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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 8371714" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>OK, so it's a company which has a warehouse and a bunch of staff who handle packaging and shipping, basically.</p><p></p><p>They warehouse your 5K books or however many you have, and they package and send it out to people you ask them to (either individually as orders come in from your online store, or en-masse as you send them a spreadsheet of your Kickstarter backers, or in big pallets to distributors).</p><p></p><p>You can do all that yourself (and larger companies often do, and some Kickstarter creators do turn their living rooms into temporary warehouses and do it all themselves), but they're set up to do it. Good ones have automatic tie-ins to popular shop platforms on the web, so your Shopify (or whatever) purchase gets fulfilled by your fulfillment partner automatically. When you run a Kickstarter, you download the backer report from Kickstarter as a spreadsheet and send it to them, and they package each order and send it out.</p><p></p><p>And of course, they handle the admin, and returns, and tracking, and usually have an online stock level report so you can see exactly how many of each thing you have, and so on.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, basically a fulfillment company is a warehouse which handles the shipping for you. They're very useful!</p><p></p><p>We use ShipQuest in the UK; we used to use Parcelhub but I don't recommend them because reasons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 8371714, member: 1"] OK, so it's a company which has a warehouse and a bunch of staff who handle packaging and shipping, basically. They warehouse your 5K books or however many you have, and they package and send it out to people you ask them to (either individually as orders come in from your online store, or en-masse as you send them a spreadsheet of your Kickstarter backers, or in big pallets to distributors). You can do all that yourself (and larger companies often do, and some Kickstarter creators do turn their living rooms into temporary warehouses and do it all themselves), but they're set up to do it. Good ones have automatic tie-ins to popular shop platforms on the web, so your Shopify (or whatever) purchase gets fulfilled by your fulfillment partner automatically. When you run a Kickstarter, you download the backer report from Kickstarter as a spreadsheet and send it to them, and they package each order and send it out. And of course, they handle the admin, and returns, and tracking, and usually have an online stock level report so you can see exactly how many of each thing you have, and so on. So yeah, basically a fulfillment company is a warehouse which handles the shipping for you. They're very useful! We use ShipQuest in the UK; we used to use Parcelhub but I don't recommend them because reasons. [/QUOTE]
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