Global SaaS platform Wix has partnered with the shipping platform for modern ecommerce Shippo to launch a native shipping solution to improve the delivery process. Through this collaboration, Wix looks to provide its business owners with a shipping solution that offers them access to Shippo’s feature-rich shipping capabilities directly from the Wix Dashboard, enabling a simplified, scalable, and end-to-end global shipping experience with access to numerous carriers at competitive rates without leaving the platform.

Wix shipping and what it means for business owners Wix’s extensive online platform combined with Shippo’s end-to-end shipping technology gives business owners the ability to fulfil their ecommerce orders in an easy and professional manner, decreasing the complexities they are faced with when fulfilling orders independently. Powered by Shippo’s Shipping Elements suite of modular embeddable shipping components, the solution provides merchants with access to a strong rate engine, tracking and returns flow, as well as the ability to purchase and print shipping labels without having to leave their orders page. When talking about the benefits of Wix Shipping, the announcement details that these include: Fulfilling orders in an expedited manner.

Business owners can buy and print shipping labels, together with return labels from within the Wix Dashboard, which helps remove the need for additional shipping applications, accounts, and fees to fulfil orders free of friction. Managing inventory and shipping in a single place. Users are enabled to fulfil orders in the same place used for managing products, inventory, and other aspects of their business for a simplified process.

Receiving carrier benefits. Business owners are provided with access to pre-negotiated rates, discounts on top carriers, and flexible shipping options for any shipment volume. What is more, each region has local carriers, which helps ensure geographical coverage together with a wide array of top-carrier options and preferred shipping rates.

Arik Perez, Head of Wix eCommerce stated that Wix is looking to constantly better its platform, developing advanced tools and partnering with industry companies to offer merchants the tools required to run and grow their business in a successful manner straight from the Wix platform. Per their statement, assisting users to provide their products to their customers in a cost-efficient and reliable way is ‘mission critical’. As shipping can be a complicated process with a multitude of moving parts, Shippo’s shipping solutions are to help assure business owners leveraging Wix that their shipping needs are met, and to decrease logistics complexities, while simultaneously providing improved customer experiences and scaling their sales.

Andreas Lieber, Shippo's COO added that with Wix Shipping powered by Shippo, the company helps make shipping increasingly fast, easy, and affordable for users, stating that the collaboration is also a testament to their Shipping Elements offering’s effectiveness, which simplifies the process of connecting with ecommerce platforms and fulfilling the company’s aim of ‘building the shipping layer of the internet’. Based on the information detailed in the press release, Wix Shipping powered by Shippo’s Shipping Elements is available for US-, UK-, Canada-, and Germany-based users, with plans for future expansion into other geographies in the time to come. .