Ecommerce Encyclopedia

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Everything you need to know about ecommerce order fulfillment

Ecommerce order fulfillment is not a new term. However, it is the vital element of a store’s strategies to successfully build a strong foundation and gain popularity. Every store owner should strive to optimize their order fulfillment service to win sales and customer satisfaction. But before that, it is important…

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What is order fulfillment service?

1. What is order fulfillment service? Order fulfillment service is a service that helps fulfill your orders, including supplying, packing, and shipping ordered products to your end customers. This service is now very popular with e-commerce sellers as it allows them to cut the order fulfillment step, which is very…

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3 options for product fulfillment services

All online-selling businesses need to fulfill products, but each of them may need different types of product fulfillment. It’s because they chose product fulfillment based on their location, business size, and budget. Today’s most popular types of product fulfillment services are merchant fulfillment, third-party fulfillment, and dropshipping. Merchants should consider…

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Tips on improving an order fulfillment process

Fast and cheap product delivery is very important to every online-selling business, which helps to increase customer satisfaction. If any merchants don’t offer their customers a consistent order fulfillment process yet, they should read this article. Below are several ways to improve the order fulfillment process. 1. Use an integrated…

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Dropshipping logistics vs third-party fulfillment

Some merchants misunderstand that “dropshipping” is another phrase for “third-party fulfillment”. Both of them mean that fulfillment is outsourced to a third party, but the differences lie in the logistics services provided. We already understand dropshipping and third-party fulfillment via the previous articles. Today, we are going to dig a…

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Rent a dropshipping warehouse or Use fulfillment service?

Product delivery is a fundamental part of doing an online-selling business. Many merchants manage their own dropshipping warehouse, while some others choose to outsource warehouse-related work. Below is the comparison between the two options: to own a warehouse or to outsource? 1. Dropshipping warehouse In dropshipping, merchants have to do…

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How to deal with long shipping times in dropshipping

Too many customers of yours get mad and go away because of long shipping times? It’s time to find some ways to deal with it. 1. Use ePacket Just in case you have no idea what ePacket is, it is a shipping option offered by third-party logistics providers in China…

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Common issues with products when customers place a dropship order

Many problems can arise from the moment that a dropship order is placed to the moment that order arrives at its destination. In addition to common issues with the shipment, merchants sometimes need to deal with hassles related to dropship goods. Today, we will work on 3 common issues related…

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Get to know the dropshipping fulfillment process

Dropshipping is a business model that allows merchants to stay 100% focused on selling products to customers while their wholesalers are all in charge of order fulfillment. To help merchants have clear understandings of what order fulfillment is, we will illustrate an ordering process by taking an example of W&B,…

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