5 ways to simplify your shipping with PitneyShip® Pro shipping software

Learn how to make shipping and mailing easier with the help of PitneyShip® Pro shipping software. Take the complexities out of your shipping today.
SendTech Staff Writer Pitney Bowes
30/05/2023 Office

From weighing packages and finding the correct addresses to printing labels and shopping for the best rates from the major carriers, shipping has never been more complicated and expensive. If you own or work in a small- to mid-size organization without a centralized mailroom, you know how inefficient this process can be.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

PitneyShip Pro Portfolio shipping solutions brings order to the chaos, streamlining your shipping operations and making it easier for you to reduce your expenses and increase your productivity. Discover a few of the ways you can simplify your shipping with the PitneyShip Pro Learn More About PitneyShip® Pro

1. Leave the post office behind by printing shipping labels at home

Time is money, as the old saying goes. While it’s great that your customers are ordering your products, standing in line at the post office and waiting to weigh and label all your packages isn’t a profitable use of your time. That’s where PitneyShip Pro comes in. Buy postage and print shipping labels from your own computer, weigh your items (we’ll provide the scale) and track your items from the post office to your customers’ front doors, all in one place. With all the work done before you even get to the post office, you’ll breeze through before you even know it.

2. Choose a shipping option that works best for your situation

Not only does our platform streamline your shipping process, it also helps you save. Instead of shopping rates individually between carriers such as Canada Post, Purolator, FedEx® and UPS®, PitneyShip Pro portal consolidates it all in a way that’s easy to find the most cost-effective option. Search by package type, recipient location, pick-up date, delivery date, and even options specific to the recipient (such as morning delivery). Then select the best option for each package you’re sending, a process that will take a fraction of the time it would have before. The PitneyShip Pro Portfolio takes out all the guesswork, allows you to manage your expenses and gives you and your employees more time to sell more products and provide service to your customers.

That’s a win-win, in our book.

3. Make costly address errors a thing of the past with the help of a shipping software

Look hard enough and you’ll find typos everywhere. Just because they are common doesn’t mean they are not expensive, especially when you are shipping. A simple extra letter or a missing number in a street address can cost you more than $13 per piece with some carriers. That’s where the PitneyShip Pro Portfolio universal address book comes in. Add a new recipient’s information into the address book and it will always be available to you in the future. The PitneyShip Pro Portfolio even standardizes and validates addresses, ensuring you are always using the correct address every time you send a package.

Already have your own address book? Import them directly into the PitneyShip Pro Portfolio as CSV files and you’ll be all set within just a few clicks.

4. Manage your mailing expenses

How much are you or your organization spending to ship each quarter? Trying to answer that question, especially if you ship with multiple carriers, can be a time-consuming affair. Just as the PitneyShip Pro Portfolio offers a one-stop shop for comparing rates, it compiles a history of your shipments and expenditures so you can have a clear understanding of how much is being spent and where. Integrate the PitneyShip Pro Portfolio with your own accounting software; track costs by client, department, user or other parameters; and create and send invoices. Knowledge is power and having all this information in one place gives you even greater control over mailing and shipping expenses across your organization.

5. Consolidate your entire shipping process

Browse rates from the major carriers, track packages, work from a unified address book and much more, all in a single account. Whether you’re the only sender or one of many in your organization, the PitneyShip Pro Portfolio brings all your shipping processes together in one place. Not the only shipper in your business? Assign each employee access appropriate to their job function. Out of the office? No problem.

Which PitneyShip® Pro Portfolio is right for you?
 

Whether you’re a small business owner or you work in a larger organization, there’s a PitneyShip Pro Portfolio that will fit your needs. PitneyShip Pro is an all-in-one software solution ideal for small businesses that allows you to compare UPS and Canada Post shipping rates and print shipping labels.

Larger businesses with more complex shipping operations will find PitneyShip Pro Enterprise the perfect match. Manage shipping activity across a vast number of users, automate the charge-back process to client accounts or departments and monitor the sending activity across the organization to identify savings opportunities.

The world is becoming more connected by the day. Our shipping and mailing, e-commerce and analytics solutions; financial and business services; and enterprise software are just a few of the ways we help you navigate a constantly evolving global business environment. Get started here.

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