Manual shipping feels manageable… until it isn’t.

Maybe you are fulfilling a few dozen orders a day. Maybe you have a tight little system of browser tabs, spreadsheets, and FedEx logins that “gets the job done.” But here is the problem - that job is bleeding your business dry. Not with one big, obvious mistake, but with dozens of tiny, hidden inefficiencies that chip away at your profit margins, customer experience, and team bandwidth.

Manual shipping workflows are not just annoying - they are expensive. And if you are not tracking what they are really costing you, then your bottom line is getting hit harder than you think.

Let’s Break It Down: Where Manual Shipping Eats Your Margins

1. Time Wasted = Money Burned

Every label that needs to be manually created, every tracking number you paste into Shopify, every return request you manage through email—that is time you or your team could be spending on marketing, customer experience, or literally anything else.

If your fulfillment process requires 5+ clicks across 3 platforms for one order, now multiply that by 50, 100, 500 shipments a week. That is hours of lost productivity, every single day.

2. Human Errors → Refunds, Reships, and Angry Emails

Mistyped addresses, duplicate labels, delayed tracking updates... All of these cost you in customer trust, support time, and sometimes cold, hard refunds. These mistakes do not scale with your business—they snowball.

3. Disconnected Inbound Workflows

Most merchants only think about outbound shipping. But returns, restocks, and supplier shipments matter too. And if your inbound tracking is manual or nonexistent, expect delays, miscommunication, and inventory chaos.

4. Support Load Goes Up

When a customer asks, “Where’s my package?” and your team has to go digging through FedEx or cross-reference spreadsheets, your support costs spike. Manual tracking leads to slower response times and more work per ticket. That is time and money gone.

Real Numbers: The Cost of Doing Nothing

Let’s say your team ships 100 orders per day.

• Each one takes an extra 3 minutes due to manual workflows
• That is 5 hours of labor per day
• At $20/hour, that is $100 a day → $3,000/month → $36,000/year
• And that is just time - not including refund costs, reshipments, or CX damage
  
  

Suddenly, that “we’ll just do it manually” decision starts to look like a massive drag on your profit margins.

The Good News: This Is 100% Fixable

Manual workflows are a choice. And the right tool changes everything.

Sendoship was built to eliminate the operational overhead that is wrecking your efficiency. Instead of bouncing between platforms, manually syncing data, and wasting time fixing mistakes, you get a fully unified FedEx shipping solution built right into your Shopify admin.

What Happens When You Automate with Sendoship?

Here is what a modern, automated shipping workflow looks like:

1. Label Creation in One Click

Generate FedEx shipping labels right inside Shopify - no login juggling, no manual entries.

2. Auto-Synced Tracking

Tracking numbers are automatically updated in the order record and customer communications. Zero double entry.

3. Inbound + Outbound Visibility

Returns, supplier shipments, and seller deliveries? Handled. All tracked and visible in one dashboard.

4. Fewer Support Tickets

Because the system does the heavy lifting, your team is not manually chasing down tracking updates or fielding “Where’s my order?” messages.

The result? You reclaim time, money, and control.

You Don’t Need More Staff. You Need a Better System.

Before you add another hire to manage shipping headaches, take a step back.

The issue is not headcount, it is the fact that your tools are not working for you. Manual workflows scale your problems, not your profits. And no amount of hustle will change that.

If you want to stop leaking margin every time you ship a package, fix the system. Let automation do what humans shouldn’t have to.

Ready to Stop the Profit Bleed?

Sendoship helps you centralize, automate, and optimize your FedEx shipping inside Shopify - so you can grow your business without growing your shipping headaches.

👉 Get the app on Shopify
👉  Book a demo to see how much time and money you could be saving

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