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How to Set Your Busy-Season Shipping Strategy
Your process is set and you’re all stocked up on supplies. The next step is to figure out the customer-facing details—specifically, what are you going to charge for shipping? The most common options are free shipping, flat rate shipping, and exact cost shipping. We’ve...
How to Set a Shipping Strategy for Your Online Store
A new customer comes to your website, finds a product they want at a price they like and adds it to their cart. They get to the checkout page and then it happens. They get hit with the shipping and handling rates and all of a sudden they start second-guessing their...
How to Prepare Your Store to Work With Big-Box Retailers
Your business is at the point where it is about to explode. How do you transition from a small shop (fulfilling orders from your basement) to fulfilling orders with major retailers too? What are the biggest pitfalls to watch for? First of all, congratulations! This is...
Why Your Business Needs a Fulfillment Warehouse
A fulfillment warehouse can help automate and handle the shipping for you. When you choose to work with a fulfillment warehouse, you will store your inventory at one of their warehouses. Depending on their level of integration with your shopping cart, when an order...
The Importance of Packaging and Marketing on Ecommerce
As the world of ecommerce develops so do the expectations of customers who buy online. Years ago, packaging and shipping was simply a way to receive a product purchased online, but more and more people are looking for shipping, packaging and presentation as part of...
How to Calculate Your Shipping Costs
You put a lot of effort into making sure your customers have a great experience. You approve the images, you tweak your store, and you write the emails, all with the goal of leaving your customers happy. But when it comes to shipping, it can feel like you’re handing...
How to Set Your Shipping Rates and Methods
Before you can ship products, you’ll first need to decide your pricing strategy for shipping. There are several common methods, but your choice should always be informed by the underlying financials of your business. Offer Free Shipping Offering your customers free...
The Beginner’s Guide to Ecommerce Shipping and Fulfillment
You put a lot of effort into making sure your customers have a great experience. You approve the images, you tweak your store, and you write the emails, all with the goal of leaving your customers happy. But when it comes to shipping, it can feel like you’re handing...
Resources for Businesses Shipping Orders During COVID-19
COVID-19 has a huge impact on communities and on our economy. Since the quarantine, retailers have closed their locations and people stay home to social distance, there has been an increase in online shopping and package deliveries. In this new normal, businesses are...
When Is The Right Time to Switch to Outsourced Fulfillment?
Most companies begin to fulfill their own orders, while some eventually use a third-party logistics solution as they grow. Thing is, sometimes it's difficult to know when to switch, especially when you build your own company from the ground up with nothing but...