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How to Auto-generate & Email Australia Post labels with ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Auto-Generate & Email Labels Add-On? (with Video)

This article explains the step-by-step tutorial to Auto-generate & Email Australia Post labels with ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Auto-Generate & Email Labels Add-On. For more information on the plugin, refer to the product page.

Australia Post is an Australian-based postal service that provides services to send and receive parcels from Australia to different parts of the world. Although it caters mostly to domestic regions, it has suitable services for international shipping as well. It has services for personal, business, as well as Enterprise/Government packages. It has a varied type of services that can be availed based on the user’s requirement.

This Add-On works only with ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping Plugin with Print Label & Tracking which allows you to access real-time rates from Australia Post, print shipping labels, track shipments, and helps in packing items into boxes. This plugin offers both non-contracted as well as contracted (eParcel and StarTrack) services.

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Overview

Some of the major highlights of this add-on include:

  • Automatically create shipments and generate labels – Once an order moves to the selected status, the add-on creates shipments and generates the shipping labels for each package in the order.
  • Get notified of all shipping labels – The add-on sends an email notification to the shop owner to whenever the order is placed and the shipment is created. You can also choose to notify your customer.
  • Track shipments – The email notification will also contain a tracking URL that allows the recipient(s) to track the shipments.
  • Get notified when shipment fails – When a shipment fails to create, you can notify shop owners about it. The shop owners can then resolve the issue and create the shipment manually.

Prerequisites

For auto-generating and emailing Australia Post labels, you need the following:

  1. ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping Plugin with Print Label & Tracking
  2. ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Auto-Generate & Email Labels Add-On

Getting started with ELEX Australia Post Auto-Generate & Email Labels Add-On

Read an article to know how to complete the checkout process on ELEX. You can also read how to download, install, activate ELEX plugins.

The core label printing process is determined with the ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping Plugin settings and not the add-on settings. Hence you need to set up the ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping Plugin first and then proceed with auto-generating shipping labels. If you are using StarTrack services, you can read its related article.

Now that we have explored the features of the add-on, and have installed it, let’s get down to configure it.

Go to WooCommerce > Shipping > Australia Post > Auto Label Generate Add-On.

ELEX Australia Post Auto-generate & Email Labels | Add-On settings | Email Australia Post
Add-On settings

Order Status

Choose the WooCommerce order status(es) from the given drop-down list for which you want to auto-generate shipping labels. When an order moves to one of the selected statuses, the add-on automatically creates a shipment, generates shipping label(s) and sends it to the selected email recipients.

If a shipment is already created for order and the order moves to one of the configured order statuses, the add-on will simply fetch the generated label URL and email it to recipients.

Email Settings

The email settings for the add-on are as follows:

ELEX Australia Post Auto-generate & Email Labels | Email settings | Email Australia Post
Email settings
  • Email Recipient(s): You can choose to send the auto-generated emails to Customer and Shop owner. You can also select Custom email option and add desired email addresses for custom recipients.
    • Add Email: This setting appears when you select Custom email option for the email recipient. You can enter multiple email addresses by separating them with commas.
  • From Email: The add-on automatically takes the store’s admin email address as the sender email address. You can choose to enter any desired email ID as well.
  • From Name: Enter sender name in this setting. This could your name or the name of your organization.
  • Email Subject: Enter a subject for your emails. If you are sending emails to your customers, you might want to use catchy phrases or terms that describe your business. The respective order IDs will be appended to the subject line automatically.
  • Email Content: Enter your desired content to describe your customers’ order. The label(s) will be appended at the end of the content automatically.

Shipment Failed Email Notification Settings

There may be instances when a shipment fails to create. For example, the shipping service selected by the customer might fail to return any rates, the customer selects a default shipping method, or third-party shipping service other than the ones offered by the ELEX Australia Post plugin. Hence in such cases, the add-on will help you notify failure of shipment creation, via email. You can then go back to the respective WooCommerce order, create the shipment and generate the labels manually.

The settings are as shown below.

ELEX Australia Post Auto-generate & Email Labels | Shipment Failed settings
Shipment Failed Email Notification settings
  • Email Notification: Tick this checkbox to enable shipment failed email notification.
  • Email Subject: Enter the desired subject line for your shipment fail emails. The respective order ID will be appended to the subject line.
  • Email Content: Enter desired content for shipment failure notification.

Click on the Save Changes button once all settings are configured.

Demonstration

When an order is placed successfully using USPS shipping service, the add-on will automatically create shipments using the ELEX Australia Post Shipping Plugin and notify the selected email recipient(s). A sample email is as shown in the below screenshot.

ELEX Australia Post Auto-generate & Email Labels | Sample Email with Label | Email Australia Post
Sample Email with Label

As shown in the image above, click on the given link to view the shipping label of the respective order. To track the shipment, click the respective shipment URL. Each label will have a separate shipment tracking link.

Below is a sample label generated by ELEX Australia Post Shipping Plugin.

ELEX Australia Post Auto-generate & Email Labels | Sample Australia Post eParcel Label
Sample Australia Post eParcel Label

In this way, you can auto-generate and email Australia Post shipping labels with ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Auto-Generate & Email Labels Add-On.

 


To explore more details about the add-on, go check out ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Bulk Label Printing Add-On.

Or check out the main product – ELEX WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping Plugin with Print Label & Tracking and its product documentation for a better understanding of the plugin.

You can also check out other WooCommerce and WordPress plugins in ELEX.

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