Mike Fazio

Which Tracking API is Best? The Developer's Guide for 2026

Your on-call engineer was just paged at 3 AM. The tracking API you rely on is down again, and thousands of 'Where Is My Order?' tickets are flooding your support desk. The root cause of most post-purchase pain is an unreliable, poorly documented API rather than a missing feature. The tracking API you can build on wins on three things a skeptical developer can verify - uptime you can hold a vendor to, webhook delivery that retries instead of giving up, and documentation that gets you to productio

Shippn API Alternatives for US-Based Developers

You need a multi-carrier shipping API that holds up for US carriers while those carriers keep changing their own APIs. If your search began with Shippn API vs EasyPost API, Shippn's own FAQ describes an international package-forwarding service that accepts no labels created outside its platform and offers no domestic shipping, so the comparison that fits is AfterShip Shipping against EasyPost. On documented uptime commitment, US parcel carrier coverage, developer tooling, and one developer porta

Shipping Protection Plans: A Price & Coverage Comparison

Your shipping-issues line item is growing, and the protection plan you pick decides whether it shrinks or just moves. Judge plans on three things: what the shopper pays, what the fine print excludes, and who owns the claim. For a US brand shipping more than 5,000 orders a year, a plan where the claim starts on your own branded tracking page and the insurer reimburses you is the stronger choice. That is how AfterShip Protection works. Most shipping protection plans look alike at checkout; the di

Narvar vs Loop vs AfterShip: A Tech-Focused Verdict

You have AfterShip, Loop and Narvar on the shortlist, a WMS and an ERP that already work, and a post-purchase stack that will not scale past the warehouses you are opening this year. All three publish returns APIs, so the question is not whether you can integrate, but how much of the post-purchase journey sits behind one developer surface. That is what an integration actually costs over a five-year horizon. This comparison runs on integration complexity, operational compatibility and data access

Shipping Protection Costs Killing Your Margins? A Pricing Rank

Every package you reship comes directly out of your net profit. How many thousands did you lose last quarter to porch pirates and carrier errors? If you're looking for a solution, you've likely seen '1% of cart value' promises. But the real cost is far more than 1%. That 1% is not a competitor's invention. It is roughly where the category starts, AfterShip's own published floor included. It is an accurate starting premium, and a small share of what protection costs you across a year. Beyond t

Redo's Reverse-Logistics Platform: Alternatives for 3PLs

Deconstructing Redo: More Than a Returns App? All-in-one reverse-logistics platforms promise simplicity. For a third-party logistics provider, that simplicity can quietly bind warehouse operations to customer experience, and the two do not come apart cleanly later. The test for Redo's reverse logistics platform is what its integration actually delivers to a warehouse system, and what it has committed to keep delivering three years from now. Redo started as a returns app. It is now a returns,