{"id":844,"date":"2014-04-08T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shippingeasy.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2018-09-10T22:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:47:35","slug":"celebrating-shippingeasy-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingeasy.com\/blog\/celebrating-shippingeasy-first-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating ShippingEasy’s FIRST Birthday with a Chance to WIN $100!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Note: At this time, submissions for this competition are now closed. \u00a0Thanks for sharing your stories and helping us celebrate Jack’s Birthday!<\/em><\/p>\n

A BIG THANKS to all our customers for a FANTASTIC first year!<\/h4>\n

Now that we’ve become so nostalgic we’re taking a look at\u00a0all the moments we LOVED<\/strong>\u00a0the past year.<\/p>\n

To kick us off, we’re sharing Jack’s favorite story.<\/h4>\n

A Genuine House Call:\u00a0That Time We Visited So Lola’s House to Help SHIP!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"so-lola-shipping\"It was only a few months into ShippingEasy v2 that our dear customer, Maggie Ruiz of\u00a0So Lola Boutique<\/a>, launched her biggest group deal ever on Jane.com.<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever run a group deal you know what it’s like to run your biggest deal to date! \u00a0A process you mastered suddenly seems completely inadequate.
\nBack then we weren\u2019t integrated directly with Jane.com (nee veryjane.com) and batching was a relatively immature process. Both of our businesses have come a long way since then!<\/p>\n

THE BIG SHIPPING DAY:<\/b>\u00a0the plan was straightforward\u2026.export orders, CSV upload, ship. But, with thousands of similar orders except for color, Maggie needed smart labels that directed what product\/color to include in a given recipient\u2019s envelope. With some help from her Account Manager, Tessa – and a little Excel magic, bam \u2013 the labels were set to print with all the right details.<\/p>\n

THE NEMESIS<\/b>: enter that nasty BACK button available on every browser. \u00a0In an effort to generate batches at pace and get thousands of orders out the door, Maggie would hit the Back button to grab the next batch. In short, let\u2019s just say there were some labels with duplicate characteristics. And by \u201csome\u201d \u2013 we might mean \u201ca lot\u201d.\u00a0As an aside, this incident led to the development of a \u201cguard\u201d so at no stage can a label ever be duplicated (rest easy!).<\/i><\/p>\n

Fortunately, Maggie is in Texas too which led to ShippingEasy living a day in the real-life shoes of a group deal seller.\u00a0 We dispatched our very capable intern, Ryan, to make his way to So Lolas headquarters in Buda. \u00a0Together they worked tirelessly to identify and cancel duplicates, batch the remaining orders, print the labels and fulfil the orders\u2026\u2026.finishing the project with just 15 minutes to spare!<\/p>\n

So now you know our favorite story.\u00a0 The picture, of Maggie\u2019s hallway with all our packages, will forever be ingrained in our memory. What a sight!<\/p>\n

A toast to Maggie \u2013 who taught us more than she\u2019ll ever know. Cheers.<\/p>\n

And now, a few of our FAVORITE FEATURES since we launched on April 8th, 2013:<\/span><\/h4>\n