DHL,DPD,UPS,TNT,GLS,FedEx
How not to spoil the impression of a great store on Shopify –by enabling delivery correctly
About this service
You've spent weeks selecting fonts, writing descriptions, and testing the «Buy» buttons. Your Shopify store looks perfect. The product is excellent. The prices are fair. But it can all go down the drain because of one detail: ill-conceived delivery.
The good news: Shopify allows you to flexibly configure work with any couriers: DHL, DPD, UPS, TNT, GLS, FedEx, and many others. But just turning on "Europe shipping" is not the solution. You need to understand which service to connect to your niche, geography, and pricing policy.
We set up Shopify stores every day—and that’s what really works.
DHL is your choice if you sell premium products or work with urgent international shipping. It is fast, reliable, and recognizable. But it’s expensive. Using it for all shipments is a direct path to losses.
- DPD, on the contrary, excels for massive B2C sales in Europe. Customers receive SMS with delivery time options, couriers call proactively, and rates are far more competitive than DHL at comparable quality—especially in Germany, France, and Benelux.
- GLS is the quiet champion for land delivery to Southern and Eastern Europe. Often cheaper than DPD, it consistently reaches Italy, Spain, and Poland. Ideal for non-urgent or non-fragile goods.
- UPS and FedEx dominate in the USA and outside the EU, but in Europe their service frequently lags behind DPD in customer convenience. We use them sparingly as backups, rarely as primary carriers.
- TNT (now FedEx) – reliable for Benelux pre-acquisition, but service predictability dropped post-integration. Reserved for niche tasks.
Crucial insight: Shopify doesn’t connect couriers directly. To auto-transfer orders to DPD/GLS, print invoices, and sync statuses, you need shopify shipping integration.
We implement these flows daily
For example:
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The buyer selects a country → the store instantly shows only viable, cost-effective shipping options via shipping integration shopify
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At checkout, Shopify auto-generates DPD invoices and sends real-time track numbers.
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USA-bound packages trigger FedEx; Germany → DPD; Italy → GLS.
Our shopify shipping integration services transform shipping from a cost center into a business growth engine. Every optimized delivery cycle compounds: happier customers, leaner operations, and scalable ecommerce success.
Well-structured logistics are your hidden source of profit
We don't just «build a store» on Shopify, and we don't limit ourselves to beautiful design or payment settings. We design the complete customer journey—from the first click to the last mile of delivery. This includes integration with your warehouse, automation of notifications, setting up delivery rates based on geography and weight, connecting to reliable logistics services, and even thinking through return scenarios.
If you have already launched Shopify, great. But if logistics is still «on its knees», through Excel and manual calls to the courier, it will cost more, take more time, and, most unpleasant of all, may require stopping sales for several days. And if you are just planning a launch, it's time to lay down the right logistics architecture from scratch. This will save you not only your budget but also your nerves.
Write to us and we will help you set up delivery so that it works not as a «necessary evil», but as a competitive advantage. To make it easy for you to manage operations and for your customers to wait for the parcel with pleasure.