<h1>Easily offer Royal Mail shipping rates</h1>
<p>The WooCommerce <strong>Royal Mail</strong> shipping extension allows you to offer Royal Mail shipping rates to customers without the need for an API, as Royal Mail does not provide a public API.</p>
<p>To use this extension, your store must use <strong>GBP currency</strong> and have the <strong>United Kingdom</strong> as the base country, and your products need to be set up with weights and shipping dimensions.</p>
<p>This extension primarily works with <code>mm</code> and <code>g</code>, but other units are converted automatically!</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
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<li>Choose what Royal Mail services you want to offer customers.</li>
<li>Customize the names of services.</li>
<li>Add extra costs to services, if you wish.</li>
<li><strong>Pack items individually</strong> or use our built-in <strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/royal-mail/#section-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">box packer</a></strong> to ship items in single or multiple package(s).</li>
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<h2>Supported services</h2>
<p>This extension supports all the UK and international sending services offered by Royal Mail and Parcelforce in <a href="https://www.royalmail.com/current-postage-prices">the current Post Office and Online price guides</a>.</p>

Royal Mail Shipping Method

<p>Offer Royal Mail shipping rates to your customers.</p>

<p>Flat rate box shipping lets you define costs for boxes to different destinations. Items are packed into boxes based on item size and volume, and then that box uses the fixed costs you define per destination.</p>
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<li>Add multiple box sizes per shipping zone.</li>
<li>Add costs per box, per weight unit, and a percentage of the item costs inside.</li>
<li>Define a cost for un-packable items e.g. too large to fit in a box.</li>
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<h2>Advanced Shipping Rates using Box Packing</h2>
<p>When a customer checks out with items in their basket, the plugin reviews the destination of items, matches this to a zone, and then uses the rates in that zone for the calculation. Each destination and rate can have its own box sizes and multiple sets of box sizes, based on your shipping requirements. Items are packed into boxes to get a rate.</p>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>Need guidance? Check out the comprehensive documentation to learn everything you need to know about the <strong>Flat Rate Box Shipping</strong> extension.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/flat-rate-box-shipping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View documentation</a></h4>
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<h2>Questions and Support</h2>
<p>If you have pre-sale questions or need help, <span class="link-annotation-unknown-block-id--992406005">get in touch</span> with our friendly Happiness Engineers.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Get support</a></h4>
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Flat Rate Box Shipping

<p>Pack items into boxes with pre-defined costs per destination</p>

Royal Mail Shipping Method vs Flat Rate Box Shipping