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aftership

A better alternative to Narvar

A more comprehensive customer experience platform with greater ease-of-use, transparent pricing, and responsive support.

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AfterShip is the complete all-in-one post-purchase platform for eCommerce

AfterShip offers a full suite of solutions for retailers like you to improve and enhance the post-purchase customer experience.

Product offering

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Shipment tracking

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Returns and exchange

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Estimated delivery date

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Multi-carrier shipping

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Shipping protection

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Carbon footprint accounting

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Ease of use

Elevate your brand experience with AfterShip's adaptive notification workflows

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AfterShip offers built-in, customizable notification workflows to help keep customers informed during the post-purchase experience.

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Narvar does not support customization of notification workflows.

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Transparency

Gain full visibility on carrier integration and performance with AfterShip

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A dedicated team of engineers helps manage end-to-end carrier integrations. Any carrier performance issues are indicated on a status page.

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There’s no SLA for custom carrier integrations with Narvar. A carrier performance status page is also unavailable on its website.

Developer support

Easily integrate shipment tracking into your tech stacks with AfterShip API

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Open API docs are made available on AfterShip's website for developers. 99.99%+ uptime and 100 ms latency ensure dependable services.

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Although Narvar offers API to its users, there's no API doc available on its website for public access.

easily integrate shipment tracking into your tech stacks with aftership api
enjoy flexible pricing with aftership without lengthy contracts

Pricing

Enjoy flexible pricing with AfterShip without lengthy contracts

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Onboard with AfterShip's free trial for monthly/yearly plans or choose simple annual contract for enterprises.

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Narvar's website does not list any free trials or public plans. It also requires multi-year contracts with its enterprise clients.

Compare AfterShip and Narvar on G2.com

Don't just take our word for it. Check out the ratings of AfterShip and Narvar on G2.com as of March 31, 2023, to make an informed decision.

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Oct 28, 2022

“Centralized tracking across couriers”

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”Clean easy to use platform, convenience of login with major player credentials, centralized tracking across couriers, the ability to share tracking links to clients.”

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”We have been using Aftership for at least five years. There is truly nothing that comes to mind. It does all we need to be done. Interface is easy, data is reliable.”

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“We are happy to be able to manage shipping and returns from the same dashboard and ...”

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“... APIs and Webhooks allow for greater customization and integration with other systems.”

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Nov 03, 2022

“Expensive and hard to use”

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”The program itself is pretty great, it does a lot for returns and tracking.”

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”It took us nearly 6 months to fully onboard. Making adjustments to the program through our 2 years with them was so hard and support was HORRIBLE.”

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“On the post-purchase communications side- the price seems high for what is offered compared to similar systems that do the same thing.”

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“It can be confusing to make updates to your pages. You may need technical assistance from the team in order to figure out all of the settings.”

Comparison at a glance

See how AfterShip and Narvar stack up.

AfterShip

Narvar

Year founded

2012

2012

Number of employees

450

250+

Percentage of engineers in the company

66%

26%

Number of customers

20,000+

1,200+

Number of carriers integrated

1,000+ carriers
with native integration built-in

300+ carriers
additional integration may be needed

Open API developer documentation

Publicly available

Not publicly available

Customer support

24/7 live chat

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Disclaimer: The information has been collected from publicly available sources and is accurate as of July 2023.

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