What is Aftership? Aftership Review

Aftership is a company that connects to the global logistics system and helps cross-border e-commerce sellers quickly check the progress of package logistics. Aftership is headquartered in Hong Kong, with teams located in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and India.

About Aftership

AfterShip is a B-side SaaS company with global business presence and cooperation with more than 500 logistics companies, covering more than 30 mainstream language business systems. It is committed to helping e-commerce companies and platforms of all sizes to use cloud technology to fully automate express tracking, reduce operating costs, increase buyer loyalty, and allow e-commerce companies to focus on building their brands.

In the field of express delivery SaaS, AfterShip has become an international leader, with existing customers including Amazon, Wish, eBay, PayPal, Groupon, Etsy and more than 100,000 e-commerce companies of all sizes.

AfterShip integrates with major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce, eBay, Floship, and Magento.

In January 2014, AfterShip launched a package tracking that allows online retailers to obtain tracking information from different carriers through AfterShip as a single source. Online retailers can use the AfterShip API to display tracking details and information on their website and monitor the carrier's delivery performance.

Background

In 2011, founder Teddy Chen Longsheng participated in the first "Startup Weekend" competition in Hong Kong, and met another co-founder Andrew Chen Zewei during the competition. In the end, the two formed a team and won the victory with the idea of ​​"automatic express delivery inspection". In the same year, in the United States, they competed with more than 30 other "Startup Weekend" winning teams around the world and won the Global Startup Battle annual award, becoming the world champion of entrepreneurship.

Later, their idea was favored by many angel investors, and they raised over one million yuan in start-up funds from overseas angel investors and the Cyberport incubation program. In April 2012, in order to truly realize this business idea, the two officially founded the company.

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Online merchants link their shopping cart or marketplace seller account with AfterShip, which currently supports Amazon, eBay, Magento, Shopify, and Volusion shopping carts. AfterShip will then automatically import tracking numbers for all existing or future packages, and online merchants can also send customized delivery status notification messages to customers via SMS, email, or Twitter.

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Founder Teddy said that AfterShip's core competitiveness lies in its ability to seize the time opportunity and not spend any marketing expenses in the early stage. In addition, the product itself is also differentiated. The products and services provided by AfterShip are designed to create a closed loop, including three aspects:

1. Utilize cloud technology to track express delivery: Automatically query the express delivery information of more than 530 express delivery companies around the world, and assist merchants to notify recipients of updated information in the first place. Provide e-commerce with customized express delivery query pages, allowing their customers to view product advertisements while checking express delivery, thus realizing intelligent marketing;

2. Printing orders: Easily print orders from multiple express delivery companies around the world and calculate freight costs. Help e-commerce companies manage orders from different sales platforms in one place and automatically return data;

3. Return customer service optimization and full automation: Provide e-commerce with a customized return page. Enterprises can establish a cross-border e-commerce return and exchange process through the SaaS platform to reduce return and exchange costs.

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Financing

After receiving over one million yuan in start-up funding, the AfterShip team received another $1 million in Series A funding from IDG-Accel in 2014.