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Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
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Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#12I'm sure this is not the intended use case, but considering the trouble I've had trying to use UPS/Fedex/USPS to print shipping labels for my personal use (many of the websites suck), it'd be great to see a desktop app that used this API to find the lowest cost service, print you a label for it, and track your shipment.
Actually! We do offer a web interface for this exact thing. Many of our customers are small businesses who don't have developers to integrate the API, so we built a dashboard for them to compare shipping prices, print labels, and track shipments. (You can also use it even if you're not a business) You can see a small gif of it working under "How you make money" in the interview. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/80…
Is this it? https://app.goshippo.com/orders/manual
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#13I'm sure this is not the intended use case, but considering the trouble I've had trying to use UPS/Fedex/USPS to print shipping labels for my personal use (many of the websites suck), it'd be great to see a desktop app that used this API to find the lowest cost service, print you a label for it, and track your shipment.
I've had a very similar instance. USPS ShipNClick, for example, has "fraud detection" that freezes all accounts you've ever logged into if it detects that you've created multiple accounts and switched between them. And worse, it's a silent detection, so after you've entered all the details for your shipping label(s), it gives a "Your payment method was declined" error. No warnings or anything, just a vague error mess…
I've gotten that exact error - good to know what was going on :P
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#14I'm sure this is not the intended use case, but considering the trouble I've had trying to use UPS/Fedex/USPS to print shipping labels for my personal use (many of the websites suck), it'd be great to see a desktop app that used this API to find the lowest cost service, print you a label for it, and track your shipment.
Actually! We do offer a web interface for this exact thing. Many of our customers are small businesses who don't have developers to integrate the API, so we built a dashboard for them to compare shipping prices, print labels, and track shipments. (You can also use it even if you're not a business) You can see a small gif of it working under "How you make money" in the interview. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/80…
Are you from Shippo? Would you mind if I contacted you directly to ask some questions? As it happens I'm in the process of comparing a few services like Shippo to purchase for a 3PL company and I'd love to be able to chat with someone. Email in my profile if you don't mind reaching out.
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#15Is Shippo comparable to easypost? What are the differences/benefits? Seems like Shippo is more for small businesses and offers a richer interface for managing things without having to first integrate the API? Easypost seems more directed at developers, but they also seems like they are hiring a lot of ux people so I would assume they are building their own management interfaces aswell. Just wondering if both serve the same use cases. I will be looking at integrating something like this into a product primarily for shipping label creation and I am curious how the two services differ.
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#16Shippo is great, we use it from our Weebly-based site. Between Shippo, Stripe and Square we've got pretty much what we need to run billing and shipping. Thank you, interwebs!
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually! We do offer a web interface for this exact thing. Many of our customers are small businesses who don't have developers to integrate the API, so we built a dashboard for them to compare shipping prices, print labels, and track shipments. (You can also use it even if you're not a business) You can see a small gif of it working under "How you make money" in the interview. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/80…
Is this it? https://app.goshippo.com/orders/manual
Yup that's it! (You'd need to sign up to access the app, but that's free to do.)
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually! We do offer a web interface for this exact thing. Many of our customers are small businesses who don't have developers to integrate the API, so we built a dashboard for them to compare shipping prices, print labels, and track shipments. (You can also use it even if you're not a business) You can see a small gif of it working under "How you make money" in the interview. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/80…
Are you from Shippo? Would you mind if I contacted you directly to ask some questions? As it happens I'm in the process of comparing a few services like Shippo to purchase for a 3PL company and I'd love to be able to chat with someone. Email in my profile if you don't mind reaching out.
Yes, from Shippo here. Will shoot you an email. :)
edit: if anyone else would like to chat, sales@goshippo.com is the best place to get to us. That goes directly to a few of our inboxes, so we're get back to you in no time.
Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#19Re: Apps that send packages with the Shippo API
#20Is Shippo comparable to easypost? What are the differences/benefits? Seems like Shippo is more for small businesses and offers a richer interface for managing things without having to first integrate the API? Easypost seems more directed at developers, but they also seems like they are hiring a lot of ux people so I would assume they are building their own management interfaces aswell. Just wondering if both serve th…
Sawyer from EasyPost here. Yes, we're generally upstream of Shippo - we power a bunch of their competitors in the app / shipping UI space. We focus more on developer APIs and all of the tools and performance considerations that come with that.
Our UI developers are focused mainly on analytics for the platform - we're happy to leave the click n' ship piece to Shipstation, ShipRush, Shippo, etc.