smartwebminds

<h4>Overview</h4>
<p>This plugin optimizes shipping by automatically calculating the most efficient way to pack products into boxes, pallets, or containers based on dimensions and weight. It integrates with the 3DBinPacking API to provide real-time packing simulations directly in your WooCommerce admin panel.</p>
<p>Perfect for stores with physical products that need to minimize shipping costs and improve warehouse efficiency.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<p><strong>Automatic Packing Optimization</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Calculates optimal product arrangement in real-time</li>
<li>Supports multiple packaging types: boxes, pallets, crates, containers</li>
<li>Uses 3DBinPacking algorithms considering dimensions and weight</li>
<li>Handles product rotations for better space utilization</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Carrier & Packaging Management</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Configure unlimited carriers with custom packing rules</li>
<li>Define packaging stock with dimensions, weight limits, and costs</li>
<li>Set optimization modes: minimize bins, maximize utilization, or lowest cost</li>
<li>Active/inactive status control for carriers and packaging</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Order Packing Simulation</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Visual packing results for each order</li>
<li>Shows unpacked items and reasons</li>
<li>Detects logistics changes automatically</li>
<li>Manual or automatic simulation triggers</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>API Integration</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Secure 3DBinPacking API connection</li>
<li>API credential verification</li>
<li>Error logging and reporting</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Configure API credentials and carriers</li>
<li>Ensure products have dimensions filled</li>
<li>Open order and execute packing simulation</li>
<li>System calculates optimal packing</li>
<li>View results and choose best shipping option</li>
</ol>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.7 or higher (WordPress 6.8 or higher required for WooCommerce 10.4 and 10.5)</li>
<li>WooCommerce 8.0 or higher (tested up to 10.5)</li>
<li>PHP 8.0 or higher</li>
<li>3DBinPacking account with API access</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical Information</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin slug: tdbinpacking</li>
<li>Plugin version: 1.0.1</li>
<li>Author: smartwebminds</li>
<li>Minimum WordPress version: 6.7</li>
<li>Minimum WooCommerce version: 8.0</li>
<li>Maximum WooCommerce version tested: 10.5</li>
<li>Minimum PHP version: 8.0</li>
</ul>
<h3>Security</h3>
<p>This plugin uses Twig 3 template engine with automatic HTML escaping and prepared statements for all database queries. All user inputs are sanitized and validated. Nonce verification is implemented for all form submissions.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the 3DBinPacking API (global-api.3dbinpacking.com)<br />
to perform packing calculations.</p>
<p>The service is used for two purposes:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>API access verification. Triggered manually by the administrator while<br />
saving or verifying API credentials in the plugin settings. Sent data:<br />
username, api_key, and technically empty items and bins structures used only<br />
to verify access.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Packing simulation. Triggered manually or automatically when an order is<br />
opened or edited and the packing simulation is executed. Sent data: username,<br />
api_key, product dimensions and weight in the items structure, packaging and<br />
constraint data in the bins structure, optimization parameters, and technical<br />
source metadata including WooCommerce version and plugin version.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>No customer personal data is sent to the external service.</p>
<p>Service provider: SWM Smart Web Minds Limited / 3DBinPacking<br />
Service website: https://www.3dbinpacking.com/en/<br />
Terms and Conditions: https://www.3dbinpacking.com/en/regulations<br />
Privacy Policy: https://www.3dbinpacking.com/en/privacy-policy</p>


3D Bin Packing – Shipping & Load Optimization

WooCommerce plugin for automated shipping optimization using 3D bin packing algorithms.

Marc

<p>Integration of rhinopaq reusable packaging as a shipping method. The plugin enables woocommerce shops to use rhinopaq as shipping mehtod, show a pop-up message on the checkout page, add prices for reusable packaging in Germany and Austria and use the smart rhinopaq function hosted by rhinopaq on AWS. Smart rhinopaq calculates if all items in a shopping cart fit into one rhinopaq.</p>
<h3>Dependencies</h3>
<p>This plugin is using an service by rhinopaq hostet on the Amazon AWS. Therefore, data of the shopping cart will be sent to an AWS endpoint.</p>
<h4>Dynamic data sent to that endpoint</h4>
<ul>
<li>pluginId | the PlugIn-ID defined in the admin area and give by rhinopaq</li>
<li>requestId | unique id of the request to handle it properly</li>
<li>items | length, width, height and weight of each item in the shopping cart</li>
<li>clearance | chosen clearance value in the admin area</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data received by that endpoint</h4>
<ul>
<li>fits | boolean value that has been calculated by the service of rhinopaq. If true, the given items fit into one rhinopaq and rhinopaq will be displayed as shipping option. If false, the given items do not fit into one rhinopaq; rhinopaq shipping method will be hidden.</li>
<li>fittingRhinopaq | the suggested rhinopaq size for shipping; one of those, that are activated in the admin area</li>
<li>pluginid | again the pluginid</li>
<li>requestid | again the unique id of the request to handle it properly</li>
<li>message | status message</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>The WooCommerce plug-in rhinopaq Shipping does not send any data from your site to us without smart rhinopaq enabled. If you use the smart rhinopaq function, the measurements and the weight of all items in the shopping cart will be sent to our service and servers respectively, hosted on Amazon AWS. The data is used to request the possible use of one of our rhinopaqs in the checkout process. If our service confirms the possibility, positive feedback will be sent back to your store accordingly. rhinopaq will then be suggested as a shipping method and a pop-up will be created asking the user if she would like to use reusable packaging or stick with disposable. No personal data is sent, nor any information about the products beyond weight and dimensions. The data is stored by us in order to be able to determine the quality of our calculations in the long term and to optimize the service. By activating the smart rhinopaq function you agree to its use.</p>


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