When it comes to business in any industry, the simplest solution that cuts through unnecessary red tape is usually the most cost-effective and efficient. Making procedures as easy as possible improves your overall time spent on orders, and gets them to your customer sooner. It’s a win-win for your business, and for your customers.
This is especially true of online ecommerce businesses whose customers perceive efficiency and fast delivery as important factors when judging a vendor. That’s why UPS provided the UPS Marketplace to integrate online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Etsy, and more. With a UPS account, these integrations have made administering ecommerce logistics so much easier than they were before integrating.
What is UPS Marketplace Shipping?
The concept behind UPS Marketplace Shipping is a good one. According to the UPS website:
If marketplaces, like Amazon or eBay, are vital to your growth strategy, consider the benefits of UPS marketplace shipping. We’ve developed this free tool to help you centralize marketplace order management. Among its time- and money-saving features, UPS marketplace shipping lets you combine multiple orders that are going to the same address and get automatic updates on order status. You can also offer customers the option to ship to a UPS Access Point™ location for easy customer pickup of smaller items.
UPS offers Five Tips to Manage Your Online Stores with UPS Marketplace
- Combine multiple orders from the same buyer and the same online store.
- Expand customer reach by connecting global web stores outside the US.
- Preset shipping preferences for faster processing.
- Nickname storefronts to make it easier to identify them.
- Set automatic notifications for tracking.
As you can see, these practices combined with integrated shipping cut down both the order processing time and order shipping costs. Making shipping with UPS even better!
UPS Marketplace Tracking
UPS shipping tracking allows you to automate your tracking of both incoming and outgoing shipments. You know what’s going on with your shipments without making an extra effort, so you can take care of any problems as soon as you’re notified. And you can follow the progress of satisfactory order shipments.
You can use UPS Tracking Support to resolve any issues with shipping and learn how to ship orders more efficiently, reducing shipping problems.
We can all agree that UPS Marketplace Shipping is a win-win for vendors, ecommerce vendors, and customers all the way across the board.
Well, that’s a problem. Why? Because. . .
UPS Marketplace Removes Connections
Yes. You are reading this right. As of 3/29, UPS dropped a long list of connections from their marketplace shipping program, including:
- 3D Cart
- Allegro
- BigCommerce
- Etsy
- Jet
- Magento
- Newegg
- Overstock
- Prestashop
- Rakuten
- Sears
- Shopify
- Volusion
- Walmart
- WooCommerce
- Yahoo Shopping
While you can still access all of your shipping and order history, what can you do going forward?
Here’s the announcement from UPS:
As of 3/29, all marketplace shipping connections between 3D Cart, Allegro, BigCommerce, Etsy, Jet, Magento, Newegg, Overstock, Prestashop, Rakuten, Sears, Shopify, Volusion, Walmart, WooCommerce and Yahoo Shopping have been shut down. You’re currently still able to access all your shipping and order history.
Still shipping through Amazon and eBay? You’ll still be able to manage and ship your orders within the UPS marketplace shipping dashboard.
The answer is clear. In order to maintain the concept of the UPS Marketplace Shipping program, you need to find a UPS Marketplace alternative. This is where Ordoro comes in.
Is Ordoro the Right UPS Marketplace Alternative?
Ordoro is considered to be the easiest ecommerce shipping software and a great UPS Marketplace alternative. This includes streamlining your order fulfillment with Ordoro’s all-in-one platform.
Ordoro is so good at supplying order fulfillment software that UPS themselves recommends Ordoro as a UPS Marketplace alternative software.
What is Ordoro?
Ordoro is an all-in-one software with all the tools you need to operate like a large-scale business but at a fraction of the cost. For an introduction to Ordoro watch this explainer video:
Overview of Ordoro’s Features
Here is a simplified look into Ordoro’s features, trust us there’s so much more!
- Seamless Shipping: Pick, pack, and ship in bulk and utilize barcode scanning for fast and accurate order fulfillment.
- Order Management: Connect all your sales channels to easily manage a blended fulfillment model with automatic order and drop-shipment routing.
- Inventory Management: Unify your inventory across multiple warehouses. Build complex kits and writeback to all your sales channels with confidence.
- Support Every Step of the Way: Ordoro’s Five-Star Support Team is ready to give you unlimited help right from the start. You will always talk to a real person when contacting Ordoro.
Ordoro Integrations
Ordoro integrates with the following:
- Shopping Carts: Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Magento, Volusion, Ecwid, Channel Advisor, ShopSite, Squarespace, Stripe Relay, 3D Cart, Zoey
- Marketplaces: Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart Marketplace, Reverb
Ordoro Shipping Features
Ordoro gives you the ability to handle every part of your shipping operation through the app, whether it’s buying shipping postage or purchasing affordable shipping insurance.
As you import orders into Ordoro, you can automatically or manually assign filterable tags and search within a single interface for the status of all your shipments. The app also auto-audits your orders, documenting actions and showing a timeline for each one.
Quickly create shipping labels and branded packing lists with a couple clicks, and streamline your workflow with Ordoro’s direct-to-printer option.
Ordoro works well with all major shipping carriers — USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL International, Canada Post, or Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime account.
Print domestic and international shipping and return labels in batches.
Accelerate your process by using Shipping Presets to auto-fill shipping parameters when you create labels or establish Automation Rules that start work on orders immediately.
Once shipping labels are created, Ordoro automatically relays shipping status and tracking numbers to the appropriate sales channel, so the customer is updated.
Test Drive Ordoro
There’s no reason you have to take our word for it. You can test-drive Ordoro for 15 days to see how it works yourself.
Ordoro knows that jumping headfirst into a new platform is scary, so we offer a 15-Day Free Trial of our Express Plan software.
OR
Try out our Starter Plan which is entirely FREE.
Don’t take our word for it, listen to what our customers have to say:
Ordoro has been helping us sell on multiple ecommerce channels for a few years now, and we couldn’t be more satisfied! All orders from Etsy, Amazon & Shopify come to one place to ship and track inventory. It makes everything easier.
Sean Lowery, Owner of United Tees
We couldn’t operate our family’s heirloom seed business without Ordoro – it’s that essential to us, especially when our business growth exploded overnight in the spring of 2020. Even when faced with a heavy order load, Ordoro allows us to manage and ship orders quickly and efficiently, and it’s easy for every member of our small team to use on a day-to-day basis.
Seeds for Generations
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