The Hidden Bottleneck in a Shopify Store

You’ve streamlined your Shopify store products, payments, and inventory are all under one roof. Yet when it’s time to ship orders, everything slows down. Shipping often becomes the bottleneck: slow order prep, manual steps, and scattered processes. As your sales grow, the pain only increases. Many merchants end up juggling multiple courier accounts (in fact, 63% of businesses use 2–3 different couriers theretailexec.com), which means jumping between websites, re-entering order details, and copy-pasting addresses. Every package seems to demand a dozen browser tabs and a lot of patience. Even Shopify’s built-in shipping tools have limits, you’re stuck printing labels one by one and manually choosing carriers, which works for a few orders but not for dozens. All this time-consuming, error-prone work turns fulfilment into a daily grind instead of a smooth extension of your sales. 

Why We Built Voila for Shopify

At The Despatch Company, we kept hearing the same story from Shopify merchants: 

Everything runs on Shopify until we hit fulfilment, then it’s back to spreadsheets and courier websites.

The frustration was real. Store owners were re-keying addresses into multiple systems, flipping between Royal Mail, DPD, DHL (you name it), and wrestling with each courier's labels and forms. Printing shipping labels became a marathon of downloading PDFs and clicking "Print" 100 times.

We knew there had to be a better way one that eliminates tab-hopping and manual data entry. Our Voila shipping app was born to solve this very problem. We envisioned a solution that lives inside Shopify and automates the busywork, so merchants can dispatch orders as easily as they process payments. In short, we built Voila to kill the shipping chaos that holds back growing brands. 

Meet Voila: Shipping Without the Friction

Voila is a Shopify app that turns your shipping workflow into a fast, unified lane. It connects directly to your Shopify orders and lets you generate labels across 150+ couriers without ever leaving Shopify. No more logging into different courier portals or wrestling with CSV exports. Voila pulls in your orders, finds the best shipping service, and prints the label in one go. It's all about removing friction: no more hopping between tabs or fixing wonky labels. Voila tackles the slow, error-prone parts of dispatch by automating service selection and enabling bulk label printing. The result? What used to take an afternoon of tedium can now happen in minutes. You get speed, accuracy, and the freedom to choose or change carriers on the fly without breaking your fulfilment.

In the words of our team, “Faster flows. Cleaner ops. Labels, done.” that’s Voila in a nutshell. 

Turning Shopify into Your Shipping HQ

Voila isn’t just another tool, it’s designed to fit naturally into Shopify’s interface and make your store feel like a complete operations hub. Shopify has already become the central nervous system for many fast-growing brands, almost a “lightweight ERP” that manages products, orders, and customers. 

Voila extends that vision to shipping. Remember, Shopify's native shipping features are quite basic – for example, it can't natively connect multiple carriers or apply automated shipping rules. Merchants often had to bolt on external systems or manual processes to fill these gaps. Voila closes that gap from within. By adding advanced multi-courier shipping capabilities directly into Shopify, we give you the kind of control and efficiency you'd expect from an enterprise system, but without the complexity or leaving Shopify's dashboard.

Everything is managed in one place, with no tedious copying of data between platforms. In practice, this means your Shopify store can handle sales and fulfilment seamlessly together - no separate software, no copy-paste, no headaches. Shopify becomes your all-in-one command centre for commerce and logistics. 

Key Features: Shipping Superpowers Inside Shopify

Voila comes packed with features that remove operational friction and save you massive time during fulfilment. Here’s a quick look at what it can do, all fully inside Shopify: 

Integration with 150+ Couriers

Connect to over 150 domestic and international shipping carriers (from Royal Mail and DPD to FedEx, Evri, and more) through a single platform. Manage all your delivery services in one place no more logging into multiple courier accounts or copying orders between systems.

Smart Shipping Rules

Define custom rules based on package weight, size, value, destination, or shipping method. Voila will automatically pick the best courier service for each order that meets your criteria.This ensures you always use the optimal shipping option without thinking twice. Faster decisions, fewer mistakes. 

Packaging Presets

Save your commonly used package dimensions and weights as presets. For example, define your “Medium Box” once with its weight and dimensions, and Voila will apply it to orders in a click. No more measuring and typing specs for every single order - your preferred packaging options are ready to go. 

Silent Printing

Voila supports silent printing, which means shipping labels print automatically to your configured printer without extra steps. The moment you generate a label, it’s sent straight to the printer - you don’t have to download PDFs or manually hit ‘Print’ at all. This speeds up your process and gets orders out the door faster. 

One-Click Batch Shipping

Fulfil multiple orders at once with batch label creation. You can select a batch of orders and print all their labels in one shot - no need to handle each order individually. Voila will even use your rules to pick the best service for each package in the batch, so hundreds of orders can be dispatched with just a few clicks. 

Fully Inside Shopify

Voila lives where your orders live - right in your Shopify admin. There’s no separate software to learn or external portals to manage; the app installs into your Shopify dashboard for easy access. You can import orders, manage couriers, and print labels all from Shopify itself, keeping your fulfilment workflow unified and simple. 

Each of these features is designed with one thing in mind: removing friction. By automating courier selection and label generation, Voila frees your team from what used to be hours of cut-and-paste drudgery. By centralising everything in Shopify, it eliminates the back-and-forth between systems that causes delays and errors. The upshot is a fulfilment process that scales as you grow, instead of becoming a choke point. As one early user told us, “It feels like going from a manual assembly line to autopilot.” 

Ready to Give Voila a Try?

Shipping doesn't have to be the scary, slow part of your day. With Voila, you can turn it into a streamlined, automated operation that keeps pace with your sales. We're excited to invite you to try Voila for yourself and see the difference. Getting started is easy: install Voila from the Shopify App Store, connect your courier accounts (we support 150+ out of the box), and run through a quick setup to define any shipping rules or presets you need. In minutes, you'll be ready to ship. Go to any unfulfilled order in Shopify, click "Ship via Voila", and watch how quickly your label is generated and (silently) printed. Try a batch of orders next you'll see how effortlessly you can book shipments and print all labels at once.

Say goodbye to the copy-paste routine and shipping screen fatigue. Voila is here to remove the bottleneck from your fulfilment process and give you time back to focus on growth.  

Install Voila today, connect your couriers, and print your first label – we think you'll wonder how you ever shipped without it.