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| | | Author: | WildBricks  | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2022 11:19 | | Subject: | Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 144 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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| | | | | Author: | peregrinator | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2022 11:37 | | Subject: | Re: Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, WildBricks writes:
| | I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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Copying and pasting. But I ship to the BrickLink address and never bothered with
PayPal's shipping (and I don't get 20 orders per day). I do know that
BL integration is something Pirate Ship is planning on looking into, but I don't
know what kind of time frame they have for it.
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| | | | | Author: | ralphs_bricks | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2022 12:27 | | Subject: | Re: Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, WildBricks writes:
| | I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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I'm going to be an outsider here but I use PirateShip but I've also coded
my own order pulling and Shipping program. When I get to the shipping screen
I just download the csv file that I generate and import - Purchase - print.
On orders that need a little more effort (usually over a pound) in figuring out
the cheapest best way to ship I can copy/paste in the address.
Before I started using PirateShip (Early December) I was still using Paypal Multiorder
shipping as I hadn't gotten switched to ShipStation yet.
BTW if you want to see more of the order pulling software I wrote for myself
you can see a montage of me building it on my Youtube channel here https://youtu.be/v8HKVvXMbvU?t=691
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| | | | | | | Author: | OurBricks | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2022 13:25 | | Subject: | Re: Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| I also have switched to using PirateShip and use the csv import integration.
Works very well. I only wish they had and API so that I could more tightly
integrate it with Brick Seller.
If you are not familiar with Brick Seller, you can find a link to it on the BrickLink
Inventory Software links here: https://www.bricklink.com/links.asp?catID=9
Rick
In Shipping, ralphs_bricks writes:
| | In Shipping, WildBricks writes:
| | I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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I'm going to be an outsider here but I use PirateShip but I've also coded
my own order pulling and Shipping program. When I get to the shipping screen
I just download the csv file that I generate and import - Purchase - print.
On orders that need a little more effort (usually over a pound) in figuring out
the cheapest best way to ship I can copy/paste in the address.
Before I started using PirateShip (Early December) I was still using Paypal Multiorder
shipping as I hadn't gotten switched to ShipStation yet.
BTW if you want to see more of the order pulling software I wrote for myself
you can see a montage of me building it on my Youtube channel here https://youtu.be/v8HKVvXMbvU?t=691
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| | | | | Author: | Ziegelmeister | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2022 13:00 | | Subject: | Re: Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, WildBricks writes:
| | I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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It helps to have an account with PS for those days that SS decides not to play
nice. I'm kind of surprised that with your order load you haven't experienced
down time. I'm only ~40 orders in and I think there are 4 times SS simply
wouldn't load.
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| | | | | | | Author: | WildBricks | | Posted: | Jan 7, 2022 12:40 | | Subject: | Re: Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| We made the switch over the summer and have had 2 outages that I can remember.
Only 1 was a real hassle; the other was over quickly and we were still able to
get our orders out for the day.
My biggest issue seems to be a glitch with my Dymo label printer. Every couple
of days SS will send the label to print, but the printer doesn't get it.
The only way to fix it is to unplug all of the cords on the printer, wait a few
minutes, plug it back in and resend from SS. It seems to happen after 15-18 labels,
but it doesn't happen every day. The nice thing about SS is that it keeps
a record of when the label was printed. So even though I sent it to print SS
doesn't record it as printed until it is actually received by the printer.
In Shipping, Yellow.Brick writes:
| | In Shipping, WildBricks writes:
| | I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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It helps to have an account with PS for those days that SS decides not to play
nice. I'm kind of surprised that with your order load you haven't experienced
down time. I'm only ~40 orders in and I think there are 4 times SS simply
wouldn't load.
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| | | | | Author: | brac.brick | | Posted: | Jan 6, 2022 17:17 | | Subject: | Re: Pirateship vs Shipstation | | Viewed: | 43 times | | Topic: | Shipping | |
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| In Shipping, WildBricks writes:
| | I've been seeing lots of sellers mentioning Pirateship as their preferred
method. For those who are using it:
How are you importing your order info?
Are you copy/pasting each order or are you using CSV? If I understand their
website right, I can't integrate with PayPal like I can on Shipstation. When
shipping 20+ orders per day that seems really inefficient.
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straight copy & paste. I ship to the PP address and upload tracking there. For
stripe orders, I use the BL address and for both types, I upload tracking to
BL.
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USA, Georgia
