Parcelflare – Royal Mail Click & Drop for WooCommerce
Settings: connection status, API key, which order statuses are sent to Click & Drop, and parcel weights.
Parcelflare connects your WooCommerce store to Royal Mail Click & Drop using the official Click & Drop API. New orders are sent to your Click & Drop account automatically, so you can print Royal Mail shipping labels without copying customer addresses by hand.
Who it is for
UK WooCommerce store owners who ship with Royal Mail and already use (or want to use) Click & Drop for labels, rather than typing every order into Click & Drop or relying on the built-in sales-channel import alone.
Features
- Automatic sync when an order reaches the statuses you choose (default: Processing).
- Background queue (Action Scheduler) with automatic retries and exponential back-off, honouring API rate limits. You choose how many attempts to make.
- Duplicate protection: after a timeout or lost response, the order is looked up by reference before it is created again. If that lookup fails, the order is held for a manual check instead of being created twice.
- Email digest and admin notice when an order fails to sync, with a one-click retry.
- Sync log page with filtering, search and CSV export. You choose how long to keep it, or keep it forever.
- Health check every 6 hours: warns you if the API key stops working and sends any recent order that was missed.
- Default parcel weight for products with no weight, and a 30 kg per-parcel safety check.
- International orders: customs line items, HS codes, country of origin and IOSS for EU destinations.
- Map WooCommerce shipping methods to Click & Drop service codes.
- Manual “Send to Click & Drop” order action and bulk action.
- Works with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and legacy order storage.
All of the above is free, with no limits; you only need your own Click & Drop API key. A separate add-on from the author, Parcelflare Pro, adds tracking numbers written back to orders and is not needed for anything described here.
Royal Mail and Click & Drop are trademarks of Royal Mail Group Ltd. Parcelflare is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Royal Mail Group Ltd.
External services
This plugin connects to the Royal Mail Click & Drop API (https://api.parcel.royalmail.com/api/v1) to create orders in your Click & Drop account and to check your API key (when you press “Test connection”, and every 6 hours while the health check is on).
- What is sent: the order number, date, customer name, shipping (and billing) address, email address and phone number if present, order items (name, SKU, quantity, value, weight, customs data) and order totals.
- When: whenever an order reaches one of the trigger statuses you configure, or when you send it manually.
- The health check uses your API key to confirm it still works, and sends any recent order that should have been sent but was missed (the same order data as above). It can be turned off on the settings page.
- Data is only sent once you have entered your own Click & Drop API key and enabled sync.
Royal Mail Click & Drop terms: https://www.royalmail.com/terms-and-conditions
Royal Mail privacy notice: https://www.royalmail.com/privacy-notice