Shopify is one of the most powerful ecommerce platforms for growing online stores, but as your business scales, your shipping operations can quickly become a bottleneck.
What works when you're shipping 100 packages a week may collapse under the pressure of fulfilling 10,000 shipments. Without the right shipping software, growing Shopify merchants can often face:
To grow your store without breaking your backend (or the bank), your Shopify shipping operations must evolve. That means rethinking how you ship orders, manage shipping labels, and handle real-time tracking, all while keeping the customer experience seamless.
In this guide, we’ll walk through how to prepare for high-volume shipping with a focus on operational efficiency, automation, and powerful integrations to help your business scale, without the chaos.
If you’re fulfilling in-house or working with 3PLs, scaling order volume usually exposes gaps in your supply chain workflows. Common issues include:
Manual Workflows: Still printing labels one by one? Manually selecting shipping services for each shipment? These manual practices burn hours, increase risk of error and slow your ability to ship orders efficiently, especially as your store grows.
Disconnected Systems: Without a centralized shipping software solution, syncing Shopify orders with your warehouse, ERP, or carrier systems becomes unreliable. This lack of integration leads to errors, delays, and poor customer experience.
Rising Costs: Relying on default shipping rates from top carriers like FedEx, UPS, or USPS, without comparing options, means you could be overpaying. High shipping costs quickly eat into your margins, especially when you're shipping packages of different sizes or to destinations like Canada.
Returns Bottlenecks: Manually processing returns frustrates customers, slows down your CX team, and adds unnecessary overhead. A lack of automation here can severely impact satisfaction and repeat sales.
As your brand scales, managing shipping operations across multiple channels and locations becomes critical. Use shipping software that consolidates Shopify orders, carrier integrations, shipping labels, and real-time tracking into one unified platform. Bonus points if it supports multi-location inventory and multiple sales channels for a fully scalable solution.
Manually managing hundreds of shipments is time-consuming and error-prone. Automate your fulfillment with rules that choose the right shipping service, packaging type, and carrier based on order weight, size, and destination. Batch printing allows you to print the labels and packing slips for hundreds of shipments at onces, further saving time and reducing mistakes, helping your business to grow faster.
Don't overpay for shipping. Use tools that compare real-time shipping rates from top carriers—including USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL Express, and regional options—to find the best price and delivery time for every package. Real-time rate shopping can lower your costs by 10–30%, especially when shipping different sizes or internationally.
A seamless return process can improve the customer experience and ease the burden on your support team. Offer easy-to-use return portals, QR-code labels, and return tracking to make the process painless for your customers, and efficient for your team. This not only builds brand trust but also helps save time and money.
The right shipping solution should integrate directly with your Shopify store and sync with your ERP, WMS, 3PL, and analytics tools. Choosing shipping tools with seamless integration improves accuracy, supports automation, and frees your team to focus on scaling your online store, not chasing down labels, errors, or delays.
If you’re ready to grow your ecommerce business and streamline fulfillment, VESYL’s seamless Shopify integration helps you scale shipping, without the complexity.
Here’s what sets VESYL apart for Shopify merchants:
From managing shipping labels and returns to lowering shipping costs and improving the customer experience, VESYL gives you a serious advantage as you scale your online store.
As your Shopify store grows, shipping can either be your competitive edge, or the bottleneck that holds you back.
By centralizing operations, embracing automation, and using a flexible, fully integrated shipping system, you can scale your fulfillment with complete control.
Your store is growing—make sure your shipping can keep up. Talk to a VESYL expert about building a smarter, more scalable shipping operation.