You can automate your shipping and fulfillment straight from your eCommerce site. Whether you are using Shopify, Etsy or any other platform Action Mail can help automate your shipping to ensure accuracy and efficiency. The key to setting up automation is to make sure that as much information is included in the back end of your shipping platform as possible. Sites like Shopify allow you to add information to each product which only be present on the back end of the system. You should fill out as much information as possible to ensure that your shipping can be automated with this data. All items should be setup to have unique and consistent SKU which Action Mail can use to identify and fulfill orders. Action Mail can help you setup the weights, customs information, and shipping rules to ensure your packages are fulfilled quickly and accurately. You will also want to decide on consistent box and packing materials to expedite the shipping process.
You will also need to setup a set of shipping rules. You will need to decide how each order type will be packaged as well as which shipment method each order type will be sent as. You will also need to do the same for shipments with multiple products. This is not as complicated as it sounds because you can most likely apply the same set of rules to the majority of your products
Action Mail can pull this data from these sites and automatically setup your shipments. Action Mail will also setup controls to review that shipping rules are working correctly. Shipping and logisitics can easily be automated but the key is to setup the items, shipping rules, and logisitics properly. Spending the extra time to setup your eCommerce site will ensure accuracy of order fulfillment and increase efficiency