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Co-Founder & CMO at AfterShip

Tracking Number Doesn't Work

Tracking Number Doesn't Work - Is It Fake?

If you are an honest online store, have you ever received customers' complaints about tracking numbers not working? Customers wonder: * Is the tracking number fake? * Is the online store a scam? * Will I really receive my order? * Can I get the money back? All the panic a shopper have can

How to Avoid Failed Delivery Attempts

Have you ever had the experience of a package going back to the sender because the receiver missed the delivery or the delivery address was wrong? Whenever a delivery fails, the delivery man leaves notifies the user regarding the next delivery time or asks the receiver to re-arrange the delivery

Adopting Shopify Polaris Design - 6 Reasons and 6 Do's

Adopting Shopify Polaris Design - 6 Reasons and 6 Do's

We have applied Shopify Polaris Design [https://polaris.shopify.com/] to our admin portal, following Shopify's announcement at Unite 2018. It is not an easy decision especially it means you need to replace your whole UI component library (if there is one). In this blog we will share why we

How to Use AfterShip For Shopify in 5 Minutes

Table of Content. Click for direct access: 1. Install AfterShip via Shopify App Store 2. Install AfterShip via our Website 3. Video — How AfterShip Works 4. Video — How to Fulfil an Order and Add Tracking Number at Shopify? 5. How to add Tracking Page at Shopify? 6. Video — How to

Product Updates

English translation for China Post and China EMS tracking

It has been a while since we wrote about AfterShip features (sorry for being lazy on marketing ;). We now switch to ghost [https://ghost.org/] platform for our blog and hopefully forcing ourselves to write more. While we grow our team to now 23 people (in which 21 are developers)

How iHerb builds trust with international shoppers - shipping experience review on iHerb

How iHerb builds trust with international shoppers - shipping experience review on iHerb

Run an online store and ship domestically only to US, Canada or UK? Think twice after reading the following graph. While US and Canada are expected to see a strong growth of 14% and 16% annually, China, India and Mexico are enjoying a much ~faster~ crazier annual growth at 57%

4 Best Practices to Improve eCommerce Shipping Experience

4 Best Practices to Improve eCommerce Shipping Experience

The ideal shipping policy of an online store is free delivery and free returns, isn't it? If you have run an online store for a while, you should know that online shoppers are not that easy to please, especially with the presence of omni-channels and mobile shopping. In this article,

How Many Times Do People Track a Package?

An important question that comes in my mind when I ask myself how important it is for an online store to allow customers to track their orders within the website [https://aftership.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/174883-how-can-i-show-order-status-at-my-store-] . How frequent do people track a shipment? UPS suggests 2/0.42 times