50+ Shipping Carriers in Odoo Checkout via One Shippo Link

The retailer sold through Odoo but shipped through a browser tab. Every order meant leaving the ERP to rate-shop carriers, buy a label, and paste tracking numbers back by hand — a process that does not survive volume.

• Shipping costs were estimated at quote time and reconciled later, so orders regularly shipped at a loss or with padded rates.
• Labels and tracking numbers were created outside Odoo and re-keyed manually, introducing delays and typos on every shipment.
• The Odoo eCommerce checkout could not show real carrier options, forcing flat-rate shipping that mispriced international orders.
• Comparing 50+ carriers by hand was impossible, so the cheapest or fastest service was rarely the one actually booked.

iVentureTeam built a two-part Shippo integration for Odoo 12 — one module for the Sales workflow, one for the eCommerce website — so both back-office staff and online shoppers work from live carrier data.

Shippo in the Odoo Sales workflow

• API token configuration connects the client's Shippo account to the Odoo instance in minutes.
• Product records carry height, length, width, and weight so rate requests reflect the real parcel.
• Sales orders compute delivery pricing from order lines and destination, adding shipping as its own SO line.
• Validating the delivery order creates the shipment in Shippo and pulls the tracking number and downloadable label straight into Odoo.

Carrier selection at website checkout

• Shippo publishes as a shipping provider on the Odoo eCommerce site, exposing every service configured in the client's account.
• Shoppers choose their preferred carrier at checkout and the exact cost is added to the order before payment.
• Downstream flow — order confirmation, delivery order, label, tracking — reuses the same engine as the Sales module.

Tracking kept current

• Shipment status is checkable from Odoo, with tracking history synced against the Shippo record.
• Both modules were packaged as installable Odoo apps, so upgrades and reinstalls stay clean.

Shipping moved from a side process into the order flow itself. The team stopped re-keying carrier data, and customers started choosing — and paying for — exactly the service they wanted.

• Every validated delivery produces its label and tracking number without leaving Odoo.
• Quoted shipping now matches billed shipping, ending margin leakage from flat-rate guesses.
• Access to 50+ carriers lets the business pick the best service per shipment, domestic or international.
• Checkout conversion improved once shoppers could see real carrier choices and costs upfront.