Rate shopping on SCAN screen Verify & Print

[CorCut]

I am new to Ship Station but not to Ecommerce shipping. The primary reason I came to Ship Station was for rate shopping. You have the SCAN screen with Verify & Print which is how we work our warehouse. We want to scan a packing slip and then scan the items into the box and once complete finish by finding the best rate and print label. The SCAN screen is MISSING the rate calculator?!? From our standpoint, this is like building a nice boat and leaving it tied to the dock. We cannot use the SCAN screen then because we need rate shopping. This seems very obvious and for such a good product as Ship Station it is a serious omission. 

Please add the rate calculator to the SCAN screen to make it fully functional. Thanks.

Jim

[ShawnSingh]

Yeah Shipstation lacks this.

I use the Shipping Plus app (www.shippingplus.co) for ShipStation to automatically have the cheapest service / package type selected. So this way the packers just have to print the label and can trust it’s already optimized. 

[TaraGuidry]

Yes, this is needed.

I just switched to Shipstation as well, and Scan to Verify was a big selling point. However, I have too many accounts to verify rates against, and it takes too much time without the rate calculator. Shipping Plus is nice also but rates can change after you add the box size.

[shippingStuff]

@TaraGuidry String (www.meetstring.com) automatically finds the right size box size for each order and then rate shops. So you can have that whole process automated. 

[emeray]

I'm so confused as to how and why this isn't a core feature.  I also migrated for the rate shopping availability.  However, you have to rate shop BEFORE you have your scale weight or your package dimensions, which renders this to be full of potential errors.  The fact that you would have to have a $250 add on program to correct for this, seems really silly when the feature is literally RIGHT THERE.  Isn't there some way to just add a button and port over the weight/dimensions and compare?  Even if it opens a pop up or a new screen?  What a strange feature to be lacking.

[CaraAdmin]

Hello @emeray!

Thank you for your suggestion. We’ve passed it along to our development team for review. 

You may receive an email from the developers if they have questions about your feature request. 

Happy Shipping!

-Cara

[leongriffin]

This is a horrible omission.  In the process of implementing scan to ship workflow and its useless without being able to see the rates.

[CaraAdmin]

Hello @leongriffin!

First and foremost, thank you for supporting the "Rate shopping on SCAN screen Verify & Print" feature! 

I'm sorry for the delay in responding. I was doing some digging and researching on this request. 

I can verify that this feature has been passed along to the developers, who are starting to research and interview merchants around this request. 

For more updates, stay tuned to this thread! 

Happy Shipping!

-Cara