If you’re waiting on your package not sure when it will arrive, and the official AliExpress tracking doesn’t show you the information you need, you might benefit from checking where your package actually is using one of the third-party AliExpress parcel tracking sites that I’m about to show you. Enjoy!
Do These Sites Show More Information Than The AliExpress Parcel Tracking?
Many of these tools can actually show you much more detailed information about the different steps of your package’s journey (such as more precise location), and do so much faster, making them in many cases more useful than the default AliExpress tracking tool.
They can be especially useful at the very end of your package’s journey, when the standard AliExpress tracker often shows incomplete information, or updates with considerable delay.
How Accurate Is The Default AliExpress Tracker?
The basic AliExpress parcel tracking available on the site can only show you a few essential pieces of information about your package, including the key points in which your item has been received and then transported from, and whether or not and where the item went through customs control. Provided the tracking number you got from the seller is actually real and corresponds to the package containing your item, this system is pretty accurate.
In reality, it all comes down to the seller’s honesty when it comes to providing you with a real tracking number, and actually sending out your package on time. In my experience, after ordering more than a hundred items from AliExpress over the course of the last year both for product testing and for personal use, in nine out of ten cases, the packages were tracked pretty accurately, and arrived on time. Still, your mileage may vary!
1. Cainiao Global AliExpress Tracking
This is the official Cainiao package tracker that the built-in AliExpress tracking tool relies on for displaying data in your “Orders” tab on the site. Using it is actually recommended by AliExpress themselves.
It can show you a little bit more information than what you can see in the simplified tracking interface, and it’s generally the first place you would go for getting more data about your package’s whereabouts. It’s especially neat to have in your bookmarks if you want to view the official ordered items shipment data without having to log in to the AliExpress portal, and you have the tracking number on hand.
2. ParcelsApp
ParcelsApp is among the most commonly chosen third-party parcel tracking sites for AliExpress packages. In many cases it can offer much more info than the default tracking tool, and it’s very simple to use with multiple tracking numbers at once.
If offers easy to read interface with both the location of your package and the company responsible for transport, shown at each part of your package’s journey. It also supports platforms other than AliExpress, so it might be useful to have it if you often order items from various popular online stores.
3. 17Track
17Track is another popular option for parcel tracking, also offering tracking tools for quite a few different online shopping portals. What’s great about this one is that it lets you track multiple packages at once (up to 40) and it neatly categorizes them by their delivery status denoted by the icons on the top of the interface.
This way, if you’re like me and often place larger AliExpress orders with a dozen packages from different sellers, you can easily keep track of all of them in one place, making it easy to quickly check each one.
4. PostalNinja
The last tracking tool on our list is PostalNinja, which is another way of displaying more information about your packages that have been shipped. It’s simple, has support for multiple package tracking, and the site comes with a dark mode option, bonus points for that.
The site supports over 880 different international postal and courier services, all the more reasons to have it in your bookmarks. They also offer an API service, which you can utilize to integrate parcel tracking into your own web app or AI assistant application. Pretty good overall!