6 Game-Changing Parcel Delivery Automations to Shortcut Your Shipping Process

Have you ever stopped and counted how many steps you take to ship a parcel? It might shock you to discover the number.

The moment an order comes in, you need to find a courier provider to ship it. Maybe you’ve saved your favourites as bookmarks in your browser. But you still need to visit each one individually. You also need to copy and paste the parcel dimensions and address information for every website.

It doesn’t stop there. Once you’ve paid for it, you’ll need to download invoices and shipping labels. Then you have to open them in a PDF viewer, print them off and attach them to the box.

That’s just one order. If it sounds exhausting, it’s because it is. Thankfully, there are multiple parcel delivery automations that can help make this task so much easier. Here are the top six we recommend you should start with.

1. Interparcel Shipping Manager

What if you didn’t have to work on one order at a time? What if you could manage all your orders from every ecommerce platform and marketplace at once? You might think it’s impossible, but it’s not.

The Interparcel Shipping Manager integrates with all the top ecommerce platforms and marketplaces with just one click. Once connected, you can import your orders into a single-view dashboard and organise the deliveries all at once. It even validates addresses and recommends corrections. You’ll be done with all your orders by the time you’ve finished your morning cup of coffee.

2. Branded Tracking Portal

If your evenings are spent responding to customer enquiries about the exact location of their parcel, then the Branded Tracking Portal is going to be a great help. It provides your buyers with a personalised link so they can keep tabs on their package at all times.

You can customise the Branded Tracking Portal to match your brand and upload your logo. There’s even a spot for a promotional banner if you want to advertise exclusive offers or coupons. It can be a brilliant strategy to encourage customers to continue to shop with you.

3. Live Shipping Rates

Instead of stressing about how much to charge customers for delivery, you can put the decision in their hands. Live Shipping Rates provide your shoppers with the most up-to-date pricing from courier providers. They can choose whether to spend more to get their product faster or less and wait it out.

Quotes are calculated on the location of the pickup and delivery, the weight and parcel dimensions, as well as the type of service they’ve chosen. It provides them with a transparent customer experience, which can lead to a reduction in cart abandonment rate.

4. Smart Boxing

If packing multi-item orders isn’t your specialty, you’re going to want to activate Smart Boxing. You no longer have to worry about choosing a box that’s too big or too small. You can trust this algorithm to provide you with the right choices every time.

Once you’ve uploaded your product and parcel dimensions, Smart Boxing will give you recommendations on the packaging to choose to fulfil multi-item orders. It will save you money on materials and show customers your passionate about the environment by reducing unnecessary waste.

5. Print Manager

Have you ever wondered why you can’t just print your labels immediately after organising a delivery? Our customers did. That’s why we created the Interparcel Print Manager. You no longer have to download dozens of PDFs.

You can connect the Print Manager to an A4 or 6x4 label printer. Once you’ve organised all your deliveries, you can instantly print your labels and invoices. If you need to do this task later in the day, you can go to the My Orders page and print them directly from there too.

6. Rule Manager

The best way to automate repetitive and manual tasks is to use Rule Manager. It could be shipping parcels overseas with the same courier provider every time or automatically adding transit cover to packages worth more than $100. Rule Manager can handle all these tasks and more.

It’s easy to use too. You can set a rule up in just three simple steps:

1. Set the conditions to look out for when you import an order.
2. Choose an action when the above conditions are met.
3. Save the rule to put it into action.

Use These Free Parcel Delivery Automations Today

It's tough to grow your business when your day is spent organising parcel deliveries. If you want to scale your store nationally or globally, then you’re going to need to utilise tools that help save time on administrative tasks. Using these parcel delivery automations can give you back hours so that you can focus on taking your company to new heights.

The best part is that using these parcel delivery automations doesn’t require you to re-forecast your budget. Interparcel’s multicarrier shipping solutions are free to use for everyone. You only pay for the shipping. Sign up for your free account today and start implementing these parcel delivery automations immediately!