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Hi @gnfb

This plugin has no configuration requirement beyond installing and then activating it. By default, it does nothing more than what is mentioned in the plugin description: “This plugin creates shipping zones for standard and rural delivery across the North Island and South Island of New Zealand“.

Here are the installation instructions. The plugin uses WooCommerce’s native shipping zones feature so it’s safe to deactivate the plugin once it’s been successfully activated.

I was looking for setup integration with the costs, zones etc You are using

Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand

in the zone regions does that mean that the user has to use

Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand in there address for it to verify it or does the say 4500 work somehow? In the rural you list all the postcodes but you dont in the non rural

Setup details for all that sort of things

Hi @gnfb

Thanks for clarifying. To answer your questions:

I was looking for setup integration with the costs, zone

The WooCommerce site has a tutorial covering how to apply costs, here: https://woocommerce.com/document/flat-rate-shipping/#setup-and-configuration

Shipping is a feature of the WooCommerce plugin. This plugin simply automates one particular zone configuration, so there’s nothing to document beyond the installation steps.

In the rural you list all the postcodes but you dont in the non rural

There’s two points to keep in mind:

• WooCommerce has no concept of rural and non-rural addresses by default
• A rural address can only be verified by its postcode

Due to the first point, WooCommerce doesn’t understand there can be a relationship between a zone region and a postcode.

This plugin configures shipping zones so that if a rural postcode doesn’t exist for a zone, the non-rural zone region is used instead. This approach aligns with a default WooCommerce install (to be clear, zone regions are baked-in to the WooCommerce plugin) and keeps the plugin as simple as possible.

does that mean that the user has to use Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand in there address for it to verify it or does the say 4500 work somehow?

Here’s three scenarios with outcomes:

• If a user only enters Manawatu-Whanganui, the address is presumed to be non-rural.
• If a user enters Manawatu-Whanganui and an invalid rural postcode, the address is presumed to be non-rural.
• If a user enters Manawatu-Whanganui and a valid rural postcode, the address is presumed to be rural.

This behaviour goes back to the point above that WooCommerce has no concept of rural addresses being a sub-zone within a zone, or that there can be a relationship between a zone region and a postcode. You can test this out yourself with the default shipping calculator by entering a valid rural postcode and a mismatching zone region — a shipping rate will be displayed for the the shipping zone with the rural postcode.

It’s possible, of course, to manually set the shipping zones up to use postcodes for non-rural addresses if you prefer.

Thank you so much for the comprehensive reply. Do you happen to offer a charged service to setup peoples shipping on woocommerce. For us users we do a setup like this once every 5 years. I have spent hours trying this way and that but then again i was never good at algebra or maths in general and the if but else commeand took me ages to comprehend. so anyway if you do what do you charge for a setup just the shipping

Hi @gnfb

Sorry to say, I’m no longer working with WordPress or doing any client work right now.