Running a Shopify store means spinning a dozen plates every day and shipping is always the one that crashes first.

You are managing orders, talking to suppliers, creating labels in another tab, updating tracking info manually, and hoping nothing breaks along the way. For something as essential as “getting stuff from A to B,” the process is... not okay.

And if you are still juggling browser tabs, spreadsheets, and email threads to make it all work? That is not a system. That is a stress machine.

1. The Copy-Paste Chaos of Label Creation

You open an order in Shopify. Then you open your FedEx dashboard. Then you copy the address. Then you paste it. Then you manually enter the weight and dimensions. Then you pray you did not type the ZIP code wrong.

Now multiply that across 100+ orders a week.

Manual label creation is more than tedious—it is error-prone. One typo, and you are reshipping, refunding, or apologizing to a furious customer. It is a massive time sink that no one has time for.

Fix this by automating label creation and pulling order data directly from your store - no double entry required.

2. No Visibility into Inbound Shipments

Outbound shipping gets all the love. But what about inbound?

Returns, supplier shipments, seller deliveries—these are just as critical to your inventory flow, and yet, most merchants track them... nowhere. Maybe a Google Sheet. Maybe your email inbox. Definitely not in the same place as your outbound shipping.

The result? Packages get missed. Restocks are delayed. Teams get confused.

What you need is a system that treats inbound and outbound with equal importance, and gives you real-time visibility across both.

3. Tracking Numbers That Live in a Spreadsheet

Look, no judgment - we have all done it.

But if your idea of “shipment tracking” involves scrolling through a spreadsheet column and cross-referencing with your Shopify orders, you are one step away from a full-blown ops nightmare.

Customers want tracking updates. Your team wants shipping status. You want your brain back.

The better move? Auto-sync tracking numbers to Shopify orders and push updates to customers, without anyone on your team touching a spreadsheet.

4. Sellers Asking for Return Labels You Forgot to Send

Inbound return coordination with sellers and suppliers is one of the most overlooked time drains in ecommerce.

A seller asks for a label. You say, “I’ll send it right over.”
You forget.
They follow up.
You scramble to generate it.
They cannot print it.
You resend it.

It is not just inefficient, it is a complete waste of attention.

Fixing this is not about working harder. It is about having a workflow that actually supports coordination, with built-in visibility and easy label generation for every party involved.

5. Your Team Wasting Hours on Low-Value Shipping Admin

This is the big one.

Shipping mistakes, label duplication, wrong address entries, no-shows, tracking gaps, customer emails about delays, it all rolls downhill into your support and ops teams. And every hour they spend chasing a package is an hour they are not improving CX, scaling fulfillment, or growing your business.

At some point, this is not about “being busy” - it is about bleeding time and money.

Automation is not a luxury here. It is a necessity.

So... What If You Did Not Have to Deal with Any of This?

All five of these shipping headaches come from the same root problem: your systems do not talk to each other. You are stuck in manual workflows, jumping between platforms, and holding it all together with sheer willpower.

But there are tools out there - built specifically for Shopify merchants using FedEx - that fix this entire mess in one place.

If you are ready to stop duct-taping your shipping ops together and actually streamline the process, there is a solution waiting to be installed.

👉 Get the app on Shopify
👉 Book a demo if you want to see it in action

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