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6 Tips for Protecting Profits by Making Returns Easier for Customers and Merchants
This November, UPS announced its holiday returns traffic will peak on Jan. 2nd with over 1.9 million packages, a 26 percent increase from the company’s 2018 peak. This is a substantial year-over-year increase. UPS also expects 1.6 million daily returns during the week...
This Holiday Season, Save by Considering All Your Options Including Regional Carriers and Less Than a Truck Load Freight
There were $11.6 billion worth of online global consumer transactions between Jan. - Sept. 2019, according to analyst firm, DynamicAction. However, competitive pricing and other tactics means achieving profitability is even more challenging with estimated...
Customer Success – ZUP
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...