Athenian Shipment Manager
Overview
Athenian Shipment Manager
Athenian Shipment Manager - Technical & Marketing Document
Plugin Snapshot
- Plugin name: Athenian Shipment Manager
- Plugin slug:
athenian-shipment-manager - Version in plugin header:
1.0.0 - Readme stable tag:
0.2.0 - Primary platform: WordPress + WooCommerce
- Requires plugin: WooCommerce
- Primary shortcode:
[ath_shipment_manager] - Primary custom post type:
ath_shipment - Primary capability:
ath_ship_manage, with WooCommerce management fallback - Primary purpose: Unified WooCommerce shipment, packing, carrier-rate, label, and partial-shipment workflows for Athenian Platform commerce operations.
Executive Summary
Athenian Shipment Manager is the WooCommerce fulfillment operations layer for the Athenian Platform. It helps bridge the gap between standard WooCommerce order records and the real operational work of packing orders, generating carrier labels, applying shipping rates, tracking partial shipments, reconciling vendor-originated fulfillment updates, and communicating shipment progress back to customers.
The plugin adds both an administrative shipment workspace and a role-gated packing station that can be embedded on the frontend. It supports order lookup, item review, package weight and dimension capture, shipping-rate retrieval, rate application, carrier-label generation through registered carrier bridges, shipment record persistence, and line-level partial-shipment management.
For stores using vendor routing, dropship workflows, or staged fulfillment, Shipment Manager is especially valuable because WooCommerce order statuses alone do not describe what has actually shipped. The plugin records shipment progress at the item level, syncs vendor shipment events, stores tracking metadata, displays status badges in order views, and can trigger customer partial-shipment emails.
Core Positioning
Athenian Shipment Manager turns WooCommerce from a basic order ledger into a practical shipment operations hub.
It is designed for merchants and platform operators who need to answer fulfillment questions quickly:
- Which orders are ready to pack?
- Which items have shipped?
- Which items are still outstanding?
- Which carrier rate was selected?
- Has a label already been generated?
- Which vendor shipped which line items?
- Should the customer receive a partial-shipment notification?
Instead of spreading those answers across order notes, carrier dashboards, vendor portals, spreadsheets, and support messages, Shipment Manager keeps fulfillment state attached to the WooCommerce order itself.
Marketing Description
Athenian Shipment Manager brings advanced fulfillment workflows directly into WooCommerce. It gives operations teams a dedicated way to look up orders, pack shipments, capture package details, retrieve shipping rates, apply selected rates, generate labels through co
ected carrier integrations, and preserve a structured shipment history.
For stores that ship orders in multiple boxes, across multiple vendors, or over multiple dates, the plugin provides a real partial-shipment layer. It tracks shipped quantities by line item, adds a Partially Shipped order status, supports customer-facing shipment badges, and can send partial-shipment email notifications when fulfillment changes.
Within the broader Athenian ecosystem, Shipment Manager co
ects downstream fulfillment activity with upstream commerce and vendor logic. Athenian Platform Core metadata can identify vendor ownership on order items, and Athenian WooCommerce Dropship can emit vendor shipment events that Shipment Manager reconciles back into the master WooCommerce order.
Short Marketing Copy
One-Sentence Description
Athenian Shipment Manager is a WooCommerce fulfillment operations plugin that unifies packing, shipment records, partial shipments, carrier rates, label workflows, vendor shipment sync, and customer shipment communication.
Short Website Paragraph
Athenian Shipment Manager brings real fulfillment operations into WooCommerce. It gives merchants a dedicated packing station, line-level partial-shipment tracking, carrier-rate workflows, label-generation hooks, shipment records, and vendor-aware shipment synchronization so teams can manage what has shipped and what still needs attention from one operational workspace.
Longer Website Paragraph
Built for stores that have outgrown simple order-status workflows, Athenian Shipment Manager transforms WooCommerce into a more capable fulfillment environment. The plugin supports order lookup, barcode-sca
er-friendly packing, package weight and dimension capture, carrier-rate retrieval, rate application, label generation through carrier bridges, shipment history, line-level shipped quantities, dropship vendor reconciliation, and partial-shipment customer notifications. It is designed for internal warehouses, hybrid fulfillment teams, and Athenian Platform marketplaces where fulfillment may happen across multiple boxes, vendors, services, and dates.
Tagline Options
- Fulfillment operations, built into WooCommerce.
- The shipment workflow layer for advanced WooCommerce stores.
- Packing, partial shipments, carrier workflows, and vendor sync in one fulfillment hub.
- Turn WooCommerce orders into shipment-ready operations.
- A native WooCommerce packing station for real-world fulfillment complexity.
Best-Fit Use Cases
- WooCommerce stores that ship orders in multiple stages.
- Businesses that use warehouse packing stations.
- Stores that need sca
er-friendly order lookup and packing workflows.
- Merchants using Athenian UPS, USPS, FedEx, or other carrier integrations.
- Stores using Octolize / WP Desk / Flexible Shipping style rate engines.
- Vendor-routed or dropship commerce operations.
- Marketplaces where different vendors ship different line items.
- Support teams that need clearer shipment status visibility inside WooCommerce.
- Merchants that need customer communication for partially shipped orders.
- Athenian Platform deployments that need fulfillment state aligned with vendor and PO workflows.
Key Feature Areas
1. Shipment Operations Workspace
The plugin adds a top-level Shipment Manager admin menu with dedicated operational screens:
- Dashboard
- Packing Station
- Shipments
- Settings
> Source excerpt shortened for the baseline web reference; the linked repository remains authoritative for the complete document.
Use cases
- Manual developer onboarding
- Admin and frontend workflow review
- Release and deployment reconciliation
Developer
Developer starting point
Use this baseline with the active plugin installation and linked repository. Confirm the deployed header version and dependency state before applying changes.
Athenian Shipment Manager - Technical & Marketing Document
Plugin Snapshot
- Plugin name: Athenian Shipment Manager
- Plugin slug:
athenian-shipment-manager - Version in plugin header:
1.0.0 - Readme stable tag:
0.2.0 - Primary platform: WordPress + WooCommerce
- Requires plugin: WooCommerce
- Primary shortcode:
[ath_shipment_manager] - Primary custom post type:
ath_shipment - Primary capability:
ath_ship_manage, with WooCommerce management fallback - Primary purpose: Unified WooCommerce shipment, packing, carrier-rate, label, and partial-shipment workflows for Athenian Platform commerce operations.
Executive Summary
Athenian Shipment Manager is the WooCommerce fulfillment operations layer for the Athenian Platform. It helps bridge the gap between standard WooCommerce order records and the real operational work of packing orders, generating carrier labels, applying shipping rates, tracking partial shipments, reconciling vendor-originated fulfillment updates, and communicating shipment progress back to customers.
The plugin adds both an administrative shipment workspace and a role-gated packing station that can be embedded on the frontend. It supports order lookup, item review, package weight and dimension capture, shipping-rate retrieval, rate application, carrier-label generation through registered carrier bridges, shipment record persistence, and line-level partial-shipment management.
For stores using vendor routing, dropship workflows, or staged fulfillment, Shipment Manager is especially valuable because WooCommerce order statuses alone do not describe what has actually shipped. The plugin records shipment progress at the item level, syncs vendor shipment events, stores tracking metadata, displays status badges in order views, and can trigger customer partial-shipment emails.
Core Positioning
Athenian Shipment Manager turns WooCommerce from a basic order ledger into a practical shipment operations hub.
It is designed for merchants and platform operators who need to answer fulfillment questions quickly:
- Which orders are ready to pack?
- Which items have shipped?
- Which items are still outstanding?
- Which carrier rate was selected?
- Has a label already been generated?
- Which vendor shipped which line items?
- Should the customer receive a partial-shipment notification?
Instead of spreading those answers across order notes, carrier dashboards, vendor portals, spreadsheets, and support messages, Shipment Manager keeps fulfillment state attached to the WooCommerce order itself.
Marketing Description
Athenian Shipment Manager brings advanced fulfillment workflows directly into WooCommerce. It gives operations teams a dedicated way to look up orders, pack shipments, capture package details, retrieve shipping rates, apply selected rates, generate labels through co
ected carrier integrations, and preserve a structured shipment history.
For stores that ship orders in multiple boxes, across multiple vendors, or over multiple dates, the plugin provides a real partial-shipment layer. It tracks shipped quantities by line item, adds a Partially Shipped order status, supports customer-facing shipment badges, and can send partial-shipment email notifications when fulfillment changes.
Within the broader Athenian ecosystem, Shipment Manager co
ects downstream fulfillment activity with upstream commerce and vendor logic. Athenian Platform Core metadata can identify vendor ownership on order items, and Athenian WooCommerce Dropship can emit vendor shipment events that Shipment Manager reconciles back into the master WooCommerce order.
Short Marketing Copy
One-Sentence Description
Athenian Shipment Manager is a WooCommerce fulfillment operations plugin that unifies packing, shipment records, partial shipments, carrier rates, label workflows, vendor shipment sync, and customer shipment communication.
Short Website Paragraph
Athenian Shipment Manager brings real fulfillment operations into WooCommerce. It gives merchants a dedicated packing station, line-level partial-shipment tracking, carrier-rate workflows, label-generation hooks, shipment records, and vendor-aware shipment synchronization so teams can manage what has shipped and what still needs attention from one operational workspace.
Longer Website Paragraph
Built for stores that have outgrown simple order-status workflows, Athenian Shipment Manager transforms WooCommerce into a more capable fulfillment environment. The plugin supports order lookup, barcode-sca
er-friendly packing, package weight and dimension capture, carrier-rate retrieval, rate application, label generation through carrier bridges, shipment history, line-level shipped quantities, dropship vendor reconciliation, and partial-shipment customer notifications. It is designed for internal warehouses, hybrid fulfillment teams, and Athenian Platform marketplaces where fulfillment may happen across multiple boxes, vendors, services, and dates.
Tagline Options
- Fulfillment operations, built into WooCommerce.
- The shipment workflow layer for advanced WooCommerce stores.
- Packing, partial shipments, carrier workflows, and vendor sync in one fulfillment hub.
- Turn WooCommerce orders into shipment-ready operations.
- A native WooCommerce packing station for real-world fulfillment complexity.
Best-Fit Use Cases
- WooCommerce stores that ship orders in multiple stages.
- Businesses that use warehouse packing stations.
- Stores that need sca
er-friendly order lookup and packing workflows.
- Merchants using Athenian UPS, USPS, FedEx, or other carrier integrations.
- Stores using Octolize / WP Desk / Flexible Shipping style rate engines.
- Vendor-routed or dropship commerce operations.
- Marketplaces where different vendors ship different line items.
- Support teams that need clearer shipment status visibility inside WooCommerce.
- Merchants that need customer communication for partially shipped orders.
- Athenian Platform deployments that need fulfillment state aligned with vendor and PO workflows.
Key Feature Areas
1. Shipment Operations Workspace
The plugin adds a top-level Shipment Manager admin menu with dedicated operational screens:
- Dashboard
- Packing Station
- Shipments
- Settings
The dashboard highlights recent shipment records and quick links, while the packing station provides the operational workflow for loading an order, reviewing items, capturing package details, selecting rates, generating labels, and marking the order as packed.
2. Frontend Packing Station
The shortcode [ath_shipment_manager] renders a role-gated packing interface outside the WordPress admin. This gives operators the option to create a cleaner packing-station page without exposing the full WooCommerce order editor.
The frontend packing station includes:
- Order ID scan / entry field
- Order lookup
- Order item display
- Package weight and dimensions
- Shipping-rate retrieval
- Rate application
- Carrier-label generation button when supported
- Mark Packed action
- Clear/reset workflow
Access is restricted to users who can manage shipments through the plugin capability logic.
3. Shipment Record Persistence
Shipment Manager registers a hidden custom post type, ath_shipment, used as a structured shipment/packing event store. Shipment records can include:
- Related WooCommerce order ID
- Shipment status
- Packed timestamp
- User who packed the order
- Package weight
- Package dimensions
- Raw scale reading payload
- Carrier label payload
The CPT UI is hidden because the plugin provides custom admin pages rather than relying on the default WordPress post editor.
4. Packing and Package Capture
The packing station supports operational package capture fields, including:
- Package weight in kilograms
- Package length in inches
- Package width in inches
- Package height in inches
- Scale payload data when available
When the operator marks an order packed, Shipment Manager creates an ath_shipment record, stores package metadata, updates the order with _ath_sm_last_shipment_id, and adds an order note.
5. Barcode-Sca
er-Friendly Workflow
The packing UI is designed around order ID sca
ing. Most USB barcode sca
ers behave as keyboard input devices, so the plugin uses a simple scan / enter field rather than requiring specialized sca
er APIs.
> Source excerpt shortened for the baseline web reference; the linked repository remains authoritative for the complete document.
Install
- Plugin file: athenian-shipment-manager/athenian-shipment-manager.php
- Live installed version: 1.0.0
- Canonical repository version: 1.0.0
- Live installed version matches the canonical repository version.
- Product ID: 90050
Configuration
- CHANGELOG.md u2014 Changelog; 1.0.0
- README.md u2014 Athenian Shipment Manager; Included source; Verification
docs/athenian-platform-marketing.md u2014 Shipment Manager - Marketing Platform Brief; Product Positioning; Platform Value; Primary Audiences; Key Capabilities to Promote; Ecosystem Fit; Suggested Product Page Short Description; Suggested Product Page Long Description
docs/athenian-platform-technical.md u2014 Shipment Manager - Technical Platform Brief; Plugin Identity; Technical Purpose; Source Inputs Reviewed; Source-Derived Signals; Implementation Surfaces; WordPress and WooCommerce Touchpoints; Data and Configuration
docs/athenian-shipment-manager-marketing-document.md u2014 Athenian Shipment Manager Marketing Draft; Working positioning; Executive summary; Core marketing message; The problem Shipment Manager solves; What Shipment Manager does; 1. Creates a fulfillment workspace inside WooCommerce; 2. Makes partial shipments operational
docs/technical-marketing.md u2014 Athenian Shipment Manager - Technical & Marketing Document; Plugin Snapshot; Executive Summary; Core Positioning; Marketing Description; Short Marketing Copy; One-Sentence Description; Short Website Paragraph
- readme.txt
Usage
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Shipment Manager - Technical Platform Brief
Plugin Identity
- Plugin slug:
athenian-shipment-manager - Plugin folder:
C:UsersscottDocumentsGitHubathenian-shipment-manager - Plugin header file(s):
athenian-shipment-manager.php - Header name: Athenian Shipment Manager
- Version: 1.0.0
- Primary category: Orders, Fulfillment & Logistics
- Category IDs:
cat-orders-fulfillment - Tag IDs:
tag-wordpress-plugin;tag-orders;tag-operations;tag-shipping;tag-logistics - Source priority:
repo-markdown
Technical Purpose
Unified WooCommerce shipment, packing, and partial-shipment workflows for Athenian.
Within the Athenian Platform ecosystem, this plugin is documented as part of the following operating context:
- cat-orders-fulfillment: Order operations, fulfillment workflows, shipping carriers, dropship, returns, cancellations, and customer service resolution.
- nav-ecommerce-marketplaces: Commerce, marketplace, catalog, orders, shipping, cha
els, and WooCommerce products.
Source Inputs Reviewed
- plugin-repo-markdown: docsathenian-shipment-manager-marketing-document.md
- Source character count: 16051
- PHP files sca
ed: 41
Source-Derived Signals
Key source headings and repeated concepts identified from the current Markdown corpus:
- Athenian Shipment Manager Marketing Draft
- Working positioning
- Executive summary
- Core marketing message
- The problem Shipment Manager solves
- What Shipment Manager does
- 1. Creates a fulfillment workspace inside WooCommerce
- 2. Makes partial shipments operational
- 3. Co
ects carrier and label workflows to packing
- 4. Reconciles vendor and dropship shipments
- 5. Improves the customer communication loop
- 6. Prepares WooCommerce for real warehouse workflows
Representative source context:
- Athenian Shipment Manager is the fulfillment operations layer for WooCommerce inside the Athenian ecosystem. It brings shipment tracking, packing workflows, partial-shipment handling, carrier-rate selection, label generation, and vendor-aware shipment reconciliation into one operational workflow inside WordPress admin...
- In practical terms, Shipment Manager is the plug-in that keeps fulfillment teams from bouncing between WooCommerce orders, carrier tools, vendor updates, and manual notes just to answer a simple question: what has actually shipped, what still needs to go out, and what does the customer need to be told?
- WooCommerce handles orders well, but fulfillment operations usually end up fragmented. Packing details live in one workflow, shipment tracking in another, carrier labels in a third, and vendor-originated shipment updates somewhere else entirely. Once an order ships in multiple boxes, from multiple vendors, or on multi...
- Athenian Shipment Manager solves that by turning fulfillment into a first-class operational layer inside WooCommerce. It gives teams a unified place to pack orders, record shipment state, reconcile partial shipments, sync vendor shipment updates, expose tracking details, and trigger customer notifications without aban...
- Athenian Shipment Manager turns WooCommerce from an order ledger into a usable shipment operations hub.
Implementation Surfaces
Main PHP files:
- athenian-shipment-manager.php
Namespaces and classes:
- AthenianShipmentManager
- AthenianShipmentManagerAdmi
- AthenianShipmentManagerAdminPages
- AthenianShipmentManagerAjax
- AthenianShipmentManagerFrontend
- AthenianShipmentManagerIntegrations
- AthenianShipmentManagerIntegrationsOctolize
- AthenianShipmentManagerOrders
- AthenianPartialShipmentManager
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerAdmi
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerEmails
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerIntegrations
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerLegacy
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerOrders
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerSupport
- Plugi
- missing
- Shipment_Store
- Admin_Order_UI
- Assets
- Menu
- i
- Dashboard
- Packing
- Settings
- Shipments
- Orders
- Shortcode
- Carrier_Bridge
- Device_Manager
- Label_Adapter
- Scale_Adapter
- Octolize_Bridge
- Order_Statuses
- Order_UI
- Settings_Page
- Customer_Partial_Shipment_Email
- Email_Manager
- Dropship_Bridge
- Platform_Core_Bridge
- Table_Store
- Shipment_Repository
- Shipment_Service
- Status_Manager
- Shipment_Presenter
WordPress hooks:
- plugins_loaded
- init
- admin_menu
- admin_enqueue_scripts
- wp_enqueue_scripts
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_lookup_order
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_mark_packed
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_get_rates
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_apply_rate
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_generate_label
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_download_label
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_get_test_label_tspl
- before_woocommerce_init
- admin_notices
- woocommerce_admin_order_item_headers
- woocommerce_admin_order_item_values
- woocommerce_order_item_meta_end
- woocommerce_saved_order_items
- woocommerce_order_item_add_action_buttons
- wp_ajax_ab_psm_order_shipment
- wp_ajax_ab_psm_order_item_shipment
- wp_ajax_ab_psm_order_set_shipped
-
[Excerpt truncated for the initial reference draft.]
- Plugin slug:
Shortcodes
- ath_shipment_manager u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
REST Endpoints
- ath-sm/v1/orders/(?P<id>d+)/shipments u2014 includes/rest/class-ath-sm-rest.php
- ath-sm/v1/orders/(?P<id>d+)/shipping-summary u2014 includes/rest/class-ath-sm-rest.php
Hooks
- init u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- admin_menu u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- admin_enqueue_scripts u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- wp_enqueue_scripts u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_lookup_order u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_mark_packed u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_get_rates u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_apply_rate u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_get_test_label_tspl u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- before_woocommerce_init u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- admin_notices u2014 includes/class-ath-sm-plugin.php
- ab_wcds_vendor_order_update_received u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Integrations/Dropship_Bridge.php
- woocommerce_email_classes u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Emails/Email_Manager.php
- woocommerce_email_partially_shipped_order_details u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Emails/Email_Manager.php
- woocommerce_order_actions u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Emails/Email_Manager.php
- woocommerce_order_action_ab_psm_partial_shipment_email u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Emails/Email_Manager.php
- woocommerce_order_action_wxp_partial_shipment u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Emails/Email_Manager.php
- woocommerce_settings_tabs_array u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Settings_Page.php
- woocommerce_settings_tabs_ u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Settings_Page.php
- woocommerce_update_options_ u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Settings_Page.php
- woocommerce_admin_order_item_headers u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- woocommerce_admin_order_item_values u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- woocommerce_order_item_add_action_buttons u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- admin_enqueue_scripts u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- wp_enqueue_scripts u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- woocommerce_order_item_meta_end u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- woocommerce_admin_order_preview_line_item_columns u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
- woocommerce_admin_order_preview_line_item_column_wxp_status u2014 includes/PartialShipmentManager/Admin/Order_UI.php
Data Model
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Shipment Manager - Technical Platform Brief
Plugin Identity
- Plugin slug:
athenian-shipment-manager - Plugin folder:
C:UsersscottDocumentsGitHubathenian-shipment-manager - Plugin header file(s):
athenian-shipment-manager.php - Header name: Athenian Shipment Manager
- Version: 1.0.0
- Primary category: Orders, Fulfillment & Logistics
- Category IDs:
cat-orders-fulfillment - Tag IDs:
tag-wordpress-plugin;tag-orders;tag-operations;tag-shipping;tag-logistics - Source priority:
repo-markdown
Technical Purpose
Unified WooCommerce shipment, packing, and partial-shipment workflows for Athenian.
Within the Athenian Platform ecosystem, this plugin is documented as part of the following operating context:
- cat-orders-fulfillment: Order operations, fulfillment workflows, shipping carriers, dropship, returns, cancellations, and customer service resolution.
- nav-ecommerce-marketplaces: Commerce, marketplace, catalog, orders, shipping, cha
els, and WooCommerce products.
Source Inputs Reviewed
- plugin-repo-markdown: docsathenian-shipment-manager-marketing-document.md
- Source character count: 16051
- PHP files sca
ed: 41
Source-Derived Signals
Key source headings and repeated concepts identified from the current Markdown corpus:
- Athenian Shipment Manager Marketing Draft
- Working positioning
- Executive summary
- Core marketing message
- The problem Shipment Manager solves
- What Shipment Manager does
- 1. Creates a fulfillment workspace inside WooCommerce
- 2. Makes partial shipments operational
- 3. Co
ects carrier and label workflows to packing
- 4. Reconciles vendor and dropship shipments
- 5. Improves the customer communication loop
- 6. Prepares WooCommerce for real warehouse workflows
Representative source context:
- Athenian Shipment Manager is the fulfillment operations layer for WooCommerce inside the Athenian ecosystem. It brings shipment tracking, packing workflows, partial-shipment handling, carrier-rate selection, label generation, and vendor-aware shipment reconciliation into one operational workflow inside WordPress admin...
- In practical terms, Shipment Manager is the plug-in that keeps fulfillment teams from bouncing between WooCommerce orders, carrier tools, vendor updates, and manual notes just to answer a simple question: what has actually shipped, what still needs to go out, and what does the customer need to be told?
- WooCommerce handles orders well, but fulfillment operations usually end up fragmented. Packing details live in one workflow, shipment tracking in another, carrier labels in a third, and vendor-originated shipment updates somewhere else entirely. Once an order ships in multiple boxes, from multiple vendors, or on multi...
- Athenian Shipment Manager solves that by turning fulfillment into a first-class operational layer inside WooCommerce. It gives teams a unified place to pack orders, record shipment state, reconcile partial shipments, sync vendor shipment updates, expose tracking details, and trigger customer notifications without aban...
- Athenian Shipment Manager turns WooCommerce from an order ledger into a usable shipment operations hub.
Implementation Surfaces
Main PHP files:
- athenian-shipment-manager.php
Namespaces and classes:
- AthenianShipmentManager
- AthenianShipmentManagerAdmi
- AthenianShipmentManagerAdminPages
- AthenianShipmentManagerAjax
- AthenianShipmentManagerFrontend
- AthenianShipmentManagerIntegrations
- AthenianShipmentManagerIntegrationsOctolize
- AthenianShipmentManagerOrders
- AthenianPartialShipmentManager
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerAdmi
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerEmails
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerIntegrations
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerLegacy
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerOrders
- AthenianPartialShipmentManagerSupport
- Plugi
- missing
- Shipment_Store
- Admin_Order_UI
- Assets
- Menu
- i
- Dashboard
- Packing
- Settings
- Shipments
- Orders
- Shortcode
- Carrier_Bridge
- Device_Manager
- Label_Adapter
- Scale_Adapter
- Octolize_Bridge
- Order_Statuses
- Order_UI
- Settings_Page
- Customer_Partial_Shipment_Email
- Email_Manager
- Dropship_Bridge
- Platform_Core_Bridge
- Table_Store
- Shipment_Repository
- Shipment_Service
- Status_Manager
- Shipment_Presenter
WordPress hooks:
- plugins_loaded
- init
- admin_menu
- admin_enqueue_scripts
- wp_enqueue_scripts
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_lookup_order
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_mark_packed
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_get_rates
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_apply_rate
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_generate_label
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_download_label
- wp_ajax_ath_sm_get_test_label_tspl
- before_woocommerce_init
- admin_notices
- woocommerce_admin_order_item_headers
- woocommerce_admin_order_item_values
- woocommerce_order_item_meta_end
- woocommerce_saved_order_items
- woocommerce_order_item_add_action_buttons
- wp_ajax_ab_psm_order_shipment
- wp_ajax_ab_psm_order_item_shipment
- wp_ajax_ab_psm_order_set_shipped
-
[Excerpt truncated for the initial reference draft.]
- Plugin slug:
API Reference
- Manifest hash: b89c0257ca352211ad1e28dd7c1421981fbbc988
Sca
ed file count: 49
- Canonical repository commit: 93a126aa792c4afd970ff9bd386948cd22524879
Sca
er mode: installed plugin analyzer
Troubleshooting
- This document remains unpublished until the reference material and live behavior are manually verified.
- Live installed version matches the canonical repository version.
- Frontend and authenticated admin behavior still require separate manual review.
FAQ
Is this reference published?
No. It is a draft for manual verification and enrichment.
Which source is authoritative?
The pi
ed repository commit is the canonical source reference; the live installation is the deployed-behavior reference. Differences are recorded as review items.
Changelog
Changelog
1.0.0
- Promoted the unified shipment, packing, carrier, label, and partial-shipmentn runtime into a clean private repository.
- Added reproducible release metadata, repository contract checks, and CI.
- Corrected repository metadata to track the current runtime version.