Shyp Goes Nationwide By Letting You Comparison-Shop Shipping Services

So how does Shippo fit into all this? https://goshippo.com/

Excellent. I can't get over how hard this information has been to come by in the past.

It's always a ridiculous guessing game of LxWxH with penalties over Y dimensions total, with weight and shipping speed as confounding factors.

Then the calculus changes totally if you manage to fit the item into a slightly smaller box.

You have to juggle 3+ websites, entering a bunch of information that shouldn't really be relevant, to get to a cost number.

Then you go to ship something and the cost STILL is totally different from what the website said it would be.

so shippo lists shyp as a company/partner that uses their backend. does this mean shyp has moved away from shippo or that this is the resulting product built on top of shippo?

I sent 3 boxes (same size) to a friend, the estimate price was $95 + 25 of shipping, the total price I paid was $248.36, even if they had all the measurements/weight within the app. They split my package in 3 and made me pay full price. (When you enter the weight, they don't say it's 50lb max) so they send 3 shipments (they could have done 2 instead of 3, but I guess the guy who packages my stuff was lazy and also entered different LxWxH for the exact same boxes). I contacted the support and got a refund of $60ish. The price you see in the app should be the price you'll pay, not +200ish % ... (Again, they have a picture + all the measurements/weight ...)

thanks for the feedback. With this new label product you can package your items yourself and print the labels. You get a final price in app/web before purchase.

With our pickup/packaging business there is no way to give a price up front. Only to give an estimate based on the information we receive. There are too many variables that go into the packaging process (padding, re-arranging items, multiple boxes etc). Something that I would love to be perfect on but its a very hard problem.

We typically split items into multiple boxes for safety or to reduce the cost of the overall shipments. There are some very high oversize fees from the carriers that we try to avoid as much as possible.

I hope you will give this new product a try :)