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EMail not working

We have been getting lots of reports from our customers that they are not receiving email notificaitons with tracking information. We finally got around to testing this and confirmed. We are currently integrated with:Amazon, Walmart, Woocommerce and ...

tremmert by Occasional Contributor
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My Subscription Won’t Update

I keep getting an error that won’t allow me to select a subscription tier. It allowed me to cancel my subscription, but it won’t let me now select a subscription tier at all. It just says “Failed to change billing plan, please try again.” I’ve tried ...

KirstenH by First-timer
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Different Size/Weight for Returns

When including a return label with an outgoing shipment, it would be great to have the ability to select a different package size/weight than the outgoing package. For example, our at-home test kit has a large 2 pound outgoing box, but customers retu...

Customs Declarations - Bulk update QTY

I have spent a few hours with your Customer service to try and get this problem fixed and there is no way to do it according to them. I have 1900 orders that were part of our first Pre-order. The system automatically processed everything but did not ...

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Resolved! Unable to select a subscription plan

Last night I received an email that my Shipstation account was cancelled for non payment. Its true that the CC occasionally reaches its (low) limit but I check and there was sufficient balance for the bronze fees. So I go into the user back end to re...

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What happened to our Shipsurance balance??

Shipstation has replaced Shipsurance with Parcel Guard but removed all mention of Shipsurance while we still had a Shipsurance balance. What is going on?? Where is everyone's Shipsurance balance??

vcv by Contributor
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Create a Combined order via shipstation API

Is there any way to create a combined order via shipstation api? if in advancedOptions i set mergedOrSplit true and the merged Id and creates the order, it creates just a single order, not a combinedIt create this: instead creating this:

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End of day print form for USPS not working now

Just closed out end of day for USPS - went to print form since our post office requires this form for any volume of packages. When you click print form - popup states "sending to preview" and then that popup closes and no preview - unable to print fo...

beckybee by Contributor
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Adding Inventory through Scan

Is there a feature anywhere that allows you to add inventory to the system through scanning a UPC/SKU barcode? We grow plants and manually count our inventory as we transplant. It would be helpful if there was an option to scan the items to have a mo...

Automation Rules Not Being Applied All The Time

Hi team,I've noticed that occasionally my automation rules are not being applied. I used to never have this problem. But now the only workaround is to refresh my orders, then go to automations and reprocess the rules. Then everything gets fixed. Is t...

hkalebjian by Occasional Contributor
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What will tomorrow's shipping cost be?

UPDATED to add: Shipstation has just told me that I will not know what my USPS rates will be until tomorrow, after they have already been changed.This is the first time in over 10 years of being a customer that I am flat out disappointed in Shipstati...

Crafty by First-timer
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Available Inventory Column in Order Window

We would love if there was an option to add an available inventory column to the awaiting shipment section in the orders tab. Some of our products are made-to-order, and some we keep in inventory, so it would be nice to see at a glance if an order ca...

acorngfx by First-timer
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copies copies copies

here we go again, ship station asking for 5 copies of each label. Every order sent to the rollo printer pumps out 5 copies. I have requested help , as I have in the past and get zero response. Last time it happened I deleted the program and started o...

EZswitch by Occasional Contributor
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Resolved! Default Packing Slip Template

Hi all, I am trying to figure out how to make the custom label template I've created the default for printing labels w/packing slip. The default order# barcode is too small for our scanner to detect for some reason so I enlarged it on the custom. Any...

EdTDCNC by Occasional Contributor
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Assign Status to Order Line Items

We ship over a 1000+ packages and day and run a On Demand Print model for our Apparel fulfillment.We would love to see a feature added to ShipStation that you can add custom "Status" to a line item on an order that can be easily filtered.For example-...

Topdeck by New Contributor
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Ability to increase image size once order is scanned

As a print on demand business, our fulfillment team picks orders visually, meaning they have to know every product and pick based on that knowledge. We've recently started to scan our orders, and then have the order items populate, which brings up im...

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austin9 by First-timer
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Carrier selection

When marking orders as shipped, I only use one carrier. But it's a pain having to alphabetically scroll down all of the carriers to select my preferred carrier. Can a default carrier be set at the top of the list? Is it possible to remove all of the ...

bode by Occasional Contributor
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Automation Rule

We need to tag certain orders that contain specific item names. Currently, we can create a rule that applies to the item name in the order, but each line item in the order needs to contain the keyword you are making the rule with. There should be the...

dkaminky by New Contributor
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Ship Station Connect

Quick question, it seems that half the time we turn on our shipping computers, it needs to be logged back int Ship Station Connect... When we do this, it makes all of our printers visible to all of our ShipStations and seems to lose the preset adjust...

andy5 by New Contributor
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Shipstation Connect Unstable

Recently I've been losing connection with SS connection or losing the devices saved to certain functions. At least once a day I have to re-select the label and forms printers.

birdsafe by Occasional Contributor
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UPS to Japan postal code bug

UPS throws a postal code error when trying to purchased a label to Japan, asking for a 0 to 5 character postal code. Japan has a 7 digit postal code. The address was verified by ShipStation and Melissa Lookups. ShipStation support said there is a com...