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Customer notes on packing slip

Customer notes on order need to be printed on packing slip. After many convos with ship station agents I am told that the customer notes they imput at checkout are not able to be printed on the packing slip. I can see them on the dashboard but they a...

tharper by First-timer
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Sunday Ship day-Lasership

Hi,I am able to select Sunday as a ship date, but when I print the label, the ship date automatically changes to the following Monday. This is via Lasership and I have already confirmed Sunday pick up with them so it is not because they don't offer p...

MRed89 by First-timer
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Return Shipment API

We would like a more robust return system. One of the issues that we have is that when a return is received physically that receipt isnt communicated digitally to our customer support team. Having a Returns included in the API would allow us to take ...

info565 by First-timer
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Packaging Type "Defaulting"

I was hesitant to post this in "shipstation features" because i don't see a world where this is useful to anyone, but here it goes:For orders in my batch, I frequently compare prices between the following Shipping SERVICES: "USPS Priority" and "UPS G...

UPC Codes Disappearing From Product Records

Hello,We have several different Shipstation accounts. One of our accounts that processes about 200-300 shipments per month has chronic issues with product records changing. For instance, saved image URLs and UPC codes will vanish from the product rec...

JG95 by Occasional Contributor
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Payment methods needs to be a field

Original post by user Jesse Delo How do I map the payment type from my x-cart store? I need to know if it was a paypal payment or credit card payment. I have added the html to my fsd x-cart store but what is the map field name i need to use to pull i...

SarahATX by Moderator
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Pick Up by Customer

I have a question regarding handling pickup orders. We currently manage both shipments and pickup orders, and I would appreciate some guidance on how to streamline the process for pickups. At present, once an order is picked up, we cancel it from Shi...

DaisyArt by New Contributor
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Allow shipment of unpaid orders

We use shopify for our website and we do a lot of wholesale. We are having issues with sending out orders on a net 7 or 14 terms. Ship station will not allow us to ship a product without payments. I found this old blog post from 8 years ago and see a...

"Today's Date" in Automation Settings

It would be fantastic if Automation triggers and actions could use "Today's Date" as an input/output.IE, a customer order has next-day shipping. Set an automation to the mapped service to set the Ship By Date as "Today's Date".You can manually set th...

Hack to change Ship Date

Currently my ecommerce site lists a future ship date for some orders (imported from Amazon), and so the ship date in Shipstation is incorrect. I'm trying to find a hack to automatically change the ship date to "Today" - there is no attribute in Autom...

birdsafe by Contributor
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Custom Labels for BPM Permits

We are a large publishing house and use a Bound Printed Matter permit with USPS. In the past we have created a custom label in wordpress to do this. It would populate the customers address and our return address and our BPM permit number would appear...

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Save customer address to store for future use

I'd like to see an option where a customer's address can be stored in an address book to use again the next time without having to manually enter it. I am aware this is currently done via CSV upload, but I would like to be able to store an address fr...

Pick List - Option to Hide Descriptions

Option to hide product descriptions in the pick list settings ("Personalisation" text in italics in screenshot below). Currently, products with the same name and SKUs are being listed individually if they have different descriptions, making the effic...

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BBS by First-timer
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Add UPC field to Product API

In the Products API the UPC field is missing. This is an essential field to be able to scan items in most shipping systems and we need to be able to track and update it.Please add the UPC field to Product Get and Update API actions.

View history of fill time SLA

We would like the ability to run a report, or have some way of viewing the history of the fill time SLA. These metrics would be helpful to give us a better overview on how often our company is meeting the goal (or not) of fulfilling orders in a 72 ho...

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Store Specific Carrier Settings

Dear ShipStation Community,I write today to petition an imperative improvement applicable to sellers and/or distributors that are active in various e-commerce platforms. As many of you may know, recently Amazon re-launched their carrier services, Ama...