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Purchases no longer showing up as "postage"

I've been using Shipstation for years and use a credit card to earn points etc. These purchases have always come through as postage or shipping as far as the cc was concerned. There's a way it's coded on the backend for this purpose. But as of the ne...

Amazon Buy Shipping - Cost per label Removed

Has anyone else spotted the Amazon buy shipping intergration page was updated on 31st Jan, and has removed the reference to the 25p or $0.30 per label surcharge, its also not on when adding the API.Have opened a case, but i stumped the people at othe...

Order Summary missing critical info after items have shipped.

For some reason the order summary screen no longer shows the weight or package size after the item has shipped. If a customer claims they are missing an item the 1st thing we do is check the package it was sent in along with the weight. The informati...

High Cost Shipments

If an order has a transportation cost above a certain amount (ie $200) it would be nice to have some sort of message pop up indicating that a different carrier should be used. This would be helpful to alert our numerous warehouse employees that they ...

Enable Royal Mail SMS notifications

Hi,I searched the help section to find out how to instruct Royal Mail to send SMS notifications to the customer regarding their delivery. I found this Royal Mail – ShipStation Help UK. which shows ShipStation have added a additional Royal Mail featur...

webhooks are sometimes bunk.

Using the on_items_shipped webhook. Sometimes it works, sometimes it dont. Which is pretty convenient. example of the response (by curling the resource url): {"shipments":[],"total":0,"page":1,"pages":0} So, I guess I have to make a cron that just ru...

Email Lock on account

How can Email Lock be removed from account?Account Setting > User Management : Status is “Email Lock” All the rest of my account info there is correct. I receive billing invoice emails to this email, but have not been able to receive copies of shippi...

Chat support? Email support? ANYTHING?

I've been with Shipstation for years, used to be a cinch to contact support. Now I can't find ANY WAY to do it. I've wasted 20 minutes going through their stupid help pages just looking for ways to contact help IN ANY WAY. I find these pages that tal...

Telephone number on the package label does not comply with data protection regulations.

Unfortunately, Shipstation prints the customer's phone number on the package label. This is not permitted in European Union without confirmation from the customer. How can I remove all customers' phone numbers without editing each address individuall...

USPS Regional Rates are Dead ... Long Live Cubic Rate!!??

According to the USPS website, Regional Rates have been discontinued: Effective January 22, 2023, Regional Rate Box pricing has been discontinued. Remaining Regional Rate Boxes can still be used for shipping, but they will be treated as weight and ra...

Discount and Gift wrapping line items being erroneously added to Etsy orders

The following has happened all of a sudden since 1/26/23 for orders imported through my Etsy store:1. “Discount” of $0.00 shows on every one of my orders. “Discount” line item appears on the packing slip and on [Item List] in Email Notifications for ...

Product Shipping Default Shipping Service Bulk Export and Update

It is very tedious to manage and update Default Shipping Service, as this is not currently exportable or updatable in bulk, but only by opening a single Product, going to the Shipping tab, and setting the default shipping service. Shipping via the wr...

Make the current username visible in the control panel

I have to log in and out of a couple different user accounts (batch management, etc).It would be helpful if I could see the name of the account I am currently logged into on the control panel somewhere.

Searching for tags on shipments

We use tags on orders requiring special handling etc, but once the order has a label made, it moves to Shipments.Tags are not visible in the Shipments grid and we can't sort by tag in the shipment grid.How can I search shipments for tags?Thanks to an...

Address verification after moving order from On Hold

Why is it that when we split orders for unavailable items, once we move them from On Hold to Awaiting Shipment, we have to do an address verification for every single order the moment we create a batch? It has recently been a recurring issue. It's es...

"Missing or invalid shipper number" for UPS from Shipstation

Since the ending of the USPS Regional boxes we had to get brown boxes ideally for brown trucks. However, shipping with UPS from Shipstation is useless as there is an error "Missing or invalid shipper number." We all know that this has nothing to do w...

Mapping a SKU to Shipping Paid by Customer

Within our POS system (Lightspeed), we have SKUs set up for charging for shipping. By carrier and service level. Examples: First Class Mail , or UPS Ground.Within the “Order Details” tap these SKUs are currently showing as “Product” under Order Summa...

Heads up using Shipsurance

We've been using Shipstation for probably 5 years now and we had to finally file a claim on a package. We used Shipsurance because it is a cheaper option, and it's integrated with Shipstation. I want to give a huge warning to anyone using them becaus...

UPS Simple Rate does not work anymore

Rates are not showing correctlyI have had a ticket open with shipstation for 3 weeks and they cant seem to find the cause!This is all I get:"I appreciate your patience, Please be advised that we are still working on the rate discrepancies you are see...

Barcode Scan Action Quick Reference Sheet Error

it seems that the "Read weight from scale" and "Reload Orders Grid" have the same barcode. Is there anyway we can get the correct barcode for "Read weight from scale," please? Thank you in advance.As you can see from the pic they are both the same.

zebra tc51

HiI have a zebra tc51 that runs android.is there a way to be able to scan the items in an order via this scanner and once its all scanned, it should print a label or confirm its done and ask if i want to print a label etc...the tc51 is a great androi...

Actual shipping costs on Packing Slip

Hi! I am looking for a way to add the shipping costs to a custom Packing Slip template I created. I need to add the actual cost as displayed in ShipStation when I have set the package dimensions and weight and purchase a label. Is that possible? If s...

Scan packing slip to confirm packing

Hello,I do a lot of my orders via the mobile app as i am out and about a lot. Only problem with this is the shipstation connect software. The amount of times it randomly crashes, ends up stalling, and i have to get back to my pc and end the task and ...

API calls to Get Rate fail

Using the example from the website. Make a call for "fedex" or "ups" to get rates. The POST request with valid authorization and payload returns internal ShipStation error data. All my GET requests work fine where I get my lists of carriers on the ac...

Woocommerce ShipStation import should respect the order of the <Items> sent, not order by price

Hi Team,Recently we have upgraded the Shipstation plugin in WooCommerce and we are facing some issues for “Mix and Match” products. We are seeing the products are not in the order that we send in to ShipStation.For Example, A order was placed. The XM...

Wow! I'm earning badges!!

Isnt that great! I got a participation badge, just for loggin in! Ok, maybe after they finish this useless stuff they'll get around to answering our questions and fixing maybe some of the low-hanging fruit, like idk, making the API give you what you ...

Square/PayPal invoicing integration with SS

Is ShipStation ever going to have some sort of integration with a processors invoicing solution?Not only do I have unto 100 orders of day flowing through my ecom store, but I also do A LOT of custom things that require us to send an invoice. It would...

Create a page break between packing slips

I created a custom packing slip that works perfectly when printing individually. However, if I select multiple packing slips, they combine into a PDF so that they completely overlap with each other. How do I create a page break so that they each star...

Set Package Type For Best Shipping Rate Strategy

Easy to set the automation rule for Best Shipping Rate, which was very helpful to no longer have to manually compare shipping prices with different carriers. However, we can't set the package type to auto-fill with Best Shipping Rate on. In automatio...

"Coupon:" Prefix missing on discount codes imported from Shopify

We have Shopify integrated with Shipstation, and for years Shopify discount codes have shown up in Shipstation as line items with the name "Coupon: DISCOUNTCODE". (DISCOUNTCODE = whatever code the purchaser used.) Starting on January 10th, they no lo...

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