When Your Ecommerce Store Is Growing Faster Than You Can Fulfil
Ever had a surge in sales that should have been a good thing, but instead put you into a panic since you had no idea how you were going to pack and ship it all in time? Orders may have piled up in your garage, your kitchen table became a constant shipping station, and running your business suddenly felt like running a warehouse. If you sell online, you have probably seen this scenario. It’s wonderful to grow an online company, but there’s a point where you just can’t do everything on your own anymore. What took an hour previously now takes a full day, and faults start to creep in as you are spread too thin on every element of the process. The Secret War Behind Growing Sales Most new merchants don’t worry too much about logistics until it’s a problem. In the beginning, packing a few shipments a week is manageable. But as sales start rolling in, that simple process becomes hours of packing tape, mailing labels and late nites attempting to keep up. Then you start seeing errors in cu...