Create Automation Rules for Multiple Packages

For example, an order for quantity 2 of Shoe A comes in. We pre pack all of our packages/dont have the boxes 2 combine 2 pairs of shoe A into one box, so we need a 2 package shipment to be created. This is currently done manually. We DO NOT want to "split" the order in our system though. Just make a 2 package shipment.

This is exactly what I need. Come on shipstation!

Hey Shipstation, this is something I think a bit vital to us. We spend a ton of time manually calculating and adjusting orders for quantity issues like this. For instance, we will get a bulk order of 180 units. This is actually 3 cases of 60 at XX amount of pounds. It would save us a lot of time to be able to have our bulk orders with multiple bulk line items read out a correct shipment value instead of us spending a lot of time each order adjusting them. Please feel free to contact anyone at MiiR for more insight into this issue. It is important to us to have this asap. Thank you

We do a lot of multi-package shipping, and having this functionality would be an absolute game-changer for us! Currently there is quite a bit of manual labor involved with getting accurate shipping cost calculations for these larger orders - would love to have this simplified!

Allow for "automation rules" to apply "Package Sets" in order to process multi-carton shipments and retrieve rate quotes faster. For instance, you ship your products in ready to ship cartons, each product being its own. If you have an order for 3 units, you can create a multi-carton Package Set and set an automation rule to do the following: If Number of Items is 3, assign Package Set #3 and it will automatically build 3 identical cartons which all you then need to do is print the label. This can also work as an alternative way to achieve Dimensional Rate Shipping if you configure the product weight to cubic feet. Example: If Order X has 5 units of all different sizes and you want to know how they will package together use the total weight to get the Cubic Foot measurements and assign "Package Set" tiers. If you know the volume of each size carton you use at your warehouse you can then automate how many or what size carton is needed. Since UPS and Fedex use Dimensional weight to determine "Carrier Cost"As long as you have a weight of at least 1 lb. UPS and Fedex rates are not effected. USPS shipments would not be affected by these rules since USPS does not allow for multi-carton shipments. You can easily filter these out by setting up Preset Groups for orders where the one unit is the entire order.

When bulky items ship in their original packaging and they are always shipped by themselves there should be an option (I think at the product detail level) to mark the item that it ships by itself. This will allow an order with multiple qty to automatically make it two packages for that order. This will make batch processing that much easier as you will not need to edit these shipments manually.

This would be very helpful for my company. All of our products are prepackaged for shipping, so having the ability to have the system automatically create multiple packages for orders would really speed things up.

This should absolutely be built in functionality. We sell large, heavy furniture items. This means that most of the times, a single SKU will ship in multiple boxes by our ground carriers. Don't even get me started on the lack of any integration with LTL freight TMS providers. Anyways, it means for every order with multiple box, single sku items, we have to manually process the shipment to add multiple boxes. I really hope there's a way to get traction on this!

I was looking for the same thing that would be Amazing!

we would like to also apply package set as an automation rule! please let us know when this is implemented.

This really needs to become a reality! We have multi-pack orders that are a royal pain to manually assign package sets to because there's no way to automate that. Would be really nice to be able to create automation rules that assign package sets based on SKU, quantity, etc.

YES!!!! This is a must have

We get orders with multiple qty and cant combine them so a rule for muli-package would be AMAZING!

Like others, our company has pre-packaged units that we send out (each unit is its own parcel with its own shipping label). Being able to create automations for multi-item orders would be a big help! It's a drag having to manually configure each order for multiple packages.

Yes, there any update on this?

Dear, Shipstation 1st Subject Dimensional Packing. In the shipping industry, this is a feature that separates the little guys and big guys... The big companies aka Amazon who have brought this to light at another level by automating the packages/boxes you use based on the product ordered. If you want to attract Wholesalers all-round the world, this is a feature that will bring you to the next level. Now Multi-Pack. The only thing missing is the ability to select your packages/boxes in the multi-pack screen. The presets are nice but in my case I have multiple boxes and its just more confusing to preset them all and change them for each order than just select the package/box. Scan to Verify Perfect feature...almost. The problem is I can't use multi-pack within scan-to-verify which honestly should be a more useful feature for businesses with a lot of products, which means multiple-packages/boxes will be used. **Also scanning items to a specific box while multi-packing would be a cool addition to this feature. Thank you for being open to customer's ideas. Bug me for more info if needed.

We have many products that are packaged in their box. I would like to be able to automate multiple box shipments. For example, I would tag certain products "ships standalone". Then if someone orders this product and other items shipstation would automatically select a carrier that supports multi piece shipments like Fedex. Set box 1 to the weight and dimensions of the product tagged "ships standalone" and for the second box add the remaining products.

Please please please

Yes, please. This is very important

Automation rules for multipackage shipments. our products are heavy and frequently require multiple packages. Currently, there is no way to automate this

Does ShipStation have the ability to AUTOMATICALLY add PACKAGES to an order without manually clicking on the + symbol?

We have recently improved the Scan to Verify feature to include multi-package shipping!

All of our items get shipped in their own package so this would be great. At the moment we need to manually add packages for orders with mulitple items.

Multi box automation, most of what we do are upload records and multi box orders that are the same for 10-500 orders, be great if this can be automated via SKU details, an automation rule set. having to enter multi- package details for over 10-15 orders that are identical is VERY time consuming

Two additional related ideas are to allow a column on upload of orders to apply a package set and to allow a bulk apply method to this.