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Hey Team - Is there any eta on getting more functionality out of the Zapier integration? The biggest area I feel is missing right now is just actions. If we could find and update: orders, customers and products through zapier actions I think there would be workarounds for a lot of the other requests that have been mentioned by other users. Is this in the pipeline or not something that you're working towards? ... View more

I have a customer who has asked to have UPS hold onto the package that I already sent.  This is possible through UPS, but because I'm shipping with ShipStation as a third party, I cannot use the UPS tool "UPS Delivery Intercept" to manage this delivery.  The UPS Delivery Intercept allows a UPS account holder to: Request the package be returned to you. Redirect the package to another address. Reschedule the delivery for another day. Request the package be held for pickup by the recipient Can ShipStation access, or allow user to access, this standard service so that businesses like mine can modify deliveries?   ... View more

Newly launched. Needs to be added to integrations. Already receiving orders but having to do all labels etc manually.  ... View more

Could we get royal mail tracking within shipstation? As far as I am aware there is a RM tracking API which allows pulling this information without going to the RM tracking page. Royal mail also offers delivery tracking for the 24 and 48 service which does not require signature. It would be great to have tracking information for these parcels too or at least the parcel number populated in the tracking field. Currently we have to take this from the label manually. ... View more

A huge part of showing live rates to customers is for them to be able to see, in a transparent way how much shipping costs, especially compared to our free shipping tiers.    By default, shipstation seems to have opted to show only the cheapest rate to customers using because "similar options are available".   So, first of all, UPS Next Day Air is not a "similar option" to USPS.    Second of all, it is not up to *shipstation* to decide what our customer wants, it is up to our customer. Some people prefer UPS because they live in a rural area, some people need priority mail. Showing only one rate because someone at shipstation decided that is the only way it can be is not good for us our or customers. What is strangest about this is that it seems like someone worked to implement this and not give the option to turn it off.    Please allow us, the business owners to decide whether the true decision maker, the customer gets to decide what they prefer for live shipping rates. ... View more

Lasership integration is said to be live, but does not work for all accounts. I have had a support ticket open and been following up on it for 10+ months. Latest information from Lasership team is as follows. Shipstation not being properly integrated with Lasership is costing our small, growing business over 20 hours in labor on a weekly basis to manually match up packing slips. Please upvote if you're having a similar experience with this integration! Shipstation is currently set up with LaserShip API, but this is an old version which will be deprecated at the end of 2022. In order for anyone to move forward with LaserShip they will need to be on our current WS. LaserShip has reached out to ShipStation to alert them of the need for the update and certified module, but that project has not progressed. This would be a project between ShipStation and LaserShip and we would need ShipStation to initiate the project. ... View more

Allow specific Shopify Cart Attributes to be mapped to ShipStation's CustomFields. This would need to be based on the key of the Shopify Cart Attribute. For instance, the Cart Attribute with the key of "date" might be mapped to "CustomField1". Cart attributes are Shopify's primary extensibility point for individual orders, allowing app, theme, and shop developers to add custom properties to an order: https://help.shopify.com/themes/customization/cart/get-more-information-with-cart-attributes CustomFields (e.g., CustomField1) are the analogous concept in ShipStation: https://help.shipstation.com/hc/en-us/articles/205928478-ShipStation-Custom-Store-Development-Guide#4a ShipStation currently imports Shopify Cart Attributes as part of the [Notes From Buyer] field. ShipStation, however, does not allow Shopify Cart Attributes to be mapped to CustomFields, where they can easily be assessed by Automation Rules, displayed as part of the orders grid, or independently included on the Packing Slip Template. By allowing these two related concepts to be mapped to one another, store owners and developers would have tremendous flexibility to integrate extensions to Shopify into the ShipStation workflow. Note: A common use case for Cart Attributes is the ability to collect a requested delivery date, which is of particular relevance to shipping and order fulfillment: https://help.shopify.com/themes/customization/cart/add-date-picker-for-delivery-dates ... View more

    Dear Shipstation support,   I cooperated with a large WordPress plugin developer Villatheme and they added WooCommerce Orders Tracking Premium integration of ShipStation plugin especially for us. There was no WordPress plugin that had a full-fledged integration of your service, which allows you to automatically attach a tracking number to the order, update the status, send SMS and emails accordingly and automatically change the status of the order in WordPress when they are delivered.   This is a lot more customization than you have on the platform, so it's important to us. So far this is only available in our version of the plugin that we are testing, but if everything goes well I think they will add it in their updated version.   As a marketer, I understand that this type of integration and solutions are very useful for your business.        However, we still have a problem with the notes your plugin leaves to customers. They developed a function to completely disable the sending of client notes, but we use them and this is not a solution that suits us. That is why I am writing to you again. The problem is that your plugin integration always leaves the note in the order as a note for the customer, not an internal comment. It is interesting that if the shipment is canceled and a new one is made, the next tracking info note is internal and is not automatically sent to the client.     The notes left by your plugin are incorrect because, for orders sent without a tracking number, it says: "Items shipped via USPS on August 31, 2023 with tracking number (Shipstation)."  This confuses customers and they report that we forg ot to provide them with a track number that was not included in their order. All because of the formation that this note leaves.       Instead, we have configured, thanks to the WooCommerce Orders Tracking Premium plugin, that the client receives a complete letter with the correct subject, text and a clickable tracking number.     The problem is that we can't disable shipstation notes for a customer leaving the plugin without banning woocommerce from sending such notes altogether. I ask that you add an option for the customer to specify whether they want to receive this note as an internal note or as a note to a client with an automated email.   I am sure that it will be useful not only for our business but will have a positive effect on your customers who use woocommerce. ... View more

ChitChats is a new shipping platform available in Canada. It allows us to ship products around the world for a fraction of the price of normal carriers. They are expanding at a rapid rate and I only foresee us using them more in the future. We want to be able to track our ChitChat shipments via ShipStation so we can keep customers updated on their order tracking. Please consider adding them to your carriers! ... View more

Shopify products are stored in different locations.  We need to import that location into the Shipstation Warehouse Location in order to assign the order to the correct user.  ... View more

I was advised that Sendle integration is only available for US accounts at the moment. Please add it to Canada accounts as well, since the API integration works similarly.   Thanks! ... View more

This is posted numerous times but I'm told by customer service to post it again.    All rates should be available for real time rates. Consumers should be presented with the options and be able to choose the delivery service time, provider, and cost that best suits their needs and budget.  Ideally let it be configurable if a store wants to show just the least expensive or all options.   Please address this. ... View more

Hello to all! I spoke with support and they keep referring me here to try to attract some attention to this issue. The carrier I use, Argo Shipping, is not currently a ShipStation partner, but they want to be. This came up because we want to see the rates the provide us show directly onto ShipStation, but because Argo is not yet a SS partner and are instead directly integrated into our SS, we can't see the rates yet. Argo has told me they have all of the API's and technology built to provide to ShipStation at a moment's notice, but that they have not ever received a response when submitting to become a partner. Can someone please help me with this? I'd really like to be able to see exactly what I'm paying in ShipStation itself through my carrier, Argo. I'm happy to connect you with the Argo team as well. Please help! ... View more

It would be great to be able to build a link from our CRM to an order in ShipStation. Each order already appears to have a url, of approximately this format: https://ship5.shipstation.com/orders/awaiting-shipment/order/xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx/active/orderId   Since we know the orderId, and the order status, we just need to be able to get or calculate the 'xxx' part. Any chance of getting this or has anyone already figured it out? ... View more

Etsy Ship By date should import into ShipStation. Many Etsy users sell home made products that need specific ship by dates as they need to be hand made after the order is placed. This Ship By date can change dependent on the amount of products a user orders and is ever changing. With it not being static, It would be greatly beneficial to import the Ship By from your Etsy connection. ... View more

With a sale on shopify, I may have to include more than one tracking number for an order made for a customer for a fulfillment. This is useful in the case of if I had to split an order. Allowing multiple tracking numbers allows me to update the customer with both in shopify. https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/2023-01/resources/fulfillment ... View more

I have CanPar as an option for shipping but when I called them to pick up my orders they told me they would not pick up my order because the tracking number was addressed to Ship Station not my address.  Why is this even an option if I can't use them and I already paid! ... View more

I would like to setup daily UPS Pickups, or schedule them in advance instead of manually each time. ... View more

I am not sure if other Amazon sellers with UPS account have noticed this, but UPS is cheaper when you use Amazon Buy Shipping.   ShipStation will not let us use Amazon Buy Shipping through ShipStation unless it is a Seller fulfilled Amazon Prime order. We do not use seller fulfilled Amazon Prime, but still use Amazon Buy Shipping for our UPS merchant fulfilled orders.   ShipStation wanted me to post this message on this forum, because they do not believe that there are enough sellers that will use this options, so ShipStation wants to see "up votes".   Who does not want to save money? ... View more