Features
Discover the features that make 2Ship the ultimate solution for your shipping needs.
From core tools to advanced capabilities, our platform is designed to simplify your logistics and keep your business moving forward.
Core Features
Advanced Features
Core Features
Core features are included in all packages, including free accounts.
Instant Look Up
Real time visibility of shipment information is always available.
With ONE shipping history, across all your carrier shipments, finding a shipment or a large number of shipments is fast and easy. Use extensive filter options to find what you are looking for with the information you have.
Dive deep into each shipments’ info, track all non-delivered, check delivery performance, sort and subtotal, export to excel and more. We also keep a copy of every label and document you processed.
One Ship Screen for All Types of Shipments
A single shipping screen that is simply unmatched.
Everything that ships, with all types of carriers is done using the same shipping screen which dynamically adjusts to the shipment on hand. It is intuitive, user (and mobile) friendly, and you choose between Standard or Advanced modes.
Every feature is embedded in a well thought out manner based on what the end shipper needs and not what is easy to program. Every field can be set and controlled; every user’s environment personalized.
Compare Real-Time Rates from All Carriers
We search all carriers and find all available services and rates for every order/shipment.
All your options are beautifully presented and ordered by cheapest, fastest or best performance by the carrier. Each service shows your rate you will pay with delivery dates and times.
Eliminate the man hours spent searching for the best rate and operating multiple systems. 2Ship does it all in seconds regardless of the number of carriers you have.
Live Tracking Updates
Instant visibility to everything you ship.
Entering or clicking on a single tracking number will instantly show the tracking history and current status of the shipment. Using 2Ship’s Track All feature, you can instantly track all your non-delivered shipments with a single click.
We instantly update each shipments’ status and once delivered, calculate delivery performance. The date and time of delivery are visible as well as the name and signature on file if available from the carrier.
Customised Reporting
2Ship offers its users multiple ways to extract critical data for better decision making. From a host of standard reports, to a simple way for a user to create and save their own csv based reports, choosing from more than 200 unique fields. Reports can also be emailed, or sent via ftp to your nominated address automatically when the shipments are closed. Extensive filter options allow you to get specific when needed. Run reports to track spend by service, customer, user, project etc. Report on delivery performance by carrier and service.
One Address Book
Create shipments quickly and easily when using a single address book. This address book can be controlled at the admin level with global settings, so all users gain access to one, up to date address book. Users can be given rights to amend this data or restricted -as you see fit. Shippers can also quickly create addresses on the fly and save to the address book at a user level.
Dashboards
Every administrator and shipper on 2Ship has access to the 2Ship Dashboard.
It is mobile friendly, so you can take a look at your shipping even if you are on the go.. See live stats and metrics for your freight costs, activity, volumes, carriers and performance.
It’s all broken down by service, location, and even user. It will keep you informed and on top of all things shipping.
Address Validation
Correctly addressing your shipment is a fundamental part of delivery access. 2Ship offers our shippers the option of powering their address validation via Google’s API and verify their recipient address right there in the ship screen, with the convenience of one click. Alternatively start typing your address and watch as it’s completed from the provided list. If you are a large user we even offer you the option to bring your own address validation API.
Manage Your Cut-Off Time
Control the time at which each location cuts off its shipping for the day. This allows 2Ship to automatically use the locations’ next business date as the ship date when processing shipments after the cut off time. Cut off times also manage your mailrooms cut off time for requests that come in from employees for outbound shipments.
Aggregation Rules
Have you ever noticed how many shippers send multiple shipments to the same recipient address on a daily basis. Often wasting money and incurring additional shipment fees. 2Ship allows you to aggregate those orders right there in your order queue and even shows you how much you can save by aggregating the orders compared to sending them as multiple shipments. 2Ship also allows you to easily control the rules for that aggregation. You can quickly determine what fields must match in order to create the aggregation, whether that is an order number or part of, or all of the address details. What’s more if you decide you would like to undo the aggregation and send the shipment on its own, simply ungroup those orders with a click of a button. You give even manually highlights certain orders by say a project code and ask 2Ship to just aggregate those orders only. A flexible and powerful solution to reducing your shipping costs.
Monitor Courier Service
Manage your carriers with real time tracking and performance measurement tools. Compare shipment costs by area, surcharges, and averages.
See it all within your dashboard and reports to make informed decisions.
Mix Modes of Transport
Let 2Ship help you decide HOW to ship your packages.
2Ship carriers range from postal services to full truck load and air freight. Our Consolidation feature allows customers to mix modes of transport for cross border consolidation or zone skipping.
We can also rate a shipment with different package characteristics for different modes. This helps you decide whether it’s best to ship an order out as 30 packages or 2 skids/pallets.
Pick Up / Collection Requests
Request pickup/collections with carriers that do not service your address on a regular basis.
Admin can schedule pickup/collection requests at any address with any carrier or cancel current pickup requests.
Schedule pickups for inbound shipments during the shipping process. It’s that easy!
Paperless Customs
All your customs needs and controls for smooth international shipping.
End your struggle with customs and international shipments. 2Ship provides tools to estimate duties and taxes and upload customs documents electronically.
We also provide, and auto-generate a number of other customs documents for more specialized cross-borser shipments, like FDA and FCC forms; USMCA, CETA and other Free-Trade Agreements; Certificates of Origin and others.
Email Labels
Create new cost saving opportunities by creating and controlling all shipments.
2Ship allows you to generate a shipment and a label from any origin your carriers service. This feature will email the labels to the sender instead of printing it. Use different sender details on your labels and create pickup requests for these shipments.
Reduce downtime and send completed labels as a value add for your clients. Use for inbound, returns or anywhere a shipment needs a label.
Rate and Ship by Performance
Sometimes the right service is not the cheapest service, it’s the service that will get your shipment delivered on time, OR it’s a combination of both price AND on-time delivery.
2Ship does not just rate service in real-time, it also scores each service in real-time based on 60 days of historical performance for the specific route in question. This Score is based on your own settings for the weight/importance of price vs on time performance. As a result, all services are ranked and sorted by score rather than just speed or price.
Restrict Services
For total control over your shipping experience and your users, 2Ship provides organizations with the ability to restrict access to services at the user or user group level. This allows companies to control which users have access to what carrier services.
Auto Print Plugin
Auto Print allows you to print shipping labels, Bill of ladings and all other shipping documents, automatically upon shipping. Avoid pop-ups or having to open files and select your printer each time you ship. And yes… we can send thermal labels to thermal printers while things like Bill of Ladings, commercial invoices and dangerous goods declarations go to laser printers…
International Shipping
End your struggle with customs and international shipments. 2Ship provides all the tools necessary to get your shipments across borders. Easily add the contents of your shipment, get an estimate of duties and taxes, use Digital Customs to go paperless… We also generate a number of other customs forms for more specific shipments like FDA and FCC forms, Free Trade Agreements, Certificates of Origin and others so you don’t have to do them manually.
Daily Reports
Automate your reporting with 2Ship.
Save your time manually running reports. 2Ship will generate your reports on its own and have them emailed or uploaded to an FTP mailbox.
Select your preferred report, desired format, sort and sub-total variables and we do the rest!
Other Docs and Labels
2Ship goes far beyond producing shipping labels with your carriers. We take care of the rest of your shipping labels and documents too.
We also produce Bill of Ladings, Pallet Labels, carton labels, content labels, packing slips, distribution reports, staging & loading guides, shipment receipts, Proof of Delivery (PODs) and more.
For customs, we generate your Commercial Invoice, Proforma Invoice, NAFTA, Certificate of Origin, FCC, FDA and allow you to upload other documents specific to your products like Lithium-Ion Battery Declarations and Textile Declarations that we produce when shipments contain these items.
And we can always customize something for your own needs.
Ready for Integration
Your 2Ship platform is always ready to take on automation.
Whether you plan to integrate through our API package or have us take on the integration through ODBC; your 2Ship environment is waiting to help automate your manual processes.
With ONE integration you will instantly communicate with all your carriers.
Drastically reduce integration time and continuous support for upgrades and carrier changes.
Admin Access
With true centralization comes ultimate control and visibility. The Administrator in 2Ship is ultimately in control and has all the visibility across all locations’ and users’ activity. All Admins enjoy a live dashboard; admin level reporting; current shipment visibility; shipment history lookup; tracking; pickups; global address books and lists; message board; daily reports and more. Our Admin console is designed to keep the person in charge in the loop at all times. Everything is in real time and it’s all available through mobile browsers.
Available from Anywhere
Online and open for business any day any time.
Accessible from anywhere in the world and super mobile friendly. 2Ship is simply a login away.
Scales and Dimensions
Speed up your shipping by making manual weight entry a thing of the past. Automatically capture the weight from your digital scales and even the dimensions from your scanners. Each user on 2Ship can configure their own plugin and hardware preferences. Ensure accurate weights and dimensions are being entered against each and every shipment to minimize any potential billing disputes.
User Rights
Administrators can easily and quickly configure user rights to limit user access to locations, carriers, pricing details and editing recipient information. Administrators can also set up standard and super users where the Superusers authorize certain shipments that may be high value or have DG products. Users can also be allocated to specific user groups that have configure rights and restrictions and 2Ship supports single sign thereby allowing for extensive user configuration and rights options.
Mobile App
The 2Ship Mobile App allows our business customers to take their logistics operations on the go. This is not just a scaled down browser on your phone but a true mobile shipping app experience designed for fast paced environments. The exact functionality you see depends on the specific features to which your company subscribes, ensuring a clean and relevant interface for every user.
Advanced Features
Core features are included in all packages, including free accounts.
Returns
In a world where ecommerce shipments are continuing their upwards momentum, the challenge of managing return shipments is critical to an effective ecommerce distribution model. Whatever your return policy or process, we have the solution to help take control and manage the costs of returns.
- Authorize returns at outbound shipping for customer return processing.
- Include return labels in outgoing packages
- Setup Return Request users in 2Ship
- Email self generated return labels to your customers
- Use our Return APIs
Click here to get more information on our Returns Solution
Ship Request
The ship requisition feature will bring automation to your supply chain while keeping you in complete control. It’s ultimate control of all shipping activity (outbound, inbound, anywhere to anywhere).
- Create users for anyone who needs to request a shipment be processed – all your employees, all your vendors, all your sales people…
- The Requester does not ship! They enter recipient details, select the TYPE of service they need & submit.
- Your experts now do the shipping – service selection…
- Each request user is updated via email alerts with tracking #s to instantly track their shipments
- You now centralize and control all shipping on your accounts.
- Use our mobile for request pickups and mailroom custody.
Policy Control
Do you ever get frustrated with costly mistakes made by well-intentioned staff and need a method for easily enforcing your logistics policies on all users? 2Ship has the solution…
- Each user can be individually administered to ensure that every shipment processed on 2Ship is “pre-authorized”.
- Limit Services & Features
- Restrict / Default fields and preferences
- Create Groups of Users to control policies on a group level.
- Extend the usage of your system to outside entities which bill shipments to your accounts.
- Hide rates completely or define customer rates down to the service, weight, and zone using markups on cost or discounts off list.
- Use the advanced Rule Book
Complete control is now in your hands
Internal Operations
Instant visibility to all shipments inbound to all your locations, means nothing shows up unexpectedly. With Inbound Ship Requests, Shipments with recipient addresses that match your locations, or any shipment marked as inbound; they’ll all appear for tracking to your doorstep.
Use the 2Ship mobile phone application (available on both iOS and Android) to scan your inbound shipments into your inbound location as received and ready for final delivery.
Get your vendors shipping your orders via a 2Ship login, lock down your locations for recipient addresses, hide rates
Once at your door, 2Ship and our mobile app allows you to receive your shipments, add images if damaged, and deliver to end internal employee. Be in complete control of shipping spend – pre-select your own inbound carriers, convert vendor shipping charges to inbound collect.
Make the most cost-effective decision every time and save money.
Order Management
Efficient shipping requires precise control of your orders. The 2Ship order queue allows the shippers to import their orders into the order queue and hold them there until they are ready to ship. Orders can be imported via a spreadsheet on a DIY basis, or automatically via ftp, or API for the most sophisticated option. Once in the queue the orders can be easily filtered by just about any field, for example by order number, project number, post code, receiver names etc. Beyond filtering you can even bulk update or change values in fields as well as aggregate orders and easily compare the cost profile of aggregation or sending separately. The order queue also offers the ability to scan and ship – just scan your order number and ship your order all in one click, partially ship large orders in installments and also highlight and ship orders in bulk printing all your labels in one quick operation. The 2Ship order queue is a powerful tool to provide complete control of your orders.
Consolidation
Consolidation is the process of combining multiple small shipments into a single, larger shipment to be transported internationally or across zones. This method optimizes shipping by reducing the number of shipments sent individually, thus lowering shipping costs, streamlining customs clearance, and accelerating transit times.
Import Shipments
Scan2Pack
By scanning each item as you pack, 2Ship ensures that all items and the right items are being shipped to the recipient. This comes in handy as a check point before closing the package/s and printing the shipping label when you are not using our pick and pack app which scans items when picking and when packing orders.
Cool Features
Core features are included in all packages, including free accounts.
Virtual Carriers
Are you a sophisticated shipper that uses a carrier to linehaul a pallet of mixed cartons, or a trailer full of pallets into a local carrier’s depot so that the local carrier can complete the last mile delivery. Have you noticed that this is often the most cost effective way of delivering a large number of packages across state, or international borders? This type of shipping is often called bulk break shipping, or consolidation where you consolidate all shipments to a pallet or truck and then have a specialist last mile carrier finalize the delivery. While it’s a popular shipping model, it can be tricky to manage two different carriers for a multi leg delivery. This is where 2Ship’s cool feature, Virtual carrier comes in. In 2Ship we can configure a multi leg shipping process into a new Virtual carrier. That’s right, we generate a Virtual carrier within 2Ship that can automatically create one, two or three leg shipments. The label for the linehaul leg as well as the labels for each package that has to be delivered by the last mile carrier.
Item2Box Algorithms
We’ve all seen those inefficient deliveries where you receive one small item in a huge box and you wonder to yourself, how can a shipper afford to ship all that air!! With our built in Air2box algorithms, 2Ship can calculate the optimum way to pack your contents and which one of your standard boxes, or combinations of standard boxes to use to pack your contents. By calculating the optimum packing of your contents, 2Ship’s algorithms help you minimize the air in your packed boxes thereby reducing your transport, and packaging costs.
Multiple Order Import Methods
With 2Ship’s many integrations you have several options for importing orders into the 2Ship order queue. These include manually importing a csv file via the DIY file mapping tool, or importing a static excel or csv file via automated ftp process, or via the hold API and finally via your favorite integration like Shopify, Woo Commerce, Katana ERP or NetSuite etc. There are many and multiple ways to easily import your orders into 2Ship ready for processing and what’s more you can use multiple methods simultaneously and 2Ship will easily identify those different methods so you can view and manage those methodologies.
HAZMAT and DG
2Ship’s commodity table allows you to import all your critical Hazardous Material or Dangerous Goods info into 2Ship. By storing all your contents Hazardous data such as, but not limited to, class number, UN number, sub risk group, packaging type, product names, contact name and numbers you can automatically generate HAZMAT or Dangerous Goods Declarations and documentation and electronically submit HAZMAT and DG data automatically with your carrier for quick data validation and accurate transport cost estimates. If you find managing Hazardous products a hassle with your current system, then you will love the convenience of 2Ship’s comprehensive tools.
Add Your Own Fleet
If you do your own deliveries with your own drivers and vehicles… then 2Ship can create a private carrier for you in minutes. Your service becomes an option with all the other carriers and services in your 2Ship environment. We’ll print shipping labels to put on the packages you want to move with your own vehicles. We’ll provide you with Apps to have your drivers scan every touch point for full tracking event capture. You simply become a carrier in 2Ship like any other and the communication and tracking updates we give to your customers is the same as all the orders you ship with other carriers and couriers.
Our partner Integrations with Fleet Management Apps will bring other features like full GPS tracking of your drivers as well as route management and driver route optimization… – we’d be happy to give you a demo and show you how easy it is to move things like a carrier.
Drop Shipping
Drop shipping has become a popular method of shipping goods for many distributors and retailers. Drop shipping is the process of fulfilling and shipping orders to your customers by shipping products directly from a third party, such as your supplier, distributor or a warehouse. The advantage of drop shipping is that you don’t need to go to the considerable investment and expense of holding the stock and fulfilling the order from your own warehouse, just arrange for your third party to fulfill and ship the order on your behalf.
2Ship allows you to easily set up a location for your supplier where they can login and ship products from their warehouse on your behalf quickly and easily providing you with full visibility of those shipments right from within 2Ship. Alternatively, if your supplier or distributor is using 2Ship they can set up a process for you to easily use the ship request feature to digitally request shipments on your behalf from their fulfillment centers. Via 2Ship’s ecommerce module you can see “available to sell” quantities and 2Ship is even smart enough to fulfill from the least cost warehouse if it has been configured to do so.
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