Reports are an essential tool for businesses. They provide a detailed account of various aspects of your shipping operations, allowing for better decision-making and strategic planning. By analyzing report data, businesses can identify trends, monitor progress, and spot potential issues before they become significant problems.
EasyPost comes with many out-of-the-box reports to help you optimize your business and are completely free generate and download. This article will go over the types of reports offered at EasyPost and what they can do for you.
Reports with every EasyPost account:
Below is a list of many of the free reports available to EasyPost customers along with examples of the reports applicability to your business.
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Shipment Reports: These provide detailed information about each shipment, including tracking status, costs, and delivery status. This report can be used to:
- Understand your total and average shipping costs by Carrier, Service Level, specific Carrier Accounts
- Evaluate shipping costs by location
- Evaluate carrier performance
- Shipment Cost Adjustments Report: This gives a comprehensive overview of your post-purchase cost adjustments such as Carrier APV adjustments. This report can be used to:
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- Identify frequency and cost to you of carrier adjustments for reasons such as inaccurate package weight.
- Understand the reasons for your label adjustments to optimize and prevent these unexpected costs to shipping.
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Financial Reporting: This allows you to evaluate transactions against your EasyPost Wallet and other billing related history.
- Payment History Report: View comprehensive financial transactions including payments, refunds, fees and more.
- Month-end financial reporting
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Shipment Tracking Report: Trackers are objects created in EasyPost comprised of a carrier (USPS, FedEx, DHL, etc) and a tracking code for the shipment. Trackers are constantly updated to reflect the latest shipment statuses passed through by the carriers. Use this report to:
- Manage package exceptions such as lost in transit, late delivery or held at customs
- Carrier and service performance
- Transit times
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Shipping Analytics Dashboard: At a glance pulse check of your shipping activity by carriers over time.
- Quickly evaluate average cost per label by carrier by day/week/month
- Quickly evaluate carrier cost and usage of your total shipping activity
It doesn't matter if you are shipping 1 package a day or 3,000, these free reports available to all EasyPost customers will be crucial to understanding and optimizing your shipping activity.
Where can I learn more about reports?
For more information on generating a particular report or viewing previously reports, check out these Support Articles: