EST Online will be replaced for Small Business Shippers, February 2022
In February 2022, EST Online will be decommissioned and replaced by our latest shipping tools. If you are a small business shipper or are part of the Solutions for Small Business program, you can now use Snap Ship.
Try Snap Ship now!
Give yourself plenty of time to get comfortable with the new design—start using Snap Ship now. It’s easy to use with great new features, and you can login using the same username and password as your EST Online account.
In February 2022, EST Online will be decommissioned and replaced with Snap Ship.
Have a shipping contract? Commercial customers with a shipping contract can now use Shipping Manager.
New features
Snap Ship streamlines the EST Online experience for small businesses:
- Reuse shipping details: You can save a set of packaging dimensions and shipment weight as a selectable template for future shipments. You can also save customs information for an item that you regularly ship.
- Multiple shipping labels: You can create more than one shipping label at a time, and pay for them together at checkout.
- Save shipments for later: Select the shipments you want to pay for and leave the rest for later.
- Integrated customs form: When sending to a U.S. or international destination, the customs form is automatically added to the label creation steps.
- Integrated pickup: You can book an On Demand Pickup before checking out. Shipments can be added to existing pickups or new ones.
- Order history: View your recent orders within the tool. Reprint labels for active orders.
- Edit an order after adding it to the cart: Need to update the address or the contact phone number? No problem, just click the edit icon in the cart to change details of your shipment.
- Pay by supplier account: You can use your supplier account to pay for your orders.
Are you a commercial customer with a parcel contract? Learn about Shipping Manager.
Snap Ship FAQ
Snap Ship is a tool used by small business customers (who do not have a parcels contract) to create, pay for, and print shipping labels online.
Users who don’t have a printer can print their labels at the post office.
All members of the Solutions for Small Business program can use Snap Ship. They only need to be signed in to their business profile.
Yes, however, the shipper must be using a Canadian sender address. A customer whose Canada Post profile has a non-Canadian address can use the tool by adding a Canadian sender address as a secondary address.
You should use Snap Ship if:
- you are a small business customer without a parcels contract
- you send small to medium volumes of packages daily through Canada Post
- you want to pay by credit card or by supplier account
All three tools are used to create shipping labels for Canadian, U.S. or international destinations, and offer their respective users shipping discounts.
Snap Ship is a tool for small business shippers who are members of the Solutions for Small Business program.
Shipping Manager is a new tool for commercial shippers with a parcels contract.
EST Online is a soon-to-be-decommissioned tool that business customers with specific account criteria can use.
In February 2022, Snap Ship will fully replace EST Online.
- Access to Solutions for Small Business discounts
- Create multiple shipments
- Saved Sessions
- Save your shipping details so you can save your packaging and custom details to reuse on other shipments
- Quick comparison of available shipping services
- Simplified shipment email notification and tracking
- Integrated On Demand Pickup requests
- Secure credit card payment method
- Recipient address management for repeat shipments
- Scan QR code and print at retail.
- Mobile friendly
- Accessibility compliant
Snap Ship is for business customers only. Consumer or personal users will be directed to Ship Online to create and pay for shipping labels online.
Customers can use the credit card stored in their business profile, or enter new credit card information during checkout.
Payment by account is available for some select customers.
A variety of domestic, U.S., and international shipping services are available.
The service available for any particular shipment depends on the shipment destination, and its weight and dimensions.
You presently cannot import an existing address book into Snap Ship. However, you can save recipient addresses to build an address book within the tool. Additionally, in Snap Ship, you can see any addresses you have saved in an EST Online address book.
When you start typing an address, matching saved addresses are displayed. Simply select the one you want to ship to. If you would like to save more addresses, select the Recipients link from your cart.
You can add up to 50 shipments per order. After 50 shipments, you will need to pay for some or all of the order at checkout.
Yes, you can select which shipments are part of your order at checkout. After completing payment, the other shipments remain on your order page. Note that these shipments will expire 7 days after you create them.
You do not need a printer to use the tool. After paying for your order, you have the option of bringing your unlabelled shipments and email receipt on your mobile device to any full service post office. The receipt includes a code that can be scanned to print your label.
Snap Ship tool is available through these options:
- www.canadapost.ca/snapship / www.postescanada.ca/colisclic
- When signed in to your Canada Post profile, you can access it from your dashboard
- From the Tools page: https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/tools.page
Yes, you can pay for your orders using your supplier account.
When you are selecting a shipping service for your shipment, you will see the regular price, as well as your discounted Solutions for Small Business price.
At checkout, on the final payment page, you will also see the total small business savings for your entire order.
If you aren’t able to access Snap Ship (for example, the tool is “locked” on the Tools page), you may not be signed in to the correct profile. To use Snap Ship, sign in to the business profile used for small business shipping with the Solutions for Small Business program.