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FedEx® Compatible verifies FedEx shipping labels generated from business software. Do you have a software product that delivers FedEx customers simple, streamlined business processes and access to FedEx products and services customers want and need? If so, your software might be a good fit for the Compatible program.
Don’t print a shipping label? No problem. Visit the FedEx Developer Portal for other integration options.
What are FedEx Compatible Solutions?
FedEx Compatible solutions are business software products that generate shipping labels. Most verified solutions fall into a few categories:
• E-commerce
• Transportation management systems
• Order management
• Warehouse management
• Enterprise resource planning
• Office shipping
• Parcel & Mailing Systems
However, if your software doesn’t fit into one of these categories, but meets a unique customer need and generates shipping labels you can be considered for acceptance. We verify labels globally which allows you to sell your product with FedEx shipping built in to customers in more than 70 countries.
Each Compatible solution completes label verification as part of each major FedEx release, to ensure the newest features and services are available to their customers.
What do I need to do to have my product considered for FedEx Compatible?
All FedEx Compatible applications are evaluated on an individual basis by our team. If you are interested in applying, complete the application and a team member will be assigned to review your application.
Requirements for acceptance include, but are not limited to:
• Software must generate a shipping label
• Software is out of beta and currently sold in market
• Signed Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement
• Signed contract from FedEx Compatible
• Minimum insurance coverage
• Ability and desire to work with FedEx to market the product as a FedEx Compatible solution.
*We have temporarily disabled the application process while we make improvements to the program. If you're a 3rd party software provider and need support to integrate with our new APIs, please click here to let us know:
The FedEx Compatible program seeks to develop win-win relationships with third-party software providers to enable their systems with FedEx shipping functionality and to provide industry leading technical support, as well as marketing programs, to create a competitive advantage.
As a result, the program makes it more efficient and more convenient for customers to ship via FedEx because the FedEx shipping functionality is integrated into the shipper's business systems, making FedEx shipping a seamless part of the shipper's end-to-end process flow.
Frequently Asked Questions
Today, customers of all sizes demand integration. With the FedEx Compatible Program, customers can conveniently access FedEx and, in many cases, other transportation carriers through a single, third-party shipping solution that has passed FedEx certification testing. With the FedEx Compatible Solutions Program, FedEx services are available through these systems.
A FedEx Compatible solution is right for the customer who:
- Needs to ship with more than one carrier from a single shipping system.
- Has complex, highly customized integration needs.
- Needs features or functionality not available through FedEx proprietary automation.
A FedEx Compatible solution means the FedEx functionality within the third-party provider's system has passed FedEx integration testing.
Following is the process that a third-party developer must complete to become a provider of FedEx Compatible solutions:
- Contact the Compatible marketing team through the provider form at https://fedex.com/compatible/provider-application
- A Compatible team member will review the application and if eligible, work with the provider to complete a business justification and complete all legal requirements of the program.
- The provider will develop their software to include all applicable features and services and complete integration testing including labels, revenue, and branding.
- Providers are required to develop new features released in FedEx software and complete verification testing regularly.
You can find a Compatible software solution to meet your needs at https://www.fedex.com/compatible/find-a-solution.
Verified software solutions fully support most of the available FedEx services, depending on their software type and customer profile. Strategic features and services for FedEx will always be supported by the majority of our FedEx Compatible solutions.
Because the customer is providing the hardware, there are no minimum volume or revenue requirements for using a third-party system with FedEx shipping functionality as long as the customer is using a FedEx Compatible solution.
Yes, the FTIP program supports assisting new and existing customers in purchasing hardware, software, integration and support services to implement a FedEx Compatible solution. For more information, please discuss the program with your FedEx account executive or visit https://www.fedex.com/en-us/technology-incentive-program.
Yes, FedEx Compatible software will allow customers to have automatic access to their earned discounts associated with the account number used to set up FedEx in the software.
If FedEx is not part of the system's standard package, the customer should contact the provider to request installation and activation of the FedEx shipping functionality.
Customers should visit https://fedex.com/compatible/find-a-solution to find a software solution to meet your needs.
Customers can also use the filter tool on the site to narrow down a list of providers that meet their specific business needs and complete a form to request a consultation from the providers they are interested in. Customers can also use the PDF sales sheets for each provider to print and compare solutions.
- Ensures FedEx customers are using the right software for their business needs.
- Determines the pricing for their software solutions, integration and possibly hardware they supply to the customer.
- Establishes an integration and installation schedule with the customer including upgrading FSMS at least every two years and Web Services annually.
- Completes integration and installation of a customer's new shipping solution including the FedEx functionality.
- If using FedEx Ship Manager® Server, guides the customer through the setup process on the registration website, which allows the customer to agree to the FedEx End User License Agreements, and returns the customer's meter number for the new shipping solution.
- Configures the customer's new solution with the newly assigned meter number.
- Provides full support for the FedEx Compatible solution.
For technical support, customers utilizing FedEx Compatible solutions can rely on their FedEx Compatible provider to:
- Provide full support for the FedEx Compatible solution.
- Escalate any unresolved customer issue with the FedEx functionality to FedEx technical support.
- Work with the customer to provide annual software updates.