Food & Drink brands move faster by shipping from Zenstores
The right carrier, the right delivery day, labels ready to print and dispatch. Used by Arbor, Ben's Cookies and 1,200+ UK brands.
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“We use Zenstores for all of our ecommerce shipping. It's made our business far more efficient.”
Cut-offs, next-day routing and stock sync, from checkout to carrier.
Delivery dates shown at checkout
Customers see a real delivery date at checkout, calculated from your cut-off times and carrier schedules.
Next-day routing assigned automatically
Perishable orders are matched to a service that gets them there in time, without anyone choosing a carrier.
Carrier and label decided before packing
Every order arrives with its carrier, service and label already set, ready to pack and print.
Unleashed kept in sync
Stock and production confirmed in Unleashed flow straight through to dispatch, with no re-entry.
Every channel in one queue
Shopify, Amazon and wholesale orders arrive in the same queue and are worked the same way.
Your team picks. Zenstores handles the rest.
Your team packs from a single list instead of hopping between channels and carrier sites.
- Orders queued in the order they need to leave
- Labels print as each box is closed
- Chilled orders surfaced before the carrier cut-off
Every perishable order, on a next-day service, automatically.
Set your carrier and cut-off rules once, and every fresh order goes to the right next-day service from then on, no manual selection needed.
- Rules per product type, weight and destination
- Same rules across D2C, marketplace and wholesale
- Orders flagged automatically if a rule doesn't fit
Dispatch connected to how you already manage stock.
Dispatch becomes part of how you already run production and inventory.
- Stock and production confirmed in Unleashed
- Orders flow to dispatch with no duplicate entry
- Nothing lost in the gap between two systems
Live in days. Our team handles everything.
Most brands go live in days, not months, with no new hires needed to make it work.
Connect your channels
Link Shopify, Amazon, and your other sales channels to Zenstores in a few clicks. Your orders start flowing in straight away, complete with everything Zenstores needs to route them correctly.
Zenstores sets everything up
Zenstores connects your carriers, configures your cut-off time rules, and builds routing that prioritises next-day services for perishable products. No technical work on your end.
Dispatch on autopilot
Zenstores routes every order to the right carrier and service, shows delivery dates at checkout, and lets your team get straight to picking and packing.
Zenstores Convert shows customers a precise delivery date for each shipping option, calculated from your real cut-off times and carrier schedules. For perishable product, this is the difference between a confident purchase and an abandoned cart.
Zenstores natively supports DPD and other next-day carriers. You set your cut-off times and carrier preferences, and Zenstores applies them automatically to every order, no manual selection per order.
Zenstores connects to Unleashed so your dispatch process ties directly into how you manage stock and production. When stock is confirmed in Unleashed, orders flow through to dispatch without a manual step.
Zenstores works with your own negotiated carrier accounts. If you'd rather access pre-negotiated rates without your own accounts, Zenstores Swift rates are available across DPD, Royal Mail, Evri, and more.
Usually, yes. ShipStation was built for the US market and retrofitted for UK carriers, while Zenstores is built for UK ecommerce, with native UK carriers, Bristol-based support, and next-day routing rules for perishable product supported from day one. Since this covers a full platform switch, most teams go live within a week, with the Zenstores team handling the migration.
Zenstores' shipping rules can route age-restricted orders like alcohol automatically to a carrier and service that handles age verification on delivery, such as APC, so there's no manual sorting or separate process for these orders.
Zenstores integrates with subscription platforms including Recharge and Bold Subscriptions, so recurring food and drink boxes route and dispatch the same way as one-off orders, without manual handling each cycle.
Zenstores integrates with EAS to handle VAT, IOSS, and customs documentation for international orders, covering the compliance side of exporting specialty food and drink products into the EU.
Zenstores' shipping rules can trigger a specific carrier or service based on product type, so fragile items like glass bottles or jars can be routed differently from standard stock automatically.
Zenstores can flag VIP or time-sensitive orders so they're surfaced at the top of the queue automatically, rather than needing to be found and prioritised manually.
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