ShipStation

getting worse by the day. before the pandemic this was a best in class shipping solution. now i would be better off asking agentic ai to code a shipstation variant for me or just using shopify's built in shipping solution.

Nope nope nope....

Terrible customer service and support. Does not integrate with the basics like pick ups for TeamGe/toll. Contacted account manager and she passed it off at lightening speed to tech support who did nothing after multiple attempts to contact them over a month. You pay a fee to make your business get a poorer customer experience whilst making your job harder. The response from shipstation below is exactly the same as 2 previous emails I have received with no outcome.

Shipstation has been attached to our Canada Post account - which we never use. They were hacked, and did not inform ANY of their customers. I have been charged $18,230.00 - and now have to work to get this cash back from Canada Post and my bank. Sucks you guys got hacked, but you should get ahead of it and disconnect ALL customer connections.

I would very strongly caution any store/brand from working with this company as it will put your brand and store at risk. ShipStation has a serious tracking handoff issue with GlobalPost shipments, and support has absolutely, 100% ignored it and have tried to gaslight us by calling it a 'feature request' fix. Basic operational compliance and tracking is not a 'feature request', it is a core tenet of why they exist. We use ShipStation through our 3PL. Valid GlobalPost international tracking numbers are being attached to fulfilled Shopify orders, but the customer-facing tracking links are directing customers to USPS, where the numbers show as invalid. So customers are seeing what looks like invalid tracking even though the shipments are valid GlobalPost shipments. This has created a real operational problem for us that is actively harming our brand. We provided specific affected Shopify orders, tracking numbers, USPS links showing the issue, and a clear explanation of the failure path. The response from support has been repetitive and has not addressed the actual technical question: what carrier name, carrier code, and tracking URL is being passed into Shopify, and why GlobalPost shipments are ending up with USPS tracking links. They are well aware of the issue internally and choose to ignore it. These are the types of companies that should not be in business.

No response to my support ticket for almost one month. I was excited to have both shipping and my returns solution in the same place, but the Returns setup has been stuck in an error for nearly a month. Only response is that it has been escalated to someone senior. No one has reached out other than that. Would still love to use it if someone would help get it going!

We've used Shipstation for nearly a decade and every time there is an issue with their service (Going down for 3+ days, billing issues, etc), you realize just how bad their customer support is. The staff is outsourced and it clearly shows. We were charged nearly 3x our usual plan's rate for "addons" that were deceptively hidden and/or that we did not actually select. They refused to refund us for these unused features when we got our bill. The company is currently in a merger, so it seems they are doing everything to make their books look good, but really - it was never good.

I despise Shipstation with every fiber of my being. Not once have I been able to open it and have things go smoothly. I always end up spending at least 45 mins on chat with support to find a solution a wide variety of problems. It is absolutely the worst part of my day. The worst part of my job. The worst part of having a small business. I'm begging somebody to come up with a better alternative.

Beware, they have an option for international shipment that you can either agree to pay for the client's taxes and duties, or decline and leave it up to the client. In our system, we don't charge the client they cover those ourselves and have always left this option purposly unchecked in shipstation - however, despite this option unchecked we have been backcharged 500$ and when despiting their answer is, that's how it is. I cancelled and will never go back to this system because of their hidden charges.

0/5 - Don't do it. If you're thinking about using this company - you will regret it. While their software is technically fine, although lacking major reliability and basic functionality, it is their business practices that you will find are unethical. Their customer support agrees that their billing practices are designed to be deceptive and in some cases illegal. After multiple attempts to cancel our subscription, we were continuously charged for a non-existent account. We could no longer access our account but they continued to charge the payment methods we previously removed. Their customer support was friendly, but made false assurances that our subscription had been cancelled and our payment methods removed. Don't risk it. Don't do business with a company built on deceiving the end users.

The mail i used in this app got blocked and closed without any prior notice or proper reason, when i reach out the support then the guy from theri team Enzo V. kept saying that our backend team confirmed for security reason my account will remain closed, I kept asking the reason for the same by also providing the main credential that i used to login, but still no support from their end and not proper reason for the account closure. This is really unacceptable as the user of this App I have all the rights to know what cused my account getting blocked and closed. I have mailed them last yesterday regarding for the same asking the reason but now i got no reply from them. I hope this negative review will open their eyes and they start to take their users issue more seriously. Thanks

Used to love this app, but recently have had nothing but headaches when trying to ship DDP from Canada to USA with UPS. Terms & conditions of their "DDP Guarantee" changed without notice and now only apply to US shippers, so now they are suddenly trying to charge me nearly $1000 for extra duties & fees on shipments that were delivered over 12 weeks ago. It is not ethical to triple the charges on shipments that were paid for and delivered MONTHS ago. Absolute insanity.

I'm going to keep posting this review everyone on every single one of my accounts in the hopes that this can save someone serious frustration. Steer clear. I've been with shipstation for over 6 years. Spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with 5+ different businesses. The app has had historic issues, glitches, etc. but it's never been detrimental is the probably 100K+ orders i've shipped out. I recently had an issue where I my default UPS account stopped working. I heavily rely on UPS as some of my customers cannot receive packages via USPS. It would not allow me to turn UPS on as an option (greyed out). I thought ok, I guess I'll start a ticket. It's now been three weeks, three excruciation weeks. Zero semblance of a solution. I've reached out probably 20 times. I get a generic response "don't worry we are looking into it" I've stressed how urgent it is. Finally after two weeks, they tell me they fixed, it - nope they actually just entirely DELETED ups as an option. It's nowhere to be found now on my dashboard and settings, the exact OPPOSITE of what i asked them to do. I reached back out several times, and asked it to be elevated, asked to speak to someone else. I even spent time to go on linkedin and try to find contact info for their exec team. I mean literally no one will help. It's honestly the worst customer service experience I've ever had in my life. If only I could share the back and forth. I feel unreliably frustrated and defeated here. It's hard to believe that this is as big of a company as it is. Rest assured, it may work for you right now, but if you EVER have issues, they simply don't care. Whether you are a large account or small, they will just ignore you and clearly have no processes in place to help people. It's such a shame.

They will incorrectly overcharge you for a shipment 6 months ago, then claim its bast the dispute window when you reach out to them about it, they literally stole thousands

Shipstation has a stranglehold on shipping, so I still use them for some things. But they are exceedingly bad. For example, 19 days ago Shipstation changed international shipping defaults so that I am now covering duties and taxes for international shipments. But, they did not notify me or my team of this setting being defaulted to "on" all the time. The result is that I have accidentally incurred massive costs that were meant to be paid by my customers and that I did not account for. I'm still waiting on invoices to come in from my couriers to see what the total loss is. I contacted their support and they showed me how to turn this off. But when I asked about why it was set to on for 19 days, and why no one notified me of this critical change to defaults; the best I got was an apology. I wonder how many users are unwittingly incurring these fees. The setting is burried well below the customs declaration in an area with obscure an infrequently used settings, so I suspect that many users are not aware.

We loved Shipstation until the tariffs came into play. Having no way to upload customs documents for our CUSMA/USCMA compliant items is a total deal breaker. We tried to be patient and wait for a solution but they have done nothing about it when most of their competitors have.

If given the option, I would immediately discontinue using ShipStation. The platform suffers from persistent bugs and an ineffective support team that consistently fails to resolve reported issues. In recent experience, even basic functionality—such as real-time synchronization with Shopify—frequently ceases without warning. No alerts or notifications are provided when sync failures occur, forcing users to detect problems reactively, often the following day. Manual intervention is then required to restore synchronization. Overall, ShipStation delivers a highly unreliable and poorly maintained software solution that falls far below acceptable standards for e-commerce integration tools.

ShipStation is THE WORST. I don't know if there are alternatives, but I loathe them to my bones. When you have an issue, you chat with someone that is EASL and each chat response takes 13-24 minutes. EACH RESPONSE. So when you have to chat for help, the roundrip costs you ALL DAY and the prize at the end is zero resolution to the problem because all they're doing is reading through the help documentation, which is where you started. SO MUCH HATE FOR SHIPSTATION. UGH.

Beware, Beware, Beware! This morning, I added $550 to my ShipStation balance to purchase shipping labels for our orders. Shortly after, the company triple-charged our account, taking an additional $1,100. I reached out to their support team and provided proof of the unauthorized charges — each transaction clearly lists ShipStation in the description. Now, Shopify is investigating them for these unauthorized withdrawals. After further review, I discovered that other businesses have also been affected by ShipStation overcharging their accounts.

I cancelled our service more than 3 weeks ago and Shipstation continue to charge my credit card without my authority. Very buggy would not recommend using this as a shipping platform at all. Support is overseas and script based and they aren't able to resolve issues which cause delay in shipping orders.