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Automate LTL Shipping for Your Shopify Store

Connect your Shopify store to automatically import products, sync orders, and get instant LTL freight quotes across all your carriers — no manual work required.

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If you’re running a Shopify store that ships products via LTL freight, you know the pain. Every order means manually gathering product dimensions, looking up carrier rates, comparing options, and hoping you picked the best one. It’s slow, error-prone, and doesn’t scale.

We built our Shopify integration to fix that. Connect your store once, and every new order gets freight quotes automatically — no copy-pasting, no spreadsheets, no guesswork.

The Problem with Freight Management for Shopify Merchants

Most Shopify shipping apps are built for parcel. They work great if you’re shipping boxes through UPS or FedEx. But the moment your products are heavy, oversized, or palletized, you’re on your own.

LTL freight is a different world. You need freight classes, handling unit types, accurate weights and dimensions, and you need to compare rates across multiple carriers to get the best deal. For many Shopify merchants shipping LTL, this means toggling between carrier websites, re-entering the same shipment details over and over, and manually tracking which orders have been quoted and which haven’t.

That’s time you could be spending on growing your business.

How It Works

Our Shopify integration connects directly to your store and handles the entire flow from order to freight quote — automatically.

1. Connect Your Store in Seconds

From your settings page, enter your Shopify store URL and authorize the connection. We use Shopify’s secure OAuth flow, so your credentials are never exposed. The whole process takes about 30 seconds.

2. Your Product Catalog Syncs Automatically

The moment you connect, we start importing your product catalog. Every product and variant from your Shopify store is pulled in, including names, SKUs, descriptions, and images.

Once imported, you configure the freight details that Shopify doesn’t track: weight, dimensions, freight class, and handling unit type (pallet, crate, box, etc.). This is a one-time setup. After that, any new or updated products sync automatically on subsequent syncs, pulling only what’s changed so it stays fast even with large catalogs.

3. Orders Flow In Through Real-Time Webhooks

When a customer places an order on your Shopify store, we receive it instantly via webhooks. No polling, no delays. The order comes in with the full shipping address, line items, quantities, and product details — everything we need to build a freight quote.

We also listen for order updates and cancellations, so your freight management dashboard always reflects the current state of your Shopify orders.

4. Freight Quotes Are Generated Automatically

This is where it gets powerful. As soon as an order arrives, we automatically request LTL freight quotes from every carrier you have connected. All requests go out in parallel, so you get results fast.

For each order, you’ll see a ranked list of carrier options showing the total cost, transit time, service type, and delivery date. No more logging into five different carrier portals. No more manual data entry. Just side-by-side freight quotes, ready for you to compare and book.

If a product on the order hasn’t been configured with freight dimensions yet, we’ll flag it and hold the quote until you fill in the details. Nothing slips through the cracks.

Why This Matters for Your Business

Save hours every week. If you’re processing even a handful of LTL freight orders per day, manual quoting adds up fast. Automating that process gives you back time to focus on what actually grows revenue.

Never overpay for freight. When you’re quoting manually, it’s tempting to stick with one carrier because comparing is tedious. With automatic multi-carrier quoting, you see the best rate on every order — and the savings compound.

Eliminate errors. Wrong dimensions, mistyped zip codes, forgotten orders — manual freight quoting is full of opportunities for costly mistakes. Automation removes the human error factor from the equation.

Scale without adding headcount. Whether you’re shipping 10 orders a week or 500, the system handles it the same way. Your freight management process grows with your business, not against it.

Built for LTL Freight, Not Just Parcel

Most shipping integrations treat freight as an afterthought. We built ours from the ground up for LTL. That means proper support for:

  • Freight classes — NMFC classifications that determine your rate
  • Handling unit types — pallets, crates, boxes, and more
  • Multi-carrier quoting — compare rates across all your carrier accounts simultaneously
  • Dimensional accuracy — length, width, height, and weight per product, carried through to every quote
  • Order lifecycle tracking — from pending to quoted to booked to delivered, always know where things stand

Getting Started

If you’re a Shopify merchant shipping LTL freight, getting set up takes just a few minutes:

  1. Connect your Shopify store from the Integrations settings page
  2. Configure freight dimensions on your imported products
  3. Set up your carrier accounts if you haven’t already
  4. Set a default shipper address as your origin

From there, every new Shopify order will be quoted automatically. You compare rates, book the best option, and move on.

Ready to stop quoting freight by hand? Get started today and see how much time you can save on LTL freight management for your Shopify store.