WordPress & WooCommerce plugins
Shipping labels on your WordPress site
Two official plugins connect your site to your Postage account: quote live rates, and buy real shipping labels paid from your account balance. Pick the one that matches your site.
Requires PHP 8.0+, WordPress 6.0+ and a free Postage account.
Running a store? Use WooCommerce
Live Postage rates as delivery options at checkout, then buy the real label for each order — manually or automatically. Your shopper pays for shipping through your normal checkout. Read the WooCommerce guide.
No store? Use plain WordPress
Drop a rate calculator on any page with a shortcode, and optionally let people buy a label. No WooCommerce required. Read the WordPress guide.
Building something custom?
Both plugins are thin wrappers over the same public REST API — quote, cart, order, label. See the API documentation.
Which plugin do I need?
Both plugins talk to the same Postage account and can be installed side by side — the WooCommerce one for your store, the WordPress one for a standalone quote form on a non-store page.
| Postage for WordPress | Postage for WooCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Needs WooCommerce | No | Yes (8.0+) |
| Live rate quotes | Shortcode on any page | Delivery options at checkout |
| Buys real labels | Yes, via a shortcode | Yes, per order + as a product |
| Who pays for the label | Your account balance | Your account balance |
| Shopper is charged | Not handled — no checkout | Yes, through WooCommerce checkout |
| Access control | A setting (default: logged-in users) | Your normal WooCommerce checkout |
| Webhooks for status | No | Yes (recommended) |
The important difference. Buying a label always spends your Postage account balance. WooCommerce has a real checkout, so your shopper pays you first. Plain WordPress has no checkout — so the WordPress plugin's buy-a-label shortcode spends your balance with nothing collected from the visitor unless you arrange payment yourself. It defaults to logged-in users only for exactly this reason.
Three steps to your first label
The same for both plugins — about ten minutes.
Create an API token
In your Postage account, go to API tokens and create one with the rates:read, carts:write, orders:read and orders:write abilities. Copy it — it is shown once.
Install & activate
Download the zip below, then in WordPress go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the file and activate.
Paste your details
Open the new Postage menu, paste your site URL and token, fill in your ship-from address, and save. Test with a sandbox token first.
Download
Each download is a zip built from the current source, ready for Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. Follow the matching guide — each one walks through every setting, with a troubleshooting section.
- Download Postage for WooCommerce — for WooCommerce stores. Installation guide →
- Download Postage for WordPress — for any WordPress site. Installation guide →
Both are licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.0+ (WooCommerce 8.0+ for the store plugin). Start with a sandbox token so nothing is charged while you test.
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Create a free Postage account, top up your balance and generate an API token in a couple of minutes.
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