eCommerce Shipping Tips, UPS & USPS Guides, 3PL & OMS Insights — Shipping insights and updates
Tips, guides, and platform news from the ShipGenius team.
Are You Too Small for Shipping Software?
If you ship a few hundred packages a year, retail postage is the tax. See the 400-label audit, when commercial rates win, and when software is just overkill.
Bulk Labels from CSV or Excel
Stop manually entering addresses one by one. Upload your spreadsheet and generate dozens or hundreds of professional shipping labels with discounted rates — built for corporate teams, nonprofits, churches, and growing businesses.
Plus API: Rates, Labels, Tracking
If you're evaluating shipping APIs for an ecommerce platform, OMS, WMS, or any system that needs small parcel, here's what makes ShipGenius Plus different from EasyPost, Shippo, and building direct.
How to Get UPS and USPS Discounts Without a Monthly Fee
Most people assume you need a high-volume contract or a monthly subscription to get discounted UPS and USPS rates. You don't. Here's how it actually works.
Pirate Ship vs ShipGenius (2026): Rates, Fees, Limits
Compare Pirate Ship and ShipGenius on rates, fees, carriers, and growth path. No monthly fee to start. Move to OMS/WMS without migrating platforms.
Shipping API: One Fulfillment Flow
At ShipGenius, we've watched teams spend hours on tasks a shipping API handles in seconds. Here's how API-first shipping automation removes friction from your entire operation.
3PL Shipping for Small Business: When to Outsource
More small businesses are turning to 3PL partners earlier than ever. Here's a practical guide to understanding your options, knowing when to make the move, and what to look for in a partner.
3PL Shipping Tracking Software: Features That Actually Matter
Most 3PLs are running on spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected tools. Here are the software features that actually matter -- and what happens when they all work together in one place.
3PL Shipping Software: Rates and Labels First
Managing a fulfillment center means switching between carriers, chasing down orders, and hoping nothing gets lost. The right 3PL shipping software eliminates most of that. Here's how.
3PL Warehouse: Pick and Pack First
The gap between an e-commerce business that just survives and one that scales without friction usually comes down to one thing: the right fulfillment infrastructure. Here's what that actually looks like.
3PL WMS: Clients, Inventory, Billing
Managing orders for multiple clients, thousands of SKUs, and simultaneous shipments is hard enough. The right 3PL warehouse management software turns that complexity into a system that actually scales.
5 Real Benefits of Ecommerce Shipping Management Software
High shipping costs, order chaos across multiple channels, fulfillment errors, systems that can't scale -- ecommerce shipping management software solves all of these. Here's how.
How Ecommerce Warehouse Solutions Drive Customer Satisfaction
Customer satisfaction in ecommerce doesn't come from marketing. It comes from what happens in the warehouse. Here's how the right warehouse solutions directly shape the experience your customers have.
Best Shipping Software for Ecommerce: Labels, Rates, Tracking
If you're still copying addresses manually or checking three dashboards to find one order, it's time to rethink your shipping setup. Here's what to look for and how to choose the right platform.
Best Shipping Software Features: Rates, Labels, Automation
The best shipping software in 2025 does more than print labels. Here's what actually separates platforms that drive real cost savings and scale from ones that just add another dashboard to manage.
Logistics Software: Rates and Labels First
Growth hits logistics limits fast. The right logistics management software removes those limits -- turning shipping from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Here's how.
Shipping Management Software: Rate Shop, Labels, and Tracking
Shipping management software is often the unsung hero behind every successful ecommerce operation. Here's what it actually does, who benefits most, and how to pick the right platform.
What Is RTS in Shipping? Return to Sender Causes + Fixes
RTS -- Return to Sender -- events cost money, frustrate customers, and are mostly preventable. Here's what causes them and how to stop them before they happen.
Shipping API: Wire the Store
Most businesses treat shipping as an afterthought. The ones that win treat it as infrastructure. Here's how shipping API integration turns fulfillment into a competitive advantage.
Shipping Tracking API: Carrier Events
Peak traffic tells the real story. Here's what actually makes a shipping tracking API reliable -- and how to audit whether yours holds up under pressure.
USPS Shipping API: Rates, Labels, and Tracking
Manual shipping works fine at the start. Then volume grows, orders stack up, and errors cost money. Here's what getting started with the USPS Shipping API really looks like -- and what we learned the hard way.