Packing Slip and Shipping Label Creation Presence and Collision Detection

[philadelphia]

Does ShipStation have a feature where if multiple users are viewing the same order, it notifies all users that there are multiple screens open to prevent more than one person making modifications to the order, printing a packing slip, or creating a label?

Our customer helpdesk Re:amaze, a GoDaddy Brand, offers this feature and provides the details on their support page.

Re:amaze Presence and Collision Detection - Re:amaze

Re:amaze Presence and Collision Detection

"Presence" helps you stay in sync with what your teammates are working on so that your work doesn't overlap. Here's how Presence works:

Dashboard Presence

Other agents browsing a conversation will have their avatar appended to the conversation preview. In situations where multiple agents are viewing the conversation, Presence will display multiple avatars. Presence will also indicate whenever an agent starts or stops typing. This will give your agents the ability to immediately know whether or not something is being worked on.

Conversation Presence

The conversation view supports Presence through a top-positioned navigation bar which shows other agents who are viewing the conversation. A typing indicator also notifies you when someone else is responding in parallel.

Email Presence

Presence exists in email based conversations in the form of agent collision detection. When two or more agents send a reply to the same message, Presence will send a collision notification to the agent who sent the last message. An option will be presented to the agent to either publish the message or ignore and scrap his/her reply. Collision detection is active for the first 3 minutes of the conversation.

Collision Detection

It happens. Proactive customer support agents will sometimes "collide" when supporting customers. It's entirely possible for two or more staff members to reply to the same customer message simultaneously. This can happen if two agents are in different locations. If unintentional, this can be a bit awkward. If intentional, there must be a consistent method for two different agents to reply.

Luckily, you can take advantage of Re:amaze's Agent Collision Detection system. If you reply to the same customer message in a 5-minute window as another agent (or vice versa), Re:amaze will hold the reply and alert you of a possible collision as soon as you click send. This will give you the option to either delete the redundant reply or post it anyway. If you sent the reply through email, Re:amaze will email you a possible collision notice. You can then choose to publish or delete your reply.

[CaraAdmin]

Hello, @philadelphia!

Thank you for your post in the community! We really appreciate you sharing this fantastic idea—your input plays a significant role in helping us grow and improve.

Let’s see if we can gather more feedback from the community to highlight how valuable this feature would be. If you’d like to see this integration become a reality, don’t forget to give it a thumbs up to show your support!

Happy Shipping!

-Cara