Using virtually any piece of data associated with an order or product in your system, you can create rules that target keywords/labels/attributes by: “exact match”, “starts with…”, “ends with…” or “contains…”. You can also group data matches as: “and…”, “or…”, “neither…” and “not…”. This means you can affect multiple groups at once, and yes, create rule combinations.

Item weight can play a big role in preventing overspend on your shipping. Shipster can take the weight and allocate them to the most cost-effective shipping service for that weight and instantly calculate whether it is more efficient to split or bundle items together.

Use location data to automatically allocate shipments to the correct delivery service. You might also use destination data to print documentation translated to the recipient’s language or print additional labels e.g. CN22.

Shipster can check language attribution fields and print all customer documentation in the required language.

Trigger rule commands for how [X] number of items should be shipped e.g. the packaging, courier service, parcel splitting, bundling etc.

Decide a more efficient way to process failed shipments – pop them in a "skipped" queue for later, print a document containing all the details or automatically save them to a designated folder for an allocated member of staff.

Products requiring temperature-controlled storage and transport can be allocated to the appropriate temperature-controlled shipping service e.g. Polar Speed.

Automate how you handle currencies. For instance, convert currencies across platforms or on your shipping documentation. Conversions can be used in carrier service selection e.g. if an order sold in $ exceeds £100, then select Courier A, Delivery service X.

Create as many shipping rules as you need to handle and ship dangerous goods safely. Products marked as dangerous or matching a particular product category can trigger Shipster to print the correct shipping documentation, staff instructions and allocate to the appropriate courier service.

Create shipping rules based on the date and time of order or processing. Useful when managing next-day deliveries. Can use current day, time or time range e.g. 2 pm - 5 pm.

Order values are useful in dozens of shipping rules. Often the value is used to automate which delivery service is used during a product promotion, when the cost of insurance is higher or the general shipping rates. Such values can also be printed on your documents.

If an item has a related marketing campaign and the order is tagged to reflect this e.g. product category, you can have all the relevant marketing material printed with each applicable order – or trigger a pop-up telling staff to include pre-printed materials.

If you’re shipping goods to influencers and reviewers, you can tag orders in your order data to show this. This allows Shipster to print any additional documentation (marketing campaign brief? User instructions?), labels or staff processing instructions.

Create shipping rules that are only active during a specified period. Many of our clients also like to beef up their operations at such times with additional packing bench installations.

If an item or total package items exceed a dimensions limit, choose to send them on the most cost effective service, along with the necessary safety and care documents for staff and customers.

Automatically select the correct packaging e.g. parcel vs large letter for your packing staff or packing machine - plus the option for the user to override the decision based on what they see in front of them.

Each shipment can be automatically assigned to the courier you need according to the conditions criteria you have set e.g. over 1kg and outside EU = Courier B, service C.

Automatically amend the delivery address of store collection orders to the selected store and produce a customer-collection label to support store operations.

Generate return labels with every order or selected items only. Labels can be standard 4x6” labels or integrated with an A4 invoice/returns document using your design.

Faulty postcodes can be automatically corrected.

Shipping rules can be set up to trigger a pop-up screen for shipments that require special attention, further instruction or more information from the packer.

Shipments can be allocated to specific courier service types according to the conditions criteria you set. The Shipster rules engine does this using your courier shipping codes.

Should you need to override an attribute that’s fed between your integrated software (or courier), Shipster can override any data at the point of despatch.

This is a popular weight management tactic to reduce overspending on shipping. If items in an order are below or exceed your custom threshold, they can be bundled or split into separate parcels.

Print extra labels to conveniently notify warehouse staff with specific instructions for a shipment e.g. “NEXT DAY” or “FOR DESPATCH ON MONDAY”.

Orders meeting the conditions you set can be despatched with the same or completely different documents: different designs, languages, paper type or promotions.

If there’s a consistently missing field in your data, Shipster can fill these for you instead of using manual intervention every time. A good example is a missing product category or weight for a batch of products.

Have relevant offers and discounts print with the applicable orders e.g. a value threshold, product category or destination etc.

Boost the speed of your sorting and loading at the despatch point by triggering colour coded labels per shipment type, e.g. Next-day orders printed on red labels.

You might want to generate a barcode for all sorts of processing purposes such as returns.

Shipster can generate QR codes on your shipping documentation for an easier returns process, marketing campaign or tracking.

If only part of an order is ready, pop-up the choice to ship a partial dispatch now instead of delaying the whole order.

Automate shipping upgrades or downgrades e.g. A faster courier service when a customer pays extra or a more economical service during your own free delivery promotion.

Block postcodes or countries that are risky to ship to due to extremely high costs, potential fraud or other complications.

Automatically print the correct customs documentation with each order e.g. CN22/CN23 labels with every non-EU order.

Use rules to add service enhancements that create DDP labels for certain orders. Delivered Duty Paid is when the sender pre-pays for all shipping related costs including export and import duties. This option is only available for the couriers that provide this service.

Shipster can be customzed to send customs documentation electronically, namely commercial invoices and airway bills. This feature is only available for couriers whose API is set up to request these documents for the countries that support paperless trading.