ShipStation

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Paola
Paola
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

shipping and order fulfillment solution

Reviewed on 2023/10/27

Pros

The ability to integrate with various carriers and compare rates is a significant advantage, allowing businesses to choose the best shipping options.

Cons

Basic inventory management may not suffice for businesses with complex inventory needs.

Stephan
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  • Industry: Sporting Goods
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A Solid Shipping Platform with a Few Quirks

Reviewed on 2024/11/02

It's a very smooth app with some odd behaviors here and there but good overall.

It's a very smooth app with some odd behaviors here and there but good overall.

Pros

It consolidates all of our fulfillments from a variety of sales channels.

Cons

The integrations could use some mapping settings to prevent issues.

ISAAC
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Terrible customer service, stay away!

Reviewed on 2024/07/21

Terrible experience. NOONE TO TALK TO, CAN'T GET THEM ON THE PHONE, THEY ARE THE WORST.

Terrible experience. NOONE TO TALK TO, CAN'T GET THEM ON THE PHONE, THEY ARE THE WORST.

Pros

I DID NOT LIKE ANYTHING, I WAS JUST WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE BOUGHT OUT BY USPS.

Cons

No customer service. TERRIBLE SOFTWARE, THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU.

George
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Powerful Shipping Management Tool for E-Commerce

Reviewed on 2024/11/18

ShipStation is a top-tier shipping management solution for e-commerce businesses, particularly...

ShipStation is a top-tier shipping management solution for e-commerce businesses, particularly those managing high volumes and multi-channel operations.

Pros

Wide Range of Integrations and Time Saving Automation

Cons

The pricing is high vor small businesses and there are limited customer support options

Owen
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great tool for managing and tracking inventory & shipping

Reviewed on 2024/11/08

Pros

Great tool for managing and tracking inventory across a range of different sales channels and handling all our shipment across these channels in one platform

Cons

has more funtionality than we need and prices have gone up recently

Krista
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

ShipStation Usage

Reviewed on 2024/11/21

The layout and shortcuts made for an enjoyable use and quick shipping process

The layout and shortcuts made for an enjoyable use and quick shipping process

Pros

Easy to use and navigate making for a quick shipping process

Cons

The new updates made it so ShipStation connect had trouble connecting scanners and scales

Matthew
Matthew
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  • Industry: Consumer Electronics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Um.. is this an abandoned product?

Reviewed on 2023/09/05

Bum. Desperately need alternative.

Bum. Desperately need alternative.

Pros

Great when it worked. Best when I could use my own carrier without selling my firstborn.

Cons

No support. Literally ignored community posts and feedback for years and years. Not so much as an acknowledgement. Currently facing two MAJOR bugs preventing me from using their product and fulfilling my orders without tons of manual intervention. 3+ months and NO response. I am pretty sure they are failing and going bankrupt, suckering people out of as much money as possible before they completely fail.

christopher
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  • Industry: Wireless
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

shipping with shipstation!

Reviewed on 2024/10/06

My overall experience with ShipStation has been positive. It’s user-friendly and integrates well...

My overall experience with ShipStation has been positive. It’s user-friendly and integrates well with various sales channels and carriers, making shipping and order management much easier.

Pros

I like ShipStation’s ease of use and its integration with multiple sales channels and carriers.

Cons

The customer support is limited and can be a tad pricey

Jerrica
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Never trust customer service

Reviewed on 2024/10/21

Pros

Integrates very well with other sites and plugins. Setup was not terrible to do. Fulfillment is much easier then other companies we have used in the past.

Cons

Customer service was horrible! They are hard to get a hold of and when you do they cannot solve the issue most of the time. When you do get a hold of them, they give you a run around with no actual help. Constant issues with address and labels.

Abby
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

I would recommend for easy every day use

Reviewed on 2024/10/31

It was great but it could be better. They offer great prices but customer service is hard to get a...

It was great but it could be better. They offer great prices but customer service is hard to get a hold of

Pros

I liked that it was easy to use and convenient for me

Cons

I had trouble changing my account settings

Marc
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good Platform to work on your e-commerce orders.

Reviewed on 2023/04/14

Works great to get all your orders fulfilled. We are very satisfied with that aspect. We do not...

Works great to get all your orders fulfilled. We are very satisfied with that aspect. We do not intend to change away from it.

Pros

The easy to gather all the orders from different selling channels into one tool. No extra entering of shipping information and I like how it does verify all your addresses.

Cons

The Magento Module has issues. Live Rates do not just transfer from Shipstation to the website. It ends up being $0 for shipping that gets charged to our customers. I had to deactivate that functionality.

Alternatives Considered

ShippingEasy, ShipWorks, Easyship and Shippo

Reasons for Switching to ShipStation

I was refered to it as a reliable tool to get shipping done. Unlimited shipping channels can be added.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Best in class order management, but inventory management is flawed

Reviewed on 2023/03/03

Positive. I've tried numerous competitors, but keep coming back to shipstation for just doing the...

Positive. I've tried numerous competitors, but keep coming back to shipstation for just doing the business of shipping things flawlessly. If they would add inventory syncing and kitting/bundling, this product would be literal perfection.

Pros

The workflows, batching, labelling, general UI and UX and the user-centric engineering make it obvious this was designed by product managers who have done ecommerce, rather than their competitors who are software engineers first and have no clue what store owners actually want.

Cons

The inventory managenet is one way; anything you sell on any channel will decrement Shipstation's inventpry, but it won't then push the new stock count out to connected stores. Also therefore no support for kitting and bundling. They recommend you check out other integration partners but most of those cost 300+ per month which is 6x what I'm paying for Shipstation. They have competitors who offer these features free or cheap, but the competitors lack in the order/shipping management features.

Alternatives Considered

Linnworks

Reasons for Choosing ShipStation

Shipstation's order management, shipping management and labelling (including the Shipstation Carrier Services which is like a proxy prepay account for some couriers we don't qualify for direct integrations with) is literally best in class. None of the others come close.

Switched From

Multiorders and Veeqo

Reasons for Switching to ShipStation

Cost, and best-in-class features, reliability and availability.
Tonya
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Shipstation is one of the best alternatives I've found.

Reviewed on 2023/02/23

Absolutely satisfactory and I'd recommend it to anyone in need of an alternative for shipping.

Absolutely satisfactory and I'd recommend it to anyone in need of an alternative for shipping.

Pros

It's easy to use and makes my job convenient. I'm glad I discovered Shipstation.

Cons

I have no complaints about it. It helps us on the daily!

Alternatives Considered

Stamps.com

Reasons for Choosing ShipStation

Just easier to navigate and gets it done in a jiffy.

Reasons for Switching to ShipStation

It was just easier and more user-friendly. That matters for a company, especially when you have older employees who aren't as "high-tech".
Eddy
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Stores and order management

Reviewed on 2023/09/29

I find it easy to use and a great way to have all of your marketplaces centralized to assist your...

I find it easy to use and a great way to have all of your marketplaces centralized to assist your shipping team or your customers, we have various ways to locate an order and edit it to our needs.

Pros

Once you do your basic set up you can start to keep track of your orders and for a long time, we can go back and edit orders from years back in case something new pops up with customer service

Cons

Since it is a web page it can fail and make your process stop.Sometimes the cache on your account makes it slow to check on order if you have high volume (customer support can assist on this).now that they are testing their new look sometims old SS can be hard to work and you ahve to go to the new look, and viceversa.

Katelynn
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  • Industry: Printing
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

ShipStation is a good platform that is well on it's way, Needs more for B2B support.

Reviewed on 2023/07/19

If we can work out the Kinks with Ship From Locations we will be able to easily ship to multiple...

If we can work out the Kinks with Ship From Locations we will be able to easily ship to multiple supported carriers without additional development time for unique integrations from each company into our Custom Order Entry Software.

Pros

Initially Importing Orders with little setup time using the XML integration helped us import orders using our custom Order Entry Program in a two-day time frame. It is also easy to add in supported carriers providing you have the required information. Automatic Notifications and returns support is a great added feature.

Cons

The missing value for B2B customers is missing support for Blind Shipping, in our case, we only update the company name in the ship at this time which we are unable to do in ShipSttion, the recommended workaround was to re-enter 2500+ resellers in each location as a unique Ship From Location. (We have 3) Alternatively we can tax our shipping employee with entering them with each new shipment. Otherwise, I think the lack of bulk importing these Ship From Locations makes things a little worse off. I am hopeful that more features will be released with B2B and Dropship customers in mind.

Brandy
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Loved til overcharging

Reviewed on 2023/11/26

Great in the beginning & horrible in the end

Great in the beginning & horrible in the end

Pros

It was easy to use n it had lots of great features easy made labels, tracking, inventory management , choice of couriers, prices were good when quoted to u, do e-commerce , distribution & more was great n the beginning

Cons

They would overcharge me all the time if the package was half a pound over weight instead of just having 2 pay a lil extra it's like they would void what u paid already & make u pay a what itd cost 2 shipped like u hadn't paid, & 1 time I paid 6$ to ship 1 piece of wall decal that was barely heavier than a reg piece of paper & they said it weighted 7 pounds yet it didn't even weigh 1 pound they charged me like 12$ on top of the $6 id paid ahead of time 4 basically a 8×10 piece of paper. After being over charged 15 times I never used them again

Robin
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Waiting for solution for a bug fix for 7 months.

Reviewed on 2023/11/29

Started good and has quickly gone down hill...

Started good and has quickly gone down hill...

Pros

ShipStation has been pretty easy to use but we have been having the same issue for over 7 months now, with no resolution or sense of urgency from customer service.

Cons

We have been having the same issue with no resolution in 7 months. The additional insurance cost to a FedEx label does not properly translate over to our operating system. The wait time to get what ShipStation calls a "bug", has been absolutely absurd. We haven't received a solution from anyone, meanwhile this has caused accounting issues and additional headaches that a small business shouldn't have to go through. We are already looking for a replacement service.

Grant
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Good Value

Reviewed on 2024/11/08

Overall a strong positive. Less downtime could be good but good value for the price

Overall a strong positive. Less downtime could be good but good value for the price

Pros

Affordable, Easy To Integrate, Easy To Use

Cons

Dated user interface and periodic downtime and glitches

Mahlon
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Very poor software design and way of doing business

Reviewed on 2023/10/18

Very poor experience. Never could get the right answers from support either. Seems like a company...

Very poor experience. Never could get the right answers from support either. Seems like a company that really doesn't care about small businesses and customer support.

Pros

It was a way to print shipping labels in one place for multiple carriers.

Cons

They made you prepay for labels in certain $ increments before you could print labels, so you always have money tied up hoping to be able to use it sometime. Will only be able to ship FedEx and UPS if you have current account with them and can get the software to work together with your existing account. Not very user friendly compared to Pirate Ship.

Alternatives Considered

ShippingEasy

Reasons for Switching to ShipStation

Was recommended to me by UPS
Brittany
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

ShipStation Rocks!

Reviewed on 2024/05/15

Pleasant and agreeable. Works as needed. No complaints really

Pleasant and agreeable. Works as needed. No complaints really

Pros

We use shipstation on a monthly basis to ship goods/products to our vendors and customers! We use it a lot during the holiday months!

Cons

I wish I knew how to do a "batch". I would like maybe some training because I feel like the website can do more than just what I know.

Ovidiu
Ovidiu
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  • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Absolute rubbish

Reviewed on 2023/07/24

Pros

NOTHING. THIS SOFTWARE IS RUBBISH. CUSTOMER SUPPORT IS VERY bad

Cons

IS a rubbish app full of tech failures and customer support has no ideea of anything

Lisa
Lisa
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Shipstation - More than just labels!

Reviewed on 2023/05/08

Pros

We started using SHIPSTATION as a way of fulfilling orders for customers (from one platform). Gradually increased to multiple platforms with integrating orders.

Cons

I feel as though this is the best product for our needs. I compared pricing, features and feedback with competitors.

Rick
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  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simple and convenient

Reviewed on 2023/09/20

Pros

Integration with PayPal is super convenient.

Cons

Interface updates are too frequent, requiring on-the-fly learning to get reacclimated.

Jeff
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Worked well until recent changes forcing a huge price hike

Reviewed on 2023/05/26

Pros

It worked well until recently. Made printing labels easy.

Cons

They recently are demanding more money unless you use their carriers, which ShipperHQ doesn't support.

jawad
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Having a shipping station at home

Reviewed on 2023/11/28

great experience managing my platforms all on this one for that reason

great experience managing my platforms all on this one for that reason

Pros

The very best thing is the price is based on the number of packages being shipped. There s a free trial of 30 days as well.

Cons

They ship with all the major shipping companies, didn't know if easier to have one or it be a conflict of interest