Simple Shipping Estimate for Magento 1
Simpler shipping estimate blocks for the Magento shopping cart.
- v1.1.1
- Magento CE 1.4 – 1.9, EE 1.8 – 1.14
- OpenMage
- MIT License
- Released Apr 2019
Features
- Shows estimated shipping costs in the cart right away
- Three shipping estimate block layouts
- Default block with pre-filled destination and method
- Shipping method dropdown instead of the estimate form
- Option to hide the shipping estimate block
- Estimates based on the customer's default address
- Shows shipping costs before checkout
Overview
For most Magento merchants the default shipping estimation block in their webshop's shopping cart tends to over-complicate and slow down the check-out process. Customers first need to enter their address details, select a shipping method and click the 'Estimate' button to show their order's estimated shipping costs.
For stores with limited shipping destinations, the Magento Simple Shipping Estimate extension offers a way to simplify your customers' checkout experience. It provides you three alternative shipping estimation block layouts that all instantly show the estimated shipping costs when arriving in the shopping cart.
Simple shipping estimation blocks#
Using the extension you can choose from three simplified shipping estimation block layouts that directly show an order's estimated shipping costs based on your default shipping address and shipping method. You can completely hide the shipping estimation block and only show the estimated shipping costs, which is especially useful for Magento stores with only one shipping method.
The second layout replaces the address section with a simple shipping method drop-down, which works well if you are using the same shipping rates for all your shipping destinations. Lastly, you can choose to use Magento's default shipping estimation block design, but showing a prefilled shipping destination and shipping method with instantly estimated shipping costs.
Instant shipping cost calculation#
By configuring a default shipping destination and shipping method the estimated shipping costs are directly shown in the shopping cart, while for logged in customers the costs are automatically calculated based on their default shipping or billing address.
In this way you can enable customers to proceed through checkout faster and prevent abandoned carts by communicating your total shipping costs more clearly.
By simplifying your checkout process with instant shipping costs estimation, Simple Shipping Estimate can improve your customer satisfaction level and shopping experience.
Documentation
5 pages from the user manual.
Changelog
Release history5 releases, Oct 2014 – Apr 2019
Since 2026Open source
- 1.1.1
Magento EE compatibility release
- 1.1.0
- Fixed empty cart shopping cart bug
- Added shipping cost estimation based on default shipping or billing address of logged in customers
- 1.0.2
- Fixed issue regarding sales rule based on shipping method
- Fixed JS bug
- 1.0.1
Fixed compatibility issue with Product Matrixrates extension
- 1.0.0
First release of Magento Simple Shipping Estimate extension by Plugin Company.
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