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Charging for Duties

Seems ridiculous to me that Shipstation can't charge for import duties upfront on Shopify and display that exact price in real time to the customer. Easyship can. Only reason I'm not using Easyship is because their UI is garbage, but will continue to...

ShipStation letting Users know when there is an issue

Wouldn't it be great if ShipStation would send out a mass email letting it's users know when there is an issue? I find it very annoying to wait for a chat (although when I am 48th in line it does give me a clue) to then be told:but since this is affe...

r_hudson by Contributor
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product import errors - 3 YEARS UNRESOLVED

I have yet to get help for this error. After 6 years, creating a csv to match the format is not difficult. Why won't the imports work?Chat support escalates the issue and I've been bombarding this community, but to no avail.. What is wrong with my fi...

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teamLA by Contributor
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Packing Slip Sort Options

Is there a way to configure the Packing Slip sort order other than what's shown in the Packing Slip Setup drop-down (SKU, Name, Item Quantity, Warehouse Location)? Ideally we would like one of these methods:1) Sort by last 3 digits of the SKU2) Sort ...

Shipping Manifest Report

Is there a way to sort the Shipping Manifest Report? When I export it to an excel file I get an error message saying that all merged cells need to be the same size. If I unmerge the cells it wrecks the report. It would be nice to also generate this r...

Clean up label design (address blocks)

Your FedEx label looks messy. Return and Ship To address blocks have blatant spaces when any fields are empty. For example instead of: Mike Smith 123 Main Street Seattle, WA 98207 it looks like: TO:Mike Smith 123 Main Street Seattle, WA 98207 Why the...

rocinante by New Contributor
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Which Printer is best for 4*6 Prints?

According to my experience with three different printer brands; Brother, Dymo, and Munbyn. We must say that Munbyn 4x6 thermal labels are very durable and reasonable from all perspectives.

Halesaq2 by First-timer
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Barcode Scanners

Hello! I am looking for recommendation for a barcode scanner. We are looking to implement one that will work best with scanning the UPC barcodes on a label and then scan the UPC barcode on the actual product to make sure our pickers and packers are p...

These prompts are switched

Anyone else? using shipstation connect: When i tap shipping label, a packing slip prints and when i tap packing slip a shipping label prints.

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krap by First-timer
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Scan to Verify and Print

I am running into an issue with Scan to verify and print. The scan process works fine. After the last item is scanned and it switches over to the print function, I have to uncheck and re-check the the use scale box to get the scale to read the weight...

cschlik by New Contributor
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Combine shipments

How do I fix this issue? When I combine orders, the window freezes? BTW by removing the human support was a typical bait and switch on the service with SS. Please let us know how to get questions answered when dealing with your software. Horrible! 

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Customized packing slip not able to print multi labels

I had a developed did this coding for me to print some orders in customized packing slip . The coding is done, and it's able to print the single lable without issue.However when select multi orders to print together, it does not display correct. Can ...

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Nickymch by New Contributor
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Is Shipstation in BETA? This is Ridiculous...

We have been using Shipstation for a few months now, and almost EVERY SINGLE DAY, we have some type of technical issue. This is absolutely unacceptable. Is your software in beta? We have issues with scanning products, printers, scales, logging in, et...

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NEV by Contributor
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Shipping Cutoff date not working... Again...

We set our Shipping CutoffSet the Ship Date to the next day if the time is after:4:30PM Yet when we pull up an order in the (Orders) tab. And ship it via order details screen. It never changes the ship by date... Please fix...

NEV by Contributor
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Label without order API Help needed

I am using the Creat label without an order API. https://help.shipstation.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047043312-Create-Labels-Without-an-OrderIt returns a JSON format for the label.How do i convert that to a usable format? What conversion needs to be do...

Davidc by Occasional Contributor
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Need Ability To Restrict Users By Selling Channel

We desperately need the ability to restrict users to only see, report and fulfill orders from only specific selling channels. In our case, we have a 3rd party that wants to run a single Shopify page selling our product for a month, while we would ful...

Automation Rule to cancel SKU

If i add criteria "ITEM SKU equals XYZ" multiple times using a variety of products, will this work. Does the logic use both criteria as an OR or as AND. Meaning it only needs to have one of those items. I want to stop certain SKUs from importing. If ...

Davidc by Occasional Contributor
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Combining orders gives us troubles

My shipstation Christmas wish list gets bigger and bigger everyday. For todays post, I want to express our problems with combine orders feature. 1. New packing slip only displays parent order number2. New packing slip only displays parent order tax, ...

NEV by Contributor
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Return Portal Questions

Can the return portal be embedded on a website page? I only need the form. Will the return portal work for orders NOT shipped with Shipstation? Example if i canceled and fulfilled some other way. If the order has more than 1 item or multiples of 1 it...

Davidc by Occasional Contributor
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Closing Account

Anyone know how do I go about closing my account? I could never find the right question so that the robot chatbot would give me direction. I emailed Shipstation at the only address I had (from the welcome messages) and received a reply that they had ...

Clark_L by First-timer
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Undo "Mark as shipped"

I am able to undo "mark as shipped" for orders that were fulfilled by my warehouse, but not for orders where I printed the label myself. Can someone explain that logic to me? Why can't I undo it for all orders?

david_dean by Frequent Contributor
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Feature Request (Printing order barcodes sticker)

Hello, I think an important feature to request is to be able to print the barcode that Shipstation generates for each order on a sticker by itself or allowing the creation of custom documents based on shipstation HTML suggestions or just allowing bar...

Ghiath by New Contributor
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Include Time based automation rules

Because not all the selling channels have a "Ship By Date", is there any way to set an automation rule based on order import time? Let's say " if orders imports before 1 pm put the tag "Ship Today" ", or put the order on hold until tomorrow.that woul...

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Boris_B by First-timer
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Addition to Split Ship

I had a customer place a large order he intended to ship to 5 different recipients. The split ship feature allows me to split that order into 5, however, I cannot edit 5 different addresses. Only 1 address for 5 shipments. A feature allowing me to sp...

Resolved! Please add ability to download SKU barcodes

Please add the ability to download product SKU barcodes. This would give us the option to place SKUs on the products themselves and scan those rather than the packing slip. If a packer grabs the wrong item and scans it in on the packing slip, scannin...

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jaimes57 by Contributor
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