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Module Chilexpress for PrestaShop

Chilexpress

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Module for PrestaShop that allows you to calculate real-time shipping costs through the webservice of Chilexpress based on the origin and destination address, and the products added to the shopping cart. It also shows the estimated delivery times based on the moment of calculation.

Chilexpress Module for PrestaShop

Calculates real-time shipping costs through the webservice of Chilexpress based on the origin and destination address, and the products added to the shopping cart. It also shows the estimated delivery times based on the moment of calculation.

Benefits for Merchants

  • Trusted shipping costs obtained directly from Chilexpress, with different variants or types of services available.
  • All cities addresses registered by the customer and belonging to Chile, will have a normalized format.
  • In case your products do not have dimensions or weight, the module allows you to set dimensions and weight of customized products to calculate the shipping costs.
  • Option to add an impact or adjustment to the shipping costs displayed by the carrier before showing it to the customer.
  • Improve the shopping experience by allowing you to show estimated delivery times.
  • Simple configuration focused on obtaining accurate and adjusted shipping costs for your business model.
  • No contract with the supplier is required at this time to make use of this module.

Our Guarantees

  • All our developments are certified by PrestaShop.
  • We are PrestaShop Partner Agency and Superhero Top Developer.
  • Support warranty in the module's bugs.
  • We can customize the module or make the necessary modifications. Contact us to request an estimate.

Features

  • Calculates shipping costs in real time through the webservice of Chilexpress.
  • Use of cache in the results to improve the loading speed of the site and to make calculation of the costs only when there is a change in the shopping cart.
  • Normalizes the cities of all customers belonging to the country of Chile.
  • In the address form, the entry of a City uses an autocomplete with all the cities/communes of Chile to avoid any incorrect entries, since the cost of shipping is 100% based on them.
  • Compatible with orders generated directly from the Back Office.
  • Option to perform shipping cost calculations only on the order confirmation page to improve site navigation performance.
  • Option to specify the city/commune of origin for shipments.
  • Shipping cost can be determined in 3 different ways:
    • Based on weight.
    • Based on weight and cubic volume.
    • Based on weight and an optimized three-dimensional volume, which simulates the packaging of all products in a 3D box.
  • Option to set custom dimensions for your products to be used when calculating shipping costs.
  • Option to establish a custom weight for your products to be used when calculating shipping costs.
  • Option that allows you to establish an impact on the cost of shipping before showing it to the customer.
  • Option to show estimated delivery times at checkout in each of the available services, with multiple customization options that will allow you to provide even more accurate estimated times.
  • Multi-currency compatible
  • Multi-Store Compatible
  • Full and detailed documentation.

Benefits for customers

  • Knowing the cost of shipping in real time based on the products of the shopping cart and the delivery address, as well as knowing at the time the estimated delivery times, undoubtedly generates greater confidence to the customer and helps closing the sale.
  • Reduce communication time with the store manager.
  • It has a greater list of options for shipping services.

Installation

The installation is completely automated and intuitive, the first form aims to normalize all cities/communes in the addresses of the customers that belong to Chile, in order to obtain valid shipping costs. The module will try to normalize as many addresses as possible, the rest must be modified manually.

Recommendations

  • It is mandatory that your products have specified at least the weight in the Shipping tab within the product editor, or that you use the module options to consider these custom values at the time of calculation.
  • The quote system only works for addresses in Chile.

Other

FAQ's

Q). Do I need credentials provided by Chilexpress to use this module?
A). No, as of right now Chilexpress's webservice does not require credentials to make us of the quoting service.

Q). Is it necessary to load states or cities in order for the module to work?
A). No, the module already contains more than 700 cities/communes.

Q). Does it work with other currencies?
A). Yes, but your store MUST have the Chilean peso (CLP) as a currency installed.

Q). Are all prices updated?
A). Yes, all prices and costs are obtained directly from the servers of Chilexpress in real time.

Q). Is the module compatible with the modules Starken (Turbus) and Correos Chile?
A). Yes, it is completely compatible with the versions indicated below...

  • Starken version 1.0.1 and newer.
  • Correos Chile version 1.0.0 and newer.

Data sheet

Version
3.0.0
Compatibility
1.6.x
1.7.x
Country
Chile
Translation
English
Spanish
Improvement
Conversion rate
Benefit
Provides a shipping method suitable to your customers

Specific References

3.0.0 -- (2023, Aug 24)

  • [+] New quotation system
  • [+] Compatibility with PrestaShop 8.x

2.9.0 -- (2022, Aug 23)

  • [+] Added option to select available communes

2.8.6 -- (2022, Mar 29)

  • [-] Fix of load error in the address form in the back office of PS 1.7.8.3+

2.8.5 -- (2021, May 13)

  • [-] Fix to avoid the initial address update

2.8.4 -- (2021, Mar 17)

  • [*] Improvements in autocomplete of words with tilde
  • [-] Minor bug fixes

2.8.1 -- (2020, Dec 16)

  • [-] Minor bug fixes

2.8.0 -- (2020, Ago 09)

  • [+] Compatibility with PrestaShop 1.7.7.x and PHP 7.3x version
  • [+] New option to add an extra insurance cost according to the value of the cart (known as extended coverage)
  • [+] Support for new browser autofill rules to avoid incorrect entry of communes
  • [+] Support for the free shipping configurable from the general carrier preferences
  • [*] Commune list updated
  • [-] Minor bug fixes

2.4.4 -- (2019, Jun 14)

  • [-] Minor fix in the list of communes in the guest checkout form of PS 1.6

2.4.3 -- (2019, Jun 12)

  • [*] Added support for new tracking code update form on the order detail page
  • [-] Minor fix in the list of communes in the address form
  • [-] Minor bug fixes

2.4.0 -- (2019, Apr 29)

  • [+] New design in the module configurator
  • [*] PrestaShop 1.5 compatibility has been removed
  • [*] Improved compatibility with custom themes in the deployment of estimated delivery dates
  • [-] Minor fix in the installation of new carriers

2.1.0 -- (2019, Apr 01)

  • [+] Improved compatibility with payment methods that DO NOT use the best practices of PrestaShop development
  • [+] Added compatibility in the estimated delivery dates with the "One Page Checkout" module of PresTeamShop
  • [+] Max timeout added in the quotation process
  • [-] Fixed error for PS 1.7.5.x in the option to quote only on checkout page

2.0.0 -- (2019, Ene 14)

  • [+] Estimated delivery times in the checkout
  • [+] Added option for the costs of oversized packages
  • [+] 4 new communes were added
  • [+] Error log added
  • [*] Optimization of the cache and the quotation process
  • [-] Minor bug fixes

1.5.1 -- (2018, Oct 20)

  • [-] Fixed the input city marked as wrong when is selected by click/tap

1.5.0 -- (2018, Mar 26)

  • [+] Added support for PrestaTrust
  • [*] The commune "Recoleta IV" was added
  • [*] The message with the shipment details was changed by a panel
  • [-] Fixed jQuery error that for some stores blocked the autocomplete of communes
  • [-] Other minor bug fixes

1.4.3 -- (2018, Jan 16)

  • [*] Improved cost in the estimation mode based on 3D packaging
  • [*] Improved performance and automated in the address normalization system
  • [-] Fixed the input city marked as wrong in the guest checkout and the one page checkout

1.4.1 -- (2017, Nov 06)

  • [+] Added compatibility with the modules Starken 1.0.1+ and Correos Chile 1.0.0+
  • [-] Fixed error in the BO that did not allow to quote and gave error 500
  • [-] Fixed error that did not showed any results when there was only one service available
  • [-] Minor fix on currency exchange rate

1.4.0 -- (2017, Oct 16)

  • [+] Added option to quote only on checkout page
  • [+] Added option to set product dimensions and base weight
  • [+] Added message in order with package details and type of service
  • [+] Added warning message when advanced stock is active
  • [*] Webservice connection times has been optimized, now is at least 3x faster than before
  • [*] Updated name of communes by cities, and now has been added more than 390 new cities to add compatibility with Starken module
  • [*] Updated the city autocomplete script
  • [*] City autocomplete now allows search by word and validation is improved
  • [*] Multiple speed improvements
  • [-] Minor correction in 3D estimation mode
  • [-] Minor correction in address normalization
  • [-] Visual corrections in module configurator for PS 1.5

1.0.0 -- (2017, Mar 15)

  • [+] Initial release

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