Easyship sounds like a pretty decent shipping platform. Definitely worth trying out. But then again, these features offer no guarantee. That means the tools under the hood might prove otherwise when it comes to the real thing.
So, to help you clear up any doubts or misconceptions, here’s a review of the main features based on my first-hand experience. It was prepared after months of trying out all the tools on the platform.
Easyship Ease of Use
One thing you should keep in mind about Easyship is that although it’s very much capable of running independently, it chooses to apply an integrated approach. The platform embeds with your ecommerce platform and proceeds to streamline the fulfillment operations as your customers’ orders come in.
Therefore, part of the setup process here involves installing Easyship into your business system. And thankfully, this shouldn’t be difficult at all as the cloud-based software comes in the form of pre-built integrable apps.
You’ll find compatible versions for all the major ecommerce platforms- from open-source systems like WooCommerce and Magento, to closed-source platforms like BigCommerce and Shopify.
Easyship doesn’t stop there though. It turns out that apart from the typical ecommerce platforms, the software can be embedded with popular marketplaces. This allows you to leverage it seamlessly on Etsy, eBay, Amazon, and the likes.
The order fulfillment process here is also fairly easy and straightforward as you don’t have to register an account with the individual carriers. Easyship gives you the privilege of riding on multiple international shipping services from one centralized dashboard.
Easyship Shipping Management
Easyship isn’t just a service for comparing shipping rates from different carriers and then picking the most-effective options. In essence, this is only a small part of the larger shipping management pipeline that Easyship powers.
It’s capable of automating basic tasks, processing bulk orders, coordinating order pickups and packaging, creating and customizing shipping labels, facilitating payments for shipping services, managing product information, splitting and bundling shipments, insuring packages, managing returns, calculating the applicable tax and customs amounts, plus tracking orders and shipments.
So, in other words, you can think of Easyship as an all-inclusive platform for shipping management.
Well, this is pretty much the same level of flexibility that the platform maintains on the subsequent shipping service selection stage. You get to compare the providers not only by their shipping rates (shipping cost), but also by the corresponding delivery times, insurance options, tracking frequencies, plus the number of delivery attempts provided.
Pay-As-You-Go Package
Just as the name suggests, Easyship’s Pay-As-You-Go option allows you to use the service without committing yourself for the long haul. The platform simply grants you access to all its features and then it charges a shipping rate for each order.
It’s worth noting, however, that the shipping rates are not constant. What you end up paying for each shipment depends on the specific carrier you select, the locations involved, as well as the package’s physical attributes.
Therefore, you might want to take advantage of the shipment bundling feature for cheaper shipping rates.
Subscription-Based Pricing Plans
The subscription-based pricing plans are reserved for long-term users. Easyship essentially charges a standard rate every month or year based on the specific features you choose.
Here are the four available options:
- Free Plan: The Free Plan offers email support (customer service), shipment notifications, rates at checkout, analytics, unlimited ecommerce integrations, 1 team member, 1 courier account, and 100 shipments per month.
- Plus Plan: For $23 per month when billed annually or $29 a month when billed monthly, the Plus plan grants you chat support, a branded tracking experience, email customer service and support, shipment notifications, rates at checkout, analytics, unlimited ecommerce integrations, 3 team members, 2 courier accounts, and 500 shipments per month.
- Premier Plan: The Premier Plan pushes the monthly costs to $49 when billed monthly and $39 when billed yearly. In return, you get phone support, chat support, a branded tracking experience, email support, shipment notifications, rates at checkout, analytics, unlimited ecommerce integrations, 5 team members, 3 courier accounts, and 2,500 shipments per month.
- Enterprise Plan: The Enterprise Plan is offered at a custom rate based on your precise account features. It provides a customer success manager, phone support, chat support, a branded tracking experience, email support and customer service, shipment notifications, rates at checkout, analytics, unlimited ecommerce integrations, unlimited team members, unlimited courier accounts, and unlimited shipments per month.
Pros of Easyship
- Easyship integrates seamlessly with a wide range of prominent ecommerce platforms and marketplaces, including Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Amazon, etc.
- There’s a permanently free package that supports up to 100 shipments per month on 1 courier account.
- Easyship has so far partnered with more than 100 reputable shipping carriers who serve both domestic and international markets.
- Easyship has negotiated specially-discounted shipping rates with the carriers, some of which drop by as much as 70%.
- The Rates At Checkout feature discourages cart abandonment by offering customers up to three of the most cost-effective shipping options.
Cons of Easyship
- On three of its four plans, Easyship has placed a limit on the number of shipments you can process per month.
- Easyship supports merchants and businesses based in only a selected number of countries.
Frequently Asked Questions:
How much does Easyship cost?
Easyship is free to use, just pay the shipping costs. No setup, subscription or cancellation fees. Save up to 70% on shipping with more than 100 shipping carriers. Easyship determines tax and duty charges for your international orders.
What is UPS Easyship?
The Easy Ship tools allow wineries who self-fulfill their orders to streamline the fulfillment process by allowing shipping labels, for supported carriers, to be generated right from WineDirect.
What is the pay-as-you-go plan?
Easyship is flexible enough to offer a pay-as-you-go plan. You only pay the shipping rates without committing to a monthly subscription schedule.
