Smart Send Logistics

WooCommerce rebuilt its checkout on React-based Blocks — and the classic PHP hooks that plugins relied on simply don’t exist there. Smart Send’s most-used feature, the pick-up point dropdown that lets customers choose a nearby collection point during checkout, stopped being possible through the old integration path.

The feature had to be rebuilt as a native checkout block: a React component talking to the Smart Send API, persisting the selection through WooCommerce’s Store API into order meta so label generation kept working — all without breaking the classic checkout still used by many of the 400+ live stores running the plugin.

I developed a custom pick-up point checkout block: a React component built with webpack and registered through the WooCommerce Blocks integration APIs, alongside a PHP integration layer wiring it into the plugin. As the customer enters their shipping address, an API request module fetches the nearest pick-up points from Smart Send and renders them for selection; the choice persists through the Store API into the same order meta fields the label-generation system already uses.

The work included robust error handling and followed the plugin’s engineering standards — PHPCS (WordPress coding standards), Prettier, and Composer tooling — as befits a production plugin running on hundreds of live stores.

The plugin is published on the official WordPress plugin directory: Smart Send Logistics on WordPress.org.