Pitney Bowes and ShipCenter Partner to Offer Cross-border Shipping Solution to Kickstarter Creators
April 28 2016 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Artists, Musicians, Filmmakers and Designers
Can Simply and Conveniently Ship Rewards to Backers in 66 Countries
around the World
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides innovative products and solutions to power commerce, and
ShipCenter, a technology-focused logistics company offering
discounted small parcel and freight services, announced today that
they have joined forces to offer Kickstarter creators a simple,
end-to-end solution for shipping rewards to their backers in 66
countries.
As the world's largest funding platform for creative projects,
Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and
other creators find the resources and support they need to make
their ideas a reality. To date, tens of thousands of creative
projects — big and small — have come to life with the support of
the Kickstarter community.
To help Kickstarter creators fulfill, ship and track rewards
internationally to their backers, ShipCenter is offering a custom
solution that leverages Pitney Bowes’s Borderfree Marketplace
solution at www.shipcenter.com. The solution provides Kickstarter
creators with an international shipping rate card with all costs
calculated upfront for each shipment including duties, taxes and
shipping fees. This can help eliminate unforeseen shipping and
importation costs so there are no surprises for Kickstarter
creators or their backers when rewards are delivered. The solution
also offers deeply discounted international shipping rates. In
addition, Pitney Bowes handles country-specific export compliance
and customs documentation, making international shipping easy.
“We are thrilled to be collaborating with ShipCenter to provide
Kickstarter creators with a solution that can help simplify the
complexities of international shipping so they can easily send
rewards to their backers around the world,” said Lila Snyder,
Executive Vice President and President, Global Ecommerce, Pitney
Bowes. “This is the first time our global ecommerce software and
shipping services are being leveraged outside of the retail
industry and we look forward to delivering a rich, end-to-end,
cross-border shipping experience.”
“With Pitney Bowes’s guaranteed, upfront calculation of
international shipping costs along with ShipCenter’s LTL and U.S.
domestic small parcel offering, Kickstarter creators can have
control over their delivery expenditures before packages even leave
their hands,” said Sean Lynch, Vice President, Sales and Marketing,
ShipCenter. “In addition, our solution provides Kickstarter
creators with a single source for all of their international and
domestic shipments.”
To ship rewards, Kickstarter creators simply email their backer
lists directly from their Kickstarter project campaign. ShipCenter
generates shipping labels for each shipment, schedules pick-ups,
creates customs invoices and provides a single invoice for the
entire process.
The Pitney Bowes Borderfree Marketplace Solution is available as
part of the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, a commerce enabler,
providing access to solutions, analytics and APIs across the full
commerce continuum with speed and agility to help clients identify
customers, locate opportunities, enable communications, power
shipping from anywhere to everywhere and manage payments.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company offering
innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas
of customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than
1.5 million clients in approximately 100 countries around the world
rely on products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes. For
additional information, visit Pitney Bowes
at www.pitneybowes.com.
About ShipCenter
ShipCenter enables customers to ship using the Pitney Bowes
Borderfree Marketplace solution without needing to complete an API
integration. We provide access to deeply discounted international
shipping rates and upfront calculations of duties, taxes and
brokerage. Combined with our operational and technical support
teams, ShipCenter is the go-to provider for all your shipping
needs. For more information, visit ShipCenter at
www.shipcenter.com.
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