Home & Garden brands move faster by shipping from Zenstores
From cushions to sofas, Zenstores makes pick and pack easy, with the right carrier chosen every time. Used by VELCRO Brand, Martin's Nursery and 1,200 UK brands.
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“We dispatch thousands of orders a day through Zenstores, and it hasn't gone down once in a year. Reliable, fair priced, feels like a genuine partner.”
From planters to patio sets, checkout to carrier.
Carriers matched to weight and size
Zenstores reads the dimensions on the order and assigns the right service on your own Parcelforce, APC or DX account.
Multi-parcel orders handled correctly
When an order needs more than one box, each consignment gets its own carrier booking and its own tracking reference.
Rules built around your range
During onboarding, we set up routing around your actual product range, you sign off on it, and it stays in place.
Oversize surcharges avoided
Each order goes out on a service sized correctly for it, so you're not paying an oversize fee for something that didn't need one.
Every channel in one queue
Orders from Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon and eBay all land in a single dispatch queue.
Flat-pack furniture, packed without missing a piece.
Your team scans each item as they pack, so every order, one box or more, goes out complete and correct.
- Every item scanned before it's boxed
- A wrong scan flagged immediately
- A label and tracking reference per consignment
Your weight and size rules, the right carrier, every time.
Every order is assigned a carrier based on its dimensions and weight, whether it's a hand trowel or a garden shed.
- Set rules on weight, dimensions and destination
- Heavy and irregular items routed to the right carrier
- No carrier picked by hand at dispatch
One order, however many parcels it takes.
A single order can leave as several consignments. Each one gets its own carrier booking, label and tracking reference, all held against the one order.
- Multi-consignment shipping supported
- Tracking given to the customer for every parcel
- Integrated with all leading carriers
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, WooCommerce, Amazon, and your other channels to Zenstores in a few clicks. Your orders start flowing in straight away.
Zenstores sets everything up
Zenstores connects your carriers and builds routing rules around your actual product range, including consignment rules for multi-box orders and weight thresholds for heavier items. No technical work on your end.
Dispatch on autopilot
Zenstores routes every order to the right carrier, prints labels, and books consignments automatically, so your team gets straight into picking and packing.
Zenstores can split a single order into as many consignments as it needs, each with its own label, carrier booking, and tracking reference. Your customer gets tracking for every parcel from one order.
Zenstores natively integrates with Parcelforce, APC, DX, and DHL, all well suited to heavier or irregular items. Zenstores routes each order to the right carrier based on the rules built for your product range during setup.
Zenstores' team does. During onboarding, they review your product range, weights, and carrier preferences and build the rules for you, which you approve before anything goes live. If your range changes later, you just ask the team to update the rules, you don't have to manage them yourself.
Zenstores works with your own negotiated carrier accounts. If you'd rather access pre-negotiated rates, Zenstores Swift rates are available across Parcelforce, Royal Mail, DPD, and more from day one.
Zenstores can flag live plants and other perishable stock so they're automatically routed to next-day services and surfaced at the top of the dispatch queue, rather than waiting behind standard orders. Yorkshire Bonsai uses this to keep every plant on a next-day service without manually flagging orders one by one.
Zenstores' rules-based automation handles multi-item sets and bundles automatically, so a matching furniture or homeware set dispatches correctly without manually checking that every piece is accounted for.
Zenstores' shipping rules can route fragile product types like ceramics, glass, or mirrors to a specific carrier or service automatically, based on product type rather than needing manual sorting at pack.
Zenstores' automation and routing rules run the same way regardless of order volume, so a seasonal spike doesn't mean rules start missing orders or needing manual double-checking.
Zenstores automates HS codes, customs forms, and duty handling including DDP for international orders, covering the same compliance requirements for larger or heavier home and garden products as it does for smaller parcels.
Usually, yes. ShipStation was built for the US market, while Zenstores is built for UK ecommerce shipping both domestically and internationally, with native UK carriers, Bristol-based support, and multi-consignment routing for large or irregular items supported from day one. Since this covers a full platform switch, most teams are fully live within a week.
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