Would a screen like this be useful for your small 3PL
I run a small 3PL — 7 Shopify clients, 20–100 orders/day, ship through Canada Post. Every morning is the same dance: open each client's Shopify admin in its own Chrome profile, find orders, switch over to print the label, paste tracking back into the right Shopify, mark fulfilled, repeat. Around 14 clicks per order. Marked the wrong client's order fulfilled twice in one week.
Big WMS platforms (ShipHero, Extensiv) want $500+/month which doesn't math at our volume, and nothing in our budget really solves the multi-Shopify-admin part.
I've been thinking about building a desktop app that looks something like this:
The idea: connect all your client Shopify stores into one window, and plug in whatever shipping account you already use — Canada Post, ShipStation, EasyShip, or your own private carrier accounts (UPS, FedEx, Purolator, etc.). No new rates, no markup. Just one desktop view for everything.
Before I build it for real, want to know if I'm imagining a problem only I have.
For other small 3PLs:
- Does a screen like this look useful for your daily workflow, or is your current setup fine?
- What's missing from this view that you'd need?
- Would you pay for it? Roughly what?
Genuinely asking — happy to scrap the idea if it's just me.