Shippo

Shippo is a shipping platform and API that gives ecommerce businesses access to discounted shipping rates across multiple carriers, along with tools to generate labels, track packages, and manage returns, all from a single integration rather than negotiating and integrating separately with each individual carrier. Merchants connect their online store, whether that's Shopify, WooCommerce, or a custom-built platform through Shippo's API, and can then compare live rates across carriers like USPS, UPS, FedEx, and regional and international carriers for every order, automatically selecting the cheapest or fastest option based on rules a business defines rather than manually checking rates on each carrier's own site. Shippo's aggregated volume across many merchants gives smaller businesses access to discounted shipping rates that would typically only be available to much larger shippers negotiating directly with a carrier, which is a meaningful cost advantage for growing ecommerce businesses that don't yet ship enough volume to negotiate favorable rates on their own. Its returns management tools let merchants offer a self-service returns portal to customers, generating return labels automatically without a support agent manually handling every return request. Batch label printing and address validation reduce the operational overhead of fulfilling a high volume of daily orders. Shippo is aimed at ecommerce businesses and marketplaces that need reliable, multi-carrier shipping infrastructure without hiring a dedicated logistics team or negotiating individual carrier contracts themselves.