Connecting Shopify to AfterShip Shipping

Overview

AfterShip Shipping is a software platform that allows businesses to manage and simplify their shipping process by enabling features like carrier onboarding, route management, real-time rate comparisons, label generation, and order tracking across multiple carriers, essentially providing a centralized hub to oversee all aspects of order fulfillment across carriers. It integrates with various eCommerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce to automatically import orders and streamline shipping operations.

This guide details how you can connect your Shopify store with AfterShip Shipping. By installing the Shopify app, you can import orders to AfterShip Shipping to print labels, calculate rates and manifest.

What you’ll learn

In this article, we will show you:

Prerequisites
AfterShip Shipping app installation through Shopify app store
Shopify store connection through AfterShip Shipping
Post-connection settings on AfterShip Shipping

Prerequisites

You must have an active Shopify store. If you don’t have one, create one here.
You must have an active AfterShip Shipping subscription. AfterShip Shipping’s Free plan offers all the features needed to optimize your shipping process. For more premium and automated solutions, we recommend subscribing to one of our Paid plans.

Install AfterShip Shipping through Shopify app store

Go to your Shopify app store section and search AfterShip Shipping + Labels
You will land on the AfterShip Shipping + Labels app installation page. Click Add app and select the store with which you'd like to connect the app
The permission request page will appear, where you’ll see the Install app option. Click on it to connect AfterShip Shipping with your Shopify store

Connect Shopify store through AfterShip Shipping

Go to Apps in AfterShip Shipping admin
Click View more apps, and you will be redirected to the AfterShip Shipping integration page
Find Shopify and select it to land on the detailed integration page and click Install app
Select the right organization (online store) if you have multiple organizations configured in AfterShip Shipping for which you are establishing this integration
You will redirected to your Shopify admin where you will be presented with privacy and permission details. Read through them and click Install app
Verify that the connection has been established successfully by visiting Shopify Store’s Apps section or AfterShip Shipping's Apps section and click Store connections to check the status.

You store URL will be labelled as Connected on the Shopify connection page.



Once connected, orders updated in the past 60 days will be imported into your AfterShip Shipping All Orders dashboard. Depending on the Shopify payment and fulfillment status of each order, they will be displayed in the corresponding Status dashboards within AfterShip Shipping.

Post-connection settings on AfterShip Shipping

Set up Ship-from locations from where your shipments originate. The default location will be applied to each order imported from your eCommerce store.
Set up AfterShip Shipping carrier accounts at discounted shipping rates or your own carrier accounts for negotiated rates.
Test and print shipping labels for your shipments.

Updated on: 04/02/2025