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Starshipit

E-COMM
Velocity5.0

Starshipit keeps widening its carrier network and sharpening cross-border customs handling.

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◆Current state
Starshipit is a shipping and fulfillment platform for ecommerce merchants, focused on labels, live rates, tracking, and carrier breadth. The recent releases are steady, breadth-first work: new courier integrations across several regions, and a run of customs and duties controls (landed costs, DDP, third-party duty billing) that make cross-border shipping less error-prone.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is incremental depth over reinvention — more carriers, more accurate checkout rates, and finer control over who pays duties and taxes. The July update leans into checkout-rate accuracy (per-item packaging, Shopify dimension imports) and international compliance, suggesting cross-border ecommerce is the priority segment.
◆Prediction
Expect the cadence of regional carrier additions and customs-control refinements to continue, with more platform integrations feeding accurate dimensions and tax data into rate calculation.

◆Recent moves

  1. 28d ago

    Set who pays landed costs on Australia Post shipments

    Merchants can now set who pays duties, taxes, and fees on international Australia Post shipments — receiver-pays, sender-pays via Zonos, or sender-pays with a tax ID — with per-country rule overrides. A targeted addition to the ongoing cross-border customs work.

  2. 1mo ago

    Product Update - July 2026

    The July update improves checkout-rate accuracy by importing item dimensions from Shopify metafields and letting each item be rated as its own package, reducing manual order edits. Practical accuracy gains for merchants shipping oversized or individually boxed products.

  3. 2mo ago

    New courier and platform integrations

    A batch of regional carrier additions (NorthLine, GoPeople, Capital Transport, Bascik, Uni Uni, Deliver Direct, Hived, The Courier Guy) plus NewStore and Lightspeed platform integrations. Standard breadth expansion that widens the merchant's shipping options across Australia, NZ, North America, the UK, and South Africa.

  4. 4mo ago

    Courier & Platform Enhancements - March 2026

    Customs-focused enhancements: UPS third-party duty billing, DHL Express proforma invoices, in-order DDP selection for Australia Post APGL and DHL eCommerce, and multi-line dangerous goods on Freightways. Incremental controls that smooth duties-paid and specialized shipments.

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  5. 5mo ago

    New carrier integrations: Asendia and OnSend

    Two new carriers: Asendia's e-PAQ range for international shipping from Australia (with HS codes, declared values, and incoterms out of the box) and OnSend for NZ domestic last-mile. Continues the steady regional carrier expansion.

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  6. 6mo ago

    Courier & Platform Enhancements - January 2026

    January enhancements include an automatic Plain Label fallback after Sendle's closure, GST included in NZ Couriers and Post Haste freight estimates, Signature Required for Deliver In Person, and Shopify pickup-in-store writeback. Continuity and accuracy fixes that keep fulfillment from blocking during carrier transitions.

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