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    • Introduction to subscriptions and memberships in J2Commerce
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    • Introduction to Partial payments
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  • Booking and Reservations
    • Limitation of the booking products type
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    • How to write language override for plugin in multilingual site
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    • Invoice Template (Pro Feature)
  • Tax configuration
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    • Recommended Tax configuration for US States
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    • Recommended Tax Configuration for EU stores
    • Setting up European VAT Rules for selling Physical Goods with J2store
    • A simplified guide for New EU VAT rules 2015 for digital goods and setting them up in J2Store
    • How Tax is Calculated
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    • Easy checkout
    • Trouble shooting issues
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      • How to create coupons for free shipping
    • How to set up local store pick up shipping method
    • Australia post shipping plugin
    • Bring shipping plugin
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    • USAePay Payment Plugin
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    • 2Checkout Plugin
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  • Report Sales
  • Modules
    • Product search module
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      • Email basket issues
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    • Group Products
    • How to send download links through email notifications
    • Image Popup
    • Invoice Prefix Generator
    • Open hours (time based restriction)
    • Pay later/Pay against invoice
    • Points and Rewards
    • Re-Order
    • Shipstation
    • Simple CSV import and export tool
    • Tax Utilities
    • Upload file in checkout
    • Quantity dropdown
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Where can i find my sub-template
    • Products not aligned properly on list view
    • SCA support for payment plugins
    • To show the base price instead of price range in flexivariable products
    • Where do I add the CSS on my site
    • Unable to save the settings in any app
    • Difference between product types
    • Commonly found issues
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Quantity Restriction
  • Troubleshooting Guide
    • Products not visible on storefront
    • Cart not Working
    • Troubleshooting Cart related Issues
    • Moving the description
    • Troubleshooting Checkout Issues
    • Troubleshooting Common Issues
    • How to disable shipping address and payment in checkout
    • Joomla Article Error decoding json data
    • Troubleshooting Email Issues
    • Troubleshooting Paypal related Issues
    • Troubleshooting Product Display Module Issues
    • How to create a custom thank you message
    • Troubleshooting Shipping Issues
    • Troubleshooting Tax Issues
    • Troubleshooting Translate related Issues
  • Common Overrides
    • To add options to downloadable products
    • Moving additional image list to the left of the main image in product view page
    • To display the UPCE/BAN/ISBN on the product page
    • To Display Both the main Image and the additional image in the product view page
  • Video Tutorials
    • Quick Start
    • Catalog Management
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    • Partial Payments
    • Tax
    • Shipping Methods
    • Discounts
    • Language
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    • Email and Invoice Template
    • Checkout and Payment
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  • General
    • How to set cron job on your server
    • How to create an FTP account and super user account in Joomla
  • Developer Guide
    • Introduction
    • Queue System
    • App for J2store
    • Sub-templates
    • Creating an integration plugin for your component
    • Payment plugin
    • Templates
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  1. Shipping methods

United States postal service Shipping Plugin

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Last updated 1 day ago

This plugin integrates J2Store with USPS Shipping rate API.

Requirements

  • PHP 8.1.0 +r

  • Joomla! 4.x/ Joomla! 5.x +

  • J2Commerce / J2Store 4.x +

Installation

You can install this shipping plugin, using joomla installer.

  • In the J2Store admin, go to Extensions -> Extension Manager

  • Click on the Browse button and select USPS Shipping (type=j2store) and click on Upload & Install

  • Enable the plugin

  • Configure the shipping plugin by entering the plugin parameters

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Parameters

1. Web Tools Username This is the username you have used in web tools account. You have enter it here.

2. Web Tools Password Enter the web tools account password here.

Don’t know how to get API credentails ? Please register here:

https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/welcome.htm”target = ¨_blank”rel = ¨noopener¨> click here

As soon as you register, USPS will send you an email with the API keys. You need to enter them in the plugin parameters. And make sure the Test mode field is set to NO in the plugin parameters.

3. Origin Postal Code Enter the postal code from where the shipping is actually made.

4. Domestic Services You have a lot of domestic services offered by USPS. You can select more than one service.

5. International Services Like domestic services, there is a lot of International Services also provided by USPS. You can select multiple services.

6. Packaging Size There are two packagign sizes. Regular and Large. Any one can be selected.

7. Container This option has three values. Rectangular, Non-Rectangular and Variable.

8. Machinable Select Yes or No

9.Length The length of the package or box, in the given units (mm, cm or inches).

10. Width The width of the package or box, in the given units (mm, cm or inches).

11. Height The height of the package or box, in the given units (mm, cm or inches).

12. Display Delivery Time If you want to display the delivery time, select Yes in this option.

13. Weight Unit Select the desired unit in which you want to measure the weight, like, kilograms, pounds etc.

14. Tax Class If shipping is taxable and you want to add tax rate, select a tax profile in this option.

15. Geozone If you want to limit this shipping method to particular areas, then you can select the corresponding geozone in this option. If this shipping is applicable to all areas, then set it to All.

16. Show Debug Messages If you set this to Yes, then an error log file will be maintained in the cache folder. It suitable for test account.

Set this option to No in live site

17. Handling Cost If you need to charge a handling cost for the shipping, you can provide it here.

18. Use test server USPS Shipping offers a testing suite called test server. Before going live, you can test your store using USPS test server feature.

Video Tutorial:

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