ShipStation Orders & Inventory

Most of the time it is great, but beware! I was over charged $4500 and I have been fighting with them for weeks and zero real answers. Also if you have to do a dispute good luck, don't even waist your time.

getting worse by the day. before the pandemic this was a best in class shipping solution. now i would be better off asking agentic ai to code a shipstation variant for me or just using shopify's built in shipping solution.

Nope nope nope....

Terrible customer service and support. Does not integrate with the basics like pick ups for TeamGe/toll. Contacted account manager and she passed it off at lightening speed to tech support who did nothing after multiple attempts to contact them over a month. You pay a fee to make your business get a poorer customer experience whilst making your job harder. The response from shipstation below is exactly the same as 2 previous emails I have received with no outcome.

Shipstation has been attached to our Canada Post account - which we never use. They were hacked, and did not inform ANY of their customers. I have been charged $18,230.00 - and now have to work to get this cash back from Canada Post and my bank. Sucks you guys got hacked, but you should get ahead of it and disconnect ALL customer connections.

I would very strongly caution any store/brand from working with this company as it will put your brand and store at risk. ShipStation has a serious tracking handoff issue with GlobalPost shipments, and support has absolutely, 100% ignored it and have tried to gaslight us by calling it a 'feature request' fix. Basic operational compliance and tracking is not a 'feature request', it is a core tenet of why they exist. We use ShipStation through our 3PL. Valid GlobalPost international tracking numbers are being attached to fulfilled Shopify orders, but the customer-facing tracking links are directing customers to USPS, where the numbers show as invalid. So customers are seeing what looks like invalid tracking even though the shipments are valid GlobalPost shipments. This has created a real operational problem for us that is actively harming our brand. We provided specific affected Shopify orders, tracking numbers, USPS links showing the issue, and a clear explanation of the failure path. The response from support has been repetitive and has not addressed the actual technical question: what carrier name, carrier code, and tracking URL is being passed into Shopify, and why GlobalPost shipments are ending up with USPS tracking links. They are well aware of the issue internally and choose to ignore it. These are the types of companies that should not be in business.

No response to my support ticket for almost one month. I was excited to have both shipping and my returns solution in the same place, but the Returns setup has been stuck in an error for nearly a month. Only response is that it has been escalated to someone senior. No one has reached out other than that. Would still love to use it if someone would help get it going!

We've used Shipstation for nearly a decade and every time there is an issue with their service (Going down for 3+ days, billing issues, etc), you realize just how bad their customer support is. The staff is outsourced and it clearly shows. We were charged nearly 3x our usual plan's rate for "addons" that were deceptively hidden and/or that we did not actually select. They refused to refund us for these unused features when we got our bill. The company is currently in a merger, so it seems they are doing everything to make their books look good, but really - it was never good.

I despise Shipstation with every fiber of my being. Not once have I been able to open it and have things go smoothly. I always end up spending at least 45 mins on chat with support to find a solution a wide variety of problems. It is absolutely the worst part of my day. The worst part of my job. The worst part of having a small business. I'm begging somebody to come up with a better alternative.

Beware, they have an option for international shipment that you can either agree to pay for the client's taxes and duties, or decline and leave it up to the client. In our system, we don't charge the client they cover those ourselves and have always left this option purposly unchecked in shipstation - however, despite this option unchecked we have been backcharged 500$ and when despiting their answer is, that's how it is. I cancelled and will never go back to this system because of their hidden charges.

0/5 - Don't do it. If you're thinking about using this company - you will regret it. While their software is technically fine, although lacking major reliability and basic functionality, it is their business practices that you will find are unethical. Their customer support agrees that their billing practices are designed to be deceptive and in some cases illegal. After multiple attempts to cancel our subscription, we were continuously charged for a non-existent account. We could no longer access our account but they continued to charge the payment methods we previously removed. Their customer support was friendly, but made false assurances that our subscription had been cancelled and our payment methods removed. Don't risk it. Don't do business with a company built on deceiving the end users.

The mail i used in this app got blocked and closed without any prior notice or proper reason, when i reach out the support then the guy from theri team Enzo V. kept saying that our backend team confirmed for security reason my account will remain closed, I kept asking the reason for the same by also providing the main credential that i used to login, but still no support from their end and not proper reason for the account closure. This is really unacceptable as the user of this App I have all the rights to know what cused my account getting blocked and closed. I have mailed them last yesterday regarding for the same asking the reason but now i got no reply from them. I hope this negative review will open their eyes and they start to take their users issue more seriously. Thanks

Used to love this app, but recently have had nothing but headaches when trying to ship DDP from Canada to USA with UPS. Terms & conditions of their "DDP Guarantee" changed without notice and now only apply to US shippers, so now they are suddenly trying to charge me nearly $1000 for extra duties & fees on shipments that were delivered over 12 weeks ago. It is not ethical to triple the charges on shipments that were paid for and delivered MONTHS ago. Absolute insanity.

I'm going to keep posting this review everyone on every single one of my accounts in the hopes that this can save someone serious frustration. Steer clear. I've been with shipstation for over 6 years. Spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with 5+ different businesses. The app has had historic issues, glitches, etc. but it's never been detrimental is the probably 100K+ orders i've shipped out. I recently had an issue where I my default UPS account stopped working. I heavily rely on UPS as some of my customers cannot receive packages via USPS. It would not allow me to turn UPS on as an option (greyed out). I thought ok, I guess I'll start a ticket. It's now been three weeks, three excruciation weeks. Zero semblance of a solution. I've reached out probably 20 times. I get a generic response "don't worry we are looking into it" I've stressed how urgent it is. Finally after two weeks, they tell me they fixed, it - nope they actually just entirely DELETED ups as an option. It's nowhere to be found now on my dashboard and settings, the exact OPPOSITE of what i asked them to do. I reached back out several times, and asked it to be elevated, asked to speak to someone else. I even spent time to go on linkedin and try to find contact info for their exec team. I mean literally no one will help. It's honestly the worst customer service experience I've ever had in my life. If only I could share the back and forth. I feel unreliably frustrated and defeated here. It's hard to believe that this is as big of a company as it is. Rest assured, it may work for you right now, but if you EVER have issues, they simply don't care. Whether you are a large account or small, they will just ignore you and clearly have no processes in place to help people. It's such a shame.

Ship station only gets worse with every update. In the last 6 months it has been constant bugs, long lag times, ever-changing UI, and API issues. We have had entire days where we cannot ship orders due to some new error messages or issues connecting us to our carriers. We spend more time checking https://status.shipstation.com for outages than actually shipping out orders. Would avoid this app if possible!

AVOID COMPLETELY - I rarely leave negative reviews, but I need to warn others before they make the same mistake. I have wasted an entire month trying to set this platform up. It is overly complex, unintuitive, and simply does not work as advertised. To make matters worse, despite the software being non-functional, they are still attempting to bill me. I have asked to cancel, but the charges keep coming. This is not just a bad product; it is a liability to your business. Save your time and money. There are much better platforms on the market.

They will incorrectly overcharge you for a shipment 6 months ago, then claim its bast the dispute window when you reach out to them about it, they literally stole thousands

Shipstation has a stranglehold on shipping, so I still use them for some things. But they are exceedingly bad. For example, 19 days ago Shipstation changed international shipping defaults so that I am now covering duties and taxes for international shipments. But, they did not notify me or my team of this setting being defaulted to "on" all the time. The result is that I have accidentally incurred massive costs that were meant to be paid by my customers and that I did not account for. I'm still waiting on invoices to come in from my couriers to see what the total loss is. I contacted their support and they showed me how to turn this off. But when I asked about why it was set to on for 19 days, and why no one notified me of this critical change to defaults; the best I got was an apology. I wonder how many users are unwittingly incurring these fees. The setting is burried well below the customs declaration in an area with obscure an infrequently used settings, so I suspect that many users are not aware.

We loved Shipstation until the tariffs came into play. Having no way to upload customs documents for our CUSMA/USCMA compliant items is a total deal breaker. We tried to be patient and wait for a solution but they have done nothing about it when most of their competitors have.

If given the option, I would immediately discontinue using ShipStation. The platform suffers from persistent bugs and an ineffective support team that consistently fails to resolve reported issues. In recent experience, even basic functionality—such as real-time synchronization with Shopify—frequently ceases without warning. No alerts or notifications are provided when sync failures occur, forcing users to detect problems reactively, often the following day. Manual intervention is then required to restore synchronization. Overall, ShipStation delivers a highly unreliable and poorly maintained software solution that falls far below acceptable standards for e-commerce integration tools.

ShipStation is THE WORST. I don't know if there are alternatives, but I loathe them to my bones. When you have an issue, you chat with someone that is EASL and each chat response takes 13-24 minutes. EACH RESPONSE. So when you have to chat for help, the roundrip costs you ALL DAY and the prize at the end is zero resolution to the problem because all they're doing is reading through the help documentation, which is where you started. SO MUCH HATE FOR SHIPSTATION. UGH.

Beware, Beware, Beware! This morning, I added $550 to my ShipStation balance to purchase shipping labels for our orders. Shortly after, the company triple-charged our account, taking an additional $1,100. I reached out to their support team and provided proof of the unauthorized charges — each transaction clearly lists ShipStation in the description. Now, Shopify is investigating them for these unauthorized withdrawals. After further review, I discovered that other businesses have also been affected by ShipStation overcharging their accounts.

I cancelled our service more than 3 weeks ago and Shipstation continue to charge my credit card without my authority. Very buggy would not recommend using this as a shipping platform at all. Support is overseas and script based and they aren't able to resolve issues which cause delay in shipping orders.

Ship Station is pure garbage. It only works occasionally. I have fixed it many times, the so called tech support has "fixed" it many times and at this point I gave up quite some time ago but yet I pay for it. I'm in process of shutting down the site after I have a huge sale to move the product in house out and I can honestly say I will be thrilled to see the last of Ship Station, the non working app that I can be rid of and not charged every month for absolutely nothing. I never want to hear the name again, EVER!!!!!! Susan Kennedy, Oregon Trail Soapers Supply.

I don't recommend Shopify or Shipstation. The platforms get worse while prices go up.

I do not recommend ShipStation. During the trial, the experience started off positive. I was supported and even assigned an account manager. Once the trial ended, that support disappeared. My account manager stopped responding to my emails, my account was locked, and I was prevented from cancelling my subscription despite following their instructions and contacting support. I attempted multiple times to cancel in any way I could, yet I continued receiving invoices while still unable to access my account. Their support system is convoluted, unhelpful, and failed to resolve the issue. This is only my experience, but while the trial looked promising and human-centered, I quickly faced access issues, ongoing billing, convoluted support, and a cancellation process driven by automation where I ultimately fell through the cracks.

Account suspension without explanation, no support for backing up active data, and no regard for how difficult it will be for the user to manage purchased shipping labels, track shipments, or take any further actions.

They are great to start but customer service goes away when they hook ya.

This unethical application uses dark patterns to trick you into purchasing funds for a "wallet" that's underfunded to buy a single label, then OVERCHARGES you by insisting you buy a minimum amount, that's much larger than you need to "fund" your wallet past the point you need to purchase a label. Good luck ever getting those few dollars back out of their predatory trap.

hard to use and rates were not as good as sendle or AusPost?? this is an overly complicated platform which made my small ecommerce business harder to run, and on top of this, the in-built sendle rates were always better than shipstation, and their quoted AusPost rates were more expensive than the actual AusPost rates at the post office? maybe im not using it correctly, but thats kind of the point. if i need multiple phone calls and tutorials to set it up, i dont have time for that rubbish... escpecially if it isnt goign to save me time or money!

Enough is enough. Periodically, for unknow reason, they lock out our account. Sudden logged out, then 'UNKNOWN ERROR' during login, then 'ACCOUNT LOCKED ' message. Seriously ? We do a business here. Shipsations 'security' is just a joke, apparently made by sort of amateurs, they know nothing how businesses work. With no access to the account, we are unable to ship hundreds of orders placed, until kid from 'support' is so nice and restore the access. Each time needs ask for doing that and wait, wait, wait....Ok guys, play in your room with others, have more fan ! After 10 years time to say GOODBYE ! What we can advice - STAY AWAY ! This is not worth of your time and money.

It has become progressively worse over time. Logging in is always a pain, orders are not updated, customer service is mostly non existent.

I think I have used shipstation for over a decade first on another e-commerce platform and then after our switch to shopify we took shipstation with us. Loved shipstation for both platforms until ten days ago as it seems impossible now to print labels all at once. I have spent so much time each morning trouble shooting and simply put I have made ZERO changes on my end. There clearly is a problem originating within ship station. I wish they would fix it instead of taking up hours of my time that don't resolve anything because the next day it's all the same issue again. I hate change and I have resisted ditching Shipstation for that reason but I just need to let go and find a different app

With its recent updates, quantities are not imported from Shopify and thus return labels cannot be created. It's frustrating and there is no apparent fix! No one has fixed this or even contacted me yet, a year after I posted this comment.

I have been with ShipStation since 2017 and had a great experience in the past. However, after canceling my subscription for two months (November 2024), trying to restart it in March 2025 has been nothing but a nightmare. Previously, I would have highly recommended ShipStation to anyone. The chat support was phenomenal—any issue I had was resolved within minutes. It was easily one of my favorite business programs I used that made my life easier and never had an issue. Unfortunately, in 2025, that level of support is nonexistent. I've encountered problem after problem: -Unable to log in -Not receiving emails for code confirmations, password resets, or account activation -Unable to reconnect my store -Configuration issues with the app -Unable to add payment to my account The amount of time I’ve wasted trying to set everything up again has been frustrating and exhausting. ShipStation has clearly made changes, and not for the better. I can no longer recommend this app to any business owner and have since switched to a new company.

ABSOLUTELY THE WORST SERVICE! What a scam! We first signed up for a free trial to see how it could help us with our growing e-commerce business. We had a lot of questions and the rep we were assigned was on vacation. He came back right when our free trial was ending. We got on an onboarding call and he refused to extend our free trial so that we could give the platform a try. We even asked for just a couple of days but we were told no and we would need to sign up or use a new email address. We decided to use a new email and do a new free-trial. We got this peppy representative names Amanda Bellow. She seemed helpful and guided us through the platform. We began trying to ship and encountered a series of issues (our account constantly disconnected from the ship connect and we couldn't batch print, packing slips were not customizable, and orders would not load from shopify) We got back on a call with Amanda (with great difficulty because this young girl is so busy) and she told us to upgrade to a premium plan so that we could access customizable packing slips. She noted all the other issues and said someone would get back to us. We'll spare you the torture of all the back and forth we went through with their AI and completely ineffective email support but bottom line we were told the solution was to uninstall and reinstall ship connect ever time we want to ship (amazing! What a great solution for a small business that is growing! We have so much extra time on our hands) as for the packing slips we never got any assistance. Regarding our Shopify orders not coming through, we were told to reconnect our store every time and give it a few hours for our orders to populate or recreate them directly in ship station (basically adding manual work to all the features that are supposed to be automated). We tried downgrading our plan since we couldn't use their packing slip feature and it wouldn't let us. We tried to reach their support team - no answer. We contacted Amanda who said she was so busy onboarding new customers she wasn't able to help but gave us a number to call. Around that time we started having issues with our account not connecting to our shipping carrier rates. We contacted support and called that number. George told us there was nothing he could do. It was a UPS problem. We explained that our negotiated rates showed up perfectly well on Shopify and UPS but he insisted we needed to call UPS. We asked if he could give us our next billing date because we were considering cancelling. He told us we could just cancel online and clearly, by his tone and lack of engagement this guy couldn't have cared any less about providing any further help. We called UPS (even though we had of course done that already and UPS confirmed that all of our rates are active and the issue is coming from ship station) We called back Ship station and were told they simply cannot help us when it comes to carrier rates (but they do charge $30/month for this service) Honestly, this company is absolute BS when it comes to their clunky technology and horrible customer service. And they clearly have 0 understanding when it comes to the need of small businesses. Clearly their focus is on getting people to sign up since I doubt they can keep their customers long term. Save yourself a headache. If you don't ship with dry ice, check out Pirate Ship or Shopify direct. If you ship with Dry Ice, your best bet might be to use your carrier directly even though, we know, it can be a pain. At least you will be able to ship. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME with this S*%!TSTATION!

The interface looks like 1998 and on top of that it doesnt sync your orders. Simple stuff like this that should work. They stole the $10/month subscription because I only downloaded it to use it on orders, and I simply do not see my orders.

STAY AWAY. Not only is the app $30 a month, but it never works now. I cannot tell you how many times over the past few months I have been at the post office to drop of shipments and I either was not able to open the app to access my scan sheet, or I was locked out of my account for 0 reason. To make matters worse, their customer support is very bad. So not only did my packages get misshipped because I couldn't login, but I also couldn't print labels to fulfil our orders. If this happened 1x then sure I would be ok with it, but this has happened probably 6 or 7x times in a couple months and I am paying for this app as much as other apps with tremendous customer support that make running a business easier instead of a headache.

Shipstation used to be amazing. It's still decent but lately they have had constant bugs, lag times, down times, stuff doesn't sync right. It's still worth the money but barely. I've downgraded my 3 star review to 2 stars. Constant login issues. Every time they "upgrade or update" their system and/or platform, the issues seem to be worse. Back for another Downgrade. 1 star. Good luck if you have an issue. Ai now tries to solve your problems, which it never can. What happened to shipstation it used to be so good, it's like they are purposely trying to give you the worst service possible. Crazy. Be prepared to trouble shoot on a consistent basis.

Absolutely stay away unless you have no choice. We pay $40 a month for this app and over the last 2 months it has been comically bad. The mobile scan sheet never loads when I go to the post office, which results in lost packages, lately it has trouble pulling rates for common carriers like USPS, the mobile app often won't even let you login, and today I cannot even access the app or website to ship out customer's order. Ship station needs to take a look at their product quality. This was once a great app and now its almost not even usable. I feel robbed given how much we pay for this and how many issues we had during the holiday season....

Absolutely, unequivocally a 0 star experience. We are a former customer who used Shipstation for years through 2022, and attempted to reinitiate service 11/2024 with no success and ABSOLUTELY no assistance from Shipstation Support. I would be extremely confident in stating that there is no service. "Chat" (unless you have their highest tiered service) is an unhelpful AI that simply reroutes you to their support pages; thereafter, when one of their "support" members initiates the chat, it is often in the middle of the night when we are asleep in the US. If you do not respond right away, they close out your ticket. For the 3 representatives from which I attempted to get any kind of help reinitiating my account and Shopify store, they ALL rerouted me to their support pages, even when I gave them screenshots of the error (broken token from my store) and informed each new representative of all futile past attempts at assistance. We are a former customer of Shipstation, and they used to have superior service. It is unfortunate to say that no longer exists, and I cannot recommend anyone to their service. I canceled my unused - yet twice billed - account today. I have attempted to get my account working since late November 2024 to no avail. This is truly a shame and I'd say stay far, far, far away.

Worked great for a few days, bought several hundred dollars of labels and then ceased letting me add credit. Support told me to create a stamps.com account which is insane given that I don't want to pay two monthly fees for two accounts when ShipStation is owned by Stamps.com

What seems to have started with the right foot forward, has turned to be a nightmare. The only reason I'm leaving a 1 star review is because I can't go lower. I'm on the paid version still on trial, and despite over a week of back and forth with not 1 but 3 support agents plus some others from Shopify, it seems no one can figure out why Shopify isn't connecting to ShipStation. Frustrated of the lack of knowledge on ShipStation's part pointing fingers at Shopify doesn't begin to express it. I will change my review once I can get someone knowledgeable enough to figure this out, as it seems the people in support have no clue what's happening.

Shipstation support is a joke. They are foolish, ignorant, and will waste your time with multiple basic responses that are as useless as asking if the computer is turned on... IYKYK. Unfortunately this is NOT a 1 time occurrence, it is the norm. For example, I submitted a bug report where the packing slip is literally printing the words "[notes from buyer]" instead of the actual notes from buyer field contents for random orders. I submitted PICTURES of an actual printed packing slip of what it looks like when it generates correctly, and another picture of what it looks like with incorrect generation. I pay extra for an upgraded plan to be able to customize my packing slips. I created this packing slip about 8+ YEARS ago. Shipstations response? Their "answer" is that they do not help with HTML. Uuuuuhm NO this is NOT an HTML issue whatsoever, and they'd know this if they looked at my example pictures even just once. JUST ONCE. LOOK. AT. THE. PICTURES! If I did the HTML wrong I would not have an example of a correct packing slip generation, right? This is just ONE packing slip template that's affected, and it's random orders. But it'll be a miracle if I have to waste less than 10 emails just to get them to even check out the bug. The crazy thing is that back in the day, around 10+ years ago an English speaking USA based support rep used to pick up the phone and call you. Imagine that!

by far one of the most annoying bug infested app and company. Nothing works

WORST customer service. Shipstation worked great till they switched to Parcel Guard. They ended up costing us thousands of dollars in damages for one shipment. We have double automatic insurance rules on our account, but what they don't advertise is that if you ship more than one package in a shipment, they automatically turn off your insurance. Been back and forth with customer service for months over the issue. Cancelled our account because of how much money we lost. Said they were going to give us a refund, went silent for weeks, stopped responding to our emails then a new support person popped back in after we cancelled and said sorry to see you go and no refund.

Terrible integration with Shopify. - If an order is edited (products change, address updated, notes added etc) that edit in Shopify does not flow over to Shipstation. So as a small business owner I need to make the edits twice. - I have two different warehouses and Shopifys split shipping is not supported as an integration with Shipstation. - I have an app on Shopify that makes beautiful, branded packing slips and invoices. But these do not travel over to Shipstation so my packages have this totally mediocre packing slip thats not on-brand for my upscale company. - I sell wholesale on Faire and while Faire and Shopify integrate beautifully when the orders flow through to Shipstation they are all screwed up with testers not registering properly and discounts showing up in a very confusing way. So every time I get a wholesale order through Faire I need to manually email them the packing slip so they can pick and fill correctly. I love my warehouse but wish they did not need to use Shipstation. I feel Shipstation does not care one bit about the business using Shopify, only about the warehouses.

I would not recommend ShipStation. Customer support is terrible.

This app will use to be great. It now crashes during each print attempt. You have to login and reset multiple times per day. Submitting tickets to directly to ship station results in fast responses but no results. This is no benefits to either party. Learn how to print labels Stationstation and stop crashing. Stop releasing new UI's and focus on basics that improve time. As you can see I have been using this app for many years and they can and should be doing better..

Horrible app, took our money for using our own courier without notifying us. VERY DODGY! Aussie's steer clear of this one!

I will update my review if the support team has a resolution for printing more than 20 labels at a time. If we print more it will skip or miss orders. we called and they sent documents for us to read regarding our printer. Do we have a printer issue or shipstation issue? contact daniel@hairillusion.com

Buyer beware! I am on a trial acct still and its been a terrible experience-They charged me for my last 2 labels over & over again by saying I needed more & more funds and kept charging my credit card-but even though they charged me for 1 label 3 times in funds-I never received the label-I am unable to print any labels-there was not actual label or tracking created and yet they charged me 3 times for this label and then the same thing happened with another label rt after that-they currently owe me a refund of $221.08 You cannot get a human on the phone & I opened a "case" 2 days ago and no reply or refund so I will have to pursue thru credit card company. It's really bad-they charge you all sorts of charges for labels you never get & then try to get the refunds when it was their fault. Not ok -Stay far far away.

This app has been billing me for years and I can't get them to stop. I've even tried cancelling my credit card but because it's linked through Shopify they are able to bill the new card number somehow. Do not download this app or do their free trial. You'll be committed for life.

Avoid this garbage program. So many bugs and the customer service is embarrassingly abysmal.

Frequent bugs, frequent unnecessary UI "upgrades", unbelievably painful claims process. Best to just stick with Shopify shipping. EDIT Dec 19, 2023 - After posting this review, ShipStation reached out and provided partial resolution. Revising to 3 stars. If all is resolved, will edit to 5 stars. EDIT May 30 2024 - Support continues to be supremely unhelpful and inefficient. Revising to one star, and back to exploring other options.

outrageous fee structure. stay away cause one youre locked in they will keep on taking advantage of customers

After my review Justin B. Replied from Shipstation on April 23rd they said they would escalate the problem it's now May 6th and still no response. For some reason Fedex does not work and they can't seem to fix the problem.

Our new 3PL uses this app for shipping labels so unfortunately we are stuck with them at least for now. Since moving to them I've seen a 20% increase in my shipping costs. They use Stamps.com for USPS which has shitty rates and you can't switch to shippo or pirate ship. You can hook up your own accounts if you have them for UPS, Fed Ex, DHL and some others but none that handle USPS. I'm also not in love with the way the app works and the customer service is non-existent. I want to add a rule for the packers to add an insert for orders auto-tagged in shopify as first time buyers but I can't get it to work and I can't get anyone to help. i'm spending way too much of my time on this app.

This must be the worst app I've ever seen. The support is so useless they always blame it on you instead of fixing the app or give you "possible reasons" with no solutions or they ignore you completely. The app has so many issues from not importing discounts, wrong custom invoices not matching the order totals, not dispatching the orders, have to update the platforms manually etc etc . Absolute disgusting!

Hands down the worst app I've ever used. Things break all the time, nothing works properly, features suck for an app in development for 10+ years, customer service is basically just set up to tell you nothing is possible or "under investigation" with no follow ups or a follow up after like 2 months - with of course no resolution. I don't ever leave reviews for good or bad apps. This is definitely the one exception, and the $0.08/label on bringing our own carrier was icing on the cake.

Update: The only response I've gotten from ShipStation was because of this review. I still haven't heard back from anyone about my problem in most of a week. Seems they care more about how they look than how they actually do their jobs. It keeps getting more expensive, while the service keeps getting worse. I've been three days without the ability to create labels, and I still can't figure out if any of the support staff (who appear to be farmed out to a 3rd party now) have even used the software before. Not only did my fees DOUBLE for using my own carrier accounts, but the service and support are 1/10th of what they used to be. This is the worst way to spend your money. Find something else. Im cancelling and moving to Ordoro. Update: After 2 weeks of outage my issue was finally resolved and we were able to create labels again with the carrier we have the best agreement with. We lost ~$3000 in increased shipping costs in this window of time. Shipstation was gracious enough to provide us with a $400 credit to make up for this.... Responses were slow, and we were more or less left completely in the dark on what was going on, or what discoveries were made. We were never provided with a reason for the outage. We are still working to migrate away from ShipStation at this point.

My below review changed after realizing that Shipstation almost doubled their subscription pricing (specially with Canadian $ conversion) with just a mass emailing (no authorization consent requested) and NOT providing Real Time Rates options in Canadian Subscription although their rates are same as in USA. Not worth service for the kind of subscription package price! Cancelling our subscription!! ShipStation works and integrate very easily with our Shopify store. It simplifies the eCommerce system. Orders are automatically pulled for shipping cost comparison, tracking & customers notification, all updated in the blink of moments. Can't imagine operating a small business without shipstation tools! It's a necessity!! It is 5* rated tool except the fact that the monthly subscription charges should have included customer service as and when required. Reaching tech support a twisted hassle, raising tickets and waiting. Hope they can include tech support as part of every package.

Expensive, they keep raising the price and support is never good. They also launch updates that crash the system. Shipstation has an outage 5-10 times per year. Currently, It won't connect to Shopify correctly and I can't get any help.

I have to echo the other terrible reviews. Yes, the software works until it doesn't. Then, when you're under the gun, orders piling up, and waiting on their awful customer support... you're stuck. I'm jumping ship before the holidays.

I WOULD AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS!!! Worst company I have ever dealt with in business. They do not have any phone numbers for support, so if there is an issue, it could take weeks for them to resolve it. I am now going on three weeks of not being able to ship with UPS. How can a business operate like this? I also had another issue where we could not print labels to a remote printer and no one ever resolved that issue within 45 days. We lost tremendous business because of ShipStation.

UPDATE: RATED ARE GLITCHY AND MY BILL WAS INCREASED FROM GRANDFATHERED PRICE TO $100 MORE THAN THE PRICING SHEET SAYS. CHAT DOESN'T WORK, NOR DO THE PHONES AND EMAILS TAKE FOREVER TO GET A REPLY. THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT RESPOND QUICKLY ARE THE SALES TEAM WHICH ONLY TALK TO POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS CON's: 1) The automatic import of orders every hour was discontinued by shipstation without informing anyone so that they can create a instantaneous import for which they have no idea when it will be available. 2) Recently there have been a lot of glitches. 3) The new layout is missing stuff that the old layout had. 4) You can't assign a item to a package so when the tracking number is sent to shopify it marks the entire order as fulfilled even if you only shipped 1 of the 5 items on the order.

FOR TWO DAYS YOUR SYSTEM HAS GIVEN ERRORS THAT MAKE ZERO SENSE LOOK AT THIS ACCOUNT AND FIGURE IT OUT. I HAVE WASTED COUNTLESS TIME WITH USELESS CHATS MY UPS NATIONAL REP HAS DETERMINED THAT SHIPSTATION IS AND HAS BEEN NEARLY ZERO HELP NOR HAS RESOLVED ANYTHING ERROR MESSAGE: This shipment would exceed your subscription limit for this billing period. To continue shipping before your billing period resets, please upgrade your subscription. THIS ACCOUNT HAS SHIPPED LESS THAN 250 PACKAGES IN THE LAST 30 DAYS AND THE ACCOUNT LIMIT IS 1500 SO YOUR SOFTWARE CLEARLY DOESN’T UNDERSTAND NUMBERS

This is the worst app and customer service possible. Absolutely disgusting. Shipconnect does'nt work half the time, have to refresh the page all the time as it w on't load, always have to manually push orders to be downloaded even thou it's set up on automatic but full of errors and worst of all they can't generate a proper custom invoice . Don't include prepaid tax, shipping or discounts on it so for Europeean brands is an absolute no go.

Constant problems, makes it a nightmare for our CS and warehouse teams with orders not syncing up. After 10+ years we will finally be finding an alternative. Oh and their customer service is non-existent. We have "escalated" tickets that are still open from 5 months ago that just stopped being worked on.

not cheap not worth it

Absolute rubbish. The support is shocking, so incompetent and will never acknowledge an error. The servers are always down, shipconnect doesn't work half the time and the don't include the discounts in the commercial invoice so the customers get chared taxes on what the items cost full price not what they actually paid for them.

FRAUDULENT COMPANY! I agreed to $20/month for the app. They have been charging my credit card for $49.99/month for 3 months and refuse to reimburse. Then they tell you that you need to add $$ to your shipping account - In fact for Canadians using Fedex you do not use these funds and they still have not refunded the $$ that I put into my shipping account in the app. They have customer Service until you are signed on, and then its almost impossible to get through to someone. DO NOT GET THIS APP!

We've shipped 5,350 orders using this terrible software and this is our review. I write this review as we currently have 250+ orders that need to be shipped. We have countless upset customers emailing us to inquire about their late and unreceived orders. We haven't been able to bulk ship orders because Shipstation's software is down. USPS altered their shipping services 11 days ago on July 9th. Because of this slight change at USPS all of our orders that will use USPS can not be bulk shipped. The only options we have now is to either ship orders one at a time or to use another more expensive shipping service like UPS and FedEx which will cost us hundreds of dollars. We've tried contacting Shipstation via their chat support 3 times in 3 days for almost a week. Each time we've spoken to a new lazy, slow and poorly trained agent that seems to be from a foreign country. They've waste our time and failed to solve this issue or to tell us when it would be fixed. Each time we're asked to send screenshots and are asked a bunch of useless and generic questions about our issue. We've also spoken to their "premium" phone support 2 times in 2 days who've told us Shipstation has known about this software error for many days and has yet to fix it. When we told them how frustrated we were about this and how long it was taking to be fixed we were given a typical corporate nonsense response that sounded something like "our engineers are aware of this issue and are working very hard to resolve it very soon." In our opinion Shipstation is: 1. A poorly designed software that constantly breaks and causes us slow shipping times and headaches. 2. Is too complicated and hard to learn and use. Simple tasks require multiple steps. 3. Has poorly trained, slow and useless support that don't know how to troubleshoot and fix their own software. 4. Is too expensive considering the low quality service it offers. 5. Has pathetically slow progression when it comes to fixing issues with their software.

I would stay away from them completely unless they hire new staff and rebuild their software and their customer support team. They are unresponsive, lack knowledge, and always point their finger at someone else as the root cause of the issue, even when it ultimately comes down to their poorly written software. Their software is not updated in a timely manner, so when Shopify makes an update , ShipStation no longer works and you are sitting waiting for 6+ months for them to actually fix it so that you can get orders out without the fear that things are not going to work.

I have edited my review in July 2023 Previously i thought "This makes my life so much more simple. Firstly, the support I have had is really good. An initial meeting was set up with someone and she supported me all the way. I have very complex settings to enable me to automate my shipping method and weight, and the app is very customisable to your needs. I can easily download all of my shipments before I confirm them, so I can count them and make sure they are correct first. It enables you to easily flag express orders and certain types of orders. You can also use it to print out all of your packing slips, which is very useful. It also tells you if you have already printed them. I used to use Royal mail click and drop, but this makes it so much easier. It is working really well." NOW HOWEVER I have had a number of shipments that I cant create a label for. I get strange error messages. Support are unable to help. Unfortunately unless it is a simple error, support have to escalate the query and usually this means you NEVER hear back with a solution. I usually give up at this point and have to go direct to Click and Drop and create a label there. On one occasion I was told i would have to wait 2 weeks!! To which I said to not bother as I needed it sorted by end of day. FOR WEEKS I have had an issue with Ship Station Connect disconnecting, making it an utter nightmare to get my labels printed. Nobody is sorting it out. They tell you to do basic stuff which I have done and have had no effect, as I had thought. I keep getting stupid emails saying "let us know if you are still having issues". It is really slow now too and keeps glitching Plus in shopify it says your app is unsupported now and needs updating. What is going on? I give up and am NOW LOOKING TO LEAVE TO A DIFFERENT APP.

We have been using Shipstation for over 5 years with great success and have even recommended it to anyone that asked... Unfortunately, they just made some updates that broke their system... Need to update an address or an order in shopify? That update might not make it to shipstation... ever. I tried reaching out to their support team, and they did reply and saw the problems, but they just blame Shopify... It sounds like their developers need to update their integration again so it actually works for ALL of their customers. Additionally they now charge an additional fee ($30 in our case) to use our own carrier account... seriously looking to move on from them...

They almost have worse service than Shopify. Almost. Not worth the ever-increasing-amount of money. Better platforms for cheaper. Wish the FTC would stop Auctane from buying up all their competitors, gutting the service and jacking up the rates.

Terrible app. We often have issues with orders not uploading. ShipStation Support can take days to begin investigating issue. Huge headache!

Very very buggy. Used to be great. If anyone can recommend an alternative please do so. This software is a mess.

Horrible experience, constant issues with the log-in and with orders not uploading. Perfect example of an app that was good until the startup was purchased by a bigger company.

The app works great when it works, but when it glitches and your shipping company charges you 30,000 for labels that were made by mistake, Shipstation is dismissive and slow to respond, let alone correct the issue. Very very dissapointed in their level of service.

If you do a high volume of orders this is NOT the software to use. We are supposed to be processing 2k orders per day right now, however our scale connection in Shipstation has been broken for ELEVEN days! A support ticket was open and escalated and then nothing. This is frequently the case, there is no level of priority to serious issues. Last year something changed in the scan to ship process which required an extra click. It took them over a month to finally come back with "That's just how the program works now".

Does not integrate, does not work. App is unsupported in Shopify. I would steer clear. I have contacted support multiple times and I haven't had any proper response, telling me that it's not their issue, or to use a work-around that is basic.

I would not recommend Shipstation due to their lack of technical support resources. The customer support reps do the best they can, however, when it comes to any issue that is slightly technical it can take weeks so find a solution. Shipstation defaults to: "it's been escalated to senior support" — however we have yet have an issue resolved once it reaches this stage. At this stage there is no visibility or transparency to the status of the issue, or the time it which it will take to find a resolution.

I am so frustrated at this app and the lack of support that we have been receiving. Ever since the update, Shipsation has been a total disappointment. We used it without any issues for the past 5 years but once the upgrade happened, nothing has been functioning properly. It's time-consuming to have to reach out to tech support constantly because their app isn't functioning properly. I am looking into a different fulfillment app.

The app doesn't put import/export data for international shipments: hts code, values, etc. It is causes problems, because they ignored it. It is in their api and simple to include. There is no reason to leave it out. It reduces the value of the the app and service.

I've been using the app for 4+ years. Used to be a great app but the recent updates turn it into total crap. The users on shared workstations can't print anymore . Tried to get assistance from support only to be told that "Because of the changes made to this version of ShipStation Connect, we recommend only having one user logged in at a single time " - hello, 1992 is speaking .

This was the best app we had. Once it was updated IT IS COMPLETE TRASH!! Their support will take weeks with no help. A glitch a day will make you feel like you work for Ship station and not your own business.

Do not use shipstation if you plan on adding new products to your store on a regular basis. It seemed amazing until I found out that they require you to manually add information for every product you have such as weight, value, customs info and more...all info that was already added to shopify in the first place creating twice the amount of work. The workaround they gave me was to create a spreadsheet and re-import that every time I add a new product. Ridiculous.

Loyal ShipStation user for years, had gotten quite used to things and everything ran fairly smoothly. Had gotten the new layout forced upon me but always could switch back. Now that the V3 is rolled out and forced upon us with no reverting, our ability to ship effortlessly is impossible. We have been on support calls for hours only to be told "huh, that's weird" and no solution in sight. Now having to manually adjust every one of our hundreds of orders because of glitches and bugs in this new layout that they have been working on for over a year. It's really sad, I loved this stuff, and now it's borderline unusable, and searching for other solutions.

So many glitches. We have lost over $1000 in orders going incorrectly to the wrong people due to label glitches and another glitch where it would not mark an order sent so our team sent it twice. Definitely do not recommend.

I've used this app for literal years and years, and it's been perfectly fine. Ever since they updated the layout and forced it on us with no option to revert it's been buggy, glitching out at anything more than a few orders at a time, and have completely disrupted the work flow many of us have been using for years. Now it's taking 2-3x as long to do the same basic stuff we used to do. Please use Pirate Ship or something else. Ship Station sucks

ShipStation recently forced users into a new interface that is awful and buggy. It now takes much longer to get packages out the door and creating returns and return labels takes twice as long as it used to. Good luck getting anyone from ShipStation to respond to help requests. Actively looking for a replacement because of how slow it's made fulfilling orders.

I've been using Shipstation for about 5 years now, and this most recent update is absolutely horrible. They made it very hard to split orders, and the newly split orders no longer have their own order number. Now, as of July 1st, you can't even split orders anymore. I'm sure it's just a glitch, but when we have a large order that needs to be split into multiple shipments, we can't do it anymore. Printing labels now takes extra unnecessary steps. When you hover over an order, order details automatically pop up in a screen in front of you and doesn't go away until you click the popup away. That's annoying. They also took my custom layout for printing and wiped it clean with this new update, so I have to re-establish that. This new update is absolutely horrible, and good luck figuring out how to contact them. I am on the Gold plan and it took me 30 minutes to figure out how to contact them because help just says that if I'm on the gold plan, I should click the ? and a chat button will be there. There is no chat button. I actually have no idea what I clicked on in 30 minutes of searching to make the chat button appear, but it was ridiculous. This update will more than likely cause us to leave Shipstation after many years with them because each day it just gets worse.

The software glitched and charged me over $125 without ever providing a shipping label. I've been trying since January (5 months) to get this resolved, and they keep stringing me along, claiming they're 'working on this situation and investigating further'. It doesn't take 5 months to refund an overcharge, and they can figure out the glitch on their own time. That one overcharge more than cancelled out any savings provided by using the service. Now I have to go to the CC company and see about getting those charges reversed. Not worth it at all.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WITH THE NEW LAYOUT. I HAVE BEEN TELLING THEM FOR MONTHS NOT TO SWITCH.. NOW WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW SOFTWARE. WHAT A SHAME.

We were really liking this app until they did a flash move of our account to a new version without our permission. I'm ready to find a new provider now as they won't move us back or fix a critical feature (allocation tool) that we need for our operation to run smoothly. I have gotten zero updates from the company since bringing the issue to their attention 3 weeks ago. I'd avoid this app for now.

Always having issues and being forced to reinstall from scratch. Leaves my business and my employees hanging. Absolute pain.

The app was once golden and a must have for our business. But since the recent updates we have had trouble after trouble with getting into our account for everyday shipping. We are unable to to login to our account at all! it's terrible and there is no support or answers! We have used this app since 2016! So sad, but will be seeking out other options and I advise anyone looking into a platform for shipping ease to do the same! Our workflow has been completely disrupted!

Rates are not syncing with checkout cart, According to shopify provided by shopify, the customer paid $13.95 while shipstation is trying to charge us $94 What a nice profit margin Impossible to get a hold of them, "Contact us" keeps taking me into loops of support documents They don't care if the site is not converting because we only have FedEx account showing in check-out It keeps asking me to upgrade shopify to advance or plus plan while I upgraded to advance plan months ago. Shopify people felt bad and emailed them on my behalf