The Shipwire engineering, operations and development staff have been incredibly busy over the past couple months releasing new warehouse management, inventory management and order fulfillment features and service offerings.

There has been so many new features released in the past few weeks that I’m having trouble keeping up to date blogging all the details and uploading screenshots. Rather than cry about it, I’m going to celebrate it with a long blog post with lots of new features. If your interested in seeing it all and playing with the system functionality please create an account or free trial (no credit card, only an e-mail address). Read more

By popular request Shipwire now allows merchants to choose what Shipwire warehouse they would like to test as part of the Shipwire Free Trial. Read more

Shipwire is removing another barrier to retailers selling merchandise in Canada with the launch of its Vancouver warehouse. Vancouver joins Shipwire’s existing Canadian distribution center in Toronto.

With a few clicks on Shipwire.com, retailers and their customers can seamlessly place orders through the retailer’s existing e-commerce website. Shipwire then automatically determines the best warehouse to ship the order from — either Los Angeles or Chicago in the US or Vancouver or Toronto in Canada. Read more

January 28, 2008. Shipwire Engineering has been very busy adding new features that have been requested by merchants. A few Shipwire merchants that manage hundreds of SKU’s across multiple warehouse requested that we make editing and managing characteristics of products easier. Shipwire software engineering has responded. Check out our new Product Wizard by logging into your shipwire Account -> Store -> Add Products -> Product Wizard Tab. Read more

Today Shipwire announced the addition of our first International warehouse – Toronto, Canada. Our in-the-news section has a few links to some of the news outlets which covered and discussed the release.

At Shipwire, we are really excited about what this means for our merchants and their businesses. The addition of the Toronto warehouse allows Shipwire customers to fulfill Canadian orders locally, without sending orders through customs on a per-order basis. Shipwire merchants can now easily move product in bulk into Canada so that Canadian orders can be fulfilled faster, more accurately, with lower per-order shipping costs and without the risk of clearing the customs nightmare on a per order basis. The Toronto warehouse allows Shipwire powered merchants to introduce their products to a whole new market (Canada) without any up-front investment in expensive warehouse and employee infrastructure. We think that is pretty cool.

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Shipwire has expanded its warehouse network to include Toronto Canada.

This should interest you, whether you are already selling in Canada or are ready to expand your business into Canada.

If you already sell in Canada, plug into Shipwire to reduce hassles, control costs and grow without significant capital investment. Don’t take our word for it, check out this podcast by doggypads.com owner and Shipwire customer, Mark Stern, on Auctionbytes. They outsourced a 3000 square foot warehouse to Shipwire in order to focus their time on growing their business. See our case studies page for more success stories.

If you are not yet selling in Canada, plug into Shipwire and get:

• Instant access to a lucrative new market
• Class A warehouse space “on-tap” without the headaches of employees
• Assistance with product importing and freight forwarding. The Shipwire team becomes your supply chain.
• Import product in bulk and save yourself the headache of clearing customs on each order.

We offer a Free Trial. Sign-up without a credit card and look at our application.

If you would like to speak to a Shipwire representative please contact us.

IF you would like more information on moving product into Canada: See our recent blog posting; comment in our forum; or, see our helpful instructions on registering your business with the Canadian Revenue Agency in our help center under “Advanced Use”.