Shipping Apps That Will Help Streamline Your Business Shipping Process

Saleh (2021), revealed how shipping influences online purchase decisions as 61% of customers are somewhat likely to abandon their shopping carts if they find shipping rates expensive. 93% tend to buy more products unplanned if a free shipping option is available. Certainly, shipping has made tremendous progress and changed the way shoppers shop.

It gained even more limelight because of the fundamental role it played in the conduct of businesses amidst the grueling and challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food, clothing, and other items that suffice our wants and needs still land at our doorstep. For these reasons, all the more that shipping apps need to be installed on your mobile devices so you can free your time and improve your business with less legwork. Here are a few apps:

AfterShip.

This shipment tracking app supports over 670+ shipping services all over the world. What makes it land in this list is that it enables you to check the status of your shipments across various carriers with great ease. Similar to any automation software, AfterShip also sends out emails and notifications automatically with every shipment stage your package is in so you can keep yourself and your customers in the loop.

Through this app, you can also create your own tracking page which can be personalized by including your logo, a color palette that represents your brand, marketing banners, and other digital collaterals. As far as analytics is concerned, this app offers actionable insights from the delivery rate, time, performance, and everything in between. These data are helpful to optimize your logistics. It also provides a great evaluation of your marketing and after-purchase engagement activities. These are all found in your AfterShip dashboard.

ShippingEasy.

This one works in the clouds, figuratively speaking. ShippingEasy is known to be a multi-carrier shipping solution. It provides its users with helpful tools that can process and manage orders, automate tracking and printing labels which you can do in one platform. With an organized approach to packing via pick list, pack slips, and shipping labels, your business can be done with no sweat. Save more time through a simplified process that ShippingEasy can provide. In terms of marketing, this app has a user-friendly campaign maker and editor where you can blast automated emails including reminders for abandoned carts, requests for product review, and recommendations. As an added bonus, it also gives access to discounted USPS shipping rates.

Shippo.

Shippo is a crowd favorite. It is a shipping platform that allows its users to compare rates and give them access to discounted rates from more than 55 global carriers including USPS, UPS, and DHL Express. Shippo users can also take advantage of its other features when they want to print shipping labels, manage parcel or package returns, and track every single item. Shippo encourages smooth and convenient shipping, even with other business needs that you have to do on your end. For this, the Shippo app helps and allows you to pre-fill and save package information details to provide for faster and accurate printing.

You may also set up business rules, should there be a need, to speed up the printing process. To cut down time on task, print in batches. Print return labels from your end and only pay when your customers use them. Shippo is comprehensive it is pretty much like all the other features are incorporated in it. As such, it automatically sends shipping information emails to your customers like carrier details and updated estimated time of package arrival. In terms of marketing, Shippo can definitely add your brand, logo, and colors to make your shipping labels, customer notifications, and tracking pages personalized in pursuit of consistent branding.

Trackr Order Tracking.

Integrate shipping tracking details by linking this app to your Shopify store. Through this, customers can have a sound information of their order delivery status anytime they wish it available. They may also choose to have them updated via automated email messages. The Trackr app holds an easy-to-use tracking page on your store that is smartphone or tablet responsive. Its interface can be modified to suit your brand design and match your themes. You can make use of the automated customer notification system so that your customer can be informed of the updated delivery status, even customize the layout of the email to be consistent with your branding. Trackr is currently affiliated with 900+ carriers worldwide that it needed, and has, localized languages like English, French, and Spanish. to cater to their foreign market.

netParcel.

People love this because it is easy to install, free, and with no recurring fees. netParcel provides discounted small parcel and LTL freight services for both e-commerce merchants from the United States and Canada. Shopify merchants can definitely import orders to the platform to get discounted small parcel and LTL rates fast and easy. You can also publish real-time shipping rates upon each customer’s checkout. For every single route, netParcel shows you multiple carriers and delivery options that you can choose from so you know the best rates and offerings each time. With your chosen carrier, setting up a pickup point and printing shipment labels only take a few seconds. Like the convenience that others offer, netParcel also sends confirmation emails and gives out tracking numbers.

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