Multi-Carrier Shipping
Shipping is where digital orders become physical deliveries. It's also where a lot of fulfillment teams spend significant manual effort — logging into carrier portals, copying address information, generating labels, entering tracking numbers back into their system.
Integrated multi-carrier shipping compresses that workflow into a single interface.
One Interface, Multiple Carriers
The shipping integration connects to multiple carriers simultaneously. From the order detail view in Swifty, your team can see available shipping options across carriers, compare rates and delivery windows, and select the best option for each shipment.
No switching tabs, no logging into separate portals, no copying data between systems. The carrier options appear in the platform, informed by the shipment's destination, package dimensions, and any service preferences configured for your workspace.
Label Generation on the Spot
Once a shipping option is selected, the label is generated immediately. It's available to print directly from the platform or send to a connected label printer. The tracking number is recorded automatically against the order.
For high-volume fulfillment operations, the time saved per order is small — but across hundreds of orders a day, it adds up to hours. The workflow is: open order, select shipping option, print label, done.
Address Validation Before Dispatch
Shipping labels generated for bad addresses waste money and delay deliveries. The platform validates shipping addresses before the label is generated, flagging issues that can be corrected before the shipment leaves the warehouse.
Common errors — missing apartment numbers, incorrect postal codes, invalid street combinations — are caught before they become returned packages and additional costs.
Tracking Synchronized
After a shipment goes out, tracking status is pulled automatically from the carrier and updated on the order. Your team can see where every shipment is without querying carrier portals manually. Customer service queries about order status can be answered from the platform directly.
When a shipment delivers, the order status updates accordingly. When there's a delivery exception, it's visible on the order so your team can take action.
Carrier Flexibility
Different carriers have different strengths: domestic vs international, express vs economy, parcel vs freight. The multi-carrier integration means you're not locked into a single carrier's terms. If pricing changes or a carrier's service quality drops, you can shift volume to another without changing your fulfillment workflow.
The platform negotiates rate comparisons so the decision is always based on current data, not assumptions about which carrier is cheapest for which destination.