This release lets your store show real-time ShipStation rates and estimated delivery times to shoppers during checkout, so customers can weigh their options before they buy — plus a couple of reliability fixes that keep rates loading cleanly.
Show shoppers their real shipping options at checkout. Your store can now display live ShipStation-calculated rates and estimated delivery times directly on the checkout page. Instead of a flat guess or no estimate at all, shoppers see the actual cost and timing for each option and can pick the one that fits — which means fewer surprises at the most fragile moment of the sale. You turn it on from the ShipStation integration settings, so it’s your call whether to surface these rates. This feature is available to stores with a US address.
Rates that load reliably. Two fixes make checkout steadier. If a shipping rate is missing some of its underlying data, the integration now falls back gracefully instead of throwing an error that could break the page. And checkout rates now show up correctly right after a shopper adds an item to their cart, rather than failing to appear until later.
How to get it
Update to WooCommerce ShipStation 5.3.0 from your WooCommerce dashboard. To show live rates at checkout, open your ShipStation integration settings and turn on the Checkout Rates toggle — note this is available for stores with a US address.
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