<h1>Easily offer Royal Mail shipping rates</h1>
The WooCommerce Royal Mail 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.
To use this extension, your store must use GBP currency and have the United Kingdom as the base country, and your products need to be set up with weights and shipping dimensions.
This extension primarily works with <code>mm</code> and <code>g</code>, but other units are converted automatically!
<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>Pack items individually or use our built-in <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/royal-mail/#section-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">box packer</a> to ship items in single or multiple package(s).</li>
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<h2>Supported services</h2>
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>.

Royal Mail Shipping Method

Offer Royal Mail shipping rates to your customers.

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<li>Offer shipping rates based on distance or total travel time to your customer.</li>
<li>Charge extra based on total weight, the total cart value, or the number of items in the cart.</li>
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Perfect for the store owner who wants to charge customers for delivery of items based on how far away they are from the store. A perfect example would be for store hiring out equipment or a takeaway store.
For example say you are a company hiring out Keg Draught Beer setups and deliver the equipment however want to charge different rates for the delivery based on how far away the customer is from you and how many kegs they hire, then WooCommerce Distance Rate Shipping extension is for you.
Or if you run a service that produces home cooked meals but would like to charge more for delivery based on the further the customer lives from you then the WooCommerce Distance Rate Shipping extension is perfect.
The use cases are endless and can cover pretty much every scenario for charging shipping based on the total distance or travel time.
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<div class="woo-sc-box note info ">This extension requires a Google account as it makes use of Google Maps, the Google Distance Matrix API, and Google Maps Embed API. Some of these features are <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distance-matrix/usage-and-billing?hl=en_GB" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">paid services</a>. The route returned (and subsequent total distance) is used to calculate the cost according to the data returned by <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/distancematrix">Distance Matrix API’s “Driving” Mode.</a></div>

WooCommerce Distance Rate Shipping

Easily offer shipping rates based on the distance or total travel time to your customer.

Royal Mail Shipping Method vs WooCommerce Distance Rate Shipping