Automatically split items into shipments based on rules
Hi- We often times have back orders but can ship partial shipments. Would love the ability for Shipstation to automatically split orders for us based on rules.
Amar Patel Thousand
shared this idea
The ability to automatically split items into separate shipments is now on the ShipStation product roadmap.
We will set this request to completed once the feature has been officially released.
83 comments
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Please allow this feature! This would help so much. It's been two years now and all you've done is work on a new UI that everyone hated instead of listening to customers lol
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Returns Golf Anything
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We ship with multi location inventory from Shopify. I am very disappointed to see that Shipstation has yet to come to the table with a solution to this. I have found a multitude of forums where people are going nuts due to the inability to split orders automatically. Hopefully Shipstation will come to terms and work on this, or I am definitely taking both of my accounts elsewhere as soon as I find someone offering better solution than hours of unnecessary and redundant manual order splitting.
PLEASE SHIPSTATION - Do something about this
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Mac3
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There is an older feature request along the same lines with 60+ upvotes: http://feedback.shipstation.com/forums/330429-product-feedback-fresh-ideas/suggestions/11694558-splitting-multiple-orders-simultaneously
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Mac3
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Please add this feature. We ship hazmat items that have complicated maximum quantity rules so we always get nervous when we receive large orders.
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shubrich
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Any word on this? We have digital files associated with one of our shops (integration with a service called Pledgemanager) and to split the PDFs from the physical products automatically would save a lot of time and effort. There are hundreds of orders to sift through, and it would be great if I could separate the PDF orders from actual physical copies of the books we sell.
Thanks!
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warehouse-mitcham
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Shopify automatically splits orders into multiple shipments for each available location based on the location shipping priority rule.
Why can't Shipstation just download those orders as split with the correct ship from location exactly how they appear in Shopify?
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Rain Parade LLC DAYD Gifts
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Add me to the list that needs this feature BADLY!
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Dan Kent Weightlifting House
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We really need this feature too.
In fact, it could be a dealbreaker for whether we adopt Shipstation long term after our trial.
We have some products that can be fulfilled automatically but without a way to split them into their own shipments automatically, we are back to doing it manually. That would mean Shipstation is actually a step backwards for us compared to the way we do it now (e-commerce site linked directly to fulfillment providers)
Please give strong consideration to this!
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Kate Meier Craftmade Aprons
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Similarly, if an order is found to be missing an item, we need to be able to mark the shipped order and create a shipment to ship the missed item. From the same order form as the initial order shipment.
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Amy
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Please add this feature - it's 2019 and I can't believe this hasn't been added yet. You have a lot of high volume shippers!
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Eric Zipperle Cornbread CBD
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YES PLEASE! I need this rule ASAP! This is absolutely crucial. We have multiple warehouses, each warehouse carries a different item. We need to be able to split orders automatically so that we can ship from multiple locations with ease. This needs to be implemented ASAP! Please shipstation!
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RodeoCPG
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Hey guys. I'm interested. Is this a thing yet?
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bsheph
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This would be the single biggest improvement you could make to your system at this time.
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Daniel Lisi Not a Cult
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Another +1 for the split based on Product SKUs
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Todd Blatt Custom 3D Stuff LLC
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please do this. I've got some items that are FBA, and some that aren't, and i'd like to be able to split orders based on item/sku
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MyStyle Mystyle Custom Products
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We also need this for our primary order flow. The use cases must be many, even if we don't market this feature proposal for you. Essentially, ANYONE who has multiple dropship partners working with them to fulfill orders (aka a very common business model on the internet) needs this feature, because a customer can VERY commonly check out with one product from one dropship partner, and another product from a different dropship partner, and so on. That's not an edge case. That's a common use case. Manually splitting the orders seems to be a perfect example of a repetitive and formulaic task that the software should be doing instead of a person.
All of the products are named, or have SKUs, so it's easy enough for the user to list out which products would be in one basket, and others in another, given the simple UI to create split groups and list products there...
Why is this feature taking so long? It seems pretty straightforward from a programming standpoint (I am a developer). Pseudo code would be like...
// if order's line items match rule...
// Loop each line item
// split order into as many orders as there are matching line items in different product groups marked for splits...
// done!It's something one programmer could do in a month or two. You guys probably have dozens if not hundreds of programmers. It's a pretty common business case.
Why has it been 5 years?I am available to help develop this, if needed, but I have a 10 person company, I think you probably have a lot more resources than I do. Please make this feature happen!
Thanks!
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mollusk
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Our products are stored in multiple warehouse locations. Online orders spanning multiple warehouses (Shopify locations) have to be split manually in Shipstation. We have to do this every morning and it's laborious and error-prone.
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Brad Taylor FCE
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We would greatly benefit from having this feature added. Each of our products uses a box as its packaging so we need separate shipping labels for each. The ability to split based on quantity would be great.
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alanmaleh
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This is a MUST!
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judyschmitz
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The ability to select items to be made into a BACKORDER is critical. When you can't ship an entire order - to have to go in and MANUALLY split it first, then ship the first part etc etc is tedious and creates a LOT of extra work.
One should be able to select items that are not shipping in an order, mark them as a backorder, (or even CANCELLED) and have a new order created with the backordered items. IN addition, those items should be listed in the notes or as an add on to the currnt order so the cusomter knows that there are pending items.Curently we have to do this entirely manually and its insane.
Backorders and part shipping are a fact of life, shipstation needs to provide for this in a smoother way.
judy
