What are our data sources?
We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in shipping software category. Our data sources in shipping software category include;
Shipping software manages and automates the shipping operations of a company to simplify the shipment processes and catch up with the standards and expectations of the market. Some of the capabilities include:
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We use the data sources on the side for ranking solutions and awarding badges in shipping software category. Our data sources in shipping software category include;
review websites
social media websites
search engine data for branded queries
According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources
ShippingEasy
ShipStation
Pirate Ship
AfterShip
Stamps.com
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current shipping software market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.
ShippingEasy
Pirate Ship
ShipStation
Shippo
Stamps.com
These are the number of queries on search engines which include the brand name of the solution. Compared to other Supply Chain & Logistics categories, Shipping Software is more concentrated in terms of top 3 companies’ share of search queries. Top 3 companies receive 47%, 25% more than the average of search queries in this area.
38 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 17 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.
In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 90 companies with >10 employees are offering shipping software. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 9k employees. The largest company building shipping software is Neopost with more than 3,000 employees.
Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the fastest growing solutions:
ShippingEasy
ShipStation
AfterShip
Easyship
Pirate Ship
We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.
These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.
This data is collected from customer reviews for all Shipping Software companies. The most positive word describing Shipping Software is “Easy to use” that is used in 26% of the reviews. The most negative one is “Difficult” with which is used in 4.00% of all the Shipping Software reviews.
According to customer reviews, most common company size for shipping software customers is 1-50 Employees. Customers with 1-50 Employees make up 66% of shipping software customers. For an average Supply Chain & Logistics solution, customers with 1-50 Employees make up 15% of total customers.
These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Shipping Software. Shipping Software is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Likelihood to Recommend".
This category was searched on average for 1.6k times per month on search engines in 2022. This number has decreased to 1.3k in 2023. If we compare with other supply chain & logistics solutions, a typical solution was searched 1k times in 2022 and this decreased to 590 in 2023.