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Gobuddy connects your WooCommerce store to South Africa’s largest hybrid delivery network — eleven national courier partners plus a community transporter network that reaches the addresses couriers usually decline.

Install the plugin, connect your store, and every paid order flows straight into your Gobuddy dashboard. You compare live rates across couriers, generate a waybill, and track the parcel to the door — without paying a monthly subscription fee. Only pay for the deliveries you do.

Why retailers use Gobuddy
No subscription. No setup fee. No lock-in. The platform is free. You pay per delivery, at negotiated courier rates. There is no monthly platform charge, no per-integration charge, and no contract to exit. Get going in minutes.

Eleven couriers, one integration. Stop maintaining a separate account, login and rate card for each courier. Gobuddy aggregates them behind a single checkout, a single dashboard and a single invoice.

Deliver where you currently cannot. A large share of South African delivery addresses sit in townships, peri-urban settlements and rural towns that traditional couriers either refuse or surcharge heavily. Gobuddy’s community transporter network covers them. For many merchants this is the difference between a checkout that converts and a checkout that shows “delivery unavailable in your area”.

Same-day where it matters. Local orders within 20km can be matched to a nearby community transporter and delivered the same day, typically before 18:00.

Tracking your customers can see. You receive live status updates for every order displayed on your dashboard. You get confirmation emails for dispatches and delivery complete. Your customer gets WhatsApp updates for statuses of the delivery. Add your own logo and colors so the tracking page looks like your store, not ours. Give your customer a custom tracking experience.

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Recent impact

Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

Last 30 days
2contributions
high2
medium0
score6
Last 90 days
2contributions
high2
medium0
score6
Last 12 months
7contributions
high7
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score21

Contributions

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October 2026
Oct 06 Tue · 21:50
Plugins high
Committed [3731619] to Plugins SVN:
initial commit for version 2.6.3
Oct 06 Tue · 21:49
Plugins high
Committed [3731617] to Plugins SVN:
initial commit for version 2.6.3
February 2026
Feb 23 Mon · 07:21
Plugins high
Committed [3467337] to Plugins SVN:
Added settings for shipping method selection for exclusion.
December 2025
Dec 08 Mon · 16:11
Plugins high
Committed [3414520] to Plugins SVN:
Store waypoints in db
Dec 08 Mon · 09:09
Plugins high
Committed [3414012] to Plugins SVN:
Stop sending checkout-draft orders to gobuddy.
November 2025
Nov 27 Thu · 06:11
Plugins high
Committed [3403787] to Plugins SVN:
Implemented new verification method
Nov 03 Mon · 13:52
Plugins high
Committed [3388912] to Plugins SVN:
Added customer email to end_point field
July 2025
Jul 23 Wed · 13:06
Plugins high
Committed [3332912] to Plugins SVN:
Enabled order sending to Gobuddy
Jul 21 Mon · 08:26
Plugins high
Committed [3331241] to Plugins SVN:
Fix a minor issue
Jul 16 Wed · 14:46
Plugins high
Committed [3329149] to Plugins SVN:
Fix Internationalization

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