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Allowing for multiple Customer email addresses to receive shipment notifications.

Related products:Orders & Shipment Management
  • July 27, 2021
  • 20 replies
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Hello! We would like to be able to enter more than one customer email address to receive notifications when creating orders in ShipStation. This would be incredibly helpful when there are multiple individuals who would like to receive tracking (i.e. a shop owner + a shop manager/buyer). Email addresses could be separated with a "comma". We would love this feature to be added. Thank you!

20 replies

  • November 13, 2021

Yes, for sure.


Moderator-Davis
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IDScan
  • February 8, 2022

Please add this feature


  • May 19, 2022

I'm surprised it doesn't do this already. I was wondering why certain customers were not receiving their notifications... turns out it only sends it to the last email on the comma separated list. It seems like this would be a simple change, but I guess we would need more upvotes to make it happen. 


  • May 24, 2022

Yes please. We were under the impression this was happening already. We always entered multiple email addresses comma separated and thought the tracking emails were being sent to all of them. Turns out this is not the case. Please add this feature!


picasso
  • October 24, 2022

This is a no brainer for shipping software! There are always multiple contacts that need to receive tracking notifications, especially the branded tracking page with all the descriptions. 


IDScan
  • October 25, 2022

We do this regularly. Just make sure there is a comma (,) and space in-between the email addresses and it will work. 


picasso
  • October 25, 2022

@IDScan I'll test this today to make sure it works! @erjobi said it didn't work for them


IDScan
  • October 25, 2022

As awesome of a program ShipStation is, there are a few small issues that keep it from being the GOAT.


Moderator-Davis

Howdy yall! 

 

Thanks @IDScan for providing the workflow that works for you. Your helpful participation is greatly appreciated. 

 

Teamwork makes the dream work!


picasso
  • October 25, 2022

I just tested the commas and it worked! Wooooo! Would love to be directed to some verbiage on SS Help site that mentions this!


Moderator-Davis

@picasso

 

I'm thrilled to hear this worked out for you! I double checked the documentation myself, and I only see a direct mention of doing this at a store level not at an order level. With that in mind, I've sent in a request to update our knowledge base with this information. 

 

@IDScan, thanks again! This is the power of the community, collective knowledge to continue the push forward! 


IDScan
  • October 25, 2022

Glad to pass on any knowledge we have gained over the years of using ShipStation. 


picasso
  • October 25, 2022

You all are amazing! Thank you! We've been using SS since 2019 and have grown so glad I stumbled across this. 


  • October 25, 2022

@picasso 

Picasso -

When you tested this, did you put your email as the first email? Adding your email to the end of the list will still it to you.

When I added my email as the first email in the list, I did not receive the shipment notification.

Thanks

Bob


picasso
  • October 25, 2022

@Bobst3r  

Yes I did our business e-mail first, and then 2 personal e-mail addresses separated by commas after. For the test, I pushed the notifications manually since we have our tracking notifications set to go out at 6 PM. 

 


picasso
  • October 26, 2022

Anyone ever do a customer import with multiple e-mail addresses? When I did it with 3 e-mails they got cut off in the address book/customer list. Most of our jobs are custom and manually input, so multiple location shipments are tricky.


I am having this same issue - only the last email in a comma separated list receives the notification email. 


  • Employee
  • April 19, 2023

This did not work for me.  I created a "New Order" on the fly (not from one of our ecommerce sites.)

I placed a comma (,) immediately after the order email address and then a space and then the 2nd email address.  The shipping label will not print and gives me an error "ShipTo EmailAddress is an invalid format".  If I remove the 2nd email address and comma, it goes through without a problem

What is the solution?

We have customers that request details be emailed to multiple addresses, and so far, I cannot do this in ShipStation.

 


  • October 23, 2024

We kept getting the error "ShipTo EmailAddress is an invalid format"

 

I believe it's because of a character limit in the email field. I tested by reducing the characters until it worked, it was at exactly 50 characters including the commas and spaces (which is annoying because it automatically adds the spaces if you try to remove them).

 

ShipStation, please increase this character limit! When there's 3-4 emails you can easily hit this limit especially when people use longer domain names.