eCommerce Fulfilment
Storeship Ltd are a specialised Ecommerce Fulfilment company, it is at the heart of what we do for our customers.
Our ecommerce fulfilment services include importation, storage, and order fulfilment for our clients customers worldwide.
Fulfilment Centre UK
What is ecommerce fulfilment?
Ecommerce fulfillment is the handing over of your deliveries and order management to a third party company, somtimes called a
3PL or third party Logistics provider. By using a third party company you are benefitting from their experience as well as discounted rates on shipping, packaging materials as well as sharing warehouse space and other costs associated with running a distribution company.
The costs involved in setting up your own distribution channel can be prohibitively expensive, by using a partner such as Storeship we can reduce both initial set up costs as well as ongoing postal and packaging costs. Some of the costs associated with setting up a warehouse are outlined below as well as a list of ongoing costs.
- Warehouse - Initial purchase or lease of a suitable premises to store your goods excluding the means to upgrade or increase / decrease warehouse space as required depending on how your business grows, most warehouses have a minimum 5 year lease.
- Storage - Set up material storage areas and equipment including racking, shelving, specialised storage of products, packaging as well as defining areas such as goods in and finalised delivery locations, all need fitting out sith suitable safe and stable racks to maximise space and safety of goods and staff.
- Materials Handling - Forklift trucks, pallet trucks, sack trucks, warehouse trolleys, just some of the equipment required to handle deliveries to your warehouse and move goods between various areas of the warehouse and load unload delivery vehicles.
- Staff - A warehouse requires various staff to handle different jobs within the warehouse, with minimum wages at an all time high and holidays and sick days to cover, staff costs can soon add up in your new warehouse set up costs.
- Hardware - Computers, scanners, printers, label generators and printers, handheld warehouse scanners, these spcialised pieces of equipment must be made to perfom in industrial environments and as such can be expensive to purchase and set up.
- Software - Stock management, integration software as well as set up to print postage and courier labels, third party software is expensive and needs experienced staff to set up and operate.
- Utilities - Electricity bills, phone, internet etc will all be added to your warehouse running costs, with electric prices rising worldwide these can get fairly extensive.
As you can see the costs involved in setting up your ecommerce warehouse are very expensive and as such companies like Storeship exist, we can help with the following:
No heavy rent or long leases to sign on commercial properties
No kitting out warehouse with expensive equipment.
Reduced staff costs, use your staff for marketing and genearting sales.
How are orders received in the warehouse?
Our warehouse receive orders directly from our customers through a variety of internal feeds and links form the internet called API's. An API communicates information across the internet, Storeship have their own API as well as utilising the API of the most popular marketplaces and ecommerce software to receive your customers orders.
Some of the most popular comapnies we receive orders form include:
- Amazon
- eBay
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- onBuy
- BigCommerce
- ShipStation
- SquareSpace
We are continually adding new feeds so if you are selling on a platform we do not currrently link with just drop us a line and we will see what we can do for you.
Storeship's ecommerce integration can receive stock, products and orders from the following online marketplaces and stores:
We are continually adding new feeds so if you are selling on a platform we do not currrently link with just drop us a line and we will see what we can do for you.
