Usually, you can purchase thermal labels with a doc tab addition on top of the typical 4x6" label. Well, on other programs like ShipRush, we should be able to print item names/packing slip information on the doc tab. This is really really useful!
We are running a trial of ShipStation now, and this may make or break our decision to sign up. Doc labels are indispensable to our work flow, as they contain information that informs every department along the way to shipping, such as which product(s) should be in the shipping box, which box size to use, and whether or not to pack our shipment on ice (our products are perishable). We would love if ShipStation could add this feature.
These are by far the most useful types of labels for us. Currently, SS is only able to print a packing slip on a second 4x6" label. We are hoping to have the option to use the 4x6 type with an additional 2x6 receipt portion that can be removed separately.
This is very useful feature and helps control accounting issues... Worldship and fedex provide top or bottom doc tab...
We need to be able configure this ourselves or take standard format that fedex & ups provides.
Currently we only have these labels. Therefore your direct print options are useless for us.
We use for internal filling purposes typically it has a tracking number.
At the very minimum add one with a blank 2" at the buttom so we can use that then you can and should make more custom field placement options.
please add this feature! we batch-print our labels to save time and we need a packing list alongside every order. printing a separate packing list is overkill and would slow us down, but it's critical to have a short summary of the package items alongside the shipping label. for us, doc tabs with packing lists reduce error rates and speed up our shipping flow.
it looks like we will either hire a developer to splice apart shipstation pdf batches and add the doc tabs programmatically, or we'll switch to shiprush.
For our uses, doc tabs would be super helpful as a receipt for our internal customers. When the Finance dept wants me to overnight a check to a vendor, it'd be nice to be able to provide them with a doc tab that I can separate from the label (like a 4x8" label with a 2" perforated doc tab) with all the relevant info (date shipped, dimensions/weight, tracking #, shipping service, etc.).
It would be easier and less wasteful than printing a second label. Plus it would be compatible with WorldShip. Please consider.
UPS Worldship actually saves their doc label configuration as an XML file in the Worldship folder (or network share if you have it set up in a host/client config). This XML file contains all the field names and coordinates for the information to print on the doc label. It seems like it would not be much work to build something to read this file and set up the settings in ShipStation to print the same label.
Seeing as ShipStation already integrates with stamps.com (which already provides printing for the 8 x 4.25 label format with a doc label) that should be able to be taken care of as well?
It seems like a huge oversight that ShipStation does not support this feature.
The 'Reference' number (order number) on the regular shipping labels from FedEx are super tiny. So hard to read. Our local FedEx rep suggested we use a dock label. The peel off part would most likely show a larger order number. Help!
These labels by UPS offer the ability to print the label summary on the 2" bottom section. Can we have this label available to print this info. we use it to stick to our pick tickets as proof of shipment instead of having to write it out.