Shipping Software for Retail
Retail shipping software manages various activities related to order fulfillment and delivery. It delivers benefits to businesses by automating manual processes, and providing customers with accurate tracking and timely delivery of goods.
About E-commerce Shipping Software
Having proper shipping management can impact positively upon multiple aspects of your retail business. Order and inventory management, distribution, and customer service, all depend greatly on how well you organize your delivery and order fulfillment activities.
Shipping software for e-commerce website automates many key manual tasks, such as generating labels, validating addresses, and tracking shipments. This saves your employees time, and allows them to focus on other essential aspects of their work. In addition, you can streamline batch processing and document management.
Shipping software e-commerce provides real-time tracking information to businesses and customers alike, which ensures visibility over the status and location of shipments, allows businesses to proactively address any issues, and provides accurate updates to customers.
Also, implementing e-commerce shipping software helps to reduce errors that might arise while manually entering data and preparing documents. This technology checks addresses creates accurate delivery labels, and organizes documentation, lowering the chance of inaccurate shipments.
E-commerce shipping software has advanced reporting and analytics features that give businesses insights into shipment data, carrier performance, shipping costs, and other factors. This allows them to make more informed decisions and optimize their operations. It may be integrated with inventory, order, and supply chain management systems, as well as CRM and accounting applications.
Features
Shipping software for e-commerce
- Order management
- Rate shipping cost
- Label printing
- Batch processing
- Small parcel/LTL comparison
- Pick and pack
- Dropshipping support
- Shipment insurance
- Route optimization
- Third-party tools integration
- Document generation
- Shipment status notifications
- Real-time order tracking
- Invoice rates calculation
- Carrier integration
- Custom DIM weight factors
- Generic carrier support
- International shipping support
- Carrier performance tracking
- Customs compliance management
- Detailed reports and analytics
- Inventory synchronization
- Route planning
- Role-based multi-user access
- Return management
- Box size selection
- Address validation
- LTL/TL freight rating
- Rate shipping cost
- Quick rate quotes
- Duty and tax calculation
- Delivery scheduling
- Shipping rules setting
- Multi-carrier shipping
- Order consolidation
- Hazardous material handling
Work Process
Developing shipping software for online stores and e-commerce marketplaces consists of a few important stages. As a rule, special attention is paid to integrations with other e-commerce software.
1
Project planning
We estimate and prioritize tasks, and plan our activities and resources.
Team:
- Project Manager
2
Business analysis
We analyze the client’s current tech stack and develop task specifications.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
3
UI/UX design
We create usable and engaging interfaces for all user groups.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
- UI/UX Designer
4
Back-end development
We develop the server side of a web app.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
- UI/UX Designer
- Back-end Engineers
- Manual QA Engineers
5
Front-end development
We develop the user side of a web app.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
- UI/UX Designer
- Front-end Engineers
- Manual QA Engineers
6
Integrations
We analyze the systems we need to integrate and perform two-side integrations.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Business Analyst
- UI/UX Designer
- Front-end Engineers
- Back-end Engineers
- DevOps Engineers
7
Testing
We perform various types of testing: manual, automated, unit, and integration.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Manual QA Engineer
- QA Automation Engineer
- Back-end Engineers
8
Implementation and training
We create training materials for employees and implement the system in the client’s company.
Team:
- Project Manager
- Technical Writer
- DevOps Engineers
- Support Engineers
Our Clients
We develop large projects for clients across 27 countries, a significant number of which are featured on the Fortune 500 list.
Our company specializes in projects for
Retail & E-commerce
Why Do You Need It?
Ensuring the smooth shipment of goods requires an array of core activities. This process can be overwhelming, and result in lengthy delivery times and losses. In addition, you run the risk of facing issues related to working with multiple carriers. With a shipping software solution for e-commerce, you can speed up delivery, automate manual processes and provide an all-round better service.
High amount of orders
You deal with a vast amount of orders
Data entry issues
You often deal with manual data entry errors
Order processes
You want to make order processes
Shipping losses
You often deal with shipping losses
Time-consuming delivery
Delivery requires much time
Products are hard to find
You have issues finding the goods needed for delivery
Multi-faceted supply chain
Your supply chain is complex
Multiple carriers
You work with different carriers
Lengthy return processes
You have a complex and time-consuming returns management process
Delivery tracking
You lack real-time delivery tracking
A lot of paperwork
Your employees deal with too much paperwork
Unreliable documentation
Your customs or shipping documentation is often missing or inaccurate
Lack of in-depth analytics
You have limited visibility into shipping analytics
Bad delivery reviews
You receive negative feedback on delivery from your clients
International shipping
You ship internationally and deal with complex regulations
Inefficient management
You want to improve inventory management
Costly shipping
Your shipping costs are too high
Address errors
You ship to incorrect or incomplete addresses
Our Standards
In our work, we follow international approaches and standards such as:
Management: | PMP |
Design: | ISO 9241-210 |
Programming: | Coding conventions, MDN Web Docs, Naming convention |
Python: | PEP 8 |
JS/TS: | ECMA, JavaScript Standard Style, Google TypeScript Style Guide, ESLint |
PHP: | PSR |
С#: | ReSharper |
HTML/CSS: | W3C |
Security: | GDPR |
Testing: | ISTQB |
Technologies
We specialize in specific technologies, with the technology stack chosen based on the project’s purpose and requirements
Programming languages:
Web / Frameworks:
Databases / Data storage:
DevOps containers:
DevOps automation:
DevOps CI/CD:
DevOps monitoring:
Testing:
Clouds: