Innoship Shipping for OpenCart — courier rates, AWB and tracking

Innoship Shipping for OpenCart 4.x, 3.x and 2.3 connects your Innoship account (the Alsendo group): the rates of the couriers connected to your account, such as Cargus, FAN Courier, Sameday, DPD and GLS, show up at the checkout as ordinary shipping methods, and an AWB is created straight from the order page.

What you need. An Innoship account with an API key (X-Api-Key) and couriers connected: Innoship gives the key to account holders and the courier contracts are made through the Innoship platform. Without a key the module shows nothing at the checkout. Pickup points (lockers, PUDO) are not supported in this version: delivery goes to the buyer’s address.

What the buyer sees

At the OpenCart checkout the buyer sees a “Courier delivery” block with the rates of the couriers you have chosen: name, delivery time (for example “2 days”) and the price in lei. Innoship calculates the rates from the buyer’s address and the cart weight, and they are cached for 15 minutes. The price can be shown with or without VAT, with a fixed surcharge, and you can set a fallback fixed price for when Innoship does not answer: the cart and the checkout carry on.

What the admin gets

Extensions → Shipping → Innoship Shipping: tabs “Connection”, “Checkout rates”, “Parcels”, “AWB”, “Automation”, “Pro”. Paste the API key and press “Save and check connection”: the module checks the key and reads the pickup locations and couriers from the account. The key is stored encrypted and is never shown again.

The order page gets an “Innoship AWB” panel. The weight, box and size come from the order, the buyer’s address and phone come from the order data and can be corrected. The “Get courier prices” button shows the price of every courier, you pick one and create the AWB at the price you can see. Cash on delivery (cash or bank account) and package opening can be added.

On the same card: a PDF label (A6, A4, A5, 4xA6, 10×9, 85×85), manual status refresh, the tracking history and AWB cancelling. A double click does not create a second AWB, and if the Innoship answer gets lost, the “Check result” button finds the AWB that was already created by the order number. The buyer gets an e-mail with the AWB number and the order moves to the status you set.

Sales → Innoship AWBs is a list of all shipments with the filters “Need attention”, “On the way”, “Delivered”, “Returned”, “Cancelled”. In Pro, on the “Automation” tab the AWB is created by itself as soon as the order reaches the chosen status; the courier is the buyer’s choice, the cheapest one or the preferred one within the markup percentage you set. Every hour the module reads the tracking of all shipments on their way and sets the “delivered” and “returned” order statuses itself, sending the buyer “on its way” and “delivered” e-mails.

Pro also gives several pickup locations and a second AWB per order (two parcels, for example), bulk printing of labels in one PDF for up to 100 AWBs, a percentage markup, free shipping above an amount and your own boxes with sizes.

How it works, step by step

1. Install the archive for your OpenCart version and switch the shipping method on.
2. On the “Connection” tab paste the Innoship API key and press “Save and check connection”.
3. Choose the pickup location and the couriers for the checkout, and set the “Checkout rates” tab to your prices.
4. The buyer sees the rates at the checkout and picks a courier.
5. On the order page compare the courier prices, create the AWB and print the label.
6. In Pro the AWB, tracking, statuses and e-mails to the buyer follow the order statuses without your clicks.

Under the hood

• Innoship API: prices POST /api/Price, orders /api/Order, labels /api/Label, tracking through Track.
• The API key is encrypted and never shown in the settings.
• One AWB per click: a double click does not make a duplicate, and a lost answer can be recovered with the “Check result” button.
• Checkout rates are cached for 15 minutes; a slow Innoship never holds the buyer for more than 10 seconds, the fallback price applies instead.
• The checkout price is calculated without cash on delivery because the payment method is not chosen yet; an AWB with cash on delivery may cost more.
• Customs fields for shipments outside the EU are not filled in.
• Interface in English and Romanian.

How to install

1. Extensions → Installer: upload the archive for your version without renaming it (OpenCart 4: cc_innoship.ocmod.zip, 3.x: cc_innoship-oc3.ocmod.zip, 2.3: cc_innoship-oc23.ocmod.zip).
2. For 3.x and 2.3: Extensions → Modifications → Refresh.
3. Extensions → Shipping → Innoship Shipping: install and edit.
4. Paste the API key, press “Save and check connection”, choose the pickup location and the couriers.
5. For Pro: paste the key or start the trial on the “Pro” tab.