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ShipStation automatically emails a Delivery Exception notification
It would be great for ShipStation to send an email whenever the status of an open shipment changes to "Delivery Exception" or another undeliverable status. This would eliminate the need to manually check the delivery status or retroactively dealing with an upset customer contacting us because an order hasn't shown up. It would also allow the customer see immediately that there is an issue with shipment and perhaps troubleshoot it on his/her own. Our packages are also time sensitive so figuring out why a package can't be delivered as fast as possible would be helpful!
This would be a HUGE time saver and great peace of mind for us and the customers, plus potentially save us some customer service headaches along the way.
Great idea, but I don't think SS is too keen on anything involving late shipment notifications or delivery exceptions. Every feedback involving it has always been scraped regardless of how many people voted for it, nonetheless once again i'm voting for the idea. Our deliveries are also time sensitive and we NEED to know when a package is lost or late, fingers crossed again that one day SS listens and we gain this MUCH needed feature.
FedEx sends me an email notification when there's an delivery exception (customer not home, package damaged, etc). It's a bit odd that this isn't an option from ShipStation.
Alert customers when packages are delayed due to Severe Weather or for any other reason the package might be delayed for delivery.
This should already be an option. We had this feature 10 years ago with another solution. Fedex notifications, and ups notifications are much more accurate than the ship station notifications.
It's important that customer know their packages will be delivered and have been delivered.
The customer needs to have an email when the package was at least "attempted delivery" and "ready for pick up."
This seems like a no-brainer and has been requested several times - looking through feedback portal. You are already collecting this data via the Delivery Exceptions portal in the Shipment module. Just trigger an automated notification once the data point is added to the Delivery Exceptions list.
If this is too much dev work... how about adding the ability to making deliver reports via email ona schedule. For example, have the "Delivery Exception Report" send every morning or EOB.
In addition, I'd love to see a notification if 2 or 3 days have passed since the label was printed and it has not shown up in the USPS tracking system - I've been seeing more and more trouble with trucks picking up my packages, then leaving them on the truck or somewhere for up to 10 days before finally scanning them into the system and moving them along.
YES! Please enable all the email notifications that FedEx provides!
...Including
Delivery Exception
AND
Delivery Imminent (or is it called Expected Delivery? Anyway, it's in FedEx ShipManager. If it's there, shouldn't SS have it?)
We competing with Amazon out here. Help us out, please!
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It would be HUGE if we could simply have some type of "red flag" notification appear on our dashboard when a delivery exception occurs
I'm a little shocked this isn't a basic feature/functionality. ShipStation already has a queue for shipments that reach exception status, I just want(NEED) the ability to have this trigger an email notification to members of my team so they can investigate and get out in front of the problem.
Yes! We need this! Our deliveries are time sensitive and the sooner we know about issues the better we can support our customers. I agree also with Alex; if a shipping label was made a few days ago and still isn't scanned into the system I would really like an alert. All too often USPS completely loses our boxes and they are never scanned.
Please please consider implementing this functionality! I ship memorial jewelry and ashes so I need to obsessively check my shipments to make sure there are no delivery exceptions... It would be a huge time save to have emails automatically sent out to my customers (or even just an alert of the delivery exception on shipstation so I can pick up on these situations before too much time has passed). It seems like this is a standard notification option on the usps website, so why not just include it into shipstation as well?
This would help us manage our marketplace metrics. In particular our SFP metrics. As we'd be able to tell customers of issues with time-sensitive orders. We'd be able to let Amazon know on orders that were affected by an exception. We could also refine our decisions in choosing signatures on orders for SFP.
Yes, please add this feature and ASAP! This has been an ongoing issue since we adopted ShipStation. btw - We love the software!
A feature that alerts us to packages that are not delivered within a certain time frame would be excellent! Help us get out in front of the issue rather than receiving a nasty phone call from a customer. Please Please!!!
This would have a huge, positive impact on our business. Our packages require an adult signature and are constantly in delivery exception for missed delivery attempts. Additionally we have a fragile product that our carrier tends to damage. Our customers need to be aware of either of these cases as soon as possible so they can receive their package or notify our support team. Manually auditing and emailing at our volume is impractical. Please consider implementing this asap!
This feature would be a huge asset for keeping our customers in the loop. We relied on this alert system in the past when shipping through the carrier directly and now it has become a challenging to manage since we transitioned to ShipStation.
We switched to ShipStation to save on manual labor and to efficiently manage our orders. Having this feature available would eliminate excess time spent following up or potentially dealing with an upset customer.
Thank you!
Due to the Australian bushfires, our freight carriers are experiencing longer than normal shipping times.
Unfortunately, our customers don't take this into account and seem to think it's our fault for the slow transit times and are giving us bad reviews based on this..
To get on top of this, we hoping Ship Station can setup a system where it notifies us if a package hasn't been delivered with a set delivery window. So we can then get in contact with the freight carrier to find out what's happening and then convey the delay details to the customer.
Given the fact that the need for this has been around since 2017 and SS has not addressed tells me we are with the wrong company for the long run. We are a medical company and delays are a killer when we don't catch them before the customer does. Please look into this. You are already 90% there since the system classifies them as having issues. Now simply code it to notify us to LOOK in the folder. That is all we need to keep it simple. Thank you.
Yes! And also would like to be able to CC multiple people on tracking notifications.
This seems like something that could be automated using something like Zapierâs Shipstation connection.
We already use Zapier to automate an email to go out to anyone who places an order using a shipping address that canât be verified by Shipstation.
Iâll test it for delayed shipments too and add instructions if I figure it out.
Just a heads up though, it might be a mix of some really techy stuff like pulling in APIs from Shipstation & USPS, etc.
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