Greece Couriers for WooCommerce — ACS, ELTA, Geniki and Speedex: to the address, to an ACS store / SmartPoint / locker

Greece Couriers for WooCommerce is an independent shipping plugin by the CatCode studio for stores in Greece and Cyprus. It connects four Greek couriers — ACS Courier, ELTA Courier, Geniki Taxydromiki and Speedex. The buyer chooses delivery to the address or an ACS point — a store, a SmartPoint or a SmartPoint locker — right at the WooCommerce checkout (classic or block), and the manager creates the voucher, prints the label and sees the parcel status in the order screen without opening the courier accounts. Plugin languages: English and ελληνικά.

Honest note on testing. We have no courier test accounts: ACS and ELTA have no public test systems, Geniki and Speedex give theirs only to customers with a contract. So the plugin is tested on mocks of the courier APIs — a test server that answers the way the official ACS Rest API and Geniki JobServicesV2 documentation and the ELTA Courier and Speedex WSDL describe. We have not created real vouchers with the couriers. ELTA Courier is in beta: ELTA gives the description of its web services only to customers with a contract, the connection is built from published copies of it and has not been tried on a real ELTA account yet. Try the plugin with your own accounts in the 7-day Pro trial — if a courier answers differently from its documentation, we fix it quickly.

About trademarks. ACS, ELTA Courier, Geniki Taxydromiki and Speedex are trademarks of their owners. Greece Couriers is an independent CatCode plugin, not an official product of these companies: they do not publish or support it. The plugin works with your own accounts through their web services.

For OpenCart there is a separate module — Greece Couriers for OpenCart.

What the buyer sees

• Courier methods in the WooCommerce shipping zone, each with its own price, free shipping threshold, weight limit and countries.
• ACS point picker in a window with search: first the points nearest to the buyer post code, then search by post code, city, street or name — in Greek or in Latin letters. Next to each point — its type: SmartPoint or locker.
• SmartPoint and locker — up to 6 kg. For a heavier cart they are not shown, and a point chosen before the cart got heavier is dropped by the plugin with the reason.
• No point, no checkout: the server does not accept a point order without a chosen point.
• ELTA collect at the store — no point picker: ELTA holds the parcel at the store that serves the buyer post code.
• Point and tracking — on the thank-you page, in the buyer account and in e-mails.

What the admin gets

• WooCommerce → Greece Couriers: sender and the accounts of the four couriers; passwords and keys are stored encrypted and are not shown after saving. Each courier has Check the connection, which shows the courier answer in its own words; for ACS — Find pickup points.
• Greece Couriers box in the order screen: courier and point with its code, weight, cash on delivery, Create voucher, PDF label, tracking link, Refresh status, Cancel. The point can be changed by hand while there is no voucher.
• Vouchers for orders with another shipping method too — with a courier choice, to the buyer address.
• Closing of the day: the ACS pickup list and the Geniki closing with the Close today’s vouchers button; in Pro — automatically at a chosen hour.
• Pro in the order list: Greece Couriers: create vouchers and print labels for the selected orders; orders with another method are skipped.

How it works — step by step

1. You enter the courier details, check the connection and load the ACS points — they go into the plugin table and are refreshed daily.
2. You add the (Greece Couriers) methods to the Greece shipping zone (and Cyprus for ACS) and set prices, thresholds and limits.
3. The buyer chooses a method. For ACS to a point — chooses the point in the window under the method; only the point code goes into the session on the server, the buyer address fields stay unchanged.
4. At checkout the order shipping address becomes the point address, and the buyer address stays in the billing address.
5. The manager creates the voucher in the order screen (in Pro — automatically on status or in bulk): the plugin sends the data to the courier, stores the number and gives a PDF label.
6. The buyer sees tracking on the order page and in e-mails. At the end of the day — the ACS pickup list and the Geniki closing. The status is refreshed with a button, and in Pro — every hour: a delivered order becomes Completed.

Under the hood

• ACS Rest API (JSON) by the official documentation: points, station by post code, tariff, voucher, label, tracking, cancellation, pickup list. Geniki JobServicesV2, ELTA Courier and Speedex — SOAP through our own XML parsing, the PHP SOAP extension is not needed.
• The point lives on the server only. The point picker JavaScript neither reads nor writes the buyer address fields: only the point code goes into the session, the data comes from the plugin table, and a point that does not fit by weight or type is not accepted.
• Double voucher protection: simultaneous clicks and automation will not create two vouchers for one order.
• Live tariff without waiting: if ACS has not answered within a few seconds, the fixed price is used, and the next cart update does not wait again.
• Pro gate without bricking: when the trial ends, only the Pro features stop.
• Uninstall removes the settings, the point table, the methods in zones, the cron and the cache; if another build of the plugin stays installed (the free one from wordpress.org or Pro), the data is left for it.

How to install

1. Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin → the plugin zip (the free version — with the button at the top of this page, Pro — from the link in the e-mail after payment) → Install Now → Activate.
2. WooCommerce → Greece Couriers: sender (name, phone, post code) and the details of the couriers you use → Save settings → Check the connection. For ACS — also Find pickup points.
3. WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping → the Greece zone → Add shipping method → the methods marked (Greece Couriers); price, free shipping threshold, weight limit. For Cyprus — ACS to the address with Cyprus ticked.
4. Place a test order to an ACS point and create a voucher from the order screen.
5. For Pro: paste the licence key from the e-mail after payment or switch the trial on in the same settings.