking functionality. Apart from that, the plugin automates the whole process by automatically updating the tracking details of your orders, marking the orders as complete, and even sending the tracking details to your customers via the Order Completion emails.
How It Provides Live Tracking for Carriers like UPS & FedEx
The plugin provides advanced tracking options to both the customers as well as the store owners when it comes to live-tracking. We will discuss both the cases separately in the sections below.
Tracking Updated for Store Owners in the Orders Page
Before the plugin can get you the live tracking details of your orders shipped via UPS or FedEx, you need to set up your respective UPS and FedEx Accounts in the plugin settings. Take a look at the image below.
The image shows the options to add account details for UPS and FedEx. Once you enter these details, you will then get the tracking details in real-time on the orders page. Take a look at the image below.
The image displays the updated tracking status for different orders on the WooCommerce Orders page.
Tracking Updates for Customers in My Accounts Page
When it comes to providing live tracking details to the customers, the plugin has both automatic and manual refresh to provide live tracking details for the customers. Take a look at the image below.
The image shows the option to enable automatic refresh in case of providing live tracking details to the customers. This setting has two options that you can set.
- Enable
If enabled, the plugin will automatically refresh the tracking status if the order. As soon as the customers click on the My Accounts pages and visit Orders, they will be able to see the updated order status automatically.
- Disable
If this option is disabled, the customers have to manually refresh the order tracking status in the My Accounts page. Until the customers refresh the tracking status, they will only see the last updated status for their orders.
Once you have configured this option based on your preferences, the customers will be able to see the live shipment tracking on My Accounts page by clicking on Orders. The image below displays the My Accounts page of a customer with live tracking details from FedEx.
Similarly, the customer can manually refresh and check whether the tracking status has changed, by clicking on the Refresh button.
Final Thoughts
WooCommerce Shipment Tracking Pro is a unique shipping plugin that handles shipment tracking for almost every major shipping carrier out there. Moreover, other than the predefined 85+ shipping carriers, if you are using any other shipping carrier that supports tracking, you can manually enter it in the plugin settings.
The fact that it provides live tracking updates to the store owners, as well as their customers, makes this plugin a complete package. You no longer need to track your packages one by one and then send the tracking details to your customers every time the delivery status changes. Especially when there is a plugin available just for that.
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Originally published at www.pluginhive.com on August 21, 2018.
