What do you like best about ShipHero?
Easy to train new staff on its basics, allowing new employees to begin picking and packing orders on their first day. The WMS will even speak to staff in other languages step-by-step to help them learn how to pick orders.
Offers a huge array of functionalities such as insight into labor analytics, shipment reports for customers, easy integrations with customer web-hosting platforms, generating return labels. Also offers consistent interaction with Shopify, Woocommerce etc that allows orders to be edited, canceled, set as priority without any communication issues between each platform (something we experienced with other WMS providers). They have a solid customer service team as well. Our customer service manager is incredibly knowledgeable, communicative, and easy to work with. They really work hard to hand-pick the best team members.
Excellent redundancy measures when picking and packing orders. Also compatible with an adaptive packing station, allowing staff to simply press 2 buttons to pack orders. Complete removal of mouse and keyboard significantly speeds up the shipping process.
Receiving procedures are very easy as well. Customers create purchase orders, our staff receive against them, and inventory is immediately available to be picked and shipped. The Purchase Order functionality also offers uploading of photos for received shipments or rejected inventory that may have arrived damaged that attaches to each PO. Hugely helpful for damaged goods organization and customer visualization of received inventory.
Very IOS compatible, making picking orders via ipads an incredibly easy process for anyone to learn. We sort our packages in-house as well and utilize ShipHero's package sorting feature daily. It's accurate and fast.
One of our favorite functionalities is the flexibility of ShipHero's automation rules. These were a huge contributor to our decision to switch WMS providers. These rules allow you to pre-set package sizes for efficient packing based on individual SKUs or the number of units in an order, direct staff to add gift notes for specific SKUs, choose specific carriers for specific items, or even automatically cancel orders for specific parts of the world if the customer has other 3PLs in other countries. These examples really don't even touch the amount of things that can be done with the amount of automation rules offered, but they are some of the ones we use most often.
Very easy onboarding for new customers, user-friendly interface as well. Ultimately a big selling point for us when we onboard new customers. Every customer we have is very happy with it, no matter the size of their business. It can easily accommodate thousands of orders per day.
Very honestly, there are no downsides to switching to Shiphero. They have allowed us incomparable optics into our complex operation that consists of shipping thousands of orders with extremely high accuracy all day long. We tried two other WMS providers before making the switch and could not be happier with our decision. They are lightyears ahead of other WMS providers. No doubts that ShipHero will continue to allow us to scale our operation to multiple warehouses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about ShipHero?
Occasional bugs that may require a page refresh or a log out/log in to fix, some delays in customer service which have caused significant issues to be fixed upwards of 1 week after a ticket was submitted (specifically with wholesale order functionalities). However, the ShipHero development team ultimately met with us to get our feedback on this functionality and fixed it accordingly. This was also before we were assigned a dedicated Customer Success Manager. Since then, their service has been excellent.
Difficulty onboarding the WMS to our warehouse.
Originally told we would have a ShipHero representative arrive on-site to aid with onboarding, but this did not happen. Without in-person guidance, the basics were very easy to grasp and implement, but it would have been helpful to receive in-person guidance on additional complex backend functionalities and optimization of pick-lines. It should be noted no other WMS providers offer in-person training and it was not a big issue that this did not occur, but it would have made admin operation easier earlier on. Operating as an admin for my warehouse was initially overwhelming but is now easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.