You can streamline multi-carrier shipping management through Maropost Commerce Cloud Ship, which provides centralized access to multiple shipping carriers, rate comparison, and label printing from a single integrated platform. This unified shipping solution helps improve fulfillment efficiency by enabling you to compare rates across carriers, select the best option for each shipment, and print labels without switching between multiple carrier websites or systems. Properly configured Commerce Cloud Ship typically improves operational efficiency by reducing the time spent on shipping tasks while enabling more strategic carrier selection based on real-time rate comparisons.
Commerce Cloud Ship gives you control over shipping cost optimization and carrier management, enabling you to consistently select the most cost-effective shipping option for each order while maintaining fast fulfillment workflows. This supports business profitability by reducing shipping expenses and improving fulfillment speed through streamlined, centralized shipping operations.
Maropost Commerce Cloud Ship allows you to drastically streamline order fulfilment and dispatch by cutting out the need to use third party freight software.
Automate your shipping quoting, labelling and manifesting with our multi-carrier shipping system.
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Benefits & Features
Maropost Commerce Ship Offers:
- Multi Carrier Support
- Inbuilt shipping labelling and manifesting
- Real-time shipping quotes
- Flexible charge options
Maropost Commerce Ship, in conjunction with an existing shipping matrix can be an extremely powerful tool.
Multi Carrier Support
Maropost Commerce Ship allows you to integrate directly with the leading Australian Shipping Carriers for Label Generation and Manifest submission. For more information, see our complete list of carriers and features.
Supported carriers:
- Allied Express
- Australia Post eParcel
- Australia Post International
- Australia Post MyPost Business
- Direct Freight
- Fastway Couriers
- Hunter Express
- Kings Transport
- NZ CourierPost
- NZ CourierPace
- Omni Parcel (Seko Logistics)
- OpenFreight - TIG
- Couriers Please
- Startrack Express
- TNT Express
- Ipec
Install Maropost Commerce Ship
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In your Maropost Commerce control panel click the Addons menu.
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On the Addons page, locate the Maropost Commerce Cloud Ship add-on tile and install it.
Please Note: Maropost Commerce Ship may incur an increase to your monthly fee depending on your subscription level.
Please Note: Maropost Commerce Ship is not required for generic shipping labels.
Install a Carrier Shipping Label
- In your Maropost Commerce control panel, navigate to Shipping > Carrier Accounts to be taken to the Carrier Label page.
- Select a carrier from the list by clicking on the Install button. This will take you to the Shipping Carrier Label Setup form.
- Complete and submit this form for Maropost Commerce to process on your behalf.
Set up a Shipping Option
Maropost Commerce shipping is split up into two sections, the Shipping Option and the Carrier Account (Label Configuration):
- The Shipping Option includes the shipping different methods that display when the customer places an order and the rates charged to the customer for shipping.
- The Carrier Account is the settings to submit the consignment details to the carrier.
You can also set up the Shipping Options yourself using our shipping set up wizard. In your Maropost Commerce control panel, select Shipping > Shipping Options.
Generate Labels
Once activated, the buttons Auto Generate Shipping Consignment and Manually Add Shipping Consignment will appear when viewing order details in the control panel:
The buttons will display for orders with the status of Pack or Dispatched.
You can also create consignments in bulk by using the Bulk Create Consignments & Dispatch feature. To turn on bulk order processing, checkout the Batch Order Processing add-on.
Label Printers
A dedicated thermal printer for your shipping labels will save you a lot of money in the long run. Thermal printers don't use toner or ink, and there's less wastage compared to printing 4 labels on an A4 page. You also have a lot of flexibility with the brand of label printer. If you're looking for recommendations, check out our Thermal Label Printer article.
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