Comments on: How to Ship Products to Customers

By: Rachel North

Rachel North — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:36:29 +0000

In reply to Laman Huseynova. Laman, These are all questions that you can ask your sales person, once you fill out the Get a Quote form! We would love to help you with both of those projects. Scenario 1 seems to be a B2C, business to consumer project. And Scenario 2 is D2C, or direct to consumer and that's the focus of most of our business. We've been managing ecommerce projects for more than 20 years, and our approach not only scales with your growth, providing you with low shipping, but you also get great service all along the way!

By: Laman Huseynova

Laman Huseynova — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 07:58:08 +0000

We are searching for a service below:

Packages will come from China to you (100s at same time)

Scenario1:
You send the packages to clinics (10- 100s of packages to one address)

Scenario2:
You send single packages to individual patient addresses

What are the costs for both scenarios? How do costs scale?
What are storage costs, what are delivery costs, and what other costs are included?

By: Rebecca Gardner

Rebecca Gardner — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:29:06 +0000

It was helpful when you explained that both the actual weight and dimensional weight of the package need to be known when choosing shipping. My brother is planning on buying some custom corrugated cardboard boxes so he can ship his e-commerce products to customers in a high-quality package with his log printed on it. I’ll pass along these tips to help the process of working with a delivery service go smoothly for him!

By: Shaylee Packer

Shaylee Packer — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:42:31 +0000

As you mentioned, when selecting a package delivery service, it is important to make sure that they are reliable. It is important that they pick up, and deliver the items when they said they would. My sister has a small business, and just needs packages delivered locally. Is there a company out there who could do that for her?

By: khaldoun al savah

khaldoun al savah — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:06:41 +0000

if i want to ship the order door to door and i have 300 pieces
, how is the price will be affected as i want to sell to my costumers individually

By: Khaldoun Al Savah

Khaldoun Al Savah — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:03:43 +0000

if i have a drop shopping store and i have 300 pieces of that product , will your services included shipping to costumer door to door
and if I’m selling to costumers individually,how this will affect the prices to your company

By: Mary Parker

Mary Parker — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:09:05 +0000

Very impressive, thanks a lot for sharing helpful tips..!

By: Steve Bulger

Steve Bulger — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 20:38:24 +0000

In reply to regina ogundeinde.

Hi Regina –

Thank you for your questions here on how best to ship products to your customers when handling things yourself. These are good ones!

Regarding the packaging, I assume you’re referring to the consumer packaging, not the actual shipping container. If so, there are a multitude of consumer packaging companies that can customize branded boxes for your lipgloss, and I’d start with the manufacturer of your product to see if they can provide a referral or two.

If you’re referring to the shipping packaging, you can get those items from large national suppliers, such as Uline, or you can look in your area for local packaging companies. USPS also does offer free packaging, and I’d start by going to your local Post Office to inquire about that.

Lastly, regarding the final step once you’ve packaged up your ecommerce orders, as you mentioned, it is an option to take your packages to the Post Office and USPS will ship them from there. The other option is to pay FedEx or UPS for a daily pickup, which has an ongoing fee associated for that level of convenience. I would recommend contacting your local FedEx or UPS branch if you want to explore that option further.

Once you’re tired of holding your own stock and handling the shipping, please feel free to request a quote from lite prepcenter. We’ve been working with startup and small and mid-sized ecommerce sellers for nearly 20 years, and we don’t have any minimum order volume requirements, nor any tricky or hidden fees. We’d love to talk further!

Hope this helps.

Steve Bulger

By: regina ogundeinde

regina ogundeinde — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 20:42:15 +0000

Since im starting out i will be handling everything right now my question is how do i get the packaging for my brand of lipgloss and when i do pack everything my self do i go to the postal office and they handle the rest

By: Steve Bulger

Steve Bulger — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 13:00:14 +0000

In reply to Kenya.

Hi Kenya –

Thank you for your inquiry here. This is a great question, and custom packaging is something that a lot of ecommerce sellers consider to help improve the overall branding and presentation of their packages. That customized experience for the customer is the upside. The downside is that it often costs more from an order fulfillment standpoint to use custom packaging. If you’re handling the order fulfillment yourself, you generally have to pay more for that custom packaging than you would for generic packaging. If you’re outsourcing your order fulfillment to a 3PL like lite prepcenter, you may also have to pay more for the pick/pack fees when using any type of custom packaging.

That said, it can be worth the added cost to create that enhanced branding experience, and we go over the different options with our prospective clients during the sales process. During those conversations, we can also discuss how best to ship your products to your customers, from both a cost and delivery speed standpoint.

We would be happy to chat further and learn more about your business and makeup brushes. Please feel free to submit a quote request if you’d like and one of our sales folks will reach out shortly. We look forward to talking more!

Thank you,
Steve Bulger