ShipStation Orders & Inventory

Eigentlich eine tolle App, die gut aufgebaut ist und flüssig läuft. sie lässt sich gut anpassen. Allerdings wird der internationale Versand aus Deutschland mit DHL nicht unterstützt. Und das wichtigste: Wir hatten einen schweren Fehler, der zum kompletten Stop unseres Accounts geführt hätte und der Kundenserivce hat trotz Kontakt per Mail, Chat und Formular über einen Moant nicht reagiert. Überlegt es auch genau, ob ihr euren kompletten Versand an ein Unternehmen ohne Kundenservice abgeben wollt!

Two stars, and it is a shame, because the actual software itself is great.

The ability to find orders by scanning a product barcode was essential to our business model, and ShipStation is the only software we found that can actually search for an order by product barcode. The barcode verification for packing has pretty much eliminated our packing errors, and the ability to set up custom parcels has been great too. The software and the automations are genuinely good.

The problem is the importing and syncing of orders, especially after changes are made in Shopify, plus continuous ongoing bugs, and for us that outweighs everything good.

ShipStation only imports an order once. So if you remove hold tags tags, split fulfilment, or update the shipping location afterwards, it is impossible to get it to sync. We ship from multiple retail locations, and a location change in Shopify simply will not update in ShipStation. We have had orders sit for more than a day without updating, and worse, after a location change orders have flipped to showing as cancelled and refused to load at all, once while our courier was literally waiting at the door and we could not get anyone on the phone.

Order splitting is another one. If you split an order in Shopify it does not create two shipments in ShipStation, and we were told we would have to call support to split every order manually on their end, which is not realistic when you split several a day. There is also no way to hold a shipment and release it later, and no way to automatically reprocess rules, so you are constantly clicking Reprocess or calling support to fix things by hand almost daily.

The multi-location handling is the core failure. Other shipping software uses child accounts so each location has its own synced account. ShipStation's only answer is separate user logins that each see their own orders, which does not fix the syncing. Even adding a missing barcode to a product in Shopify will not sync back to ShipStation for that order. Barcode scanning also pulls up orders that have already shipped, and the status filter clears every time you scan, which has caused orders to be shipped twice.

Onboarding was a nightmare, over a month of daily emails and it still was not right at the end. Great software, held back by sync and reliability problems we cannot work around.

We've been using ShipStation for over three months and have connected it to our Royal Mail business account.

While it's one of the better platforms for using your own courier accounts, such as Royal Mail, we've encountered a surprising number of limitations and ongoing issues. Unfortunately, there appears to be little sign of meaningful improvement.

For a company that has been in this industry for so long, it's difficult to understand how many essential features are still missing and how many common problems remain unresolved. After reviewing the ShipStation community forums, it's clear that many of these issues have been raised repeatedly by users, with some feature requests and bug reports dating back more than four years without a solution.

The platform has strong potential and offers some excellent functionality, but the lack of development in key areas and the slow response to long-standing customer feedback can make it frustrating to rely on for day-to-day operations.

Dan Gutierrez helped me out a ton. He was really clear in explaining the platform and researched answers to questions when he didn't know the answer, he made it very clear on how to best utilize shipstation. The platform has cut down our shipping time by a lot.

My only complaint is that we cannot attach documents electronically to shipments in regards to USMCA/CUSMA forms, 232 Steel and Aluminum forms, or designate our own broker when making shipments. These are requirements of nearly all shipments these days and this should be standard. If these changes were added, I would adjust my review to a five star.

Looks like a good app but for my parcels it would cost and extra 20%!

Doesn't allow you to easily add dimensions for a product. Carriers use dimensional weights so how do I add them? No support. No one answers their support phone number...

The app it self works quite well, but recently we stopped using this as Shipstation tried to force us to pay for the Gold Level if we wanted to use APIs for Amazon and Ebay, which are very fundamental to the tools use. The Gold level also supports 2000 labels per month, way in excess of what we need. So we dropped the App and now transitioned to Veeqo very sucessfully.

I've used ShipStation for many years. It used to work well. Not it's constant technical issues. Get a support ticket completed is very time consuming. Endless back & forth emails. They used to have live support. They charge you to use your own FedEx account. Shopify has better prices so it's not worth the monthly fee and the time and frustration is the largest cost.

I have had a lot of trouble calculating shipping costs. Sometimes my customers are charged way too much and sometimes way too little

2025 they continue to have constant bugs and problems, but we still rely on them for our shipping

2024 update: they redid their UX and stupidly removed the ability to send multi-box shipments. This was the whole reason to use SS. We will be taking our business elsewhere.

They have always been full of bugs HORRENDOUS customer support and don't listen to customers. We hate using them. Will now find someone else.

Anyone else would be better - try Shippo or Shipping Pirate - anyone else.

+++++
Horrible. There is not tech support whatsoever except a terrible bot. This is a complicated platform.