Acumatica Starship Integration - Powerful, Reliable and Affordable Shipping Solution

How fast can you Ship? Really Fast

In distribution world shipping is last step of your sales cycle and everybody expects it to be fast, how fast? I guess faster than Jimmy John's fast talker, really really fast.

It becomes crucial for certain companies with complex shipping scenario's, being able to use multiple carriers, rate shopping, shipping rules, capabilities of packing them in multiple boxes, contents of items packed per box all these features is a must have and be able to ship much faster.

We reviewed couple of shipping solutions that were integrated with Acumatica and we really liked what Starship form V-Technologies had to offer in terms of integrated features, price and easy to work staff.

Starship now supports Acumatica Cloud ERP Ver 5.3 and 6.0, you can process all your shipments via Starship and automate the process of sending email notification with tracking numbers.

Key challenges/constraints we faced within Acumatica shipping module out of the box took us on the path to finding the best solution for third party shipping software's and we zero'd on Starship for it's integrated features and price.

Starship Acumatica Features:
1. Ship multiple packages
2. Content of Items packed per box
3. Email notification templates with tracking information and date of delivery
4. Apply business specific shipping rules
5. Custom carriers for Customer pickup type of transactions.
6. Multiple carrier accounts per location - new feature
7. And custom defined data fields mapping

With Acumatica Screen based API, Starship was able to integrate their shipping solution within a week or two and get us going before our go live dates. We were able to map few key Acumatica custom fields with Starship that allowed us to pass certain information required for our shipping.

InfoSourcing, Acumatica Certified Partner successfully integrated Starship for "Print and Promotional" Company in Pennsylvania.

Overall a very happy camper implementing Starship with Acumatica, ask us for free demo about this integration, visit our website for Acumatica professional services we offer.

Ohh one more thing if you need references? sure like the fast talker on Jimmy John's Ad we can also get you good references, give us a call.

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