Shipping is one of the most difficult aspects of ecommerce. How much do you charge? Which service should you use? A single carrier does not always have the best rate for every size of parcel to every destination – however if you use multiple carriers the web site needs complicated logic to work out which carrier and your warehouse need to have all the relevant carrier systems installed. You probably then have to rekey the parcel details into each system introducing the possibility of more errors.
A brilliant service called MetaPack solves all these problems. It abstracts all the UK shipping companies to one software interface so that you only need: one printer; one tracking page; and one means of calculating shipping charges no matter how many carriers. It also means you only have to integrate you back office systems to one shipping system and you can then change carriers at the drop of a hat.
Aspidistra integrate their Shopfront ecommerce product to MetaPack and can provide back office integrations for Sage 50 and Sage 200.
About Me
- Paul Dorey
- I am passionate about making business more efficient and this is the whole philosophy of my company - Aspidistra Software. I started the business in 1999 after serving 20 years in the Royal Navy. In the early years we wrote bespoke systems but after delivering a couple of ecommerce projects I saw that the real value was in reducing the work they created by integrating with the other software in the business. We now produce a solution called Shopfront that is integrated to Sage 50/200 ACT!/CRM and Mail Order Manager (MOM). Although very busy at work I find time to chair the local Chamber of Commerce, help at the local rugby club as a junior coach and referee without mentioning my wife and five sons!
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