From the course: WordPress Ecommerce: WooCommerce
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Setting up live rates
- [Instructor] There are a few different ways to get live rates for your store. For the most part, you'll have to install an extra plug-in to get live rates from shipping providers. There's a ton of third party shipping services. The most popular are USPS, UPS, and FedEx. We're going to use the USPS extension, as it's one of the easier plug-ins to set up. A lot of these plug-ins do require you to have an account, which means copying and pasting a bunch of API keys back and forth. USPS has some default credentials you can use which will make setup much easier. I'll go to my site, where I've already installed and activated the plug-in. Then, we can go to WooCommerce, Settings, and now we can see USPS. Let's click on that. Here we can see the default API key, and if you ever have problems, you can enable Debug mode. Going back to shipping zones, let's go to our local zone, and click Edit. Let's scroll down and click Add Shipping Method. Now we can see USPS as one of the options. Let's go…
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