# Set Up Late Shipment Alerts

> Check your alert settings and turn on daily emails for late and stuck parcels, after you confirm.

- Job: [Store setup & admin](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/job/setup/)
- What it does: Asks first: changes your store, only after you say yes
- Time saved: ~15 min vs doing it by hand
- Requires: StoreAgent (free plugin, MCP on every plan) + TrackShip
- Works in: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP client connected to the store through StoreAgent MCP
- Web page: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/trackship-late-shipment-alerts/

## The prompt

```text
Check my TrackShip settings for late shipment and exception alerts. Tell me what is on, how many days count as late and who gets the email. Look at my average transit days for the last 30 days and suggest a sensible late threshold. Show me the exact changes you would make and wait for my OK before you save anything.
```

## What happens when you paste it

You: Check my TrackShip settings for late shipment and exception alerts…

Assistant: Late shipment alerts are off and exception alerts go to an old address. Your average transit time in the last 30 days is 4.1 days. Calling: `trackship/get-settings`, `trackship/get-analytics-summary`, `trackship/update-settings`.

Assistant: This will make changes in WooCommerce. Do you want me to go ahead?

Assistant: Proposed: late alerts on at 8 days, exception alerts on, both sent to your orders inbox at 9 am. Saved after you said yes.

## Abilities this recipe calls

- **Get TrackShip settings** (`trackship/get-settings`, read only, from TrackShip): Reads your TrackShip settings, like late shipment alerts and the tracking page.
- **Get delivery stats** (`trackship/get-analytics-summary`, read only, from TrackShip): Shows shipments, deliveries, tracking issues, average transit days and delivered rate for a date range.
- **Update TrackShip settings** (`trackship/update-settings`, asks first, from TrackShip): Changes TrackShip settings like late shipment and exception alerts, after you confirm.

## Variations

Add one of these to the end of the prompt. Swap anything in [brackets] for your own details.

- Send the alerts to two people.
- Turn on on-hold alerts too.

## Related recipes

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- [Are My Store Emails Landing in the Inbox?](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/mail-mint-email-setup-check.md): Checks your Mail Mint sender, SMTP, business address and unsubscribe setup, plus bounce and spam rates, and lists the fixes in order.
- [Can I Switch to the Block Checkout?](https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/booster-block-checkout-ready.md): Find out which of your Booster modules work with the WooCommerce block checkout, and which still need the classic one.

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Part of the StoreAgent WooCommerce MCP Recipes directory: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/ (index for LLMs: https://storeagent.ai/mcp-recipes/llms.txt). Get StoreAgent free: https://app.storeagent.ai/sign-up/