Integrating your XPS Ship account with PrestaShop allows your customers’ orders to be directly transferred from PrestaShop to XPS Ship, providing quick and easy shipping. The steps below will guide you through the process of integrating your XPS Ship account with PrestaShop.
Pre-Setup Preparation
Before you begin the integration process, you will need to configure your PrestaShop account to allow XPS Ship to pull in order information.
Log in to the admin side of your PrestaShop site.
Go to the sidebar navigation and click on Advanced Parameters >Webservice.
Click "Add New Webservice Key" from the top right corner.
Click "Generate" next to the Key box. A string of numbers and letters will be generated.
Copy the Key, as you will need it to paste into your Prestashop Integration settings for XPS in a later step. Set the status to "Yes".
Set up the following permissions by clicking on the respective boxes:
Addresses- Check “View (GET)”
Carriers- Check “View (GET)”
Countries- Check “View (GET)”
Images- Check “View (GET)”
Order_Carriers- Check “View (GET)” and “Modify (PUT)”
Order_Details- Check “View (GET)”
Order_States- Check “View (GET)”
Orders- Check “View (GET)” and “Modify (PUT)”
Products- Check “View (GET)”
States- Check “View (GET)”
Click "Save" at the bottom of the page.
After saving the necessary permissions you will return to the Webservice page, here under the configuration, be sure to “Enable PrestaShop’s webservice” is set to “Yes”.
If it is not set to "Yes", make sure to change it and click "Save" at the bottom right of the page.
Add a PrestaShop Integration
Open a new browser window and log in to your XPS Ship Account.
Select the Settings tab.
Under “eCommerce” select “eCommerce Integrations”
Select “Add eCommerce Integration”.
Select PrestaShop.
General Settings
Add an Integration name, “PrestaShop” will be the default, but it can be changed to anything you’d like.
Check the box if you want to have a confirmation email sent when orders are fulfilled.
By default, the Active box will be checked.
Check the box if you want to Skip address Pre-Verification on orders.
Check the box “Include Packing slips in confirmation email” if you’d like the packing slips included with the confirmation email once labels have been generated.
PrestaShop Settings
Add the URL of your PrestaShop site in the Store URL field (Make sure there is not a trailing /). Example: https://mytestshop.net
Paste in the key you generated and copied earlier into the Key field.
Enter the type of Pending Order Statuses you wish to pull into your orders list in XPS Ship. Orders with the status of "Payment accepted" are the default.
Additional settings are available related to the “Sender” and “Return To” address. Edit if necessary to your integration.
Click "Save New Integration" when finished.
When the integration has been saved, you will see that the connection has been established at the top of the page. Orders will start syncing and will appear in the shipping area, this may take a few minutes.
Available Features
XPS Ship’s integration to Prestashop supports the following as defined in the Integration Features Glossary