Awesome shipment tracking app, Slice
I have always wanted a way to track all of my shipments online. With an array of different shipment options it's difficult to have all your current online purchased tracked in 1 easy way. Now it's a really simple and you don't even have to do anything.
Slice is currently in beta but it's a free web application that works really well. If you have a yahoo or gmail email account, it will scan your emails for recent purchases. It then will enter them into your slice account, tracking cost, shipment, and delivery. For icing on the cake it will also detect price reductions for companies that give rebates on that kind of stuff. Other features include alerts and total price calculator. I have quite the love/hate relationship with that last feature. I spent that much in the last x months!.
I have been using it for a month and while it does have a few kinks, it's exactly what I have been looking for. In 1 website or iPhone app I can get 1 stratified view of all my purchases and shipments. I buy everything online except for fresh groceries and some apparel. I usually have at least 1 package on it's way at all times. The website layout is easy to navigate and customizable. You can hide companies you don't want to show, like perhaps your itunes purchases and such. The iphone app is layed out very well too, providing quick access to the information I want. It quickly answers the question; Where is my stuff right now? They don't have an android app at this moment, but i wouldn't expect it to be long before that come along.
There are a few kinks mostly around parsing the emails for correct information. Sometimes the picture or tracking number might be off, but for the most part you can update them once they get into your slice account. 90% of the time they are close enough for the app to do it's thing. If slice doesn't pick up an email that was sent to you, you can also send it to your account with a provided email. It will detect your send from email and apply the changes to your list. It also hooks up with Google maps and provided a view of where your shipment was last updated. There are a lot of ways to send feedback to them on how they did parsing or tracking your shipment. Please do, this will help them imporve there email parsing program so you will have to do less.
It's definitly ready to check out and start using, just expect a few rough edges. I expect this application to be well used and be more refined over time. The parsing of emails will take time and a lot of trial and error.
Overall I give this application 4 stars and highly recommend it for people who buy a lot of things online Expect it to be a 5 star app when it comes out of beta.
If your on android and feel left out check out Parcels via Gizmodo best package app for android
