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  • USPS Announce Rate Change for 2018

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    As FedEx has already done, the USPS followed suit this week to announce their own rate change that will take effect on January 21st, pending Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approval.  As expected, the rates increased year over year, but there were a few surprises.   The announced rate of increase is 3.9% for shipping services; […]

  • ShipStation

    New ShipStation Features! (Who doesn’t love that?)

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    Over the past few weeks, we’ve implemented a ton of new features into ShipStation to make your lives easier and to delegate a bit for when you’ve got a ton of shipments to complete. Let’s Talk Users First, we’ve enabled orders to be tasked to certain users. So, if you have multiple users on your […]

  • Positive Distribution

    Customer Story – Positive Distribution

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    Name: Louisa Eyler Title: President Company: Positive Distribution Website: http://positivedistribution.com/ Louisa is the distributor for LOCK LACES™, a company that offers bungie cord-style laces for athletes’ running shoes. Her company has been tasked with the marketing, logistics and fulfillment for the brand. Unfortunately, she shortly found herself bogged down in hundreds of orders and hours […]

  • ShipStation is now a FedEx® Compatible Solution!

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    For the last several months we’ve been working very hard on adding new features to ShipStation. Today, we’re happy to announce that ShipStation is now a FedEx® Compatible Solution! With this addition, ShipStation now supports the 3 major US shipping carriers! Here are some highlights of our new FedEx module: Integration highlights Support for FedEx […]

  • 3dcart shipping solution

    3DCart Shipping Solution

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    We are pleased to announce that ShipStation now supports 3DCart!  3DCart is a complete eCommerce shopping cart software provider. eCommerce store owners can easily build, edit, and maintain an online store without any programming knowledge. 3DCart Integration Highlights Fully support all 3DCart stores Intuitive, easy to use web interface with no software to install Real-time information retrieval […]

  • UPS Paperless Invoicing

    Go Green with UPS Paperless Invoices!

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    Here’s another great reason to process your UPS shipments with ShipStation – UPS Paperless Invoices. Once this feature is enabled on your UPS account, ShipStation will communicate your customs information electronically – eliminating the need for paper commercial invoices! The UPS Paperless Invoice has several benefits: Electronic transmission allows customs processing to begin earlier, reducing […]

  • Product & Order Tags

    Use Product Tags to Automate Decisions and Save Money!

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    We are continuing to enhance the features of the “Products” area of ShipStation and this week we released a feature that can be extremely handy in the process of automating your shipping selections. We now allow products to automatically “Tag” orders that contain them. This can have several advantages from simply informational to surprisingly functional. […]

  • USPS Cubic Rates

    USPS Priority Mail Cubic Shipping Rates Now Available

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    We are excited to offer USPS Priority Mail Cubic Pricing to our customers! USPS Cubic service is a good substitute for UPS and FedEx ground services. We are now able to offer this service to our users through our relationship with Stamps.com. Cubic rates are ideal for small, heavy packages Cubic rates are ideal for […]

  • ShipStation Quick Ship Screen

    Introducing “Quick-Ship” and the “Loading Dock”

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    We’ve been receiving some great feedback and input from our sellers and just released some new features that deliver some added efficiency to the shipping process. Order Quick-Ship The first feature covers single order shipping.  Many sellers have told us that the label batch process is overkill for when they need to simply process a […]

  • Increased Rate Visibility

    Improved Visibility to Shipping Rates

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    We recently released new features to allow our sellers to have improved visibility to shipping rates for individual orders. Unofficially dubbed “Quick Rates”, this feature will allow you to very quickly price one or more shipments based on the currently selected carrier, service and package. This feature consists of a few new user interface elements […]