# Courier shipping for Australian bakeries: AusPost labels, Interparcel quotes and tracking

> For Australian bakeries on the Business plan. Connect AusPost or Interparcel, show live rates at checkout, print labels from the order and let tracking update itself.

## 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.

> Labels and manifests are **only bought when you click**; tracking updates on
> its own.

### 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](/answers/how-do-i-plan-an-efficient-delivery-run) and
[what to charge for delivery](/blog/what-to-charge-for-delivery). Still
deciding whether to post at all?
[Start here](/blog/shipping-cakes-by-courier).