Lettre Simple integration to reduce your costs and processes
Our connector for Lettre Simple from La Poste has one objective: to reduce your costs and processing time for thin items (< 3 cm). By activating it, you automate franking at the lowest rate on the market, directly from the order preparation interface. You gain in efficiency and profitability on every small consignment sent.
5 key benefits of integration
Drastic reduction in shipping costs
Benefit from La Poste's lowest postage rates for all your thin products. You stop paying parcel rates for items that can be sent in letter format, directly increasing your margin.
Postage and printing in a click
Generate and print your stamps en masse, directly on your delivery notes or invoices. Our transport label (and stamp) printing solution puts an end to manual franking.
No more manual processing
The process is fully automated. The system identifies eligible orders and offers Lettre Simple franking, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone manual tasks for your logistics teams.
Centralize all your orders
Whether your orders come from your own website or from marketplaces, you can manage them from a single interface. Order centralization simplifies the management of Lettre Simple shipments within your usual flows.
Streamlined order picking
By integrating stamp printing into the shipping document, you simplify the picker's work. The picking, packing and franking process becomes a single, rapid flow. It's a complete order-picking solution.
Your logistics challenges with small consignments - our practical solutions
- Manual franking of each shipment is a considerable waste of time
Stamping hundreds or thousands of small orders every day is an extremely slow, repetitive and unrewarding process. This manual bottleneck slows down your entire shipping capacity, and prevents your teams from mobilizing on more important tasks.
- Parcel shipping costs weigh on the profitability of your low-value products
Using traditional parcel solutions for items selling for just a few euros (jewelry, shells, books, accessories…) destroys your margins. You’re forced to raise your selling prices or sacrifice profitability to stay competitive.
- Managing low-value orders is just as complex as for other orders
Even if their value is low, these orders have to be processed, overloading your teams. Without a system for centralizing orders, they are drowned in the mass, and their processing is neither prioritized nor optimized, which can lead to delays.
- Lack of integration between your CMS and La Poste creates process breakdowns
There’s no simple bridge between your e-commerce back-office and basic postage solutions. This lack of integration forces you to juggle multiple interfaces, export data manually and work with broken, inefficient logistics processes.
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
What types of products are eligible for the Lettre Simple service?
The Lettre Simple service is designed for sending small items up to 3 cm thick and 2 kg in weight (according to La Poste conditions). It’s the ideal solution for e-tailers selling products such as books, video games, phone covers, jewelry, thin clothing, fashion accessories, cosmetics or small spare parts.
Is there tracking for Lettre Simple shipments?
No, and that’s the main difference with services like Lettre Suivie or Colissimo. Lettre Simple is a pure postage service, with no tracking. Its aim is to offer the lowest possible rate. That’s why it’s recommended for low-value products for which shipping cost is the most important criterion, and for which a lack of tracking does not represent a major financial risk.
Can I use Lettre Simple for orders from several marketplaces and my own site?
Yes, absolutely. Our connector centralizes all your orders, whatever their origin (Shopify, Prestashop, Amazon, eBay, etc.). You can then create an automated shipping rule that assigns “Lettre Simple” delivery mode to all orders that meet the criteria you’ve defined (e.g. weight < 100g, price < €15, destination France). This works in a unified way across your entire omnichannel business.
How is stamp printing managed in practical terms to save time?
Our solution lets you integrate the stamp image directly into your shipping documents, such as your delivery note or invoice. When you start mass printing these documents for eligible orders, the stamp is printed at the same time. So there’s no longer a separate step for franking. The preparer has only one document to attach to the parcel, which cuts processing time in half.
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