Nothing has done more in the last decade to transform business operations and logistics than the growth of e-commerce and online marketplaces. With the ease of access and range of customers across multi-channel sales platforms, many businesses have looked to e-commerce systems to manage the influx of sales and resulting fulfillment logistics.

Why Should You Integrate Your E-Commerce Platform?

By now your business can likely recognize the benefits of using an e-commerce platform to help organize and scale your operations. However, many leaders underestimate the importance of finding a fulfillment and logistics software solution that can work with your e-commerce platform to streamline your shipping and warehousing operations. ShipHawk provides direct integrations with a variety of e-commerce platforms, as well as a robust and well-documented API to connect to other carts.

Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows businesses to set up, customize and run an online storefront. Shopify’s features include website design, inventory management tools, shipping solutions and marketing resources. When integrated, ShipHawk can apply in-cart rating and order fulfillment features to Shopify to show customers accurate rates and prices in real time. Integrating Spotify with ShipHawk allows businesses to access features including in-cart carrier rating, label generation and automatic shipping policies via ShipHawk’s advanced Rules Engine.

BigCommerce

Another platform commonly used to create and manage e-commerce sites is BigCommerce. 

BigCommerce includes similar features as other e-commerce platforms, as well as highly customizable templates, multi-channel selling and SEO tools. Integration of BigCommerce with ShipHawk will give your business access to carrier rates at checkout and populate rates when manually creating orders in BigCommerce. Integration will also automatically apply ShipHawk rating rules to in-cart ratings, sync orders from BigCommerce to ShipHawk and fulfill those orders that are shipped using ShipHawk.

Magento

Magento, also known as Adobe Commerce, is an e-commerce platform that allows both B2B and B2C businesses to create storefronts and marketplaces across multiple channels. Magento and ShipHawk can be easily integrated to allow businesses to retrieve carrier rates for sales orders, book shipments and create corresponding shipment orders in ShipHawk.

SuiteCommerce / SuiteCommerce Advanced (SCA)

NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce allows businesses to create and connect across multi-channel e-commerce sites and access all business operations on one platform. SuiteCommerce can easily be connected with the ShipHawk extension to provide the most accurate and optimal shipping rate at checkout.

SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce is an electronic data interchange (EDI) provider that generates Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs) using package detail information derived from NetSuite. SPS works with their customers to customize ASNs for each retailer. When integrated with ShipHawk, SPS Commerce can access basic package information in order to curate custom ASNs for their customers.

Amazon

One of the largest e-commerce sites in the world, Amazon acts as a marketplace, logistics and fulfillment system for millions of sellers globally. Unlike other specific software solutions, Amazon offers a multitude of services ranging from cloud computing to e-commerce and fulfillment. There are four main ways you can interact with Amazon as a seller using ShipHawk: selling on Amazon, selling to Amazon, using Amazon for multi-channel fulfillment/3PL, and using Amazon as a carrier.

Connect Your Shopping Cart to Advanced Shipping Software

ShipHawk’s Transportation Management System (TMS) includes features like real-time in-cart rating and a customizable rules engine to provide the most accurate and effective solutions for your business.

ShipHawk applies Smart Packing optimizations to the rating process, taking bin-packing

algorithms into account when you offer your customer the in-cart shipping cost on your e-commerce platform. As a best-in-class solution, ShipHawk offers real-time rates based on the packing materials available at each warehouse before your customer has even purchased the product.

Additionally, ShipHawk offers a robust rating solution that helps automate set rules and streamline fulfillment processes. With ShipHawk’s Rules Engine, businesses have the option to create a variety of rules with countless options for various criteria and resulting actions. Using this tool, you can:

• Markup or markdown rates
• Filter the carrier you would like to be shown
• Filter the different carrier services you would like to be shown
• Create your own custom shipping methods
• And many more

By connecting your shopping cart and e-commerce platform to ShipHawk’s advanced shipping software, your business can access a number of tools and features to produce top efficiency. Set up a consultation with a shipping expert at ShipHawk to learn more about how to optimize your e-commerce presence today!