You pay the carrier.
Now you choose the box.
If you ship on your own carrier account, every oversized box your 3PL packs is on your bill. TCS-i sends your packing rules to the pack station at every 3PL you use, and shows you what it saves.
Run the audit on your own order exports in about three minutes. No account, and your files stay in your browser.
You know your products best. The packer decides.
You pay for the air
Carriers bill by dimensional weight. When a packer grabs a box that's too big, the extra lands on your shipping bill, not your 3PL's.
Your rules live in PDFs
Fragile items, gift sets and unboxing notes go to the warehouse by email. Packers under pressure rarely open them.
You can't see the floor
You find out a box was oversized when the invoice arrives, or when a customer posts a photo of a tiny item in a huge carton.
Your rules, on every 3PL's screen.
Set your rules once
Add your products, the boxes you allow, fragility buffers and packing notes in the TCS-i brand portal.
Your 3PL's packers see them
When your order is scanned, the station screen shows the right box and where each item goes, inside the 3PL's existing WMS. No new hardware.
You see what it saves
A live scorecard shows box use, wasted space and savings for your orders at every warehouse you ship from.
What brands ask us first
Will my 3PL agree to use it?
It runs inside the WMS they already use (ShipHero, Mintsoft, Extensiv and Logiwa), on the screens they already have. Packers get a clear picture of the box and the layout, so there's less guesswork and fewer disputes about how an order was packed. We talk to your 3PL with you.
We use more than one 3PL.
Set your rules once and share them with each warehouse. Your scorecard shows every location side by side.
Who pays?
Whoever pays the carrier pays for TCS-i, so each order is billed once. If you ship on your own carrier account, that's you: $189 a month including 5,000 orders, then $0.035 an order. If your 3PL pays shipping, you use the brand portal free.
Can I try it before talking to anyone?
Yes. The free audit runs on your own order and product exports in your browser and shows how often a smaller box would have done.
See what your boxes are costing you.
Export a few weeks of orders and your product list, and the free audit shows how often a smaller box would have done. Or book a call and we'll go through it with you.