Just in time fulfillment (oftentimes referred to as JIT fulfillment) is a method of managing your inventory and shipping that involves purchasing product as orders come in, packaging, and sending them off to customers on your own. It’s definitely an uncommon strategy for most merchants, and there are some pros and cons…
An outsourced warehouse is a popular fulfillment strategy for many entrepreneurs, especially those that have a high quantity of products to be stored. Essentially, it involves taking your inventory and shipping operations, and moving them to privately owned warehouse that receives orders and ships them off to customers. Like in-house…
Dropshipping is the fulfillment model where the merchant has their supplier directly send out the customer’s order to them. For more details on that check out Ordoro’s dropshipping page. The dropshipping inventory model is perhaps the most attractive fulfillment method for a new ecommerce retailer to get started with.…
After the holiday excitement and the rush of retail customers and sales, store employees and managers aren’t able to simply relax and bask in the afterglow of the holiday spirit. Instead, they need to stay on their game – now comes the advancing tide of gift returns! In…
Once you launch an ecommerce store, one of the key decisions you make is how do you go about fulfilling your orders. And most business pick in-house fulfillment – because it is the obvious, most intuitive way to fulfill your orders. There are several advantages to this approach. Firstly, it is…
A poll by the AuctionBytes Blog shows that 84% of online merchants sell on multiple channels. The most popular ones are eBay (used by 81.5% of sellers) and Amazon (44.6%), while selling on their own website is chosen by 37.7% of surveyed merchants. There are a number of…
Image Credit: Amanda Tipton For online merchants, preparations for Christmas time should start as early as July, as there’s a lot to do if you’re planning to profit from the considerably increased e-retail sales in late autumn and early winter. In the first part of this blog series,…
Over the past two weeks, we’ve been busy building and testing some cool new features in Ordoro. Here is a summary of everything we have rolled out. Faster Search Ordoro has always had a very powerful search feature. You could search through all your orders using any of…
If you are an ecommerce merchant filling orders from your own warehouse, it is handy to have a quick overview of the following information What products got ordered from my store last night? In other words, what products do I need to ship out today, and how many…