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Embed customized merchant shipping experiences with ShipStation API Elements
Use prebuilt, configurable UI components powered by ShipStation’s Partner API to launch end-to-end shipping workflows directly in your platform. Customize the experience, onboard merchants faster, and deliver reliable fulfillment—without rebuilding complex shipping tools from scratch.
Driving fulfillment for the world’s leading brands
Bring fast, reliable shipping directly into your platform
With ShipStation API Elements, you can drop in proven shipping workflows that feel native to your app. Less building. Less maintenance. More value for merchants from day one.
Maintain brand control across every shipping touchpoint
Keep your experience cohesive from login to label creation. With customizable themes, fonts, and layouts, you can embed elements that match your existing design system. Merchants move through onboarding, rate shopping, and label workflows without feeling like they ever left your platform.
Deliver powerful shipping features out of the box
Give merchants advanced capabilities like address validation, rate shopping, carrier setup, and label printing without building each feature yourself. Elements are powered by ShipStation API under the hood. Your customers get the reliability and carrier coverage they need while you keep your roadmap focused.
Ship faster while saving time and money
Instead of spending months designing and maintaining custom shipping flows, your team can embed customized merchant shipping experiences in days. Use prebuilt workflows for onboarding, label purchase, and account settings. Launch sooner. Cut engineering costs. Support more merchants as you grow.
Elements features make shipping experiences simple
Launch prebuilt shipping workflows with ShipStation Partner API Elements
ShipStation Partner API Elements is a collection of prebuilt UI components for building your shipping flow, from onboarding to labeling. Use workflow elements to present complete end-to-end experiences while still having the option to instantiate individual components when you want more granular control.
Customize the look and feel to match your brand
Theme elements with your own colors, typography, and border radiuses so they look native to your application. Use the theme configuration to align buttons, inputs, and messaging with your design system. This keeps your customized merchant shipping experience visually consistent across devices and screen sizes.
Quickly onboard merchants to carriers and warehouses
Use the Onboarding element to walk merchants through setting up warehouses, agreeing to terms, adding payment methods, and activating carrier accounts. This guided flow helps sellers complete everything required to start shipping labels quickly, while your team tracks completion and hands off smoothly into day-to-day usage.
Help merchants save with built-in rate shopping and service options
Give merchants tools to compare services, browse pickup and drop off locations, and access discounted carrier rates, all inside your platform. Elements use ShipStation API carrier connections and rate shopping capabilities, so you can help customers choose cost-effective services without managing complex carrier integrations yourself.
Simplify account, carrier, and payment management
Expose account settings elements so merchants can manage warehouses, carriers, external carrier connections, and payment methods in one place. These workflow elements handle the details of configuration while you retain control over navigation, permissions, and how account management fits inside your broader admin experience.
Integrate via SDK or React components—on your terms
Use the Elements SDK, React components, or CDN-delivered bundle depending on your stack. A simple token callback, features configuration, and mount call let you embed elements in any container. Responsive layouts ensure your shipping experiences work across web apps and mobile responsive sites.
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