ShipStation in Polar: real shipping cost, in your margin.
ShipStation runs your multi-carrier shipping. Connect it and your shipping costs, carriers and delivery data flow into Polar, so landed margin reflects what fulfillment actually costs, per order and per SKU, not a gross number with shipping left out.
/Setup Guide
How to Connect ShipStation to Polar.
01 · What you need
A Polar account with Shopify
A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.
Connect your data →A ShipStation account
API access to your shipments, carriers and shipping costs so the connector can pull them.
Open ShipStation →Polar's AI Data Engineer
ShipStation is ingested via the connector and blended with your orders and margin.
02 · Bring ShipStation into Polar
1
Request ShipStation in Connectors ~ minutes
Custom connections available.
In Polar, open Connectors. ShipStation sits under Custom connections available: click Request and Polar's AI Data Engineer builds it, in minutes.
2
Blend with orders automatic
Cost meets orders.
Shipping cost blends into landed margin, per order and per SKU, next to revenue.
3
See true margin the payoff
Landed, not gross.
Contribution margin reflects real shipping cost, and you see which orders and SKUs are expensive to ship.
Side by side
ShipStation ships the orders. Polar puts the cost in your margin.
ShipStation knows exactly what shipping costs, but it lives in its own dashboard, apart from revenue and margin. So landed profit is a guess. Polar folds it in.
ShipStation on its ownon its own
+ShipStation with Polarblended
Shipping cost sits apart from margin.
Shipping cost blended into landed margin.
No landed-cost view per SKU or carrier.
Landed cost per SKU and per carrier.
Gross margin ignores fulfillment.
Margin net of real shipping cost.
Delivery disconnected from support.
Delivery timing next to orders and support.
The Gap
The ShipStation connector is only half of it.
Once your ShipStation shipping cost are connected to Polar, you can use them wherever you already work. Ask Polar in plain language, pull them live through the Polar MCP, or schedule a snapshot into the report your team reads every morning.
ShipStation
shipments, carriers, cost
Polar
landed margin