Auto upload tracking number to WooCommerce Shipping add-on

Hi, sure, we are always want to add compatibility to shipping labels plugins, We need to contact the WooCommerce Shipping developers and ask for the Hook that they use to insert the tracking info to the order after the label is generated, then we can add a snippet that will add the tracking info to the shipment tracking meta fields (if it’s not doing that already), mark the order as shipped and work with all the other AST features.

We will try to reach out to them and it will be great if you can also contact their support to ask for this hook.

This hook is inside the plugin and looks potentially relevant. Does this help?

do_action( 'enqueue_wc_connect_script', 'wc-connect-create-shipping-label', $payload );

##Other stuff below for reference##

$payload = array(
				'orderId'            => $order_id,
				'paperSize'          => $this->settings_store->get_preferred_paper_size(),
				'formData'           => $this->get_form_data( $order ),
				'labelsData'         => $this->settings_store->get_label_order_meta_data( $order_id ),
				'storeOptions'       => $this->settings_store->get_store_options(),
				//for backwards compatibility, still disable the country dropdown for calypso users with older plugin versions
				'canChangeCountries' => true,
			);

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by clonemykey.

Any update on this? We really want to use this plugin but it’s very tedious to copy and paste everything individually.

Hi, we will check how to add compatibility to the WC shipping, I will keep you posted.

Hi @clonemykey
1. we opened a ticket with WC Shipping to add compatibility and I will update you when they respond.
2. we checked the WooCommerce Shipping plugin and until they add compatibilty, you can override a template file in their plugin to add support to our plugin. see the instructions on our documentation (search for compatibility with WooComemrce Shipping section:
https://www.zorem.com/docs/woocommerce-advanced-shipment-tracking/compatibility/
Thanks.

Hi Zorem,

Thanks for this. The override code doesn’t fully push everything through. It’s not displaying properly. The tracking number gets put into the plugin field however it’s not showing up on the TrackShip Dashboard and shows the following error message on the customer facing tracking page

“TRACKING # 123456789ABCD
Tracking details not found in TrackShip”

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by clonemykey.

Hi, to send the tracking info for auto-track on TrackShip you must mark the order as shipped. you can do that programmatically:

'status_shipped' => '1',

status_shipped- Change order status to “Shipped” (completed) or “Partial Shipped” (if enabled) – 0=no, 1=shipped, 2=partial shipped.

Thanks

Oh, interesting. I thought that was already done when the tracking number hit the AST plugin. Where in the code would be the best place to put this?

public function update_label_order_meta_data( $order_id, $new_label_data ) {
	$result = $new_label_data;
	$labels_data = $this->get_label_order_meta_data( $order_id );
	foreach( $labels_data as $index => $label_data ) {
		if ( $label_data['label_id'] === $new_label_data->label_id ) {
			$result = array_merge( $label_data, (array) $new_label_data );
			$labels_data[ $index ] = $result;
			if ( ! isset( $label_data['tracking'] )
				&& isset( $result['tracking'] ) ) {
					WC_Connect_Extension_Compatibility::on_new_tracking_number( $order_id, $result['carrier_id'], $result['tracking'] );
					if ( is_plugin_active( 'woo-advanced-shipment-tracking/woocommerce-advanced-shipment-tracking.php' ) ) {
						$wast = WC_Advanced_Shipment_Tracking_Actions::get_instance();
						$args = array(
							'tracking_provider'     => $result['carrier_id'],					
							'tracking_number'       => $result['tracking']		
						);
						
						$wast->add_tracking_item( $order_id, $args );					
					}
			}
		}
	}
	update_post_meta( $order_id, 'wc_connect_labels', $labels_data );
	return $result;
}

We updated the code snippet on our docs to include the update the order status to Shipped.
https://www.zorem.com/docs/woocommerce-advanced-shipment-tracking/compatibility/#compatibility-with-shipping-labels-plugins
Thanks

Perfect, initial test looks like this works as intended.

Great, if you like AST, please review the plugin ??