Pirate Ship: CheapARR Shipping

Pirate Ship: CheapARR Shipping

Free to install. Additional charges may apply.
Rating (4.3)
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Highlights

Popular with businesses like yours
  • Based in United States

About this app

Launched

July 11, 2017

Languages

English

Works with

USPS, UPS

Save your booty on UPS & USPS shipping with the deepest discounts available.

Pirate Ship offers the cheapest USPS pricing tier available (BELOW Commercial Pricing for Priority Mail) and pre-negotiated UPS rates, and we don't charge any fees or add any markup. Just pay the actual cost of the postage as you go! You'll get the best rates for all services, including secret services like Priority Mail Cubic, which can save you tons of treasure.

Pirate Ship offers the cheapest USPS pricing tier available (BELOW Commercial Pricing for Priority Mail) and pre-negotiated UPS rates, and we don't charge any fees or add any markup. Just pay the actual cost of the postage as you go! You'll get the best rates for all services, including secret services like Priority Mail Cubic, which can save you tons of treasure. more
  • Easy to install and easy to use... start shipping in seconds!
  • Get the best shipping rates available for every USPS and UPS shipping service.
  • Pay for the postage costs as you go with any credit or debit card, or PayPal.
  • Print the carrier's labels with any kind of desktop or label printer.
  • Automatically marks Shopify orders as "Fulfilled" & adds tracking numbers.

Pricing

External charges may be billed by Pirate Ship separately from your Shopify invoice. Learn more

Free to install

Just pay for shipping as you go, there's no monthly fees or hidden costs!

Free to install

Just pay for shipping as you go, there's no monthly fees or hidden costs!

All charges are billed in USD. See all pricing options

94 reviews

Overall rating
4.3
Counts per rating level
  • 86% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 1% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 2% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 6% of ratings are 1 stars
December 19, 2023

App doesn't allow stores that are shipping from the United Kingdom.

Force of Life
United Kingdom
8 minutes using the app
July 14, 2023

I have been using Pirateship for3 years now and it has saved me a lot of money. I have tried other shipping alternatives and i always came back to Pirateship. I am glad they added UPS shipping.

All Natural Organic Lifestyle
United States
Almost 3 years using the app
May 8, 2023

Easy to use and saves $$ over what buying our USPS shipping labels from Shopify would cost, especially since Pirate Ship recently began offering even further discounted USPS rates.

You can also set it up to send the same Shopify tracking email sequence as if you shipped using Shopify.

Highly Recommended!

Texas Rescue Coffee Co.
United States
Over 3 years using the app
April 28, 2023

I love Pirate Ship! However, I'm concerned with the "unsupported app" flag I'm seeing on the app via Shopify. Will the integration option be ending soon? I hope not! The rates are amazing and I'd hate to have to find another company.

Doozie & Bloom
United States
Over 1 year using the app
Edited January 21, 2024

If you use it wisely it can benefit you greatly but you must monitor what is happening always. They do have very good usps & ups rates. Holiday surges can be a bit much. Insurance (shipsurance) is in added choice but shipsurance company can be very difficult to deal with once we go above anything that is $200 in value. They have a very long list of regulations (all responsibility is solely on seller!) and pirateship have not guided us very well. You MUST make sure to know all the regulations if you would like to insure something of great value as shipsurance will try to find the smallest of reasons why not to pay (even if you did an amazing packaging job and it is evident UPS is at fault). I cannot repeat this enough! Another point to be on the lookout for is "label cost adjustment", especially with UPS, it took me a good while to understand that even post delivery UPS sends some package measurement & weight adjustments that are wrong and you will be automatically charged more. We have very specific box dimensions and ups keeps claiming the dimensions are different than those we carry and we have to dispute the "adjustments" on a regular. You can see that in your "reports" section. make sure to monitor it. Make sure you know what is needed also for small claims up to $100, they are good with those for lost mail, damaged mail, etc. Never had an issue with them and pirateship team has been helpful with that. All in all it is a fair service but not for anything that is above $200 and you must always monitor the label cost adjustments weekly. Hope this helps others.

Update:
so for a while I was thinking to change my review for the better since the rates were much better and $100 coverage of items was included in basic shipping and also UPS was added as an option, was really "smooth sailing" Arrrrrrhhh....no issues for a long while until a package was damaged, previously I filed claims and the ones under $100 coverage were easy to settle. Have not filed a claim in a very very long time. I submitted everything that is required and did it with the system not with the agents, the claim was not being processed (I already send a replacement to my customer because we take care of our customers promptly) so I contacted an agent who told me it is 1-2 weeks for processing a claim (meaning to get an initial response not approval). I now understood that shipsurance in not the only problem, it is pirateship too, and I will explain. The customers are require to hold on to all the packaging and damaged items because after a few weeks they come up with requests that should have been cared for upon happening, obviously it is an issue but those are the policies so you cannot argue about it, by delaying the process of the claim there are less chances for the claim to be approved and we end up disturbing our customers. Also, I work with other 3 party services that resolve any issues within no time. So the agent was rude, and when I told him that in the past it was not like this with pirate ship and that I cannot work with 1-2 weeks for processing a simple claim and that other companies offer better services so I will have to choose them for these complication he replied that he was "happy to help" and sent a smiley emoji. I was shipping mostly with pirateship but since the support for customers is an issue when an actual problem occurs I will have to stop, too bad, I really liked using their services, but occasionally there are issues and support is needed. We too offer it to our customers but with pleasure.

Montecinos Ethnic
United States
Almost 5 years using the app

About this app

Launched

July 11, 2017

Languages

English

Works with

USPS, UPS

Built by Pirate Ship

About Pirate Ship

4.3 average rating

6 years building apps for the Shopify App Store

PO Box 9149, Jackson, WY, 83002, US

Support

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support@pirateship.com

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