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Sendcloud

E-COMM
Velocity5.0

Shipping and fulfillment platform for ecommerce merchants — carrier integrations, labels, and tracking.

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Sendcloud tightens billing transparency and modernizes its shipping APIs

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◆Current state
Sendcloud is a shipping platform steadily hardening two fronts: invoice/billing clarity for merchants and a modernized developer API surface. Recent work adds PO numbers, compact PDFs, and XLSX exports to billing, while the API side ships a duties/taxes endpoint, a POST-based Dynamic Checkout API, and a Service Points v3 beta.
◆Where it's heading
The arc points toward being the shipping layer merchants build on programmatically, not just a label-printing UI. Carrier-contract coverage keeps widening (GLS across four more countries), and cost transparency features like dimensional-surcharge estimates reduce billing surprises. Expect continued API-first expansion alongside plan-tier feature unlocks.
◆Prediction
Next likely moves are graduating the Service Points v3 and duties/taxes APIs out of beta and extending own-contract carrier coverage to more regions.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    Add a PO Number to your Sendcloud invoices

    An optional PO Number field for invoices — a small billing-config convenience for merchants with procurement workflows, fitting the broader invoice-clarity push.

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  2. 7d ago

    PDF invoices are now clearer and more compact

    A more compact PDF invoice format, offered alongside the old one. A formatting refinement within the ongoing billing cleanup rather than a functional change.

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  3. 7d ago

    Download your invoice details as an Excel (XLSX) file

    Invoice details are now exportable as XLSX, letting finance teams reconcile shipping spend directly in a spreadsheet. Part of the same billing-transparency thread as the PO number and compact PDF.

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  4. 19d ago

    Ecwid: Post Number (PO Box) import for out-of-home deliveries

    The Ecwid integration now captures post/PO Box numbers for out-of-home delivery points, closing a data gap that broke some pickup-point shipments. Incremental but real integration depth.

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  5. 22d ago

    Ship with your GLS contract from Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and Poland

    Own-GLS-contract shipping extends to Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Poland. Continues the pattern of widening carrier-contract coverage country by country.

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  6. 25d ago

    See estimated dimensional surcharges in Shipping Prices

    Merchants can now preview estimated dimensional surcharges before shipping, reducing billing surprises. A direct extension of the cost-transparency theme running through this release cycle.

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