Product Feedback & Fresh Ideas
The ShipStation Feedback Forum collects your ideas and allows you to vote and comment on other ideas so our product team can understand what new features are most important to you or what business challenges we need to address next.
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Support for Bundled Products / Update Inventory for Bundles
We have a few websites that sell products to wholesalers. For example we will sell a case of a single SKU. Each case has 12 units. It would be nice if SS could allow us to setup virtual bundles that deducted multiple units of a single SKU.
673 votes -
Add inventory tracking for packaging materials
We keep track of our product inventory elsewhere, but use ShipStation to ship our products and therefore would like ShipStation to keep inventory of the boxes we use to ship products. We use the preset packages and think it's only natural to know how many we have used and how many we have left so we dont over-order boxes or know which box sizes we use more so we can place orders for them!
179 votes -
Shipstation inventory management multichannel
Great to see the new shipstation inventory management solution!
We were initially excited because it seemed to be able to replace stitchlabs. If shipstation was able to send stock counts to selling channels, it would be amazing! We, along with other stitch users I'm sure, would be happy to pay a higher premium for your services.150 votesThank you for your comments!
Our product team is considering this as an improvement to ShipStations existing inventory offerings. Due to how store integrations typically work, this type of feature would likely be rolled out for specific store integrations and we’d love to know which stores you’d like us to focus on. Please continue to leave comments about how you would like to use this feature and for which stores. Thank you!
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inventory api
I would love to be able to determine product counts through the API.
This allows me to do things like automatically order certain things as they run low on stock.We have different manufacturers sending products to a single warehouse and it is very tedious to have a manual process around checking that the quantity that was received was the proper amount, and that we aren't running low on things like packing slips.
76 votes -
Harmonization Code Sync Up
It would be incredibly helpful if ShipStation could import Harmonization codes from Shopify for international orders automatically. I was able to enter all the information manually, but it was time consuming, and could have easily been done automatically, given that the codes exist in Shopify, and ShipStation requires them.
54 votes -
Purchase Orders!
Hi! It would be great if you could create a purchase order for your products and have a field for "on order" items. that way you could tell what was on hand, on order, allocated... and then therefore be able to identify if you do not have enough product either on hand or in production to fulfill your orders. I am looking for a whole other inventory integration just so we can do that, when I'm finding shipstation is overall closer to the type of inventory tracking I need minus the on order field.
Just a thought/dream!
36 votes -
Import and export product description and other attributes
I would like the ability to import and export product attributes like product description, image url, etc.
29 votesHey @samnamiam! Thanks for bringing this up. We include the image URL in the product exports and many other fields.
Here’s how you can get that started: https://help.shipstation.com/hc/en-us/articles/205900488
It looks one of the few missing fields is product description. Can you tell me more about what you’re thinking of doing with this information?
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lot number mandatory for food sellers
lot number tracking for items become mandatory to all food companies.
27 votesThanks for your feedback!
Would you mind elaborating on what lot numbers do for your business and items?
Additional info on what you’re currently doing to get around the lack of this feature in ShipStation is also helpful.
Please reply back here in the Feedback Forum, Thank you! -
Date Code & Lot Code tracking features
I'd love to see a way to track date codes and lot codes on products. Currently we have many pallets of inventory all with different "best by" dates. It would be very helpful to be able to track those dates - for instance we have 1000 of one SKU, but 400 have a date of 5/30/19, and 600 have a date of 11/30/20. If this information was available in a downloadable report instead of just a top-level report of totals, this would impact my business and productivity very positively! Even if we could just post a note on the inventory…
24 votes -
Bulk Apply Changes to Open Orders
When making changes to multiple products info, it would be great to be able to bulk reprocess all open orders that contain those products. It would be so tedious and inefficient to go back to each individual product and manually reprocess orders.
20 votes -
Expose Create Product API
Please expose the Create Product API so that we can build products automatically. We would like to build a product prior to an order being received so that our fulfillment technicians know where to locate that product and the shipping details are available so it doesn't cause an exception to our fulfillment process every time a new product is added. We are requesting access to the API because we already have product data available to us from our store and we would like to be able to push it automatically through the API versus a CSV import that requires the…
16 votes -
Product Management - Kits
There needs to be a way to support kits &/or bundles as it pertains to product management is concerned.
Example
Product 1 (P1) + Product 2 (P2) = KitProduct Management system should be able to identify P1 and P2 and subtract the inventory from the total count.
Hope to see this in the VERY NEAR future.
15 votes -
Negative Inventory
Allow stock level to fall below zero. This will help accounts where shipments are still allowed for zero inventory items and will account for the items which shipping labels have been create for.
15 votes -
Not all Shipped Items are Showing in Shipping Reports
When trying to use the SHIPPED ITEMS report, I discovered that a large order that went out the previous week was not included in this report. After speaking with your rep via chat, it was discovered that because we marked the order "shipped" manually, it isn't included in the report.
This makes the SHIPPED ITEMS report useless.
Can you please include ALL shipped items regardless of how they were shipped? (this one happened to go out via truck)
15 votes -
choosing the ship date
have a different spot where you enter the ship date or prompt before processing. Many times I forget to choose a different date it we have to void a batch which can be a big pain!!!
12 votes -
WooCommerce gift note import
WooCommerce has a "This is a gift" feature visible during checkout, a lot like Amazon. Amazon orders import gift notes automatically, but WooCommerce gift notes are not imported, at least not to the "gift note" field. It would be great if it were possible to import data straight into the gift note field from WooCommerce.
11 votes -
Notification Email for low stock
Currently the only way to get notifications for any low stock or no stock items is through Shipstation.
I would be nice to be able to set up an automation rule to send an email notifying users that something is low stock when it hits the threshold.
11 votes -
Please allow the option to ignore blank fields in product imports
Here's what I want to be able to do as we are mapping our warehouse. I want to use a list of skus (that would be downloaded from my inventory management) and copy them on to an import for SS. I need only to update Name and Warehouse location and I do not want to corrupt any other data. After chatting with support I am told this is currently not possible.
Easy fix: Either allow us to delete comlumns we don't want to change or allow us to ignore blank fields and only overwrite fields that are filled out upon…
10 votes -
Product - Allow Export or Import of Products and Aliases
Would be nice to have an import and export of products, with delete option as well.
For instance if we have 20 Aliases that link to One SKU and basically all 20 are the same SKU, let us import SKU A, and Alias skus 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc to all link to that one instead of doing it manually from the Product cumbersome page.
Also, all delete option in bulk for all Alias's and skus. Archive doesn't seem to work as long accounts (11 years) tend to re-use numbers and if one is archived it causes havoc.
Delete and purge option is…
10 votes -
Item assembly for inventory ( bill of matirial)
need BOM to manage parts and finished goods.
9 votes
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