For many businesses, shipping documents or products can be expensive, not to mention a total headache. In today’s technologically advanced world, there are numerous low-cost or even free apps for smartphones and tablets that help to make the shipping process a whole lot easier.

If you want to find affordable, third-party mobile apps that offer extensive features and use multiple shipping companies, here are the top six apps to make shipping or freighting super simple.

1. Track Packages

For only a buck, you can effortlessly get details about the packages you sent via multiple shipping and freighting companies. This smart software can even tell the difference between overnight, ground, priority, registered, and certified mail. Track Shipping , available for Apple products, also gives you swift status updates on your packages and provides a handy URL that sends you directly to the carrier’s detail packages and lets you know when your items reach their final destination. [Read more…]