ShipStation Connect - Linux Support

The windows one sux as well.  There’s no way to install it and run it as system so that it starts on boot (though I tried this and it was even worse).  Manual logon to the one windows systems with the agent is required and there’s no way I’ll allow automatic logon without a username and password.   Greater than 50% the Connect agent loads it requires reauthentication to shipstation or updating.

Using a linux print server on Ubuntu I can share out the Label and Laser printers used for the invoice and shipping labels, but it still requires manually loading ship station web UI and printing them while on the network.  I want the cloud automation I pay for!  Order received from market place, import to ship station, shipstation automatically prints.  

Having AI chew through the API guide to see if there’s some way to superman this feature.  Best it came up with is a python script ran via cron every X amount of time (1 hour for me) that would print packing and pick slips.    That would at least enable warehouses to prepare the shipments. . . .

 

We’ve been running ShipStation connect in Mint 22.3 with WINE successfully. We use Zebra GK420D for the label printers. The GK420D is connected direct to the MiniPC via USB. The GK420D are visible on our “Mini PC - Shipping” device and are selectable in the ShipStation.com Settings / Printer / ShipStation Connect

The only hitch in the giddy up was the login. The token wasn’t making it back from the browser to ShipStation connect. That wasn’t difficult to fix and took 1 or 2 commands entered via SSH.

I don’t think ShipStation wants me posting how to do this on their forums (they got upset with me years ago for posting a much needed Magento 2.x fix) but I can tell you running ShipStation Connect in Linux is doable.

Aloha