Shipping, Rethought

E-commerce thinks about shipping backwards.

Every other platform starts with carriers. Pick a carrier, configure zones, assign rates, and then hope the box fits. You end up duplicating box configurations across every carrier and zone combination. Change a box size? Update it everywhere.

Vectis starts with the box. Define your box templates once — with inner dimensions, tare weight, and max capacity. Assign boxes to providers or methods. Then a 3D bin packing engine packs every order into the optimal set of boxes automatically. Those packed boxes are then handed to whichever carrier and method the zone selects.

Boxes are the universal constant. Carriers are interchangeable. Zones just filter which methods show up for an address. No more configuring the same box for UPS and then again for FedEx and then again for USPS. Define it once, assign it to a provider, and every method under that provider uses it.

How Vectis shipping works

Step 1
Pack

3D bin packing engine fits items into eligible box templates. Inner dims, weight limits, fragile & priority handling.

Step 2
Assign

Packed boxes inherit carrier and method from box-to-provider assignments. One box template, many carriers.

Step 3
Quote

Each packed box becomes a Package with real dims and weight. Carriers quote per box; flat-rate methods multiply by count.

Step 4
Ship

Each box gets its own tracking, carrier, and label. Ship by-box for warehouse precision or by-order for simpler ops.

From cart to carrier

Define a box once. Use it everywhere.

A box template lives at the center — inner dims, tare weight, max capacity, material cost. Assign it to any carrier; the same box config powers UPS, FedEx, and USPS without duplication.

Small
8 × 6 × 4
192 in³ · 2 lb cap
Active
Medium
12 × 10 × 6
720 in³ · 10 lb cap
Large
18 × 14 × 10
2,520 in³ · 30 lb cap
Box Template
Medium
12×10×6 · 10 lb
UPS Ground · 2-Day
FedEx Express Saver
USPS Priority Mail

The shipping pipeline

Box Templates

Define once, assign to providers/methods. Inner dims, tare weight, material cost.

3D Packing Engine

EB-AFIT algorithm, multi-bin, gravity, load-bearing, fragile handling.

8 Carriers + AfterShip

UPS, FedEx, USPS, GoShippo, ShipStation, OnTrac, Priority1. AfterShip tracking.

Split Shipping

Restricted products auto-split into separate shipments by method.