CWILL Order Tracking

Changing to 5 STARS 29/11/24:

Kelly and team have gone above and beyond to rectify the shortcomings stated below. While a delay still exists in API status reporting, the workarounds comprising of custom email templates for our customers, dynamic URL redirections direct to the carrier page, and carrier shortcuts embedded on our store shipping pages have made such a difference. Furthermore, if a customer nows click our email tracking button, they are no longer required to enter their tracking number to view their live shipping status on the carrier page.

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Was really excited to download this app, the customer service from outset was really good and we had high hopes.

On paper the app offered all the functionality we needed as we wanted to start proactively notifying customers by email when their parcels were out for delivery, delivered, and if there was a failed delivery (proactively notifying the customers so they could re-book delivery with the carrier).

However, only when starting to use the app did it become apparent there were a number of shortfalls. The first being that Parcel Panel shipping data can lag the carrier data by up to 6 hours.

This wouldn’t necessarily be an issue, however the “Track my Parcel” button contained in the Parcel Panel emails sent to customers (out for delivery, parcel delivered, failed delivery etc) can only be linked to the Parcel Panel tracking page (the one that uses 6hr lagging data) and not directly to the Carrier Tracking Page on the carrier website (which uses real time tracking data).

What does this mean, well if a customer clicks “Track my Parcel” from a Parcel Panel email, the data they see may be up to 6hours out of date. Not ideal.

The approach of only linking the “Track my Parcel” button to the Parcel Panel tracking page and not the Carrier Tracking Page also poses a problem when a customer receives a failed delivery email from Parcel Panel, as rebooking a missed delivery can only be done via the carrier website which cannot be accessed by the email sent.

This one of the major issues for us as we'd be essentially sending a missed delivery email to our customers highlighting that they needed to rebook delivery for another day, however they would have no ability to rebook their missed delivery from the email we sent. Not good customer experience, particularly for a customer who has missed delivery of their parcel.

I did pose a simple solution to Parcel panel, asking them if Shopify Merchants could be given the option to choose whether the “Track my Parcel” button in the Parcel Panel emails goes directly to the Parcel Panel tracking page or the Carrier’s Tracking page. Even with the missed delivery example above considered, the request was rejected by the team stating that the App's aim is to keep customers in its own eco-system.

More broadly, while it is possible to use Shopify’s native email notifications in place of Parcel Panel’s (out for delivery, delivered) - these emails cannot be configured to use Parcel Panel’s variables meaning delivery data contained in the email is basic a not as much of a value add to customers. Please note this point is not a limitation on Parcel Panel’s side but worth noting as it’s the only alternative to the Parcel Panel emails.

I don’t like to leave negative reviews however I wanted to make others aware of the limitations as we didn’t identify these until we had invested a significant amount of time setting the system up. Only when it’s live and active do you see the shortfalls.

Have been using this App for over 2 years now. It is a great App that is really well supported. It works straight out of the box with native email notification and status on the Shopify Admin page for all our shipments. 3rd time lucky after trying other similar apps that couldn't deliver what they advertised. Thanks

We’ve seamlessly integrated Parcel Panel with our lonora.it store via Shopify, and we’re highly satisfied. The integration process was quick and straightforward. Parcel Panel synced flawlessly with our store, enabling us to monitor shipments directly from the Shopify dashboard. Our customers also love the dedicated tracking page. Overall, Parcel Panel is a fantastic product.

For now - great. The quickest support I've ever seen. App is quite easy to understand and gives a lot of possibilities. We are waiting for adding third-party courier. Good to know, that there is a possibility of adjusting courier list to your needs.

I totally recommend the parcel panel app maybe there is just one issue that it doesn't track or it have slow updates on the italian carrier le poste italiane

I love this app because it is very simple and ease to use.

It has so many carrier partners included in its basic plan.

I just want the main thing to manually update the courier partner whom the app shows is different from the original one.

Regards,

Incredible, way better than our experience with other trackers and cheaper. Their customer support is truly top tier, went above and beyond to get our orders tracking properly. We have been trying to solve tracking issues for over 5 months and in a little over 24 hours Parcel Panel got everything working for us. Couldn't recommend this app any more. I can see why they have incredible reviews - happy to add ours to the pile! Well done Parcel Panel!

So far so good. Detailed and gave me peace of mind with shipping and tracking updates. Good to enhance my NCMPRBL store experience for clients. I recommend parcel panel if you have physical goods and/or an ecommerce store.

Had few issues with currency and setup but the support team is very great, they have helped me set the app up and it is actually now generating revenue + improving the service for customers. I highly recommend this for shopify owners who are looking to improve their offering while getting some extra revenue :)

I'm impressed by the speed of the support, that's the first thing I look for any app I install, how responsive they are. They are fabulous. Also we were missing a carrier and within less than 2 weeks they added it for us. Prior them I was using another software for tracking it was expensive and never as fast as them.