ShipStation Connector
Edition: CS-Cart & Multi-Vendor · Latest version: 1.0.0 · Compatible with: CS-Cart & Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 – 4.21.x, PHP 7.4 – 8.3 · Changelog: view
Integrates CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor with ShipStation through ShipStation’s Custom Store connection: ShipStation imports your orders, you print labels for any carrier in ShipStation, and the tracking numbers come back to CS-Cart as regular shipments with a link to the carrier’s tracking page.
ShipStation is a trademark of its owner; this add-on is not affiliated with or endorsed by ShipStation.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”- Gives your store a secure Custom Store endpoint (HTTPS address, username and password) to paste into ShipStation’s Custom Store form.
- ShipStation imports your orders from it: addresses, items with options, images and weights, totals, notes, payment and shipping method. Large stores are sent page by page.
- Order status map: every CS-Cart status goes to one ShipStation group (Awaiting payment, Awaiting shipment, Shipped, Cancelled, On hold) or is not sent at all.
- When a label is created (or an order is marked as shipped) in ShipStation, the add-on creates the CS-Cart shipment with the shipped items, the carrier and the tracking number. Several packages per order are partial shipments.
- The order moves to your “shipped” status when every item has shipped, and optionally to a “partly shipped” status before that. Cancelled, declined and failed orders are never changed.
- Tracking links for USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, Canada Post, Australia Post, Royal Mail and 17 more carrier families; add your own links for any other carrier.
- A repeated or parallel shipment notice never creates a second shipment.
- Multi-Vendor: one ShipStation store for the whole marketplace, or each vendor connects their own ShipStation store in the vendor panel. CS-Cart Ultimate: one ShipStation store per storefront.
- Log with filters and CSV export; a retry queue for notices that could not be applied at once.
What it does not do
Section titled “What it does not do”- It does not show ShipStation rates at checkout and does not buy labels by itself: labels are created in ShipStation.
- It does not use the ShipStation API keys (V1 or V2). The Custom Store connection works on every ShipStation plan, see Developer notes.
Compatibility
Section titled “Compatibility”- CS-Cart (Ultimate) and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 to 4.21.x, PHP 7.4 to 8.3 (as your CS-Cart version supports).
- Your own ShipStation account (a free trial works for testing). The store must be reachable from the internet over HTTPS.