Shipping Software Development for Retail

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.

Furthermore, using e-commerce shipping software helps minimize errors that can occur during manual data entry and document preparation. This tool validates addresses, generates accurate shipping labels, and automates documentation, in turn reducing the risk of incorrect shipments.

E-commerce shipping software offers robust reporting and analytics features that provide businesses with insights into shipping data, carrier performance, shipping costs, and other metrics, helping them make informed decisions and optimize their operations. You can integrate it with inventory, order, and supply chain management systems, CRM, and accounting software.

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

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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 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