The ConnectShip shipping client is a desktop application designed to make high-volume shipping fast, accurate, and easy; especially in environments that rely on devices like scales, scanners, and label printers.
It provides a ready-to-use interface for shipping teams, while processing and business logic run behind the scenes. This means you get a simple user experience with powerful, centrally managed controls.
The ConnectShip shipping client uses the same carrier-certified components, centrally managed rules, and administrative tools that power all ConnectShip solutions, while adding a desktop-friendly interface and direct device connectivity.
The shipping client is especially useful when you need to:
- Quickly process shipments using a ready-to-use interface
- Connect directly to local devices like scales, scanners, and printers
- Trigger workflows based on user actions or device events
- Include human review or data entry in your shipping process
- Direct communication with scales, scanners, and printers
- PowerShell-based scripting for custom business rules
- Trigger points such as:
- Field Change
- PreRate / PostRate
- PreShip / PostShip
- Ability to query external databases or web services
- Automated carrier selection based on weight, cost, or rules
- Manages real-time device event handling to keep scales, scanners, and printers aligned with workflows
- Label generation and printing
- Manifesting and end-of-day processes
- Error handling and user prompts for missing data
- Supports multi-package and multi-line shipments for complex orders
- Validates required shipment data before execution to reduce errors
- Automatically applies business rules during rating, routing, and shipping steps
- Triggers customer workflows based on user actions, scanned data, or shipment attributes
- Print locally using ZPL or other printer languages
- Receive label data from the server as Base64
- Optionally print from the ConnectShip Server to network-accessible printers
- Enables silent/automatic printing for high-volume worlkflows
- Enables label previews for workflows requiring human verification
- Allows workstation-level printer selection for environments with multiple label printers