Shipping integration

Lawrence

Currently Brick Owl only offers two options for shipping label integration. We support direct label printing, and Click & Drop in the UK. We would like to know what other services stores are using, and might want to be integrated into Brick Owl?

Bricklanta

Pirateship is great, would love to be directly connected to that instead of copying and passing addresses one at a time.

Lawrence

Unfortunately it looks like Pirateship don’t have an API

Bricklanta

Sadly they don't, but they do have marketplace integrations where it seems they can pull from a marketplace API. Something sellers can't do on their own even with 3rd party apps, but potentially something you could make happen through them.

I'd say they're the #1 shipping solution for US sellers who don't use the automatic Paypal/Shipstation integration.

https://www.pirateship.com/integrations/shipping

Brandish_Jaye

Pirateship does integrate with paypal though, so any orders that go through that can be automatically brought up in pirateship.

Stellar

Packlink would be useful:

Official: https://github.com/packlink-dev/api-php-sdk
Example lib: https://github.com/MwSpaceLLC/packlink-php

A nice thing that it can do is offer options at checkout, but that might be too much work, importing orders would be great.

Lawrence

I briefly looked at Packlink but it didnt look like they had an api as "packlink api" doesnt bring up anything useful on google. Is there any documentation available?

Stellar

None that I could find apart from the sdk test folder:

https://github.com/packlink-dev/api-php-sdk/blob/master/Packlink/test/README.md

PD: They seem to also have official integrations like Pirateship

Lawrence

Ah, well without any proper documentation that will be a bit more difficult, but possible if we had a test account. I could look into that if there's multiple users that would use it

Calibrick

I use PayPal's Shipstation, for what it's worth? PayPal's API already talks to BO, so I just open Shipstation and all my BO orders are all there. It would be nice to run it via BO only instead though. I know at least a few of us exclusively ship via that route, @Lawrence , for what it's worth!

Brickers

CoolRunner could be nice

Gaston.La.Brick

I use Sendcloud from time to time for orders within Europe. They seem to have a rich and well-documented API.

Lawrence

We have integrated both Sendcloud and Shipstation as per the site updates which should show on your store dashboard

Gaston.La.Brick

Thanks for the reply, I missed the update.
I have configured it and now the button appears indeed.

I'm a bit reluctant to click on it, as I don't know what will happen. Will a label be created immediately (and will I be charged immediately), or will I get a choice for carrier, be able to supply package weight and finally an option to see the cost before ordering the label?

Lawrence

It will just add the order into shipstation, no label will be created, apologies for the lack of explanation