ShipStation

No response to my support ticket for almost one month. I was excited to have both shipping and my returns solution in the same place, but the Returns setup has been stuck in an error for nearly a month. Only response is that it has been escalated to someone senior. No one has reached out other than that. Would still love to use it if someone would help get it going!

0/5 - Don't do it. If you're thinking about using this company - you will regret it. While their software is technically fine, although lacking major reliability and basic functionality, it is their business practices that you will find are unethical. Their customer support agrees that their billing practices are designed to be deceptive and in some cases illegal.

After multiple attempts to cancel our subscription, we were continuously charged for a non-existent account. We could no longer access our account but they continued to charge the payment methods we previously removed.

Their customer support was friendly, but made false assurances that our subscription had been cancelled and our payment methods removed.

Don't risk it. Don't do business with a company built on deceiving the end users.

If given the option, I would immediately discontinue using ShipStation. The platform suffers from persistent bugs and an ineffective support team that consistently fails to resolve reported issues.

In recent experience, even basic functionality—such as real-time synchronization with Shopify—frequently ceases without warning. No alerts or notifications are provided when sync failures occur, forcing users to detect problems reactively, often the following day. Manual intervention is then required to restore synchronization.

Overall, ShipStation delivers a highly unreliable and poorly maintained software solution that falls far below acceptable standards for e-commerce integration tools.

This unethical application uses dark patterns to trick you into purchasing funds for a "wallet" that's underfunded to buy a single label, then OVERCHARGES you by insisting you buy a minimum amount, that's much larger than you need to "fund" your wallet past the point you need to purchase a label. Good luck ever getting those few dollars back out of their predatory trap.

hard to use and rates were not as good as sendle or AusPost??
this is an overly complicated platform which made my small ecommerce business harder to run, and on top of this, the in-built sendle rates were always better than shipstation, and their quoted AusPost rates were more expensive than the actual AusPost rates at the post office?
maybe im not using it correctly, but thats kind of the point. if i need multiple phone calls and tutorials to set it up, i dont have time for that rubbish... escpecially if it isnt goign to save me time or money!

I think I have used shipstation for over a decade first on another e-commerce platform and then after our switch to shopify we took shipstation with us.
Loved shipstation for both platforms until ten days ago as it seems impossible now to print labels all at once.
I have spent so much time each morning trouble shooting and simply put I have made ZERO changes on my end. There clearly is a problem originating within ship station. I wish they would fix it instead of taking up hours of my time that don't resolve anything because the next day it's all the same issue again. I hate change and I have resisted ditching Shipstation for that reason but I just need to let go and find a different app

Ship station only gets worse with every update. In the last 6 months it has been constant bugs, long lag times, ever-changing UI, and API issues. We have had entire days where we cannot ship orders due to some new error messages or issues connecting us to our carriers. We spend more time checking https://status.shipstation.com for outages than actually shipping out orders. Would avoid this app if possible!

What seems to have started with the right foot forward, has turned to be a nightmare. The only reason I'm leaving a 1 star review is because I can't go lower. I'm on the paid version still on trial, and despite over a week of back and forth with not 1 but 3 support agents plus some others from Shopify, it seems no one can figure out why Shopify isn't connecting to ShipStation.

Frustrated of the lack of knowledge on ShipStation's part pointing fingers at Shopify doesn't begin to express it.

I will change my review once I can get someone knowledgeable enough to figure this out, as it seems the people in support have no clue what's happening.

Shipstation support is a joke. They are foolish, ignorant, and will waste your time with multiple basic responses that are as useless as asking if the computer is turned on... IYKYK. Unfortunately this is NOT a 1 time occurrence, it is the norm. For example, I submitted a bug report where the packing slip is literally printing the words "[notes from buyer]" instead of the actual notes from buyer field contents for random orders. I submitted PICTURES of an actual printed packing slip of what it looks like when it generates correctly, and another picture of what it looks like with incorrect generation. I pay extra for an upgraded plan to be able to customize my packing slips. I created this packing slip about 8+ YEARS ago. Shipstations response? Their "answer" is that they do not help with HTML. Uuuuuhm NO this is NOT an HTML issue whatsoever, and they'd know this if they looked at my example pictures even just once. JUST ONCE. LOOK. AT. THE. PICTURES! If I did the HTML wrong I would not have an example of a correct packing slip generation, right? This is just ONE packing slip template that's affected, and it's random orders. But it'll be a miracle if I have to waste less than 10 emails just to get them to even check out the bug. The crazy thing is that back in the day, around 10+ years ago an English speaking USA based support rep used to pick up the phone and call you. Imagine that!

Hands down the worst app I've ever used. Things break all the time, nothing works properly, features suck for an app in development for 10+ years, customer service is basically just set up to tell you nothing is possible or "under investigation" with no follow ups or a follow up after like 2 months - with of course no resolution. I don't ever leave reviews for good or bad apps. This is definitely the one exception, and the $0.08/label on bringing our own carrier was icing on the cake.