VibeFox Chilexpress for OpenCart

Overview

VibeFox Chilexpress adds a Chilexpress shipping method to OpenCart 3 and OpenCart 4. Customers choose Chilexpress at the delivery method step of checkout and pay your fixed price per country and parcel size, or a live rate from the Chilexpress Rating API for their comuna in Chile.

It suits stores in Chile that send parcels with Chilexpress. The extension calculates shipping rates at checkout. It does not create shipments or transport orders, print labels, book pickups, track parcels or let customers choose a Chilexpress office. Live rates are for destinations in Chile only.

Key features

Three rate sources: fixed prices only, Chilexpress API only, or the API with the fixed price as a fallback when Chilexpress has no rate.

Comuna recognition: the comuna the customer types in the City field and the region of the address are converted to the Chilexpress county code. Accents and spelling variants such as Ñuñoa / Nunoa or Santiago / Santiago Centro are recognised.

Chilean regions checked: the settings page shows which of the 16 Chilean regions are missing in your store, and the Add Chilean regions button adds them as zones of Chile.

Service of your choice: Prioritario, Express, Extendido, Extremos or the cheapest offered. The service and the price source are shown on the order page in Sales > Orders.

Safe currency handling: Chilexpress quotes in Chilean pesos. A store in another currency sets a CLP exchange rate; without it the API rate is not used, so pesos are never charged as euros or dollars.

Fast checkout: rates are cached for 1 hour, comuna lists longer and failures for 5 minutes. The API timeout is 10 seconds. API errors never reach the customer.

Fixed price table: prices per country, with optional prices by parcel size from the cart weight (XS up to 1 kg to XL above 5 kg), per order or per item.

Shipping rules and a clear settings page: geo zone or a list of countries, minimum and maximum cart weight, minimum subtotal, free shipping from a subtotal, tax class. One Save button without page reload, warnings about missing settings, JSON import and export, and a debug log on the page.

Requirements

OpenCart 3.0.x (tested on 3.0.5.0) or OpenCart 4.0.2 and later (tested on 4.1.0.3), PHP 8.0 or later. One download has the packages for both versions. Live rates need subscription keys for the Chilexpress Rating and Coverage APIs from the Chilexpress developer portal and Chilean regions in the store. Fixed prices work without them. A VibeFox license key from vibefox.net (one key per domain).