Courier shipping for Australian bakeries: AusPost labels, Interparcel quotes and tracking
Posting orders by courier
On the Business plan, ibakepro connects to your own AusPost and Interparcel accounts. Customers see live carrier rates at checkout, you buy and print labels from the order, and tracking updates the order by itself.
Why post from the order instead of a carrier portal?
Without it, a posted order means retyping the address into a carrier portal, printing the label from another tab and pasting the tracking number into an email. Fine at six orders. At sixty in a December week it is why bakers stop posting. Dispatch keeps the whole job on the order.
How does a posted order run?
How it runs
- The customer picks a shipping option at checkout, with live carrier rates alongside any flat rates you set.
- The order lands in Dispatch, one queue of everything going out by post.
- Buy and print the label from the order, with its cost shown against what the customer paid.
- The customer gets the tracking link automatically.
- Lodge the day's AusPost parcels as one manifest.
Tracking updates on its own, a confirmed delivery marks the order delivered, and a failed attempt shows on the order for you to follow up.
Which carriers can I connect?
- AusPost, for Australian domestic parcels, on your own account so you keep your negotiated rates.
- Interparcel, to compare rates across several couriers. Book labels from the order, or hand the booking to Interparcel, and tracking flows back to the order. Manifests are an AusPost step.
In the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand, and anywhere you post without a connected carrier, you set your own flat shipping rates at checkout and add the tracking number to the order by hand.
Which plan includes courier shipping?
Dispatch and the carrier integrations are on the Business plan.
Delivering in your own van instead? See route optimisation and what to charge for delivery. Still deciding whether to post at all? Start here.