WooCommerce Shipping - cost of printing labels?

it is actually a lot more than just printing the label.It is submitting the shipping information to the carrier, paying for it, possibly arranging pickup and printing the chipping label with the required barcodes for the shipper

Yes but how much is it and is it per order? That's what my manager wants to know. 

the cost will vary by the shipper, destination and size/weight of the object shipped.

Thanks, it helps. 

And I think the cost is per order, correct? At this job, my manager says their FedEx account charges by bulk. 

so does the software have an option for FedEx bulk shipping charges? Reach out to the developer of the plugin

It doesn't.  We know that. I want to know if label printing is per order. Gets charged per order .I think it does.

it is more than just a print label software it is an integrated shipping solution it appears that it is not the solution for you.

We're looking for an order fulfillment plugin. I just want to know if the label printing portion of it is per order and it might be per order.  

Thanks. I'll look for one. 

I logged into my FedEx account and there is no bulk shipping pricing just an ooption in their software  that allows you to set a from, package size/weight and import a list of destinations and import the destinations and shipping type.. this generates labels, and pays for it all in one shot (also generating tracking numbers and stuff to fedex

you get one credit card or invoice per bulk order

the plugin will do the above but will charge per shipment. (which you see as a generated label)

I'm new at this job. I don't understand your latest explanation.

WooCommerce Shipping doesn't support FedEx. It has DHL and USPS.

This is what my manager says:  I would have thought that the software that we choose for this would basically integrate with FedEx and use our existing FedEx account information for them to charge on the backend

You're saying we need a plugin that supports FedEx bulk or at least FedEx, correct?

go through each shipping option with a sample package to ship and compare the pricing
Surprised that the plugin doesn't support fedex ups, and other shippers.. for myself I'd need also Canada Post as an option.

https://www.pluginhive.com/product/woocommerce-fedex-shipping-plugin-with-print-label/

>>go through each shipping option with a sample package to ship and compare the pricing

We only want FedEx.

I'll look for a FedEx plugin that supports bulk or whatever they're asking. This new job is frustrating me because they're very unorganized. Who runs a project like this. 

yes, thanks, David. I was in a rush to answer my manager's email. Went back and reread and looked at the plugin's site.

I think we need a FedEx supported plugin.

Also mention the number of orders/day.

For large orders (cartons, palettes) manually generating Fedex labels is far better, to me, as debugging auto generated shipment labels for Fedex (or any type of label) can eat up far more profit than was created by automated shipping label generation.

If you have 100s/day shipments, auto generate labels.

Even for 100s/week shipments, manual label generation may produce higher profits, as there's no debugging of tech.

This is a test site the company is launching in Canada and they're selling live plants and gardening tools and stuff.

Maybe 5 or 6 orders a day. They just want to see how the site performs and if there's a market for plants in Canada. 

Thanks. I'll recommend it. They want plug-ins. Their decision. I can only guide them so much. I don't want to keep repeating myself and I am now.

They want a plug-in to support fulfillment and order processing. Would the one you recommended does it all?

Yes, check the description it should cover what they need, you have 30 days to tests.
https://www.pluginhive.com/product/woocommerce-fedex-shipping-plugin-with-print-label/ 
This company is specialized for shipping plugins, they have great support and plugins has many features.


Note Woo free plugins usually cover the basic and to have more feature you need to pay extra fee for the premium version.
You don't need to renew every year (that's depend of the plugin) but to get the actual rate you will need to renew the shipping plugin if you use this feature.
I always disable the autorenew / payment and I manually renew them.

Scott - this company didn't even give requirements to the offshore team on how to develop the new site. I'm serious. I wasn't hired at that time. They told me in the first meeting with the offshore team.

This req for a shipping plugin was introduced two weeks.

I've sent the recommendation to the offshore team. The managers need to decide on what to do now.

I think they're going to frustrate me out of this job :)

Thanks for all the help 

I use some custom software that compares that does a rate compare i.e.
purolator, dhl, fedex,ups,CanadPost  that shows the shipping price and delivery standard and I select the one I want. I am really low volume but it saves me entering the information on 5 websites and for my volume (2-3 shipments / week) it works well.

Find a plugin that supports fedex.. it is kind of lame that the plugin you selected doesn't support it. Which limits the software a lot

I found two more. Offshore team is looking into it.

David F.  - This company loves plugins. A miracle solution to all the problems.