This article discusses troubleshooting steps for some common issues with customer email notifications from ShipStation.
Expand any of the sections below to see additional details and troubleshooting steps. If you are not able to resolve your issue after following the troubleshooting steps below, please reach out to ShipStation support. We are happy to help.
The Issue
The customer notification did not send or you received a failed notification alert in ShipStation.
Troubleshooting Steps
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Ensure the store is configured to send emails. Check the Shipment Confirmation Email setting for the store in
Settings > Selling Channels > Store Setup >Edit Store Details > Emails. -
Check to see if delayed notifications are enabled, also found on the Emails tab. If so, the notification will not be sent until the conditions are met.
If using the condition of when the shipment first hits the mail stream, the service used for the shipment must support auto-tracking in ShipStation.
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Confirm the order contains a valid email address.
Amazon, Walmart, and Rakuten do not allow ShipStation to notify their customers and will not include valid email addresses when sending orders to ShipStation.
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Resend the notifications by selecting the shipment with the failed notification and choosing Other Actions > Send Notification.
If using ShipStation's Legacy Layout, click the failed notification icon and choose Retry Failed Steps.
The Issue
Your customer notification emails consistently end up in your customer's spam folder.
Troubleshooting Steps
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Avoid marketing language in your notification emails, as this can trigger many email providers' spam filters.
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Add your company email address in the Email field of your store setting's Branding tab. Go to
Settings > Selling Channels > Store Setup > Edit Store Details > Branding.Verify the email address once you have saved your changes.
Without an email address, email notifications will send from tracking@shipstation.com, which can trigger the email provider's spam filter.
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Do not add or include links in your email signature. Emails with links in their signature will often be sent to spam.
The Issue
Emails contain the wrong branding or used the wrong template.
Troubleshooting Steps
The template assigned to the order may have been changed either manually or by an automation rule.
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Check your store's Shipment Confirmation Email template to ensure the correct template has been assigned to the store. Go to
Settings > Selling Channels > Store Setup > Edit Store Details. -
Check the Shipment Activity section in the order details to see if an automation rule applied and changed the selected template
The Issue
Your customers are not receiving their shipment delivery notifications.
Troubleshooting Steps
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Check that you have set the store to send Delivery Notifications. Go to
Settings > Selling Channels > Store Setup > Edit Store Details > Notificationsand check Delivery Notification Email. -
Check that the service used for the shipment supports auto-tracking in ShipStation.
If the service does not automatically send tracking updates to ShipStation, ShipStation cannot send a delivery confirmation email.