Pitney Bowes and SmartShyp Partner to Provide Merchants with Simple, Seamless and Secure Shipping
June 28 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Complete Shipping APIs enable
access to USPS services, label creation, guaranteed delivery and
flexible financing options for SmartShyp clients like Jane.com
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides commerce solutions in the areas of mailing, shipping, data
and ecommerce, today announced their partnership with SmartShyp, a
leading ecommerce shipping software that easily allows merchants to
simplify their shipping processes. Pitney Bowes Complete Shipping
APIs provide SmartShyp customers with
a seamless, customizable and flexible way to access USPS shipping
services.
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Merchants subscribed to SmartShyp’s web-based platform can now
use Pitney Bowes Complete Shipping APIs to create USPS® shipping
labels, access guaranteed delivery services, track packages, and
help manage shipments and inventory. Features of the SmartShyp
shipping platform powered by Pitney Bowes include:
- Built-in automation for faster
order-to-label processing
- Tracking and visibility for the status
of shipments
- Pitney Bowes flexible financing
solutions, including a line of credit options that allow qualified
clients to match postage payments to cash flow cycles
- Guaranteed delivery on USPS Priority
Mail shipments
SmartShyp client, Jane.com, a boutique ecommerce marketplace
featuring the latest in women's fashion trends, home decor and
children's clothing, ships most of its goods through USPS, and has
seen great success through the Pitney Bowes/SmartShyp partnership.
“The speed and quality of orders through the SmartShyp solution
with the Pitney Bowes Complete Shipping APIs provide peace of mind
for our Jane sellers,” said Craig Cleveland, Director of
Business Development, Jane.com. “Those two things are a huge
advantage for us.”
To improve shipping times, Jane.com is also leveraging the
much-improved batch handling capability developed by SmartShyp,
giving sellers a dynamic view of their sales and allowing them to
ship much faster. “Our legacy systems couldn’t do that,” said
Cleveland. “It was a small detail, but it made a huge
difference.”
The flexibility of the SmartShyp solution also enabled Jane.com
to address their seller cash flow challenge. Because the company
can track shipments in real time, Jane.com can pay sellers the
minute the package is en-route. They can also pay shipping charges
up front for a seller, then deduct those costs from its
receivables. This approach creates a major win for Jane.com’s small
retailers by eliminating out-of-pocket shipping expenses and
allowing them to ship immediately in greater quantities.
“The level of customization and technology of the
SmartShyp/Pitney Bowes API solution is much higher than any of our
previous partners,” said Cleveland. “Using Pitney Bowes and
SmartShyp we can pay our sellers right away—that really helps with
their cash flow. No one else could give us that type of
integration.”
“We’re thrilled to partner with SmartShyp and help their
customers have better access to USPS shipping services,” said
Rajeeb Mohapatra, SVP and GM, Shipping Solutions, Pitney Bowes.
“We’re committed to enabling ecommerce partners, like SmartShyp and
retailers, like Jane.com to provide a superior shipping experience
for their sellers.”
Pitney Bowes launched Complete Shipping APIs in 2016 and quickly
set its solution apart by offering guaranteed delivery services and
flexible financing options on a modern RESTful web services
architecture that makes it easy for customers to integrate and
scale. Over the past two years, these benefits, as well as a
commitment to client-led innovation and an expanding set of product
features, has enabled more ecommerce platform providers, as well as
enterprise and SMB retailers to adopt the solution and provide a
superior shipping experience to their end customers.
Pitney Bowes Complete Shipping APIs are available as part of the
Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, a commerce enabler, providing access
to solutions, analytics and APIs across the full commerce continuum
with speed and agility to help clients identify customers, locate
opportunities, enable communications, power shipping from anywhere
to everywhere, and manage payments.
About SmartShyp
SmartShyp simplifies and automates shipping between eCommerce
owners and their customers with discounted shipping rates, label
printing, order processing, and mail tracking. Partnered with
international marketplace leader, Jane.com, and global technology
company, Pitney Bowes, SmartShyp serves customers in 47 states.
Small business owners can try up to 50 labels per month for free
with SmartShyp, with no surprise fees, long-term contracts, or
complex licenses at www.smartshyp.com.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company powering
billions of transactions – physical and digital – in the connected
and borderless world of commerce. Clients around the world,
including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on products,
solutions, services and data from Pitney Bowes in the areas of
customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping, mailing, and global ecommerce. And with the
innovative Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, clients can access the
broad range of Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs to drive
commerce. For additional information, visit Pitney Bowes, the
Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com.
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