ShipStation Review
March 07, 2023

ShipStation Review

Frank Roberts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ShipStation

I have used ShipStation for 4 years now. Up until the last 6-8months it worked flawlessly and was headache free. Within the last 6months I have had issues with USPS International Shipping to where I am unable to utilize USPS International shipping for letters/documents or packages. Explanations below... 1) Going back ~6months ago ShipStation started defaulting for USPS International packages to using Global Post even though USPS had been selected and Global Post was not even a carrier I had setup inside of ShipStation. I created a 'support case' and someone quickly got on the problem and resolved it and in fact due to my request completely disabled Global Post from being used with my account per my request. Then on 1/25/2023 I went to create a USPS International Package Label and all of a sudden the label created showed Global Post. I went and looked at my shipping settings and quickly saw that without my authorization Global Post services had been checked to use for USPS International Packages, even after this had supposedly been disabled for my entire acccount? After unchecking the Global Post selections and voiding the original label ShipStation still created a label using Global Post! After 5 attempts I gave up and reached out to support on 1/25/2023. To this day this has not been resolved and since originally filing the support case no one has responded since 1/30/2023 and that was simply the original person I spoke with via Chat asking if it had been resolved which I replied no; no one has even responded to the case. 2) More recently 2/25/2023 I tried sending a USPS International Letter and in creating the label ShipStation now creates a label that is not scaled correctly and no way to scale it correctly and it does not fit the address into the box area that is supposed to print. The label does not have customs information on it as it used to; secondly I could not even void the label as I had been able to in the past. Since 2/25/2023 I have explained/re-explained the issue taken pictures of 2 printed labels side by side attached PDF's of a good label vs. this bogus label that doesn't even print correctly and for 10 days not the support person can't even acknowledge that there is an issue. I have spent far too much time on ShipStation. While I may continue to use it for Fedex and US shipments I am starting testing other shipping service platforms as the support from ShipStation lately is simply unacceptable. From what I have been reading on various forums/reviews I am not the only one who has pretty much had enough with the lack of support from ShipStation.
  • Handles Fedex Shipments properly
  • Simplifies Export documents with Fedex correctly
  • Allows relatively simple connections/interface to WooCommerce, Ebay, and Amazon but I am sure other shipping software does also.
  • In my opinion, customer support is abysmal. I truly believe support people are trained to just delay, delay, delay as there are multiple times the responses I get back are essentially like the utterly useless tech questions "is your unit plugged in?"
  • In my experience, there is literally no way to contact anyone at ShipStation outside of their Support Chat/Case System. They have an email for support but it all goes to the same place.
  • Fix USPS International Shipping issues!!
  • Ease of not having to go to the Fedex or USPS office all the time to create shipping labels.
  • Handling of Customs documentation
  • When it has worked it is good and simplifies shipping. In my opinion, when it doesn't don't expect anything to get fixed anytime soon. Make sure to have a backup plan.
Have not as of yet but will be doing so.

Do you think ShipStation delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with ShipStation's feature set?

Yes

Did ShipStation live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of ShipStation go as expected?

No

Would you buy ShipStation again?

No

ShipStation is OK if you only want to ship using Fedex or DHL or domestically. In my opinion, It simply doesn't work anymore for using USPS International shipping