Are you spending valuable hours every day shipping and processing your orders? With Billbee, you can fully automate your shipping processes and gain more time for your e-commerce business.

• Less effort: Billbee automates your routine tasks. The system automatically selects the appropriate shipping product, transmits all relevant data, and creates the correct shipping label. This saves you time every single day. 
• Fewer errors: Because all data is transmitted automatically to your shipping service providers. This prevents typos in addresses and minimizes incorrect deliveries. 
• Faster shipping: With Billbee, your orders are processed directly without any manual intermediate steps. This shortens processing time in the warehouse and enables faster delivery times.
• Happier customers: Because your packages arrive at your customers' doors faster, and you keep them up to date at all times with automated shipping notifications. 

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How can I automate shipping with Billbee? 

Through custom automation rules. These rules ensure a smooth, automated workflow while still giving you the flexibility to intervene manually whenever necessary.

Here is how it works: 

1. Connect your sales channels and shipping providers

When you start with Billbee, you first link your sales channels and shipping service providers. Fully mature interfaces are available for this purpose. 

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2. Set up rules for shipping automation

You can easily combine automation rules in Billbee to create an automated workflow. Set up the following rules to get started:

• Set shipping product: This rule determines the appropriate shipping product for each order based on specific criteria (e.g., weight, size, or destination). This ensures the optimal shipping product from your carriers is selected automatically.
• Trigger shipping: Once the shipping product is defined, this rule initiates the shipping process for the order. Billbee automatically transmits all relevant information to the selected carrier, saving you manual effort and preventing errors. 
• Retry shipping (if necessary): If a shipment fails, Billbee automatically checks the status and attempts to process it again. This means you don't have to manually monitor every order.
• Trigger manual shipping: In rare cases, automatic shipping may fail (e.g., due to a transmission error). In such instances, you can trigger the shipment manually with just one click.  

By the way, thanks to comrce cloudprinting, you can also have your shipping labels printed automatically. The cloud printing service bridges the gap between software (Billbee) and hardware (your printer) and is free for you as a Billbee user. 

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3. Set up a rule for automatic shipping notifications 

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Your customers want to know when their package will arrive. With Billbee, you can therefore also automatically notify customers about the shipment of their order. As soon as an order has been shipped, Billbee automatically generates a shipping notification and sends it to your customer. The notification includes all relevant shipping details, such as the tracking number and the carrier.

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By the way: You can customize your shipping notifications to match your corporate design. Simply create a personal email layout, edit the message content, and use placeholders to tailor the email to the specific order. When sending, Billbee automatically fills these placeholders with the relevant order data—such as the individual tracking link.

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