SMART Notifications platform

The Parcelhub SMART platform allows Parcelhub customer services to proactively monitor your parcels.

SMART Notification software has been developed in house, in response to customer feedback and demand. It analyses delivery data and identifies non-deliveries and exceptions, allowing them to be monitored and action taken as required.

Because it works as an add-on to existing Parcelhub systems, it doesn’t have the same restrictions as other similar software, meaning it can be used by any merchant, across multiple carriers.

From Parcelhub case study, and customer Andrew Steel, Founder of Buydirect4u and Head of eCommerce:

Parcelhub’s eCommerce customer service team proactively deals with over 1,600 tickets raised automatically via its SMART platform each month. Tickets are raised into the department based on a set of rules configured across all carriers and services on behalf of Buydirect4u including some carriers not directly contracted by Parcelhub. The system is configured to raise an automated ticket based on a set of rules after a certain scan event or a series of scans indicate there may be a problem with the delivery.

Andrew Steel added: “As our business grew we liked the idea of having just one system to monitor and track parcels. Parcelhub provided their software to manage multiple portals to enable this to happen and streamline our customer services operation.” – Read more

How SMART Notifications works for different carriers:

• Each carrier has different tracking patterns and scanning events
• Each service within a carrier has different patterns
• Parcelhub has taken each service by carrier and uniquely mapped them against a ‘Type’ and a ‘Sub Type’, which allows the Parcelhub customer services team to identify and proactively pick up not only problem scans but also sequences of scan events that may result in a parcel being returned

Key benefits of SMART:

• The Parcelhub SMART platform allows Parcelhub customer services to proactively monitor your parcels
• Increases success rate of shipments
• Helps avoid Return to Sender incidents
• Reduces tracking queries to customer services
• SMART interceptions can be tailored to your business’s needs
• Increases seller ratings, NPS, customer feedback and carrier experience
• Saves you time, money and resources

Complemented by other Parcelhub benefits:

• Access to ‘pooled volume’ discounted rates from a carefully selected range of carrier partners
• Full use of supplemental features, including address book, pick and pack, manifests and cloned labels
• Label reprinting
• Advanced Customer Service support
• Recipient email and text notifications

Four reasons why you should send your parcels with Parcelhub: