Endicia Platinum Shipper gets you big savings on your shipping expenses by avoiding common surcharges and taking advantage of postal alternatives, whether you use FedEx, UPS or a DHL shipping software to ship domestic or international packages each day.   Platinum Shipper provides seamless access to these savings using Endicia address verification, residential and rural extended area surcharge prediction, and USPS postage-paid shipping label generation and management.   All this, using the same software, hardware, process, and database integration you already have built with your existing free carrier software.

Endicia Platinum Shipper™ Advantages

USPS Value Added Services
•No Fee for Address Corrections
•No Fee for Forwarding- Express, Priority, 1st Class
•No Fee for Saturday Delivery/ 52 Extra Shipping Days (Priority & Express Mail )
•No Fee for Sunday or Holidays Express Mail Delivery
•No Fee for Undeliverable Mail
•Delivery to APO/FPOs
•Global Mail Price Advantages
•Delivery to PO Boxes
•Local Customer Service Call Centers
•No Fee for Package Supplies
•No Fuel Surcharges
•Domestic Delivery Rates Include; Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and All Other U.S. Territories
•No Work Stoppages/ Striking Prohibited
•Competitors Charge Pick Up Fees by Volume
•No Surcharges for Delivery to Residential and Rural Areas

Competitors – Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
•Excessive Tracking Fees
•Written Agreements
•Charge for Invalid or Missing Account #’s
•Weekend Delivery Fees
•Incorrect Addressing or Wrong Address Fees
•Fuel Surcharges
•Possibility of Strikes
•Residential and Extended Area Surcharges (see below)
•Out of Area or Subcontracted Customer Service Call Centers
•No Deliveries to PO Boxes
•Drivers Control Additional Fees at time of Deliveries
•Undeliverable Package Fees

USPS Personnel Channels
•Carriers: Delivers and Picks Up 6 Days a Week to Every Residential and Business Address/ 7 for Express Mail Delivery
•Retail Sales Associates: Handles USPS Sales Transactions in Post Offices and Retail Store 6 Days a Week
•Postmasters, Managers, and Supervisors: Directly accessible to Customers
•Business Service Network: 24 hour Response, Issues and Concerns can be solved on Local Levels USPS Domestic Mail Class Advantages
•Priority Mail- 2-3 Day Delivery
•Can Provide a Monday Delivery for Packages Accepted Thursday, Friday or Saturday- 24/7 Plant Processing
•Shipping Supplies at No Cost
•Customized Packaging Available
•Same Rate for Business and Residential Deliveries
•Delivers 6 Days a Week- Monday through Saturday
•52 Extra Shipping Days
•Express Mail- Guaranteed Next Day Delivery
•Guaranteed Next Day Delivery
•Shipping Supplies at No Cost
•Same Rates for Residential and Business Deliveries
•Delivers 7 Days a Week/ 365 Days a Year
•No Additional Cost for Weekend Deliveries
•No Additional Cost for Forwarding

This is a Great Product – 1,000′s of 100% Satisfied Users Nationwide – “the first internet based PC postage system that really works!”        Give it a try for FREE

Endicia Platinum Shipper ASI (download PDF)

Best Way Technologies Shipping Software builds powerful, flexible and affordable shipping solutions that save time and money.  We go to great lengths to design intelligent software that is easy to work with and reliable.  Our carefully selected partners are trained and certified so that their installations are efficient and take full advantage of our software’s capabilities.   Working with them, your IT department can become as involved as necessary – from design to maintenance.

ProShip – The Best Way to Solve Your Multi-Carrier Shipping Problems
Our ProShip multi-carrier parcel-shipping software suite is a fully integratable, carrier-certified solution that can prepare your packages for nearly any parcel carrier, truck, rail or freight forwarder.   Below are some Standard Features:

 More Reasons To Consider ProShip:

• Fast manifesting a million packages an hour        • Thorough – shops all carriers and service levels   

 • Scalable – from a single work station to multiple warehouses      •  Certified – by all major carriers

• Accountable – advanced reporting and visibility     • Productive – one touch shipping process
• International – rates and manifests        • Unified – rate-shopping throughout the company
• Integratable – complete Visual Basic Script environment   

Whether you’re from operations, IT or top management, ProShip will meet your objectives, save you money, and deliver a robust, simple to use, compliant multi carrier manifesting system!

ProShip Suite (download PDF)

Zumbox – the World’s First Paperless Postal System. If you’re like most businesses, you send a lot of paper mail.  And, if you’re like most businesses, you don’t have an alternative – the only reasonable way to send those statements, invoices, and other important mailings to most of your customers is via traditional postal systems.

Zumbox API to Intuit QuickBooks (click link below for demo)

http://faq.zumbox.com/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=27    (QuickBooks Demo)

Zumbox offers you a new way to mail to your customers online

– using the street addresses that you already have on file.  Zumbox is a nationwide paperless postal system.  We’ve created a Zumbox for each street address in the U.S. (more than 150 million of them).

Your customers simply go to Zumbox.com/rt1, type-in their street address (for example: 1274 Highland St., Agoura, CA 91301), and view their mail.  They see your envelope on the screen, and a duplicate version – a facsimile – of your printed page – exactly as if they had received it via a traditional postal system.

For the First Time Online, Your Business Can:
* Submit to Zumbox the very same content that you currently print.  (No change to your existing processes)
* Use the street addresses that you already have on file to send mail online.  (No need to try to get e-mail addresses)
* Whether your business sends thousands or millions of mailings each month, you can use Zumbox and realize significant cost savings, enhanced revenue opportunities and huge environmental benefits.

Zumbox Welcome Letter (download PDF)

Zumbox Info Sheet (download PDF)

Zumbox FAQ (download PDF)

 Oz Development – the most robust host integration tool available!   Oz Developement offers OzLink, a highly configurable integration application and tool to link the carriers shipping software to your host.  With more than 6,000 companies, big and small, using our products to streamline and automate their shipping and order fulfillment processes while also improving their customer service, we have a solution for you.   As an authorized Dealer, Automated Systems, Inc. provides both packaged integration solutions as well as custom solutions configured to meet the needs of a specific company.

Our goal is to simplify the integration process by using our purpose-built tools to link accounting/ERP and CRM applications to shipping systems, scales, and scanners. 

Every Oz solution includes our “Live Update Service” that enables your integrated solution to stay current with the ever-changing carrier capabilities as well as to grow with your company.

OzLINK Shipping Tampa (download PDF)

Descartes’ logistics management solutions combine a multi-modal network, the Descartes Global Logistics Network, with business applications to provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment management services for contract carriers and private fleet management services.  These solutions and services help Descartes’ customers reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size, contract carrier costs, and mileage driven and improve pick up and delivery reliability.  Our hosted, transactional and packaged solutions deliver repeatable, measurable results and fast time-to-value.

Descartes offers solutions that can be deployed as traditional applications or as a service to help customers optimize and gain real-time control of their inventory, logistics assets and mobile workforce.

The Descartes Delivery Management Suite integrates design, planning, execution, performance management and messaging solutions that help manufacturers, retailers, distributors, service providers and their logistics services providers to optimize inbound and outbound delivery performance.  It helps address business challenges including strategic delivery planning, warehouse optimization, daily planning, reservations, transportation management, supply chain visibility, mobile/dispatch/AVL, and connectivity and messaging.

Product Solutions:
Route Planner (download PDF)

Customer Profile: Always On
“I need routing tightly integrated into my enterprise processes because my customers and orders change right up to and even beyond the time of dispatch.”

Route Planner RS (download PDF)

Customer Profile: Local Power
“I want to quickly route large batches of orders just in time to hand off to the warehouse.  I want to run the software myself and would like the option to track my routes in real-time.”

Route Planner On-Demand (download PDF)

Customer Profile: Just Execute
“I want a robust solution to build, dispatch and track routes, sales people and merchandisers, that I can deploy quickly.  I don’t want to have to administer the software.”

Route Planner RV (download PDF)
Customer Profile: Just Execute
“I want a low cost, simple to use application that I run myself for basic route sequencing with an option to upgrade to mobile and AVL.”

Sales and Merchandiser Manager (download PDF)

Key Advantages of Our Solutions Include:

• Cost Reduction through faster billing cycles; reduced dependence on fleet and contract carriers; improved route economics (shorter drive times and fewer miles driven), driver and operator performance, and service time consistency; visibility into rates, slack times and waiting times; and reduced manual data entry and administrative costs.
• Improved Customer Service through increased on-time arrival, setting of customer delivery windows, proactive exception management and notification of order and shipment status.
• Reduced Complexity through the standardization and automation of manual and labor intensive processes, real time access to multi-channel network and resources, more accurate data capture, universal access to data by any person in the field or in the office, and a hosted and managed environment.
• Business Compliance through streamlined customs and border control document administration and business process management.

Do you ship UPS ® , FedEx ®  or DHL ® ?  If you do, are you tracing, tracking  and auditing each package you ship and verifying it matches your incentive plan and your weekly invoice?   If not, Automated Systems, Inc. offers a comprehensive parcel auditing, carrier invoice and package auditing service to recover your Guaranteed Service Refunds (GSR).  Whether it is Small Parcel or LTL Pallets, we scourer your invoice has Duplicate Transactions Billed, or Previously Billed Transactions?  How about Manifested Not Shipped records – shipments which appear on your invoice which were never voided?  We monitor and contest all of this and so much more!  We look forward to hearing from you and getting started, it is literally a 1/2 hour process.  

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Here is what we do:  Direct Savings of 5 to 20% on Transportation Spend

Guaranteed Service Refunds: Nearly everything you ship via your small package carrier is guaranteed.  We make sure these guarantees are met, or you are entitled to your money back.  

360 degree auditing:  Most auditing tools today audit by looking at what you ship, to your freight bill, and review or dispute any exceptions.  Our automated auditing solution has the details of all your parcel carrier contracts, which allows you to truly audit your freight bills by comparing what you ship, to the freight bill, to the details agreed upon in you contract.  This is truly the only way to effectively audit your freight bills.   

Incorrect Residential Shipments: Many commercial shipments today are incorrectly noted as residential shipments by your carrier.  This does not sound like a big issue, however these shipments are assessed a surcharge, and are not subject to any of your contractual discount with that carrier when this happens.  We make sure you have visibility over this.  

Manifested not Shipped Errors:  We make sure that everything you show as being shipped on your carrier manifest is actually received by the carrier.  If not, you are eligible for a refund for these shipments.  We make sure that the carrier receives the shipment into their system to initiate the billing and visibility process.  

Address Corrections:  Address corrections assessed by carriers can be extremely expensive and difficult to correct.  We make sure you have visibility over these charges and give you the correct address to ensure it does not happen in the future.  

Rate Shopping Tools:  Our solution can rate shop all small package and LTL carriers to ensure you shipments are sent with the right service level and right cost in mind.  We can rate shop shipments by delivery time, cost, or both.   

Carrier Rate Negotiation Tools:  Our solution will give you information to assist with your next carrier contract negotiation.  We have several reports that allow you to analyze your shipment characteristics and volume levels to ensure your carrier contracts are structured properly.    

Air vs. Ground Comparison reports:  You can look at your air service shipments you selected (next day, two day, three day) and compare it to the ground service level that can maintain the same service commitment, but at a much lower cost.  Many customers can then update their routing guides to utilize a ground service level for that customer and still maintain their customer service commitments.   

Proactive exceptions notification: Our solution will proactively notify you of any issues with product that you are shipping.  Unlike other auditing tools, which are reactive in nature, our solution notifies you of exceptions before they become significant problems.    

Our Small Parcel Auditing and Freight Auditing System, the Intelligent Audit System, will monitor each parcel or freight shipment to ensure it is delivered without errors and on time and alert you of any exceptions.   As a managed service (web hosted), we provide each client with a custom-designed transportation visibility mechanism – there is NO SOFTWARE TO BUY, NO COSTLY MAINTENANCE AGREEMENTS, NO IT INVOLVEMENT REQUIRED - JUST RESULTS!    

With literally hundreds of management reports, we pro-actively alert you via email if your shipment are In Transit (outside of the scheduled delivery time), Damaged Shipments, Lost Shipments, or virtually any other adverse condition that may occur.   This customizable event alerting tool is herald by thousands of customer service, transportation traffic managers, warehouse and shipping managers, finance and C Level managers as an unparalled tool to better manage your business, customer service, processes and procedures and freight spend.  Our solutions consistently delivers 5% to 20% savings on your transportation spend as well as a number of additional benefits including improved
customer service and increased control over operations.   

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