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Descartes ShipRush™ Offers ZUP Parcel and Less Than Truckload (LTL) Freight Shipping in One Complete Solution Invented in a garage in 2012, the easy-to-use ZUP tow and paddleboards received tremendous exposure and an increase in business after being featured on...
Controlling Shipping Costs and Speeding Future Growth with Help from Descartes ShipRush™
The Challenge: Processing and Accounting for Large Volumes of Complex Orders In 2008, Game Room Guys began its first ecommerce sales efforts. This catalyzed a new level of growth both for the company’s brick and mortar business and via eBay and Amazon marketplaces....
Tool Provides Real-Time Parcel Rates Across Carriers
ShipRush is now offering shippers a midmarket, web version of a tool it developed that gives merchants a real-time view of parcel rates across multiple carriers, including UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service, among others. Multichannel Merchant, January 31, 2017...
Don’t Let Product Returns Eat Into Your Online Profits This Holiday Season
As the 2018 holiday season approaches, merchants prepare for the traditional spike in sales and the inevitable surge in online returns. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the 2017 holiday season saw 28 percent of the gifts people purchased...
Your Customers Don’t Care Where Your Ecommerce Business Is Based, So Be Ready to Ship Anywhere in the World
If you haven't already started selling internationally, it is time to start! According to Statistica, from 2014 to 2021 worldwide ecommerce sales will grow almost 246 percent, from $1.3 trillion to $4.5 trillion. from Entrepreneur, June 8, 2018Read more »
4 Things to Know About Ecommerce Returns to Minimize Lost Profits and Keep Customers Happy
Many small businesses are merchants selling on Amazon and other marketplaces. A 2017 BigCommerce study reported that marketplaces account for 45 percent of online sales. Sellers need to know how to manage product returns in this environment. from Entrepreneur,...