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Automatically split items into shipments based on rules

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  • December 21, 2017
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  • chris8
  • June 21, 2021
Ha, it's been on the 'roadmap' for years now...
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  • ORG365_SB
  • June 21, 2021
Come on Shipstation! Let's get this done! Plenty of your customers would benefit from being able to automate split shipments. Anyone know of other shipping software that allows for auto-splitting shipments?
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please please please please add this feature!! it would save me so much time!!
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  • studio
  • July 7, 2021
I just downloaded ShipStation specifically thinking it had this feature. Bummed to find out that it doesn't.
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  • rachel
  • July 9, 2021
THIS ISN'T A FEATURE ALREADY???? OMG FIVE PAGES OF REQUESTS
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  • nate
  • July 14, 2021
To all the followers of this thread, this may be a 3rd party solution to this need? I have not used it, but would welcome any feedback if someone has: https://www.orderdesk.com/
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  • steph
  • July 19, 2021
This idea has been in the planning phase for 7 months now. Any updates on when this would possibly be implemented? We have bundled products that need multiple shipping labels, but the only way to split this shipment is by manual entry. It literally takes our employees HOURS to split these orders every day. We would literally pay additional just for this feature. All we need is to be able to say SKU number A should always get one label at 25lbs and one label at 5lbs. This should be a fairly simple ask...
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we are in serious need of this!! it's taking hours of splitting.....
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Reeeeeeeeeeally need this. When will it be available?
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  • kevin
  • July 29, 2021
Aaaannnnyyyyy updates on this development?!?!
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We need need need this.
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  • tyler
  • July 29, 2021
WOOOOOOO Let's get this going!!!
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  • Glowithus
  • July 29, 2021
I don't speak for the brand or company, but our salon furniture business recently linked up with ShipperHQ - they have advanced shipping rates and dimensional packaging, so we are going to try that workaround - will update with any word on if it works to solve this for us. We ship 30 lb boxes with lighting furniture inside, so every sku that is ordered needs its own box. if susie buys 3 of the same color then it goes into shipstation as one package without hand-splitting. Hoping ShipperHQ can help us design a rule that will let us give rates based on dimensional shipping/multi-orders so they come through from shopify with the correct number of items appearing each individually before it even hits shipstation's automations. WISH ME LUCK FOLKS, If we can set it up, I will TOTALLY share the deets. Also would love any input on others trying new solutions!
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  • cole
  • July 29, 2021
It has been very surprising that Ship Station has not worked harder to implement this as it really would not be that technically difficult considering the other automation that they have. Our Solution: Our issue initially was that we have two warehouses, two shipstation accounts in different countries, and two wesbties. Each website offered the entire product selection from both warehouses, and sometimes the warehouses would carry the same product Skus. Our inventory management was lacking, so we had initially been adding prefixes to the Skus to denote which warehouse was supposed to ship the order. Then all orders were going into both ship station accounts, and the orders would be split/cancelled depending on which warehouse was supposed to ship the product. Yes, I know this sounds ridiculous and it was. But it was our first workaround attempt at figuring this all out. We operate on Shopify, and after much trial and error we found an inventory management system called "Duoplane" that solved our problem. Basically, the orders go from shopify to Duoplane. Duoplane knows where all of the products are located, and then creates a new PO for each warehouse and sends the appropriate items to be shipped by their associated warehouse. Duoplane's owner is very technically savy, and could likely help out with many of the issues noted here. I imagine that certain rules may be set up in duoplane to clump only certain products together on a single PO, or make every item on the Shopify order a separate PO when sent to Ship Station. This would automatically show it as three separate shippable orders in shipstation without any manual splitting. I hope this helps someone!
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  • ORG365_SB
  • July 30, 2021
Would LOVE to have a Auto split feature!! I may check out Duoplane and ShipperHQ. as recommended by other users. Thanks!
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  • austin
  • August 1, 2021
Hey ShipStation Fam, Splitting orders based on product rules is definitely a key need. This is something that my team at Agentic AI has solved for some enterprise level clients using the ShipStation API and a custom Node.js application. I made a video demonstrating this functionality and explaining the mechanics of how to automatically split orders - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-rpgSMXKuw The exact code for the app that I use in this video is here - https://github.com/AgenticAI/shipstation-order-splitting Feel free to use this code as a foundation for your own business needs - it is open source. If this is something that you would like some help with - we can build and maintain an app that acts as an automated agent to perform these order splitting tasks (and whatever else you can think of too). Thanks! Austin AgenticAI.com
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  • JackShia
  • December 7, 2021

THIS ISN'T A FEATURE ALREADY???? OMG FIFTEEN PAGES OF REQUESTS

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Here we are... still 4 years later and STILL waiting.... ShipStaton anyday now...

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  • steph
  • July 19, 2022

We would use this to automatically split up shipments that :

A. Have back-ordered products, so we can partial ship an order 

B. Need multiple labels (ie. a 6pk box is standard for our product, but if a customer orders qty 8, we have to split the shipment to get two labels since they will not fit in one box, the inability to automate this is what keeps us from using Shipstation for all our clients)

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  • david7
  • August 9, 2022

This would make a significant improvement to the time we spend manually splitting orders for items that were ordered on pre-order or backorder.  Looks like a large number of people in this community are all for it.  What is the status of getting this done?

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@david7 @Unfortunately they have made no effort to add this functionality. ShipStaion has no interest in bettering the platform. They can’t even resolve support requests and they make no effort to even reach back out to see if the problem was resolved in a timely manner. The average reach out timeframe for support is 15 days. 

Moderator-Davis

Hey there, 

 

Thank you for showing your interest in this new feature idea! While I don't have an ETA for release at this time, I know that we have this feedback in mind as we continue to push forward with the platform. 

 

Thank you for being patient!

From Moderator Davis, May the force be with you!
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  • david7
  • August 10, 2022

Thank you @Moderator-Davis .  Glad to hear your dev team is considering this feature, however it is a bit concerning that this request was brought up over 3 years ago with hundreds of other users agreeing this feature would be extremely beneficial to their workflow, and SS has still not been able to develop a solution.  Hopefully something gets moving soon on this.

ja54_2
  • ja54_2
  • August 14, 2023

Are there any updates available for this feature?

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