Nova Poshta waybills
A Nova Poshta express waybill straight from the order.
A Nova Poshta waybill can be issued right inside the order, without switching over to the carrier's own account: the recipient, city, branch, parcel locker or courier address are taken from the order itself, and the weight is worked out from its items. The waybill number is stored with the order, appears in its history and on the printed forms.
What it does
- Creates an express waybill with one button in the order: the recipient is registered with Nova Poshta using the name and phone from that order.
- Works out the delivery type on its own — to a branch or parcel locker when the customer picked a pick-up point, or to a street address by courier when the order has one.
- Calculates the weight and the number of parcels from the order's items, falling back to the default weight from the settings when products have none.
- Provides links to print the waybill as a PDF and the 100×100 label for a thermal printer.
- Shows the current parcel status by waybill number and lets you delete a waybill issued by mistake — the number is cleared and the action stays in the order history.
- Runs independently of your shop's shipping methods, so it suits you even if buyers never pick Nova Poshta at checkout.
What you need
- An access key from your Nova Poshta account, under the security settings. The key must have the express waybill creation option enabled, otherwise no waybills will be created.
- A sender and a sending branch — picked from a list taken from your account as soon as the key is saved.
What we fixed
Street suggestions in the waybill dialog work again. The add-on asked the carrier about streets by city code, while the carrier knows them by settlement, so the list always came back empty. The street had to be typed by hand, otherwise the courier address was not saved.
Seats come from the person packing the order
The number of seats on a waybill is no longer filled in automatically. Until your packer enters it, the field stays empty and the carrier receives the shipment as a single seat. Previously the pre-filled one looked like a staff decision.
The parcel block can be hidden from the order
If your parcels are all alike, switch off the question about places, size and weight: the shop works the weight out from the products and ships a single place. With the block on, the number of places stays empty until the packer enters it — the carrier treats empty as one place, while a pre-filled 1 would look like your decision. A line bought by the pack is printed on the waybill with the pack name.
An icon of its own
In the «Plugins» section and in the list of installed items the add-on now shows its own icon instead of an identical box, so you find the one you need at a glance. The icon appears on shops running version 1.30.0 and newer.
The check window is optional
If your parcels are all alike, the window before issuing can be switched off in the add-on settings: the button in the order then creates the waybill straight away, from the order and the shipment details you set next to it.
The city and the branch are no longer lost
The shop used to look the recipient city up by the name stored in the order, and that name is not always written the way the Nova Poshta directory has it — so the city and the branch stayed empty. Both are now taken from the pick-up point the customer chose at checkout: it knows its own name and its own city.
The waybill is issued after a check, not straight from a button
The issue button moved to the orders workspace and opens a window where you check and edit everything that goes to Nova Poshta: the sender contact and address, the recipient with the phone, the branch or parcel locker, the courier address with the floor, places, weight, dimensions and payment. The shop shows the delivery date, its cost and the cash on delivery fee right there and recalculates them while you edit.
Small things that save calls to the branch
A street missing from the carrier directory can be typed in by hand. A parcel locker always takes a single place whatever the form says, and the weight is split between places. The order number now goes into the waybill as its own field, so the waybill is easy to find in your Nova Poshta account.
The sender comes from your access key
There is no sender to pick any more: at Nova Poshta it is always the owner of the key. You only choose the contact person and the address parcels leave from — both lists come from your account, and the phone fills itself in. These lists used to arrive empty, and the sender phone was lost on save.
The shop keeps an eye on parcels
Every half hour the shop asks the carrier where the order is, shows the state in the order card and moves the order to the status you mapped — the customer gets your usual status e-mail. When the customer pays on receipt, the amount due goes into the waybill as cash on delivery. A company order is issued to the legal entity by its state registration code, and when someone else collects the parcel the waybill is issued to that person.
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