Hey there! 👋 Welcome back to another Starshipit product update. With peak season just around the corner, we’ve been working hard to bring you new carrier integrations, much-requested features and lots of helpful improvements to get you prepared!
Check out the video for a quick overview of the top new releases or read on for the full list of updates!
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Discover all the new features in Starshipit for August.
A much-loved UI 2.0 feature is now available in the Classic UI! Tags allow you to add customised labels to your orders, making it easier to identify important details about different orders. For example, you might add “high priority”, “fragile”, “pre-order” or “out of stock” tags.
Read moreWe’ve made some improvements to our recommended packaging feature. If you haven’t used it before, this handy feature matches the dimensions of items within an order with your configured packages, automatically selecting the best size package every time. It’s a great way to reduce packaging and save costs.
So what’s new? We’ve made some tweaks to our algorithm:
Use our Shopify App? This one is for you. We've released a new 'Checkout Delivery Options' UI extension for our Shopify app. Shopify is deprecating the use of checkout.liquid so we've created this extension to ensure seamless customisation of your checkout process.
Read moreNow in Classic UI, you can import Shopify tags into Starshipit and have them appear within the orders grid. You can enable this option from Shopify by heading to Settings > Integrations > Shopify Settings > Advanced and enabling the setting there.
We’ve introduced several new optional columns to the Orders Grid in the Classic UI, allowing you to quickly see more details about your orders without needing to open each one individually.
You can now add the following columns to the New tab of the Orders Grid:
We have also made more columns in the Orders Grid in the Classic UI optional, meaning you can hide columns you previously couldn't to better suit your needs.
Read moreSee what's new with our carrier partners, including Deliver In Person, Mainfreight2Home, UPS and more.
We’re always improving our 30+ carrier integrations – and this month our team added a lot of useful functionality to UPS, in addition to getting Starshipit UPS Ready!
Here’s an overview of what’s new with UPS:
Here’s a cool one – Deliver In Person is a brand new carrier integration for Starshipit, with a mission to ensure reliable, customer-centric deliveries. Focusing on same-day and next day delivery, Deliver In Person are also capable of reverse logistics, plus real-time tracking and pick ups from DCs and stores.
Right now, Deliver In Person focuses on Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and offers simple flat rates with generous volume rebates.
Read moreElevate your fleet management with Locate2u – a new integration for Starshipit. Locate2u enables real-time tracking of your vehicles, route optimisation, and the ability to provide precise ETAs to customers. The result? A platform to seamlessly manage your delivery process and boost customer satisfaction.
Read moreMainfreight 2Home is a delivery service designed for medium to large items and focused on sending them to home addresses or businesses.
Starshipit now integrates seamlessly with Mainfreight 2Home, enabling you to automatically assign orders from your sales channels to Mainfreight, schedule pickups, send order notifications and more.
Highlights of this service include:
We’ve expanded our returns capability by including the Freightways carriers for returns, specifically NZ Couriers, Post Haste and Castle Parcels!
Read moreDo you ship prescription medications? You can now simplify the process using Rendr and Starshipit. This update means you can ship prescription medications using the item_schedule_class product types.
Oh, and you can now also use Rendr services in NZ!
Read moreDHL eCommerce can adjust the tracking number/shipmentID used, which is useful for matching shipments sent with DHL eCommerce to the original order number.
Read moreStarshipit now supports printing in the 100 x 150 label format with NZ Post Domestic. This enhancement means you no longer need to adjust or resize print settings to print labels in the 100 x 150 size.
Read moreStarshipit now supports the ability to set your shipment as ‘XL’ when it exceeds standard dimensions and weight with NZ Post Domestic.
This means you can correctly assign XL to non-standard packages, helping you avoid penalties for not declaring that a shipment is outside standard dimensions or weight limits.
Read moreStarshipit now supports dangerous goods with TNT. You can add and manage dangerous goods in your TNT courier settings, right from within Starshipit.
See what's new with our integration and platform partners.
Starshipit now integrates with cross-border eCommerce solution Global-e. For those unaware, Global-e is set up to help businesses expand internationally by providing localisation services, customs clearance, analytics and more.
Learn moreAnd that wraps up our August 2024 product update. Keep an eye on our changelog to get notified of all new releases, and happy shipping!
David Renwick
David is Starshipit's Product Marketing Lead. When he's not whipping up a fresh new product update or chatting to customers for a new case study, you'll typically find him scoping out coffee spots and talking about what's on at the movies. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
