Order import, carrier rules, labels and tracking
Zineps imports orders from Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com and Amazon, applies your carrier rules, creates the label and sends the tracking update.
Example rule flow
Order 10483
Shopify · Utrecht to Antwerp
2.4 kg, 30 × 20 × 12 cmPromised Thursday
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Order imported
Weight and address attached
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Address checked
Postcode and house number match
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Rule matched
Netherlands or Belgium: cheapest that arrives on time
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Carrier selected · PostNL
Cheapest of the carriers that arrive by Thursday
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Label created
Label created for this example order
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Tracking update sent
Tracking update sent to the shop and the customer
Example rule flow for one order. Not a live volume.
This panel is a static example of carrier rules on one order. It is not a live account and not a volume count.
Shipping automation software applies repeated fulfilment decisions, such as carrier, service, label and tracking message, to every order from rules a shop sets once. Zineps imports orders, checks addresses, books a carrier, creates labels and sends tracking updates for webshops in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Carriers named on Zineps pages
Zineps connects webshops in the Netherlands and Belgium to PostNL, DHL, DPD, GLS, UPS, FedEx and Bpost. Carrier rules choose among those carriers when an order is imported from the shop.
The problem
Shipping automation software exists because each order hides the same small decisions: which carrier, which label and which tracking update. Made by hand, those decisions take time before they take money.
Open the order, copy the address, pick a service, type the weight, download the label, paste the tracking number back. The time below is an example, not a measurement from a Zineps account.
Example: 90 seconds times 300 orders is 7.5 hours
Whoever packs the box picks the carrier they know. Nobody compares price, delivery date and on time rate on every order, so the default carrier quietly handles parcels another one would deliver cheaper or sooner.
A missing house number, a wrong weight or an address outside the EU without customs data shows up as a surcharge, a failed delivery or a customer email. Catching it before the label exists costs seconds.
Where you are today
Zineps shipping automation meets shops that still copy orders into a carrier portal, and shops that already use a label tool plus a separate tracking plugin. In both cases the first live steps are order import, carrier rules, labels and tracking updates.
Mostly manual today
Orders come from Shopify or a marketplace, labels come from a carrier portal, and tracking numbers are pasted back by hand. You do not need a warehouse system. You need the first few rules.
Partly automated, held together with tools
Each one works. None of them agree with each other, and the orders that still need a person end up in somebody's inbox.
What you get
Zineps covers the work between the order and the tracking update: import, address checks, carrier rules, labels, customs documents for parcels leaving the EU, and customer tracking. Returns stay in the same dashboard. Packing stays manual.
Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com and Amazon orders arrive in one place with weight and address attached. No exports, no copying, and the tracking number goes back to the shop.
Postcode, house number and country format are checked before a label exists, so a typo is fixed in seconds instead of after a failed delivery.
Decide once: cheapest that arrives on time, fastest for express, one carrier for heavy parcels. Zineps applies the rule across PostNL, DHL, DPD, GLS, UPS, FedEx and Bpost, and creates the labels.
For parcels leaving the EU, labels and customs documents are generated with the shipment, to 200+ countries, so international orders do not need a process of their own.
Every carrier's statuses are mapped to one branded tracking page. Customers get updates without anyone writing them, and support hears fewer questions about where the order is.
Customers request a return in your portal, a prepaid label is created, and the return shows up in the same dashboard as outbound shipments.
Getting started
Zineps shipping automation starts when an order arrives from Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com or Amazon. The platform checks the address, applies the carrier rules you set, creates the label and writes the tracking update back to the shop and the customer. Packing stays with your team.
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Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com, Amazon or your own system. Orders arrive in one list.
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Turn on import, address checks, label creation and tracking updates first. They need no judgement, so they are safe to run from day one.
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Write down the decisions you make every day: cheapest that arrives on time, a fixed carrier for heavy parcels, a delivery day cap for the rest of Europe. Start with two rules.
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On a demo we walk through your own orders that fail an address or weight check, and how a custom workflow can hold them for a person before a label is created.
Under the hood
Zineps shipping automation works when address data and weights are complete, because carrier rules can only choose well when the order data is clean. The panel is an example rule list for one order, not a customer result.
How automation works
The two things every automation setup needs
Automation does not remove decisions. It moves them. Instead of choosing a carrier on every order, you choose once, in a rule, and check now and then that it still holds. That only works when the data feeding the rule is clean, so address checks and correct weights come before clever routing.
The share of orders that ship without a person touching them is the number to watch, and it depends on your data. A missing weight or a country with no rule is a gap you can see on a demo. On that walkthrough we open one example order and show which rule would apply.
01 IfCustomer paid for express
UseFastest carrier
02 IfParcel is 10 kg or heavier
UseDPD
03 IfNetherlands or Belgium
UseCheapest that arrives on time
04 IfEverything else
UseCheapest within 4 days
Demo walkthrough. An unknown address or a missing weight is held for review in the demo walkthrough instead of shipping. Example rules for one order. Not a live volume.
General explanation of shipping automation. Time and cost savings depend on your volumes, order mix and carrier contracts. The 90 second figure is an example, not a measurement. Real numbers come from a demo that uses your own orders.
Carriers and shops
Zineps supports PostNL, DHL, DPD, GLS, UPS, FedEx and Bpost, and imports orders from Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com and Amazon for webshops in the Netherlands and Belgium. Carrier rules then choose among those carriers.
FAQ
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Zineps imports the order from Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com or Amazon, checks the address, applies your carrier rules, creates the label and sends the tracking update to the shop and the customer. Packing stays with your team. On a demo we can walk through one of your own orders.
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Zineps supports PostNL, DHL, DPD, GLS, UPS, FedEx and Bpost, and imports orders from Shopify, WooCommerce, bol.com and Amazon. The pages are written for webshops in the Netherlands and Belgium. Other carriers can often be added, so ask on a demo if you use a regional one.
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Order import, address checks, carrier and service selection, label creation, customs documents for parcels leaving the EU, tracking updates to your shop and customers, and return labels. Packing itself stays manual. The repeated steps around it can run from rules.
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The sums are an example, not a measurement. At 20 orders a day, 90 seconds of manual handling per order is 30 minutes. At 200 orders it is five hours. Many shops start with order import, labels and tracking updates, then add carrier rules once that flow is live.
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A label tool starts when you open the order and stops when the label is printed. Shipping automation starts at the order itself, chooses the carrier from your rules, and carries on until the customer has a tracking update and the shop has the tracking number.
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If an address or a weight is missing, the safe path is to hold the order instead of guessing a carrier. On a demo we walk through that custom workflow for your own orders. Zineps already creates labels and sends tracking updates for orders that pass your rules.
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No. You can bring your own contracts and rates. If you do not have a contract with a carrier yet, we can introduce you to one of our logistics partners. Pricing for each route is confirmed on a demo.
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Yes. Labels and the customs documents a destination needs are generated with the shipment, to 200+ countries. Duties and rules differ per country, so bring your target markets to a demo and we will map them.
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Most shops are processing live orders within a few days, depending on how many carrier accounts and rules they bring. Price depends on order volume and the number of channels. Share your monthly volume in the form and we will go through it on a demo.
Bring a week of orders to a short demo. We will walk through order import, carrier rules, label creation and tracking updates, including any order that still needs a person.
A few details about how you ship today, and we will get back to you.
