Flutterwave, Africa’s payments technology startup, has announced a partnership with SHiiP, Nigeria’s premier courier service.
The collaboration’s purpose is to make it easier for Flutterwave store SMEs and large-scale merchants across Africa to deliver their goods to their clients.
With over 40,000 small-business entrepreneurs using the Flutterwave Store, the partnership with SHiiP will provide a seamless end-to-end e-commerce experience.
This will allow Flutterwave merchants to choose from over 80 domestic and international couriers, including DHL, FedEx, UPS, Flocargo, Shippo, and Flo Express, for the transportation of goods, resulting in lower delivery rates.
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SHiiP’s Flutterwave retail integration aids SMEs
The integration would enable businesses to ship worldwide effectively and would offer SMEs and online customers a straightforward transaction checkout. As SHiiP and their international couriers will be handling all alternatives for international shipment, they will no longer be constrained by the hassles that come with cross-border logistics services.
As a result, this logistics combination will give SME owners and online shoppers a lot of power. By offering a one-stop-shop e-commerce option, the SHiiP integration to the Flutterwave store will give SME owners in Nigeria the power to organise and track delivery couriers straight from their Flutterwave dashboard without the hassles they had to deal with before.
Onyedikachim Nwankwo, Head of Product Marketing at Flutterwave, said, “We’re excited to work with SHiiP because we both want to make it easier and more powerful for SMEs and large-scale merchants in Africa to do business.”
We think that this integration will be very helpful for our customers’ customer satisfaction and bottom line, and we’re proud to keep giving businesses new technological tools that are meant to help them grow their business.
SHiiP’s Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Products, Ridwan Rasheed, said, “We are excited to be working with Flutterwave.” It is a big step for both companies and shows how committed we are to driving innovation and helping African businesses grow by giving them easy shipping choices.
Flutterwave sellers can now offer their customers reliable and affordable shipping services without having to worry about the logistics of sending things across the continent.
About SHiiP
SHiiP was created in the course of resolving these delivery-related problems. In order to give you more time to manage your business and provide better customer service, SHiiP is a platform that assists in handling your deliveries and waybills.
Ridwan Rasheed, Shiip’s co-founder and CPO, says that we created the Shiip experience to guarantee the security and prompt delivery of all orders placed by clients. We have a fantastic customer service team that is always accessible to give you any advice you may need to ensure that working with us is a seamless process.
We now use SHiiP to deliver orders for over 2000 firms, and we’re eager to welcome more and handle their deliveries and waybills as well.
Our mission is to help people and businesses access shipping freedom and become the continent’s most robust shipping and delivery infrastructure. Today, businesses are able to use Shiip to improve their supply chain experience, save on shipping, and use business insights to fuel business growth.
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprise merchants can connect to a vast network of regional, national, and international delivery providers using the Shiip platform, taking advantage of a variety of streamlined delivery options, real-time rate comparison, reduced shipping costs, tracking, and other benefits.
SHiiP has onboarded 51 carriers, including notable names like DHL, FedEx/Redstar, GIG, Kwik, UPS, Jumia Logistics, Kxpress, Courier Plus, and more, covering local, national, and international shipments.
Shiip is growing rapidly, and we are intentional about growth. Our goal is to continue to work on onboarding new merchants as well as our expansion into other African countries.