Ecommerce Platforms

MAY 8, 2020

Shipping doesn't have to be free. However, studies have shown that 91% of ecommerce customers rethink their purchases from online stores when they realize that the shipping wasn't priced well or it wasn't fast enough. Customers go to those sites and expect free/cheap shipping and rapid store-to-door delivery.

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Ecommerce Platforms

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As one of the most popular shipping apps for ecommerce order fulfillment, ShipStation often gets recommended for managing shipments, finding great deals from carriers, and sending tracking codes. But ShipStation isn’t for everyone, whether it’s due to the ShipStation pricing, interface, or geographical support.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Free shipping days are behind us. The first wave of ecommerce was mostly about price, while the second wave is all about the customer experience. Does your order fulfillment strategy live up to your customers’ expectations? Frustrated customers won’t consider shopping with you again. What Can You Do?

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Ecommerce Platforms

JANUARY 3, 2022

ShipBots is an order fulfillment service for ecommerce stores with standard storage and shipping needs. It also offers unique fulfillment options for subscription boxes, retail, Amazon FBA prep, merchandise, and apparel. Your company chooses fulfillment requirements and sends products for storage to ShipBots.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2023

in an effort to reduce delivery costs while maintaining the fast shipping speeds the company is known for, multiple sources report and Amazon has confirmed. Amazon previously operated its fulfillment network on a national level, transporting products across the country as they were ordered, reported the Wall Street Journal.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 3, 2022

Whether your company is in Canada or you'd like to ship to Canadian customers, it's important to find a Canada-focused fulfillment service that provides fast shipping, high-quality storage environments, and affordable rates. The goal of this article is to identify fulfillment services with a solid presence inside Canada.

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Fabric

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

With fabric OMS, any retail operator can configure order routing rules to reduce order errors, get closer to customers, and reduce shipping expenses. As businesses grow, so does the complexity of allocating resources to fulfill customer orders across multiple locations. What is OFL?

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Groove

APRIL 18, 2024

It makes it easier to manage one or more retail stores in one place. This data-driven solution brings financial, logistical, and human resource data together to save you time managing your store. Customer Experience: Shopify ERP integration integrates customer data, which gives your customers a seamless shopping experience.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The best fulfillment services for Shopify are designed to help ecommerce business owners deliver products to their customers quickly and efficiently. After all, once your customer has made a purchase, they’re relying on you to ensure it gets to them with minimal hassle. What are the Best Fulfillment Services for Shopify?

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ChannelAdvisor

JULY 27, 2022

Which would you rather choose: a $49 product with free shipping or the same product for $39 plus $10 shipping? Free shipping was once a fast-growing trend in e-commerce. The Psychology of Online Pricing. This is called the zero price effect , or the irrational urge to get free stuff. Source: Shippo, 2021.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 15, 2022

Printify is a print-on-demand (POD) service where users can design products to sell on their online stores, while also leaving all printing and fulfillment to Printify. This type of service cuts costs significantly for store owners, and it makes it easier to make beautiful designs for products like mugs, t-shirts, and home goods.

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Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If you're reading this blog post, you'll know that there are many challenges to running your own online store; one is handling the storing, packing, and shipping of your products. When you’re still a tiny business selling products from your home, you might be able to manage this yourself.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MAY 30, 2023

With so many fulfillment options on the market, how can businesses decide which offers the best overall service? In this article, we discuss one option worth considering: The Fulfillment Lab. However, I think they could benefit from being more transparent about their pricing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

For 15 years he worked as a business and trade consultant for PwC , helping multinational corporations navigate the intricacies of customs, international trade and the global supply chain. Post-pandemic, the focus has shifted from managing disruptions to more proactive planning around supply chain resilience.

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lateshipment

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Everything That Is In Control And That Isn't As an e-commerce merchant, you put in a lot of effort to meticulously curate the stage of the customer journey that is under your control to motivate them to click that “BUY” button, make a successful sale, and bring in profits. This is where shipping insurance steps in to save the day.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Smart retailers are realizing that their increasingly complex omnichannel offerings have made strong supply chain management more important than ever. Retailers need to handle inventory in stores and distribution centers, keep an eye on both digital and physical shelves and keep costs down with efficient logistics and routing.

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Ecommerce Platforms

JULY 31, 2022

Chicago, and the entire Midwest region, has significant speed and cost advantages for ecommerce shipping and fulfillment. Furthermore, Chicago typically boasts lower costs than its Los Angeles and New York cousins on the coasts. Because of all these reasons, Chicago has become a hub for ecommerce fulfillment companies.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

BJ’s Wholesale Club is replacing its legacy order management system with Nextuple OMS Studio, which includes three “Tuples” — each an ordered set of microservices that the retailer can mix and match to create solutions for flexible fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.

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Ecommerce Platforms

JANUARY 9, 2023

So, hopefully, by the end of this blog post, you'll have a better idea of whether this solution meets the shipping needs of your business. If you haven't gathered from ShippingEasy's name, ShippingEasy is a shipping platform (Duh!). ShippingEasy is an all-one order management and fulfillment solution. Ready to Ship.

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lateshipment

JULY 25, 2022

Customers are no longer just interested in low prices, fast shipping, and free returns have constantly been the three must-haves for an online business to make the cut in today’s market. This is because brands feel the customer journey ends with the ‘buy’ button. What is Delivery Experience Management (DEM)?

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Ecommerce Platforms

JANUARY 30, 2022

You may wonder if a fulfillment center is only for large businesses. Is it expensive? To answer those questions, we must clarify that 3PL fulfillment is in fact for every type of business. However, you simply have to partner with a fulfillment company that caters to small businesses. Do you need certain sales volume?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2022

Consider how returns are central to the customer experience and can create a competitive advantage, differentiate a brand and increase customer lifetime value. The popularity of online shopping has created enormous opportunities to reach new customers, but this has come at a cost. Turn Returns Upside Down.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 6, 2022

Running an efficient online store requires seamless order fulfillment , and often that means upgrading to a 3rd-party logistics (3PL) provider. This outsourcing of the fulfillment process works by sending products to the 3PL, where they store, pick, package, and ship the items as orders come in through your store.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

For the back-to-school season, 42% of consumers say they are spending more, but 57% are trading down for lower prices,” said Caila Schwartz, Director of Consumer Insights and Strategy for Retail and Consumer Goods at Salesforce during an Aug. measured from July’s Prime Day through mid-August). 22, 2023 briefing.

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 11, 2022

Everything is bigger in Texas, so it makes sense that ecommerce warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment have become commonplace in the Lone Star state. Not only is there an incredible amount of space for fulfillment companies to set up warehouses in Texas, but the state has its benefits when it comes to taxes and real estate costs.

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lateshipment

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Low prices, fast shipping, and free returns are three must-haves for an online business to make the cut in today’s market. There is a reason why Amazon is increasingly choosing to handle its deliveries in-house rather than depending on shipping carriers like FedEx, UPS, or DHL for this purpose. Introduction. Consider this.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MAY 15, 2023

In today’s Shippo review, we’re taking a behind-the-scenes look at a popular shipping and fulfillment service for today’s growing ecommerce market. Created to give every merchant access to the tools and technologies they need to deliver amazing service, Shippo serves more than 100,000 customers worldwide. What is Shippo?

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SellBrite

JULY 7, 2021

The cost of real estate can quickly add up. On top of that, warehouse logistics (picking, packing, and shipping) is a totally different challenge. Luckily, there is a fulfillment service offered by Amazon called Fulfillment by Amazon or FBA for short. What is Fulfillment by Amazon? Cheap storage and shipping.

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Fulfillment Shipping Costs Merchant Services Shipping 153

Wiser

JUNE 5, 2023

As a small business owner, managing supply chain issues is nothing new. Fortunately, there are several strategies that you can use to ensure that your supply chain is managed properly and efficiently. It also involves monitoring current suppliers for reliability and customer service levels.

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Algopix

JANUARY 2, 2024

Understanding Net Profit Margin Net Profit Margin Defined Net profit margin, a linchpin in financial analysis, encapsulates the percentage of revenue retained as profit after meticulously accounting for all expenses. Product Pricing Strategy Balancing act: Competitive pricing vs. profitability.

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Shipping Costs eCommerce Order Fulfillment Fulfillment 120

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

-based sellers exported more than 216 million products to customers in other markets through the platform. Here’s a look at how Amazon is moving even further away from the domain of retailer with the debut of new services in supply chain management, shipping, banking, market research, product development, inventory management and more.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Thomas Goldsby, Professor and Chair in Logistics in the Supply Chain Management Department of the University of Tennessee. Goldsby, who discussed supply chain issues with Retail TouchPoints in May 2022 , shared his thoughts on ways the industry can make supply chains both more reliable and cost-effective moving forward.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 4, 2020

Love it or hate it, shipping is an essential element to any ecommerce operation, and when done well, it's another opportunity to wow your customers. In the era of Amazon Prime, consumers now expect reliable and exceedingly fast shipping times. This is why engaging a reliable fulfillment solution is imperative.

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Omnisend

DECEMBER 8, 2020

All the best practices and marketing tips in the world don’t mean anything if you can’t get your products to your customers. But guaranteeing fast, reliable shipping and delivery for your customers is difficult––it requires planning, preparation, and a lot of overhead costs. What is a 3PL?

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Algopix

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Inventory management is a critical aspect of running a successful business, whether you’re a small retailer or a large multinational corporation. In today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment, the efficient management of inventory can make or break a company. Minimize carrying costs and holding expenses.

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