Integrating Restful web service API into my woo commerce website

Question

I have a wordpress woo commerce website.

I have made a contract with a delivery company which has its own API ,

so in order to track my orders and to generate bar codes , i have to integrate a RESTful web service that accepts POST requests and returns JSON responses, as described by the company.

They sent an API key and a link to offline server in order to make a test

I have read the woo commerce official documentations:

• Woo Commerce Rest API

• Getting started with the REST API

• woocommerce rest api docs

but they all say to generate API key and not to integrate external API key into the website, i don't need to understand how to code, i want to understand the process in general.

Answer 1

It would be helpful to know the carrier in question. There are a number of carrier plugins already available for WooCommerce that you can choose from that integrate with mainstream carriers.

If it is not a mainstream carrier, then you will need to create a custom plugin to use their API (that is beyond the scope of answering here, see https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/create-a-plugin/ ). You could also potentially market this back to the carrier.

Alternatively, you could write a separate process that polls the WooCommerce API for orders, and then connects with the carrier API to create consignments. I've not written plugins for WooCommerce, but have experience with APIs in general, so if it was me, personally, I'd go this way.