How to Ship Alcohol with WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping Plugin?

Guidelines for Packing

• The container has to be leak-proof. It can be made up of glass, metal or plastic.
• The container should be placed in an equally durable box of metal, wood, plastic or cardboard. It should be padded with a substance that can absorb the liquid in case the container breaks.
• The box should have a lid and should not loosen easily.

International Delivery Services

• It must be excepted by the destination country.
• Available for packages less than 20kg in weight.
• Few forms

You can save yourself from a lot of conveniences if you have a written contract for parcel delivery services with Australia Post. Below is the complete list of countries where imports of alcohol are not restricted and Australia Post delivers alcohol.

Setting up WooCommerce Australia Post

The labels printed by the WooCommerce satisfies all standardizations by Australia Post. So once you set the plugin properly, all compliance from your side is almost complete. But before you proceed and start shipping alcoholic beverages, ensure you register for an Australia Post eParcel Account.

The plugin settings mention it as ‘Contracted Account’. To start with, navigate to be obtained from Australia Post.

The contracted account has a list of special services available don’t require online printing of labels.

After you enable contracted rate, which enables Shipping Label(Contracted), you can print an eParcel label. But you have tomers.

Besides this, you need tomized text or instructions that will appear on the order summary or the commercial invoice that you can print from the order page.

All of the above settings are enough to print shipping labels and an order summary. As a reminder, the label and the commercial invoices that you print using the WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping API is in compliance with the regulations by Australia Post.

Creating Shipment & Printing of Label

Shipment is created from the orders section after an order is placed. The orders page has an option as shown below, where you click on ‘create shipment’ button. Before creating the shipment, there are three things that you can specify here:

• Choose the type of service that you want to confirm age before delivering alcohol.
• Make changes to be used for packing.
• Choose to show Australia Post Logo on the eParcel Label.

So you can go for generating the label if you chose the correct shipping service from the drop-to print a label and a commercial invoice for your shipment that contains alcohol.

Labels and Commercial Invoice

As you can see in the above screenshot that Printing of Label and an Order summary is one click away. The click of the buttoo.

Commercial Invoices

The person signing this is responsible for claiming any fact mentioned. So it is his/her duty documentation, packing, and other guidelines are followed.

Winding Up

As you could find that shipping wine/alcohol has to the safety of others more than just economic gains. It is also prohibited from imports in a lot of markets like India and USA, but there are countries which welcome its imports. So ship alcohol you need a follow official guidelines, the Australia Post guidelines and then the safety and security guidelines of packing the shipments.