VibeFox DHL Africa for Adobe Commerce

Overview

VibeFox DHL Africa adds a DHL Express shipping method to Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce. Customers see one DHL Express price at the shipping step of checkout: a live rate from DHL for their address and cart, or your fallback price per country.

It suits stores that ship with DHL Express from, to or within Africa, for example from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Egypt or Morocco. The module calculates shipping rates at checkout. It does not create DHL shipments, print labels or invoices, book pickups or track parcels.

Key features

Live DHL Express rates: DHL is asked for the parcel (cart weight, origin and destination), and the cheapest DHL Express product is used. The DHL product, the price source and the calculated price are shown on the admin order page.

MyDHL API and legacy XML: works with the current MyDHL API (REST) and still supports DHL XML Services for accounts with a working Site ID. Test and production environments.

Safe currency handling: a DHL quote in the base currency of your store is used as is. A quote in your DHL account currency (for example ZAR, NGN or KES) is converted with your exchange rate, or not used. Magento shows the price in the customer's currency.

No double tax: when your store taxes shipping, the DHL rate is taken without the VAT DHL includes, and Magento adds its own tax.

Fallback prices: a price per destination country, then a flat fallback cost, per order or per item. With neither, the method is hidden.

Fast checkout: quotes are cached for 1 hour per parcel and route, failures for 10 minutes. DHL errors never reach the customer.

Shipping rules: minimum and maximum cart weight, minimum subtotal, free shipping from a subtotal, and the countries you ship to. 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 DHL account, the ship-from address, rates, conditions and advanced options, settings per website, encrypted API credentials and a debug log viewer.

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 with the cURL extension. Live rates need a DHL Express account number and MyDHL API credentials (API key and secret). Fallback prices work without them. A VibeFox license key from vibefox.net (one key per domain).