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Spring Bank Holiday Support Notice

01 Apr 2021 By By Hayley Cowburn

During the May bank holidays (Monday 3rd May and Monday 31st May): 📞 Telephone support will be closed. 📧 Email and ticket support will remain open.

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We're Now Integrated with DPD Ireland!

30 Mar 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

We are excited to announce DPD Ireland as an addition to our list of integrated couriers!

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We are Digital City Finalists for the System Integrators Award!

18 Mar 2021 By By Hayley Cowburn

The award ceremony airs on 15th April 6:30pm. Those that want to watch must register at: https://www.digitalcityfestival.com/register-to-attend

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Shipster Named Finalist in Digital City Awards

18 Mar 2021 By By Hayley Cowburn

Manchester shipping platform Shipster has been shortlisted to win the Digital City System Integrators award, for work executed during the pandemic and Brexit transition.

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What can I customize with Shipster?

15 Mar 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

Shipster is bespoke software that is designed to be highly customisable by nature. This allows you to use Shipster in whatever way best suits your companies changing needs. You can make changes to your set-up as often you like through our dedicated support team.

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Easter Holiday Support Coverage

01 Mar 2021 By By Hayley Cowburn

📞 Telephone support will be closed. 📧 Email and ticket support will remain open.

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In the Spotlight: Busy Periods

16 Feb 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

Throughout the year, consumer demand ebbs and flows and warehouses have to adjust their processes accordingly to accommodate. The yearly busy periods are usually centred around Christmas, Black Friday, Mother’s and Father’s Day, Easter and Valentine’s day depending on your products and target market. Shipster is highly customisable software, which means you can tweak the way you use it to prepare for these busy periods and manage a sudden increase in workload...

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Client Crush: This Valentines We're Crushing on Couture Club

01 Feb 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

As Valentine's day approaches, we’ve been thinking about how much we love all our lovely clients. In the spirit of the holiday though, we can only have one Valentines, so this year we’re naming The Couture club our “Client Crush” of the year!

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Software Update: Upgraded "resetPricing" Rule

29 Jan 2021 By By Tony Cheetham

We've upgraded the "resetPricing" rule to be more intelligent. Rather than just splitting the prices by the total/quantities, it now works out the total that each item is worth and assigns the new values based on that. It will be much more accurate and work for pretty much any situation now.

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London Fashion Week: Trends to Expect in 2021

20 Jan 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

Many fashion retailers, including our clients, will be looking to London Fashion week to help them predict what the big trends of 2021 will be. Whilst the high fashion you see on the runway is mostly reserved for the rich and famous, these styles are always diluted down into trendy, ready-to-wear clothing.

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Software Update: Text Manipulation

15 Jan 2021 By By Tony Cheetham

We've added some new rule commands for better text manipulation. We've added the ability to "trim" specific text from the start and end of strings. You can "replace" specific pieces of text with other pieces of text (so replace "Londn" with "London"), and we have added in a "remove" function which just takes a string out of a field.

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Tony Answers How the Pandemic affected him as an Employer

05 Jan 2021 By By Hayley Cowburn

Tony tells PA Life about how the pandemic and lockdown affected him as an employer now and in the future.

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Top Shipping Rules of 2020

05 Jan 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

2020 has been a significant year of constant change, and our clients have been requesting a variety of rules to keep their Shipster effective. Rule changes and additions are always no extra charge on top of your monthly support fee, and our technical team are always happy to create new functions to improve Shipster. Here are some of the top most used rules of 2020:

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Software Update: Multiple Account Deutsche Post Manifests

04 Jan 2021 By By Damian Donnelly

We've added the ability to manifest multiple accounts on Deutsche Post. If you have more than one Deutsche Post account with us, this will save you having to get these from the Deutsche Post website and improve your workflow.

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Case Study: Santa's Shipping Rules

17 Dec 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Santa allows us to reveal the Shipster configuration he uses to send billions of parcels over Christmas.

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New Feature: PDF Download Button

07 Dec 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added a PDF download button, making it possible to download any PDF documents/templates loaded into Shipster.

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Brexit: Our Plan and What You Need To Do (Shipster Clients)

01 Dec 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

Information in the event of a Deal- or No Deal- scenario. Summary steps: 1. Send us your EORI number if you have not already 2. Add accurate descriptions to all your products, and put procedures in place to ensure it happen with all new products 3. Add commodity codes to your products and email support@shipstersolutions.com to tell us in which attribute we can find these codes.

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New Feature: Edit Despatch Files Before Processing

24 Nov 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We've added some new features that allow you to edit despatch files before they go through our rules processor. You can change the country, courier, pretty much anything before the shipment is attempted.

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We're Now Integrated with SkyNet!

19 Nov 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

SkyNet specialise in providing custom shipping solutions for UK ecommerce companies to help them expand their business to the global market place. This accurately describes many current Shipster users, so we expect this integration to be popular.

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Christmas Holidays & Rule Freezes 2020

18 Nov 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Dates for shipping rule freezes, support line closure and how to get additional licences for the Christmas period.

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9 Ways to Cut Shipping Expenses with your Shipping Rules

05 Nov 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Using our numerous shipping rules you can fully customise your Shipster to save you the most money when packing and shipping parcels. Here are 9 of the most common rules our clients use to reduce expenditure.

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DHL Express Update: Service Map added to integration

03 Nov 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

We've added a service map to our DHL Express plugin. You can optionally specify the duty/terms of shipping for the service meaning you can effectively target whether to charge the end customer duty.

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New Feature: Group items into kits

02 Nov 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We have added support for PVX kits where items can be grouped into kits.

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Black Friday Notice 2020

26 Oct 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Prepare for Black Friday: Our scheduled shipping rule freeze, help with additional installations and getting help on the day.

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Signs that your Warehouse is Haunted

22 Oct 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

It's spooky season, which means scary movies, ghosts, costumes and trick-or-treat bans are on everyone's mind. Let's make it a work activity by thinking about what might be lurking in the unexplored shadows and crevices of your warehouse, by looking for these signs of ghostly activity...

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Software Update: myHermes Label PDFs

15 Oct 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

Our MyHermes integration now supports labels in PDF format in addition to the existing format. The existing image format is large and requires scaling settings to be applied to print the label. Requesting the label as a PDF makes scaling configuration unnecessary.

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We asked Rachel what it's been like providing Shipster support from home during the Covid-19 Pandemic

08 Oct 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Rachel answers what it's been like providing Shipster support from home during the covid-19 pandemic.

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Software Update: DPD Postcode Resilience

06 Oct 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

Improved post-code formatting in the DPD plugin, making it more resilient to variation in how postcodes are represented - meaning you will have fewer cases where intervention is needed.

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New Feature for Inventory Planner Users

01 Oct 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We have added the automatic creation of Purchase Orders in PVX from the data in Inventory Planner. As an extra funky feature, we've included automatic currency conversion between the two systems, which uses data refreshed 4 times a day.

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New Feature: "Currency Magic" Live Currency Conversion

24 Sep 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

Shipster now supports live currency conversion! Via a feed from our partner fixer.io we will update our conversion rates twice a day to keep it as accurate as possible. And via Shipsters internal plugin system we have deployed the new functionality across our entire platform, from our top of the range rules engine, to our PDF generator and customs documentation. Some of our more seasoned clients might be saying, “But, you already had currency conversion, I use it now!”, and you’d be right, but it’s done with a little trickery at the moment.. When order data is transferred into Shipster it is in the currency of the store it was sold in, which gives us an idea of the price of the total order and the individual items. But we also have access to the pricing data for the items themselves from your product database, which will be in your home currency. If we match up the items in the orders and work out the difference between the two, we have the conversion rate that was used in the shop and we can apply it to your whole order. If we don’t have the item prices in the store currency we can total up the entire order and work out the rate from that.

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10 Shipping Rules for Fashion Businesses... with GIFs!

10 Sep 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Since fashion e-commerce retailers form a large portion of Shipster users, we have developed a large range of shipping rules that cater to their unique needs. These rules are designed to help streamline the shipment of clothes and accessories, saving these businesses time and money!

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Software Update: Separate Package Tracking

27 Aug 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

At the moment if you are using Peoplevox and you book in multiple packages in a single order, you will receive the tracking numbers as a comma-separated string. We realise this is not ideal, so we have updated our tracking number handler to identify and track multiple packages and tracking numbers separately. You can still get the tracking numbers as a comma string if you want, but if your sales platform integration is compatible, we can push the separate tracking IDs to the correct parcels on your PVX instance.

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We are excited to welcome An Post as a new Shipster courier integration!

26 Aug 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

our first dedicated Irish processor!

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Summer Bank Holiday (31st August 2020)

24 Aug 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

📞 Telephone support will be closed. 📧 Email and ticket support will remain open.

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Software Update: Custom Tracking Numbers

20 Aug 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We’ve made some upgrades to our tracking number updater, which now allows it to grab data from the order and insert it into the tracking string. If you wanted to, for example, put the carrier name and service type code into your tracking string, so you can identify the shipment type while dealing with your tracking number, then this update will help. The use cases for this are narrow to be honest, but you can never have too much flexibility.

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Amazon Vendor central is coming!

13 Aug 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

Via our new partnership with Amazon, we will soon be offering Amazon Vendor Central integrations into both Peoplevox and Linnworks. You’ll be able to push orders from your Amazon shop into PVX or Linnworks, and push shipment confirmations back up into Amazon. We’ll even take care of the reporting requirements on Amazon to save you some extra time. Contact Shipster support to arrange a chat about how it works.

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Warehouse Cost Reduction Ideas

11 Aug 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

There may be more ways to reduce your warehouse costs than you would think…

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New Feature: Consignor Label Selections

28 Jul 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Consignor users can now select labels for specific services in specific formats.

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Automated Shipping for Small Businesses - Taking your business to the next level

23 Jul 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

The benefits of taking your despatch system to the next level with Shipster. Are you a small-to-medium business looking to take the leap?

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New Feature: FedEx Signature Maps

16 Jul 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

We've added 1) A service map, making it easier to map shipping requests to service codes. 2) A signature map. This recently came up for a client that requires an adult signature for items that must only be delivered to an adult.

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We're Now Integrated with DHL Austria!

13 Jul 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Our development team finished building this DHL Austria integration at the end of June and it is already being utilised by some of our customers. Please get in contact if you would like to find out more about how we could integrate your Shipster with DHL Austria, and countless other couriers.

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New Feature: DHL Germany Returns

09 Jul 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added Europe-wide returns for DHL Germany.

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In the Spotlight: Automated Packaging Selections

06 Jul 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We get a lot of requests about automating the decision making process for deciding which box/envelope packaging to use. The issue can be solved in several ways...

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Software Update: Bulk Despatch

02 Jul 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

Bulk Despatch Bulk despatch has added support for retrying bad connections - this makes its performance much more robust and reduces manual intervention.

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New Feature: Support for DHL Dangerous Goods

24 Jun 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added support to DHL for the shipping of dangerous goods - there are specific data fields that need to be filled out where dangerous goods are being shipped.

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In the spotlight: Shipping in other Languages

17 Jun 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Shipping internationally may be more complicated than you’d expect and involves navigating multiple countries’ varied postal systems and policies on foreign imports. Here are some of the ways Shipster can help streamline this process for you.

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Software Update: You can now generate Barcodes for any Data

10 Jun 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

We can now generate barcodes for any data on the fly - previously this was only possible to do with Sales Order Numbers. This means that we can enhance the custom labels and documents that Shipster generates for you with custom barcodes to better support your workflow. Just think of the possibilities!

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We're Now Integrated with Austrian Post (Post AG)

03 Jun 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Full integration completed in under two days!

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Spring Bank Holiday Notice (25th May 2020)

13 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

📞 Telephone support will be closed. 📧 Email and ticket support will remain open.

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Yodel Integration Update

13 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added support for sending delivery instructions to Yodel.

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In the Spotlight: What to do with Failed Shipments

11 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Every now and then you will come across a shipment that refuses to cooperate. How do you process yours?

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The Loadstar: Shipster gives unlimited licence extensions to clients supplying goods to combat COVID-19

06 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Loadstar coverage of the pandemic licence extension, 23 April 2020.

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Internet Retailing: Coronavirus round-up: Ingka Centres on reopening malls, plus updates from Studio, the ONS, IMRG, Institute of Customer Service, DPD and Shipster

05 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Internet Retailing Coronavirus round-up including Shipster pandemic measures article, 23rd April 2020.

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The Business Desk: Shipster Pandemic Package?: Unlimited Shipping Licences for warehouses distributing key goods in the fight against coronavirus

05 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

The Business Desk pandemic licence extension article, 5th May 2020.

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Amazon Integration Update

03 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Amazon API credentials can now be overridden so that a single client can use more than one Amazon account, depending on your sales channel.

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Chamber of Commerce: SHIPSTER OFFER UNLIMITED LICENSE EXTENSIONS TO CLIENTS PROVIDING GOODS TO TACKLE COVID-19

30 Apr 2020 By By Amanda Hosking

GM Chamber of Commerce pandemic licence extension article, 30th April 2020.

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Business Up North: Oddsphere Give Unlimited Shipster Software Licences To PPE & Medical Suppliers Amid Pandemic

30 Apr 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Business Up North pandemic licence extension article, 30 April 2020.

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PR: Unlimited Licence Extensions for clients supplying goods to combat the COVID-19 Pandemic

23 Apr 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Client warehouses despatching goods such as PPE and medications are offered extra shipping software licences to boost distribution free of charge. MD calls it "a no brainer".

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Linnworks Integration Updates

21 Apr 2020 By By Damian Donnelly

We've added support for extended properties at the item level (used to be only at Sales Order level), meaning we can bring in bespoke fields for each item in the Linnworks inventory (e.g. colour, size, etc..). We've also added support for complex dynamic filtering of Sales Orders, empowering you to set clear criteria around when orders pass into PVX.

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Shipster is now integrated with P2P - in 2 HOURS!

20 Apr 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Our fastest Integration build yet – Thanks to our sophisticated infrastructure and a glorious courier API...

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New feature: DHL Service Codes: Automatic Filtering

15 Apr 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We've added automatic service code filtering for DHL. If you're confused between your U's and your P's, don't worry, just send us any code in the right class (express/economy) and we'll automatically send the correct code onto DHL.

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Fashion Customers spend on Comfort during Pandemic

06 Apr 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

In fashion, customers are ditching bras for pyjamas (Adore Me’s new best selling item) and swimwear for loungewear. Customers seem to be putting off buying Spring-Summer collections, delaying the bikini and buying into comfort.

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Software Update: International Postcodes Update

01 Apr 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We've added 5 more countries to our advanced postcode formatting and validation code. We'll now detect and report faults with most international postcodes, and apply formatting where no fault is detected.

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Our COVID-19 Response

19 Mar 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

Actions we're taking during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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New Feature: Beautiful Paper Aeroplane!

02 Mar 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

If you're using the latest version of Shipster, you may have noticed the new paper aeroplane loading screen that Tony spent several hours perfecting!

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Software Upodate: Better Address Splitting

25 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added new intelligent address splitting to ensure your address lines fit into the courier's requirements. We now automatically detect when lines need to be split, maintain spacing and keep numbering in the correct lines.

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New Feature: Direct Shopify Updates

19 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Move your tracking updates into Shipster and get courier/service updates done directly (in addition to your other regular system updates).

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In the Spotlight: Shipping Weight Management

18 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Processing hundreds or thousands of shipments every day means even the smallest inefficiency in your shipping process can stack up unnecessary costs. Changing how you allocate and ship parcels according to their weight can be revolutionary.

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Shipster Enters Pharmaceuticals

13 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Shipster Build Custom Shipping Integration for Global Pharmaceutical Distributor Mawdsleys

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Shipster is now integrated with the Deutsche Post Internetmarke Service

11 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

One of our record-speed integration builds!

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New Feature: PDF Saving

05 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added the ability to save PDFs in a file location of your choice, be it Dropbox, the local file system or a network location. We can even apply rules to only save PDFs in certain situations e.g. saving all international invoices.

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Introducing the Shipster Troubleshooter

27 Jan 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

An Additional Support option for Clients stuck on a Stubborn Shipment.

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New Feature: Look-up Flexibility

21 Jan 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added the ability to reverse the look-up mechanism. Instead of comparing values in the rules to values within the despatch information, you can compare the despatch information to the values within the rules.

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Shipster is Now Integrated with Polar Speed

13 Jan 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Our integration with Polar Speed is worth special mention because this is our first temperature-controlled supplier...

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New Feature: Postcode Corrections

07 Jan 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

In 2019, we found ourselves implementing automatic postcode corrections for a few clients who wanted to cut down the time it takes to check and correct manually. Due to its popularity and effectiveness, we plan to roll this out as a feature for everyone in 2020.

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The Top Custom Shipping Rules of 2019 that didn’t cost a penny

06 Jan 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Here are the trendiest custom shipping rules of 2019 – ideas that have seen many of our clients through a fantastic year of growth for not a penny more. Perhaps there’s something that can be adapted for your warehouse in 2020!

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New Feature: New Rules Condition "any"

19 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

We've added the new comparison method "any", to be added to the existing "and" and "or". This means you don't need 100% matching between conditions, you only need each condition to match once.

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Christmas at Oddsphere 2019

17 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Just a little entry about how we’re celebrating the festive season this year :)

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In The Spotlight: Introduction to Temperature Controlled Shipping

09 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Do you need to start looking into temperature-controlled shipping or curious about cold shipping in general? Let’s dive in…

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"Thank You for Delivering" - Shipster Christmas Video 2019

01 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

"Here's to all the people who are delivering a merry Christmas in the UK. The factory workers, warehouse staff, pickers, packers and drivers..." Check out our video thanking every person involved behind the scenes when it comes to this manic time of year!

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Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson “break the internet” with Beauty eCommerce Launch

04 Nov 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

For Those That Don’t Know: Who are they? What happened? And how did they achieve one of the biggest beauty e-commerce launches in history?

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We’re Building a Shipster User Control Panel

23 Oct 2019 By By Tony Cheetham

Giving our clients the power to control their own configuration without having to pick up the phone.

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Press: Oddsphere Now a Listed Supplier on The Crown Commercial Service

09 Oct 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Oddsphere have been added to the £1.45bn Digital Outcomes & Specialists 4 framework, making the company an official Crown Commercial Service Supplier

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Video: Shipster News & Views Launches

02 Oct 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Hear Ye’ Hear Ye’ Shipster Updates & Newsletter Now Available.

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It’s October Already! Is Your Dispatch Point Ready for Christmas?

01 Oct 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

The Most Popular Time to Start Christmas Shopping is October-November. Don’t be reactive this year, brace for impact.

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Visiting London eCommerce EXPO 2019

25 Sep 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Our Highlights: Latest Insights into the expectation of Delivery Customers, Black Friday Figures & eCommerce Innovations

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Insider Media: ODDSPHERE SECURES £50,000

18 Jul 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Insider Media coverage of Oddsphere and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, 17th July 2019.

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Press: Oddsphere Score Five-figure Investment

10 Jul 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Oddsphere receive investment from Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

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Press: Oddsphere Appoint New Director Damian Donnelly

06 Jun 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Customer Services Director Damian Donnelly Joins Oddsphere Ltd in May 2019.

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Press: Shipster Team Spread Wings in New Office

09 May 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Shipster has relocated to Carvers Warehouse in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. More details here.

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