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ShipBackHome
Stop running your shipping business from WhatsApp.
ShipBackHome replaces WhatsApp threads and notebooks for container shippers serving Africa and the Caribbean. Manage bookings, send invoices, collect payments online, and track customers — all from one dashboard. Free to start, no credit card required.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Merline, and I built ShipBackHome because I grew up in my
parents' container shipping business.
Here's a world most people don't know exists: millions of
families in the U.S. pack barrels full of food, clothing,
and supplies and ship them to family in Jamaica, Ghana,
Haiti, Nigeria, Trinidad, and beyond. They do this through
independent shippers — small operators running their
businesses out of warehouses in Miami, Brooklyn, Houston,
and Atlanta.
These shippers manage everything through WhatsApp threads
and notebooks. Bookings are scattered across hundreds of
messages. Payments are tracked on paper. Invoices are
handwritten. New customers only find them through
word-of-mouth.
I built ShipBackHome to fix that.
What it does today:
→ Booking management — every booking in one place, confirm
or reject with one click
→ Invoicing — create, send, and track invoices from
bookings in seconds
→ Payment collection — send payment links, collect deposits,
track who owes what
→ Customer database — auto-built from bookings, full
shipping history
→ Schedule & container tracking — manage routes, sailings,
and container fill
What I'm looking for:
- Feedback on the product and onboarding flow
- Intros to anyone in the diaspora shipping space
- Shippers who want to try it (it's free)
This is a market with $2B+ in annual shipping volume and
zero digital infrastructure. ShipBackHome is the first
platform built specifically for it.
Try it free: biz.shipbackhome.com
Happy to answer any questions in the comments 🚢
About ShipBackHome on Product Hunt
“Stop running your shipping business from WhatsApp.”
ShipBackHome was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #42 on the daily leaderboard. ShipBackHome replaces WhatsApp threads and notebooks for container shippers serving Africa and the Caribbean. Manage bookings, send invoices, collect payments online, and track customers — all from one dashboard. Free to start, no credit card required.
On the analytics side, ShipBackHome competes within Payments, SaaS and Operations — topics that collectively have 57.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ShipBackHome performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ShipBackHome?
ShipBackHome was hunted by Merline Raymond. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of ShipBackHome including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Merline Raymond