VibeFox Chilexpress for Adobe Commerce

Overview

VibeFox Chilexpress adds a Chilexpress shipping method to Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce. Customers choose Chilexpress at the shipping 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 module 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 Chilean 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. Magento already has the 16 regions of Chile, so nothing has to be added.

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

Safe currency handling: Chilexpress quotes in Chilean pesos. A store whose base currency is not CLP sets a CLP exchange rate; without it the API rate is not used, so pesos are never charged as euros or dollars. Magento shows the price in the customer's currency.

Fast checkout: rates are cached for 1 hour, comuna lists for 7 days 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: minimum and maximum cart weight, minimum subtotal, free shipping from a subtotal and the countries you ship to (Chile by default). Magento cart price rules with free shipping work as usual.

Standard Magento settings: all settings are on the standard Delivery Methods configuration page, with sections for the Chilexpress API, fixed prices, availability and free shipping, settings per website, encrypted API keys and a debug log viewer. Tax on shipping uses your store's tax class for shipping.

Requirements

Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce 2.4.6 to 2.4.9 (your own server or Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure; not Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service), PHP 8.1 to 8.4. Live rates need subscription keys for the Chilexpress Rating and Coverage APIs from the Chilexpress developer portal. Fixed prices work without them. A VibeFox license key from vibefox.net (one key per domain).