ShipStation

The mail i used in this app got blocked and closed without any prior notice or proper reason, when i reach out the support then the guy from theri team Enzo V. kept saying that our backend team confirmed for security reason my account will remain closed, I kept asking the reason for the same by also providing the main credential that i used to login, but still no support from their end and not proper reason for the account closure. This is really unacceptable as the user of this App I have all the rights to know what cused my account getting blocked and closed. I have mailed them last yesterday regarding for the same asking the reason but now i got no reply from them. I hope this negative review will open their eyes and they start to take their users issue more seriously. Thanks

Beware, they have an option for international shipment that you can either agree to pay for the client's taxes and duties, or decline and leave it up to the client. In our system, we don't charge the client they cover those ourselves and have always left this option purposly unchecked in shipstation - however, despite this option unchecked we have been backcharged 500$ and when despiting their answer is, that's how it is. I cancelled and will never go back to this system because of their hidden charges.

Used to love this app, but recently have had nothing but headaches when trying to ship DDP from Canada to USA with UPS. Terms & conditions of their "DDP Guarantee" changed without notice and now only apply to US shippers, so now they are suddenly trying to charge me nearly $1000 for extra duties & fees on shipments that were delivered over 12 weeks ago. It is not ethical to triple the charges on shipments that were paid for and delivered MONTHS ago. Absolute insanity.

I despise Shipstation with every fiber of my being. Not once have I been able to open it and have things go smoothly. I always end up spending at least 45 mins on chat with support to find a solution a wide variety of problems. It is absolutely the worst part of my day. The worst part of my job. The worst part of having a small business. I'm begging somebody to come up with a better alternative.

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.

I'm going to keep posting this review everyone on every single one of my accounts in the hopes that this can save someone serious frustration. Steer clear. I've been with shipstation for over 6 years. Spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with 5+ different businesses. The app has had historic issues, glitches, etc. but it's never been detrimental is the probably 100K+ orders i've shipped out. I recently had an issue where I my default UPS account stopped working. I heavily rely on UPS as some of my customers cannot receive packages via USPS. It would not allow me to turn UPS on as an option (greyed out). I thought ok, I guess I'll start a ticket. It's now been three weeks, three excruciation weeks. Zero semblance of a solution. I've reached out probably 20 times. I get a generic response "don't worry we are looking into it" I've stressed how urgent it is. Finally after two weeks, they tell me they fixed, it - nope they actually just entirely DELETED ups as an option. It's nowhere to be found now on my dashboard and settings, the exact OPPOSITE of what i asked them to do. I reached back out several times, and asked it to be elevated, asked to speak to someone else. I even spent time to go on linkedin and try to find contact info for their exec team. I mean literally no one will help. It's honestly the worst customer service experience I've ever had in my life. If only I could share the back and forth. I feel unreliably frustrated and defeated here. It's hard to believe that this is as big of a company as it is. Rest assured, it may work for you right now, but if you EVER have issues, they simply don't care. Whether you are a large account or small, they will just ignore you and clearly have no processes in place to help people. It's such a shame.

They will incorrectly overcharge you for a shipment 6 months ago, then claim its bast the dispute window when you reach out to them about it, they literally stole thousands

Shipstation has a stranglehold on shipping, so I still use them for some things. But they are exceedingly bad. For example, 19 days ago Shipstation changed international shipping defaults so that I am now covering duties and taxes for international shipments. But, they did not notify me or my team of this setting being defaulted to "on" all the time. The result is that I have accidentally incurred massive costs that were meant to be paid by my customers and that I did not account for. I'm still waiting on invoices to come in from my couriers to see what the total loss is.

I contacted their support and they showed me how to turn this off. But when I asked about why it was set to on for 19 days, and why no one notified me of this critical change to defaults; the best I got was an apology. I wonder how many users are unwittingly incurring these fees. The setting is burried well below the customs declaration in an area with obscure an infrequently used settings, so I suspect that many users are not aware.

We loved Shipstation until the tariffs came into play. Having no way to upload customs documents for our CUSMA/USCMA compliant items is a total deal breaker. We tried to be patient and wait for a solution but they have done nothing about it when most of their competitors have.

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.