Shipping Tracking Page

[almasg]

Good morning, 

I've got a customer that wants to create a page for his customers to be able to track their shipping in real time. Something like the attached image.

Thing is, I've made some research and I wasn't able to find anything. Have any of you done something like this? Is there any module available to do so? 

Thanks in advance!

 

[Luis C]

Hi, 

It's possible to achieve, nothing that hasn't been made before.

However, if more than a single shipping company/carrier is being used in the store, it could be a bit more difficult / expensive. I mean... to be able to query the carriers database you need API access to their webservices, and not every carrier can or will offer access to their tracking API (Though your customer is the one who must negotiate with the carriers)

The other alternative, and the more expensive one, is using a multi-carrier tracking API and writing a module to:

1) When the tracking number is added to prestashop, add a record on their tracking service database to retrieve afterwards

2) fetch the information when the customer visits the order page, and/or when a tracking email is being sent to the customer. You can also program different webhooks and/or tasks to check for tracking updates and send emails to the shopper accordingly.

There are multiple services that will allow you to either register a tracking number and the carrier, or directly check the tracking status at any given point in time with an HTTP request (using curl, or whatever) Aftership, trackingmore, 17track... 

Please take into consideration both options should require to write a custom module (I'm not sure, but I don't think there's a ready-made one alrady available) The first option, if your customer can get access to their carriers APIs would be cheaper, since multi-carrier tracking services are kinda expensive, depending on the number of tracking requests are needed per month.

 

[almasg]

Hi Luis!

First of all, thanks for your time. I will talk to my client about what you said. He was hoping there was an already made module so... he probably won't be pleased about the price hahaa

Thanks again

[Luis C]

6 hours ago, almasg said:

Hi Luis!

First of all, thanks for your time. I will talk to my client about what you said. He was hoping there was an already made module so... he probably won't be pleased about the price hahaa

Thanks again

No prob.

But I mean... there ARE modules available, however they will most probably charge monthly usage, since there isn't a single tracking API out there that's 100% free... They all offer like 10, 50, 100 free trackings a month and then charge for the rest of the API usage. Please look for Aftership module and I remember one called Tracking center.