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Tool-stack pairings

DECADE.promo and ShipStation

A pure-broker promo distributor never touches a box. A distributor who carries blank inventory or kits welcome boxes does. ShipStation is the layer that prints labels, prints packing slips, and reconciles tracking back to your order data.

When self-shipping beats drop-shipping

Welcome kits where you assemble the box yourself. Replacement orders where you keep a small inventory of common items. Holiday gift programs where the customer needs personalization at scale. Any time the labor of kitting is yours, not a fulfillment partner's, ShipStation lives in your stack.

The ShipStation handoff

A confirmed order in DECADE.promo gets pushed to ShipStation as a shipment record. ShipStation prints the label and the packing slip. The tracking number flows back to DECADE.promo where the customer portal picks it up and the auto-tracking polls the carrier for status updates.

When ShipStation is overkill

Under 50 packages a month, ShipStation's monthly fee is not worth it. The DECADE.promo built-in label workflow (or just buying a label directly through UPS/FedEx for an occasional self-ship) is enough.

ShipStation is the right tool when you actually ship boxes. If your model is broker-only with supplier blind ships, you do not need it.

What we built differently in DECADE.promo

Unlimited AI on the GOAT plan

AI mockups, Product Capture (browser-extension AI scraping of supplier sites), AI vectorization, and AI image upscale - all unlimited on one flat-price tier. No credit metering, no per-feature add-ons.

AI Product Capture extension

Browse any supplier website - SAGE, Hit Promo, Koozie Group, anywhere - click the browser extension, and our AI reads the page. SKUs, pricing tiers, setup fees, colors, lead times, and images are extracted in seconds and import directly to your products catalog.

Tightly integrated with SAGE

Bring your own SAGE Connect subscription. Search, adopt products, and pull pricing tiers without leaving Decade.promo. Sales decks, quotes, and POs reuse the SAGE data automatically.

Transparent pricing

Free tier for solo distributors, flat per-PPD pricing for teams, and no per-seat tax. Customers always free. Suppliers always free.

See it in your workflow

Free tier, no credit card, no contract. Start with one project and decide from there.

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Last reviewed 2026-04-27. Spot something inaccurate or out of date? Email hello@decade.promo and we will update it.