Shippo, the shipping platform for modern e-commerce, and Cover Genius, the insurtech for embedded protection, today announced a partnership to enhance the merchant experience with the launch of Shippo Total Protection, a solution that “provides merchants with comprehensive protection, global coverage and seamless claims handling.”
With this enhanced insurance offering, Shippo’s network of 100k+ merchants “can now cover an order’s total value, shipping label costs, return shipping for damaged parcels, and reshipping costs for insured packages across North America, EMEA and APAC, enabling them to protect their bottom lines and their customer’s shipping experience.”
Andreas Lieber, Chief Operating Officer at Shippo, said:
“Shipping protection has long been an add-on option we recommend to our users for peace of mind and we’re excited to team up with Cover Genius to enhance the experience for our merchants. Shippo users now benefit from new features like porch piracy protection, global coverage, and affordable pricing, to name a few. The claims process is also quicker and easier so our users can quickly recoup losses and better serve their customers.”
Shippo Total Protection powered by XCover, Cover Genius’ global distribution platform, offers merchants several benefits including:
- Comprehensive global shipping protection – The protection extends to all shipping/parcel carriers and includes innovative features like porch piracy coverage to help protect merchants from emerging threats.
- Global coverage – Previously, Shippo merchants could only add shipping insurance for outbound shipments originating from the United States. By partnering with Cover
With this new partnership, Shippo users now “have access to the best-in-class shipping insurance experience, seamless storefront integrations, discounted rates from a large network of global and regional carriers, smart defaults, and experienced shipping support.”
With Shippo, businesses of all sizes “can optimize their logistics workflow and grow their business.”
Shippo Total Protection powered by XCover is now “available across North America, EMEA and APAC.”