Whether you are shipping once a week or have several courier shipments per day, it is important to find a way to stay organized with your shipping. Here are ways that FlagShip can help you manage your courier shipments:
5 TIPS TO MANAGE COURIER SHIPMENTS FOR YOUR BUSINESS 2024
Staying organized with your courier shipments not only makes running your small business easier, but it also helps you communicate much more efficiently with your customers should they have any questions or issues regarding their shipments. Stop manually filling out those spreadsheets to log your shipments or checking with individual shipping carriers for the status of your shipments because we have the solution for you – FlagShip makes shipping easy!
Why ship and manage your shipments with FlagShip? FlagShip is one of Canada’s top shipping resellers, offering discounted shipping rates from brand-name couriers like Purolator, FedEx, UPS, DHL, Canpar and GLS. That’s not all – FlagShip has over 15 years of proven shipping experience that has helped so many small businesses with its technological innovations and superior customer support.
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FlagShip is dedicated to simplifying your shipping experience. Here are five ( of the many) ways we can help you efficiently manage your courier shipments:
TIP 1: Online Shipping System
FlagShip’s proprietary online shipping system is much more than a rate calculator. Our online shipping system helps you to easily manage courier shipments with its user-friendly interface. Once you login to your FlagShip account, you will land on your dashboard that shows you the status of your shipments, scheduled pickups, invoices and more!
The online shipping system offers several features to help you efficiently manage courier shipments, including:
- Ability to schedule pickups for your shipments at a convenient time slot that works best for you
- Track shipments in real-time and access past shipment history for easy reference
- “Manage Shipments” tab to view all your shipments, creation dates, prices, associated pickups briefly, and you can click to see detailed information about each individual shipment
- “Shipment Summary Report” feature providing a summary of all shipments for a specific period on one page
Along with easily managing your shipments, FlagShip gives you access to our discounted rates so you can save up to 70% on your shipping. Our online shipping system lets you instantly compare courier rates and services, create instant quotes and shipments and helps you save with no pickup fees.
TIP 2: One consolidated invoice
If you have shipped with different couriers for different shipments, you know how difficult it can get to organize your invoicing. With FlagShip, whether you are using our Purolator for one shipment, UPS for another, and DHL to ship out of the country, all your shipping activity is grouped together in one consolidated invoice. This makes it much easier to manage courier shipments and organize the payments for your shipping
TIP 3: E-Commerce Solutions
If you have an eCommerce store, FlagShip can give you access to our discounted shipping rates and services. We help you make purchases easy and enticing for your eCommerce customers by giving them real-time quotes or instant flat rates on a selection of delivery options and prices. You customize the rates, services and couriers you offer, they choose the price and delivery time that’s best for them! Shipping for your online store doesn’t need to be complicated – easily manage your courier shipments with FlagShip – regardless if you are using Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop or your own custom eCommerce website.
With the eStore Shipping Manager, you can:
- Offer real-time courier rates or flat rate shipping options to customers
- Customize shipping services, rates, and couriers based on your preferences
- Provide accurate delivery time estimates for a better customer experience
- Easily print shipping labels and manage orders within the FlagShip platform
- Access discounted courier rates for significant cost saving
TIP 4: Mobile App to manage courier shipments on-the-go
The FlagShip Mobile App lets you track shipments in real-time, view full shipment history, and get updates from couriers right on your mobile device. Easily send labels to contacts via email or SMS, create labels using voice commands or QR codes, and search shipments by courier, tracking number, status, or date range
The user-friendly interface provides a quick snapshot of all your shipments’ status, tracking info, and delivery estimates. Take control of your shipments anytime, anywhere with the FlagShip mobile app.
TIP 5: Customer Support
There’s nothing worse than running into a shipping issue and getting little to no support from the shipping carrier. While you are trying to give your customer an update for their shipment, we are here to provide you with accurate updates and solutions in case of any inevitable issues.
At FlagShip, we pride ourselves with a team that goes above and beyond just providing shipping rates. There is only one phone number to call, and we have live customer support (even after hours!)
Shipping does not have to be a headache, especially when FlagShip is here to help you manage courier shipments. From our online shipping system to assistance on any shipping inquiries, we are here to help!
If you have any shipping questions, do not hesitate to contact our customer service team at support@flagshipcompany.com or give us a call at our toll-free number 1-866-320-8383.
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