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Add inventory tracking for packaging materials

Related products:Orders & Shipment Management
  • January 9, 2014
  • 46 replies
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Is there any update to this ticket? We badly need this system thank you, Jimmy
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  • aimee1
  • October 11, 2019
I would love to be able to enter the inventory quantity of each of the boxes/envelopes that I use so that ShipStation can track my inventory and alert me when my packaging supplies are running low.
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  • dbminting
  • October 22, 2019
Would love this feature!
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  • jessica4
  • January 16, 2020
This would be super helpful, please consider adding!
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  • Tiffany2
  • January 23, 2020
We use a multitude of items when we ship out our orders. All of our shipments consist of the products ordered, a thank you card, a free sticker and the package that the order is shipped in. Is there a way in Shipstation to track the thank you cards, stickers, etc.? So, say we have 10,000 Thank You Cards and 8,000 Stickers, as orders come in to shipstation, those quantities would automatically be reduced. If we had 400 orders come in during 1 day, the new quantities of the Thank You Cards would be 9,600 and the Stickers would be 7,600. Or even if the quantities were reduced as orders were fulfilled. This has been a request from Shipstation Customers since back in 2014. Hopefully, you decide to implement it, it would be another great feature/upsell and a great reason for people to use Shipstation for fulfilling their orders, over other providers.
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  • andrew13
  • August 20, 2020
This would be great! Has this been implemented yet?
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  • Anonymous
  • November 28, 2020
I'm finding that a feature in ShipStation to track inventory of packaging would be SO useful! I've run into issues where we found we were out of that one little item/box/insert/sticker and then had to scramble to replace that thing ASAP. ShipStation already knows how many orders are going out and what type of order. It's also already tracking my custom package sizes -- it would be fairly simple and straightforward to add a per-product template which outlines which packaging materials are used. Then, via Insights, I could easily see where I'm running low and/or an alert could fire. This would greatly increase our happiness with ShipStation!
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We also need this feature very badly to help streamline our warehouse's supplies ordering.
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  • info71
  • January 22, 2021
We just took inventory on all of our shipping boxes, and we'd like to start having ShipStation track the inventory for each box. The dev team should create that functionality. Ie. we have 150 of our 7x5x5 boxes, so if we ship that box it goes to 149.. 148...147 etc Maybe it can be an automation... everytime it sees that dimension in a package, it goes down a number in inventory. Or every time it sees a certain quantity of a certain product, it knows what box will be used, and will go down a number in box inventory. Not having this functionality is a problem because there is no easy software that warns us if we are low on boxes or other shipping supplies. It would really improve workflow.
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  • admin38
  • April 5, 2021
I am surprised that after all this time, nothing has been done to track supplies/package boxes etc. I find that at shipping would be the best time to track these things. Any update from Shipstation on this?
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I was just about to make my own post for this, it's something we really need. We end up mostly playing it by ear when it comes to packing supply inventory, and it's unreliable for estimating the supply we have on hand: if we could at least automate the box inventory tracking, it would save us a lot of trouble.

 

It would be nice if we could also track packing supplies such as bubble wrap, possible as an attribute on the product itself to be set along with weight and default box size.

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  • DH47_2
  • January 31, 2022

+1 We are considering moving over to Shipstation and tracking our shipping boxes has already been flagged.

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Helping kick this 4 year old can down the road. Inventory tracking for products is easily taken care of on the storefront side of our operations through shopify. I am surprised that shipstation, being the key tool for shipping parcels, has no functionality for keeping tracking of shipping material inventory. This would not only save countless hours of recounting packing materials to see what needs to be ordered but would help keep things moving smoothly by warning us ahead of time when things are getting low (just like how product inventory tracking operates currently).

Please help. It is the most needed feature for our current operations as we run 10+ store fronts with all different types of merchandise and package material sizes.

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  • Matt84101
  • March 20, 2022

Bumping this as this is a much needed feature! We ship thousands of orders a day and have the same problem as OP!

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  • shaffali
  • June 6, 2022

God this would help. There are clunky solutions out there it seems but if they don't integrate with the final product count shipped and tracked via Shipstation it still becomes a headache to have to manage another system. PLEASE Shipstation add this functionality. You will help so many of your customers who have multiple parts in a product.

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  • Telescope
  • September 19, 2022

+1

kingstore
  • kingstore
  • November 8, 2022

One option to consider is SKUSavvy which provides package materials tracking for orders as well as providing a package size suggestion during fulfillment. SKUSavvy uses ShipEngine (API behind ShipStation, same company) so you get the same rate information while adding full support for purchasing, warehouse & bin locations, as well as visual pick-pack-ship operations. 

 

Works natively with Shopify too pull over and update all locations, products, inventory, customers, and orders.

 

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Welcome @kingstore!

 

Thanks so much for providing this solution that has worked for you! Your participation in the community is greatly appreciated 🙂

 

This information could very well be a giant help your fellow community members!  

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  • jhigley
  • February 9, 2023

I think this could be as simple as allowing us to run a report to see which boxes we used for shipping based on the dimensions selected when we chose carriers and print shipping labels. 

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We use 3 different types of boxes and I have thought about adding them as inventory but if you had a way to track supplies that would be best!!!!!

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