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Recommended Magento versions
The Shipwire module for Magento fulfillment works with Magento versions up to and including 1.9.x and has been tested with Magento Enterprise and Community editions. If you are looking to use Shipwire with Magento 2.x, please visit our Magento 2 support page.

*Note that any existing customizations for your Magento 1.x Shipwire connector will not automatically port over to Magento 2.x. Please contact Shipwire customer care before upgrading to Magento 2.x to ensure that we can migrate the customizations in your Magento 1.x connector.

**Note that Magento version 1.9.3 is currently experiencing API issues. These issues will prevent orders submitted on the Magento cart to not be read within the Shipwire Platform. Until Magento releases an official patch, please follow this solution found in their support forums.
 

On this page

• Setting up the Magento module
• Setting up Magento real-time shipping rates module
• Installing Magento in your Shipwire account
• Troubleshooting your Magento module
• FAQ
• Additional Information and Troubleshooting Tips

Shipwire offers two connections with Magento:
Magento Order Fulfillment — This is found within your Shipwire account. It is easy to install and walks you through a wizard that connects your Shipwire account directly to your Magento Store. Through this API connection your orders will be synced and Shipwire will pick, pack, and ship them. Once shipped, your Magento store will get new inventory values and carrier tracking information so you and your customers can track the shipment.
Magento real-time shipping rates — Follow the instructions in this section and your Magento store checkout will be able to sync shipping rates for all available shipping carriers.
 

Features

All Shipwire API integrations are supported:
Order Entry – Orders are submitted to Shipwire from your Magento store automatically via our Order Entry API, so when your online store gets an order Shipwire does the rest.

Order Tracking – All tracking information related to completed shipments is pulled automatically, including expected delivery dates.

Inventory Status – You can query your inventory status globally, by region, or by fulfillment center. Find out when inventory will be next available on product that is out of stock.

Shipping Rates – Obtain real-time shipping rates at any time during checkout. Shipwire will return the most cost-effective rates, choosing from the best fulfillment center, packaging, and carrier available based on your Optimizer preferences.

Connection Status – When you set up your magento connection, you will see its status right in your Shipwire account under the Magento tool setup screen. See if your connection is set up correctly or if there any errors or warnings.

Connect multiple stores – Shipwire lets you connect more than one Magento store to your fulfillment account. Ship orders for multiple Magento storefronts, and manage them all in the same place.
 

Setting up the Magento module

To install the Shipwire Sell tool in Magento, you need to create a Web Service User in your Magento Admin. If you already have a Web Service User established in your Magento account, skip this part.
 

1. Log in to your Magento account and follow the nested drop down menus in this order: System, Web Services, SOAP/XML-RPD-Users. Then, click Users. On the next screen, click the Add New User button.



2. On this screen, fill in the fields as follows:
• User Name: User Name to be used for API login (e.g.: shipwire_api_user)
• First Name: First name of user
• Last Name: Last name of user
• Email: Email address for user
• API Key: API key to be used for API login (e.g.: shipwire)
• This Account is: Active
3. Click Save User.
4. Go to the Roles menu by following the drop down menu in this order: System, Web Services, SOAP/XML-RPD-Roles. Click Roles. Then, click the Add New Role button, then enter a Role Name (e.g.: “Shipwire integration”).



5. Go to the left navigation menu on the same screen and click Roll Resources. Change the Resource Access selection from Custom to All.
6. Click the Save Role button.
7. Next, map the User to the Role. Once again, navigate: System, Web Services, SOAP/XML-RPD-Users. Click Users, then click on the user you created (e.g.: shipwire_api_user).



8. In the left navigation menu, click User Role. Select the role you created (e.g.: Shipwire integration role).
9. Click the Save User button.

Installing Magento in your Shipwire account

1. Click your account name to access the drop down menu, then click “Third party connectors”.



2. Click Configure. Then click the subsequent link, Add Account (not shown).
• Note: If you do not see Magento listed, click on the “Add connectors” button, then select Magento. See here for more details.



3. After clicking Add Account, you’ll be asked to enter the appropriate information in the form fields:
• Magento API User: Enter your Magento API User Name (e.g.: shipwire_api_user)
• Magento API Key: Enter your Magento API Key you created (e.g.: shipwire)
• Magento Store URL: Your Magento store URL (e.g.: www.mymagentostore.com)
4. Select the features you want to enable.
5. Click Save.
6. Navigate to the Control Panel.



• Check to make sure Shipwire was able to successfully connect to your Magento installation – you will see a green icon if OK, or red if something went wrong.



7. In the Control Panel, select an account (A storefront you have set up in Magento), then enter the appropriate data.
• NOTE: (Not shown) A second text field and link — Import Orders to Fulfill — will also be visible. Provide information and follow instructions to import them.

Testing your Magento connection

NOTE: Before you test the integration, make sure all product names (SKUs) in your Magento account and in your Shipwire account are identical. Shipwire will hold orders with unrecognized product SKUs. You will need to have matching SKUs to go through the following steps.
 

1. After you set up the Shipwire Sell tool, place a test order in your Magento store.



2. Log in to your Magento Store Administrator and select the order you just created. Change the order status to Paid by creating an invoice for the order in Magento Admin.
3. Mark invoice as Paid. Shipwire will pick up the order from Magento within an hour.
4. Test an order from Magento in your Shipwire account. After the order is fulfilled, Shipwire will update with any available carrier tracking numbers and inventory counts.



5. Get carrier tracking numbers from your Magento Store. A Shipment record will be created for your order. (Note: You will not need to create a Shipment Record for your sales order. Shipwire will create one for you through the Magento API at the same time we update tracking information.)



6. Verify that inventory counts are updated in real time.

Setting up Magento Real-Time Shipping Rates module

The following are installation instructions for the Magento shipping rate integration for Shipwire. This module allows you to show real-time Shipwire shipping rates right in your customers’ checkout page in your Magento store.

1. Go to Magento Connect to get the Extension key. Once you login to Magento connect search for Shipwire.
2. Click through to the Shipwire Real Time Rating module and set the platform to Community.
3. Select Magento Connect 2.0 and copy the Key URL.



4. Log back in to your Magento store as Admin and navigate as follows: System, Magento Connect, Magento Connect Manager. You’ll be working in the Extensions tab.
5. Paste the Key URL you copied in Step 2.
6. Press Install. If you refresh the extensions screen, in most cases, you will see the see the Shipwire module appear at the bottom on the list.
7. Click Return to Admin at the top of the page.



8. In the Admin page, navigate to System. In the drop down menu select Configuration and in the left navigation under Sales, select Shipping Methods, then select Shipwire Rating Service. (Note: If you do not see the Shipwire Rating Service in the Shipping Method list, delete your Magento cache files, which are located in /magento/var/cache. Delete all folders within the cache folder and refresh the screen).
9. Setup Shipwire Rating Service as follows:
• Enabled: Yes
• Title: Enter title that shows in checkout process (e.g.: Shipwire Shipping Service)
• Shipwire Email: your Shipwire API user email address. If you have not created an API user yet, please read Adding a new user (or API) role. Please do not use your regular Shipwire administrator user email and password (read “Why API Users are better” on the Moving API access from administrator to API roles page).
• Shipwire Password: your Shipwire API user password
• Available Shipping Services: Select all services you want to offer to customer. In most cases you would enable all services.



10. Finish by clicking Save Config.

NOTE: Before you use the Shipwire real-time shipping rating service, make sure all the SKUs in your Magento shopping cart are identical to those in your Shipwire account and ensure that your product dimensions and weights in Shipwire match to the physical product. Shipwire will not give shipping quotes for SKUs missing from the Shipwire account. Shipwire rate quotes are not available for items not in the Shipwire system.
 

Troubleshooting your Magento module

If you are having difficulty seeing your Magento orders in Shipwire, the following tips may help.

Test the Magento SOAP API
Shipwire uses the Magento SOAP API to communicate with your cart for order fulfillment, inventory, shipping status, and tracking. It is essential that the Magento API work perfectly. A common problem is that the SOAP API is not enabled or properly configured. A simple test to see if SOAP is enabled is to query the SOAP API handler. To do this, enter the following URL in your web browser:

https://YOURSITE/index.php/api/soap/?wsdl=1

Substitute YOURSITE with your Magento store URL. You should receive XML output from your cart indicating that it is working. Depending on how you have redirection set up on your server, you may need to either include “www.” before your domain or exclude it in order to successfully receive XML output. When you find the correct URL, remove the “https://” as well as “index.php/api/soap/?wsdl=1” and then paste into the “Magento Store URL” field in your Shipwire account (click the “Sell” tab and click “Configure” on your Magento sell tool).

Make sure you have the PHP SOAP extention enabled on your web server
The Apache PHP server has SOAP extensions that are necessary for proper operation. To test this, you can run this simple script from a PHP file on your web server:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

This shows your PHP server environment and what modules are installed. If the SOAP extension does not show up during this test, you can run this simple script from a command line prompt to enable SOAP:

yum install php-soap

service httpd restart

If this does not work, you can edit the php.ini file directly to enable the service and restart your server manually.

Make sure the API User and Key in Magento match Shipwire exactly
If these do not match exactly, there will be an authentication error when Shipwire polls Magento to download orders.

It still doesn’t work, now what?
If after these steps you still do not see Magento orders in your Shipwire account, you may need to contact support. It is possible there are internal issues with your Magento version and its handling of SOAP requests. We can look at our server logs to help resolve this. We do know that some Magento versions are not stable and their SOAP implementation will not work without suitable patching.
 

FAQ

Additional Information and Troubleshooting Tips

We have additional information and troubleshooting tips that apply to shopping cart software in general. This includes more information about how Shipwire does real-time shipping rates via service levels, inventory, and more. Please visit our Cart Troubleshooting Guide.