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Shippo integration streamlines e-commerce shipping operations

Some retailers have spent years building out their own transportation and logistics networks. But give Shippo a month and the San Francisco Bay Area-based company can grow those capabilities exponentially at the click of a button.

That’s the value proposition behind Shipping Elements, the company’s latest solution that provides e-commerce platforms with a full suite of embedded fulfillment and delivery functionality to offer to their merchant customers.

These days, for an e-commerce platform to...

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Shippo earns FedEx’s first-ever Platform Account

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Modern shipping is all about consolidation. More shipping partners means more capacity that can be...

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Black Friday is so 2020 — welcome to the longest holiday shopping season ever

Black Friday signs hanging from store ceiling

For years, American shoppers flocked to stores on Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving when deals were as abundant as drivers clogging roadways to get to their favorite stores.

Then came Cyber Monday, the Monday after Black Friday when online deals dominated the shopping universe. On July 15, 2015, Amazon changed the equation again with its first-ever Prime Day. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Target (NYSE: TGT) soon followed with special online sales days.

This year, the three retail giants added...

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Postal Service ending reseller program could reduce shipping costs for some

Mailman pulling boxes out of truck

The U.S. Postal Service receives plenty of criticism whenever it makes service changes, but for small and midsize businesses, an upcoming change may actually turn into something positive.

The Postal Service announced over the summer that it was shuttering its reseller program. The program, which allowed companies to resell Postal Service postage offerings (namely commercial rates) to customers, is ending on Oct. 1.

Basically the program helped lower rates for many SMBs that do not have the...

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E-commerce returns: Give the customers what they want

With 60% of consumers willing to break up with a brand over a bad customer experience, the ability of brands to manage the e-commerce customer’s journey has never been more important.

Shippo, an e-commerce technology company that brings together technology, fulfillment and carrier partners, surveyed 1,000 e-commerce customers to find out what is most important to them when it comes to returns. Retail returns from U.S. online sales jumped to 20.8% in 2021, according to data from the National...

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Shopify adds e-comm fulfillment capabilities with Shippo solution

Shopify adds new e-commerce fulfillment capabilities through new Shippo service

Selling products online is easy. But shipping those products is not, as e-commerce merchants contend with continuously increasing customer expectations around speed, price and convenience.

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) customers, though, are about to receive a massive boost to their fulfillment capabilities through the company’s integration with Shippo for Platforms, a new offering launched by Bay Area-based Shippo on Wednesday. Shopify will become the first platform to leverage the solution, starting in...

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Ex-Postmates executive Lieber joins Shippo as chief business officer

Andreas Lieber, who most recently served as general manager and interim CEO of Postmates, has joined e-commerce shipping platform Shippo in the newly created role of chief business officer.

Lieber will be responsible for business development, strategic partnerships, corporate development and other strategic growth and expansion efforts, the company said.

“Shipping is an integral part of the e-commerce experience and requires a sophisticated system of integrations and relationships to get a...

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Capacity issues keep e-commerce shippers on their toes

Shippo releases e-commerce shipping study

Much has been written about shipping capacity issues on the ocean and on the nation’s truckload lanes, but those capacity issues continue to filter down to the last mile, and that has e-commerce shippers worried.

That is one of the issues that Vince DeAngelis, vice president of carrier partnerships for e-commerce technology provider Shippo, told Modern Shipper is top of mind for retailers in 2021.

“Once those floodgates open it is going to stretch capacity for carriers,” he said. “It’s not going...

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Shippo reaches unicorn status with $50M raise

Shippo, an e-commerce shipping platform, has announced it has raised $50 million in new funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The company has raised a total of $154.3 million since 2014. 

This round has pushed Shippo to unicorn status, now valued at $1 billion. 

The company’s previous valuation, after its last raise of $45 million during Q4 of 2020, was $495 million. In that announcement, Shippo disclosed it had moved more than $12 billion of goods in 2020 within its system.

Since that last...

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