Web Site Enables Instant Shipping Rate Comparisons
ShipGooder.com provides rates from FedEx, UPS, DHL, the U.S.P.S and other delivery services online.
For those channel pros (not to mention their SMB clients) that do a fair amount of product and equipment shipping, this handy Web site is worth a bookmark.
ShipGooder.com is a new start-up Web service that enables visitors to review instant shipping rate comparisons from FedEx, UPS, DHL, the U.S. Postal Service as well as local messenger and delivery services. Visitors view delivery service comparisons as intuitive tables immediately after entering origin and destination zip codes. The new ShipGooder.com homepage launched in February.†
Not satisfied with the existing simplicity of their system, the software engineers at ShipGooder Inc. set about to make the rate search process even easier for Web site visitors. Their new site, ShipGooder.com, presents a “simplified homepage, where visitors who may not know a specific zip code can now simply enter the name of any U.S. or Canadian city and see corresponding zip codes appear in real-time.”
The Web site’s visitors’ own zip codes are automatically displayed as samples, using new geo-location technology, by which a visitor’s IP address is matched to its geographic location.
“ShipGooder is the market leader for delivery service search facilitation,” says ShipGooder vice president of marketing Nancy Chafee. “ShipGooder has achieved this leadership position primarily because visitors can use our service with little learning overhead. Other sites have attempted to provide similar services, but the web pages were simply too complicated to be useful,” she says.
ShipGooder president Franc Vodopivec says ShipGooder.com is in a “continual state of iterative design.” He says, “Cognitive modeling combined with a specific focus on user-centric design has allowed us to develop a Web service that continues to grow in popularity as well garner consistent, positive industry recognition.”
