Adjectives Market review for ShipBlink Shipping Automation

Dec. 26, 2023

I'm not sure why more people don't know about this app. It is better than any other dimensional shipping solution on the Shopify App Store. The other dimensional shipping apps want you to type your dimensions into their app, stored into THEIR database. In other words, if you leave, you lose all your data. They lock you in. Also, it is NOT POSSIBLE to populate those fields through the GraphiQL API, so if you are auto-loading thousands of products from another system as we are, you would find yourself doing a ton of duplicate work. Shipblink instead uses Shopify Global Metafields to store this information, so it works seamlessly with our product upload - we just had to start uploading those dimensions from our system into the global metafields for dimensions. Fully automated and updates if we make a correction on our side. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to manually enter all those dimensions, and then lose them if you change service providers for some reason. Sameer is the only author who has actually considered this issue and chosen to do the right thing for his customers. If you don't use the API to add products, no problem - you use the Shopify Bulk Editor and type these dimensions DIRECTLY INTO YOUR OWN DATABASE, where no app provider can hold your data hostage. The app is very, very easy to set up and start using, and the support is stellar. Sam even (on his own) checked out my store and setup, emailed me personally and told me a few things I'd missed! You have to use EasyPost as the backend for your postage and labels, and as a US shipper using primarily UPS and USPS for shipping, I have had zero concern with that. EasyPost is also quite easy to set up, and the rates are the same deeply discounted rates available with Shopify Shipping, and there are MANY shipping providers. You get the full benefit of a system that calculates how much your shipment will ACTUALLY cost based on the total product dimensions and weight. Oh, and did I mention the best part? This app is FREE, probably because of the close tie to EasyPost. There is no crazy monthly price for the ability to properly calculate your postage (which I think we'd all agree is a feature Shopify should provide in the first place, but whatever). Learn from my experience - don't even waste your time installing the other dimensional shipping apps. Start here.