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Save on Shipping With Flexible Ways to Purchase Labels
We recently announced a new way to pay for shipping labels in ShipStation: Pay by Bank, giving you more control of your shipping expenses. Pay by Bank allows you to simplify your accounting with direct bank withdrawals, adding additional security and helping you save money.
But that’s not the only way to take financial control and save on shipping. Here are a few tips and tricks for how you can start saving on shipping costs now.
5 Ways You Can Save on Shipping
Choose the cheapest shipping options to reduce costs
Not in a rush? Choosing standard shipping will result in the cheapest price rather than using express shipping, which can become costly, quickly. This is especially important for international shipping, which is notoriously expensive. However, if you have access to the world’s global carriers with ShipStation, you can factor country, size, and speed to make the best and cheapest choices for your shipments.
Use affordable packaging and shipping supplies
You can reduce packaging costs by using poly mailers and bubble mailers. The size and weight of your package will greatly affect your shipping rate as well, so choosing the most appropriate and frugal packaging is important, especially for heavier or larger packages. Additionally, you can get free shipping boxes and labels from many carriers, helping save on supplies.
Streamline your shipping and fulfillment
ShipStation gives you the tools you need to optimize your shipping operations with ease—even as you grow and scale. Using our Rate Calculator to ensure that you’re using the best service, and using Automated Rate Shopper will help you automatically find the best rate based on your criteria. Additionally, using Switch and Save and creating Automation Rules that are tailored to your shipping needs, and utilizing tools like Scan to Verify for streamlined scan-based workflows will help you save money on shipping, every time.
Enable ShipStation Pay by Bank
You’ve always had the option to use credit-card funding to purchase shipping labels in ShipStation, but you can now use Pay by Bank, too: a new way to take control of your shipping expenses. Pay by Bank is secure, easy to set up, and streamlines your finances with direct bank withdrawals when you purchase labels. Avoid declined transactions and errors from manually entering credit-card information, and never max your card out on shipping ever again with Pay by Bank, the payment you enter only once unless you change banks.
Get the best carrier rates with ShipStation
With ShipStation, you can get instant access to savings of up to 90% off the world’s most popular carriers, and you can use our powerful tools, robust automations, and feature-rich capabilities to reduce shipping costs.
Ready to start saving on shipping labels and more? Try our free 30-day trial today—no credit card required.
Purchase Shipping Labels With Greater Financial Control
ShipStation allows you the flexibility to purchase shipping labels in the way that’s best for you and your business. You can use credit cards to purchase shipping labels, but you can also rely on the secure and consistent power of direct bank withdrawals using Pay by Bank.
Pay for shipping labels directly from your bank account, gain financial flexibility and protection, and gain confidence and control of your shipping expenses with ShipStation Pay by Bank today.
