LTL Freight & White Glove Rates for WooCommerce

Sell sofas, tables and other big items with real delivery prices. At checkout your customers see up to four delivery levels, each with its own live price: Curbside, Front door, Room of choice and White glove. Prices come from your own Freight and Logistics, Inc. account, so you charge exactly what freight costs, add a markup, or offer free shipping over an amount you choose.

When a customer pays, the order is saved in your Freight and Logistics portal, ready for you to review and dispatch. Nothing is dispatched automatically.

Requires a Freight and Logistics account. The rates and the order saving are a service provided by Freight and Logistics, Inc.; this plugin is the WooCommerce half of it. An account is free to open, and you can request one inside the plugin (Freight rates, Your account). Without a connected account the plugin shows no freight rates. See “External services” below for exactly what is sent and when.

Setting up takes four short steps:

1. Connect your Freight and Logistics account.
2. Tell us where you ship from.
3. Add size, weight and packaging to your products (download a spreadsheet, fill it in, upload it).
4. Choose your delivery options and pricing.

Products you set up are quoted at checkout; all your other products keep your usual shipping methods, shown as a separate shipping line. Your own shipping methods, rates and settings are never changed.

Works with the WooCommerce checkout block and the classic checkout, and with High-Performance Order Storage.

The setup guide, with pictures, is at https://www.freightandlogistics.ai/woocommerce

External services

This plugin is an interface to a service. It connects to the Freight and Logistics, Inc. server at https://fl-freight-woo-production.up.railway.app to get freight rates and to save paid orders in your Freight and Logistics account. A Freight and Logistics account is required (free to open). Nothing is sent until you open the plugin’s pages in your WordPress admin, which connects your site; before that, and on a site that is not connected, the plugin makes no calls from your storefront.

What is sent, and when:

• When you first open the plugin’s pages (Freight rates) in your admin: your site address and site name, to connect your site. The server returns a private key that the plugin stores in your database and uses to sign every later call. It is never shown.
• While you set up (only when you save or ask for something on a plugin page): the settings you enter: your Freight and Logistics portal username and password (stored encrypted on the server, never kept in WordPress), your pickup addresses and contacts, your delivery and pricing choices, the size, weight and packaging spreadsheet you upload, and the list of your product variations (ids and names). If you ask for a free account, the contact details you type into that form.
• At checkout, when a cart contains products you set up for freight: the cart’s products (id, name, quantity, price excluding tax), the cart subtotal and discount, the currency, and the delivery city, state or province, postal code and country, to get the rates. The shopper’s name, street address, email and phone are not sent for quotes.
• After an order is paid: the order number and id, its date and currency, whether it is a test order, the delivery postal code, the freight items (id, name, quantity) and the freight shipping line the customer chose. The server then makes one signed request back to your store to read that order’s delivery address, contact name and phone, which it needs to create the shipment (bill of lading) in your Freight and Logistics account, and passes them to the shipment; the server does not store the shopper’s name, street or phone for itself. The delivery details therefore live in the shipment in your Freight and Logistics account, as with any freight booking. When a shopper asks WordPress to erase their personal data, the plugin asks the server to erase what it holds for that order.
• When you delete the plugin: a request telling the server your site is disconnected, so it erases what it holds for your site.

No data is sent to anyone else, nothing is used for advertising or tracking, and no code is downloaded or run from a remote server. The plugin loads all its scripts, styles and fonts from its own folder.

Service provider: Freight and Logistics, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
* Terms of Use: https://www.freightandlogistics.ai/?terms=1
* Privacy Policy: https://www.freightandlogistics.ai/?privacy=1

Source code

All the plugin’s PHP, JavaScript and CSS is shipped as readable source; there is no build step and nothing is minified.