Starshipit’s End of Year Product Update 2021

This year, we wanted Starshipit retailers to be more empowered than ever, because empowering retailers is what we stand for. In order to accomplish this, we wanted to offer you new and improved integrations, features, and updates that would streamline your shipping and fulfillment processes.

Read on to see what’s new in 2021….

Integrations 🤝

Starshipit continually builds relationships with leading eCommerce partners to integrate your fulfilment and shipping operations seamlessly with the tools and technologies you use every day.

This year, Starshipit built integrations with a number of worldwide businesses, allowing us to empower organisations all around the world.

By integrating your account with any of the eCommerce platforms or couriers below, you can easily manage online orders, couriers, labels, address validation, packing slips, shipping notifications, and more, all from one platform.

• Squarespace is an easy-to-use, website platform that enables you to build a powerful online store with customisable templates and features specifically designed for online sellers.
• Wix is a leading global software platform that enables small businesses to operate online.
• Rocketspark is everything you need to create a store and sell online. With eye-catching online store designs, ecommerce software, and more creating an eCommerce website has never been easier.
• eStar is an enterprise-level total commerce solutions partner that works directly with brands and businesses to deliver ongoing growth.
• Catch.com.au is a popular eCommerce marketplace based in Australia that houses brands and products from many sectors.
• Sherpa is changing the way retailers do delivery. Sherpa offers on-demand, 2-hour, 4-hour and same-day delivery within Australian cities (coming soon to New Zealand).
• NZ Couriers, Post Haste and Castle Parcels are all part of Freightways Group and specialists in overnight domestic delivery across New Zealand including Saturday delivery.
• Hunter Express provide a comprehensive network of products and services to a wide variety of industries Australia wide. There is practically no place they cannot deliver.

New Features 🎉

Every year, we add key new features to empower retailers to achieve great things. We’re constantly searching for ways to optimise our app and we start with the eedback from our customers. In 2021, Starshipit added these new features:

• Automatically create a package(s) by importing its item weight & dimension from your store.
• Use rules to automatically set the HS code & country of manufacture.
• Rules to set Commercial invoice declaration as part of the free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Europe.
• Adding Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) numbers in the tax settings. This is to support the VAT22 legislation when sending orders to customers in Europe.
• Supporting the ability to upload additional documents with DHL Express for example prescriptions, fabric certificates, material data sheets etc.
• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) support has been added to provide an additional layer of security when logging into your account.
• Plain labels have been updated to display item SKUs, and support improved formatting for both sender and receiver addresses on the 100x150mm label.
• Customers using a CSV file to import orders can now automatically import orders via the print app, select “file monitor” as an option. When enabled, this feature is set to watch for the new order file additions in the folder/directory and do an auto-order import.
• Reports can now be downloaded using XLSX files. When generating a report you can now either download it as a CSV or an XLSX file. You may wish to download a report as an XLSX file if you find the CSV files have broken formatting for long numbers. The XLSX file format gets around this issue.

App Updates 🛠

This year, the app has received several updates to ensure that you get the most out of Starshipit.

• WooComerce: Many in-app capabilities have been updated, including the ability to import signature required and authority to leave, as well as a new writeback method.
• NZ Post Domestic: Now supports the Same Day Evening Delivery services.
• Cin7: Customers now have the ability to import product dimensions, tax & orders based on status.
• Sendle: Can now get a breakdown of the charges and estimated delivery times.
• TNT and CouriersPlease: Booking pickups are now supported.
• Peoplevox: Customers now have additional support to manage multiple packages, import tax, shipping cost and discounts and import HS codes and country of manufacture.
• Border Express: Authority to leave is now supported.
• MyPost Business: Customers now have additional support to manage Extra Cover costs for both International and Domestic parcel sending for the first $100.
• Zapier: Customers now have the ability to automatically print packing slips and print shipping labels for any given order.
• Magento2: Starshipit now supports Magento2 stores that use Two-factor authentication. This is enabled by default for Magento 2.4+ stores, if you are on 2.4 or below you can also turn on two-factor authentication.
• UPS: We now support the UPS SurePost® services, these are USA domestic services.
• CouriersPlease: The weights for the CouriersPlease weight validation feature have been updated, enabling this option will display products that are valid for the weight of an order’s package(s).
• DPD UK and DPD Local UK: We have added support for receiver VAT and receiver EORI numbers for these two couriers.

If you have any questions on how to implement any of the new features or would like some general help with your account, contact us and one of your friendly sales experts will be in touch.

In 2022, Starshipit will have some exciting new features available. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed or follow our feedback page to keep up to date. 🎉