Easypost Overview | CI_Easypost_001

In this summary overview, we will learn about Easypost, and how it can help you simplify your shipping processes. Our Easypost plugin serves two main purposes - fetching rates to pass on and charge to the customer and the creation of shipments and corresponding shipping labels.

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Easypost is our answer
to providing our customers with access

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to a large range of delivery providers
all under one roof.

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It works as an intermediary integrator

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with a single common integration approach.

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We integrate within the Easypost once
and they handle

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all ongoing communications
with the specific carriers.

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So we don't have to build a plug in
for each provider individually.

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Easyposts offer a number of services,
but the ones that we use utilize

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their rates API
that allows us to return shipping costs

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during the checkout process

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and the shipments API,
which creates a shipment

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with the respective carrier and returns

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a shipping label.

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The Easypost
plugin is an additional paid module

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which will need to be enabled
on your platform once you have subscribed

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to find out more information
and prices, please either contact sales

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or raise a ticket with our support team.

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So as mentioned a moment ago,

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the plugin serves two main purposes

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that's fetching rates to pass on
and charged to the customer

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and to create shipments and corresponding
shipping labels.

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The rates capability allows us to link to

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any of the carriers
listed in your Easypost account

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and what you'll see when you've connected

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this up is when the customer goes
through their checkout process.

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We query Easypost to in turn query
all of those carriers

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to return associated prices for

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shipping.

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Generating shipping labels

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and creating a shipment
within your specific carrier accounts

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is the biggest selling point
of our Easypost integration.

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There are different ways
a shipment can be triggered

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and a shipping label can be returned.

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So please have a look
at our associated tutorial and article

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data to find out more.

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Our plugin also returns tracking details
automatically,

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which allows for quicker
and easier package handling.

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What is Easypost?

Easypost is our answer to providing our customers with access to a large range of delivery providers all under one roof.

It works as an intermediary integrator with a single common integration approach. We integrate with Easypost once, they then handle all ongoing communication with the specific carriers, so we don't have to build a plugin for each provider individually.

Easypost offer a number of services but the ones that we utilise are their Rates API that allows us to return shipping costs during the checkout process and their Shipments API which will create a shipment with the respective carrier and return a shipping label.

Our Easypost Plugin

The Easypost plugin is an additional paid module which will need to enabled on your platform once you have subscribed. To find our more information and prices please either contact Sales or raise a ticket with our Support Team.

As mentioned above the plugin service two main purposes - fetching rates to pass on and charge to the customer and creating shipments and corresponding shipping labels.

Rates

Using Easypost to fetch your shipping rates is, as mentioned above, one of the key features of our integration with Easypost. To read more on how to set this up and how it works read our Easypost Rates article here.

You can of course not use Easypost to generate your shipping rates - maybe you dont charge them to the customer or you offer a flat rate for all shipments - and instead use Infigo Delivery Methods. To find out how to map Infigo Delivery Methods to Easypost Shipping Methods read our article here.

Shipping labels

Generating Shipping Labels and creating a shipment within your specific carrier accounts is the biggest selling point of our Easypost Integration. There are many different ways a shipment can be triggered and a shipping label can be returned so have a read of our Shipping Labels article to find out more.

Our plugin also returns tracking numbers automatically, which allows for quicker and easier package handling. More information on our tracking information can be found here.