Delivery exception guides

Late deliveries, parcels stuck in transit, failed attempts, customs holds. Practical answers for Shopify merchants, from watching real shipments across real carriers.

Free method

How to find delivery exceptions in Shopify — free, with AI

A copy-paste prompt that turns your order export into a list of parcels that need chasing. Works properly under 50 a week — and here's exactly where it stops.

Carrier tracking

Why Evri tracking stops updating — and what to tell your customer

A parcel goes quiet for days and the customer is asking. What's actually happening, when it means something is wrong, and three messages you can send.

Cross-border

Your parcel changed tracking number at the border — and nobody told you

The tracking stops, the parcel keeps moving, and the two halves of the journey live under different numbers. How to spot it, and what to ask the carrier for.

Failed delivery

A failed delivery attempt starts a clock. Here's how long you have

Nobody was in. In a fortnight the parcel is back in your stockroom at your expense — unless someone acts inside the window.

Customs

What “customs hold” means on a Shopify order — and who has to act

Customs delays are usually waiting on someone. Often it's the recipient, and nobody has told them.

Tracking silence

A parcel hasn't been scanned in days. What now?

How long is too long, how it differs by route, and when to open an enquiry rather than wait.

Reference

Carrier tracking statuses: what they actually mean

The same words mean different things at different carriers, and some describe a state rather than an event. A table of the ones we have verified on real parcels.

Tired of checking parcels one by one?

Delivery Radar watches every tracked shipment your store sends and surfaces only the ones that need you.

See it on the Shopify App Store