Shipbeat is a unified and developer-friendly API for shipping that instantly enables businesses to do shipments online. They offer multi-carrier management for e-commerce companies via a simple shipping API. The shipbeat shipping API unites all relevant local, regional and global delivery partners as well as traditional shipping carriers. Only one shipping integration is necessary to access services from your shipping partners through our shipping gateway.
Shipbeat is one of many new apps focused on making shipping more seamless for e-commerce companies and consumers–Shippo, Easypost, Aftership, Shipwire, UShip, Equaship, 71lbs, Shypd, shiphawk, being a selection of the others in this space.
The challenge for legacy transport providers, especially USPS, UPS, DHL, and FedEx, is the fragmentation of their business model. Users wants bigger discounts via these apps and volume growth via the apps gives them the power to demand the higher discounts. It will be interesting to see this all play out with a whole new class of intermediaries over the next few years.
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