Image Credit: Red Mountain Arts In the first part of this blog series, we introduced you to the positive side of shipping. In this part though, we will elaborate on the common mistakes regarding shipping that most of the online businesses make. Such faults usually result in the…
In the fast-changing world of e-commerce, it‘s sometimes rather hard to keep up with all the trends and the ever-changing (and ever-growing, we might say) expectations of customers. Fortunately, organizations such as comScore are there to guide and help us in understanding online shoppers’ needs. Last year, comScore…
Did you know the Post Office receives $0 tax dollars? Or that it processes 438 ML pieces of mail each day? We found this infographic interesting and even though the volume of mailed letters is decreasing, we have a hunch that the growth in ecommerce and mailed packages…
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…
When we rolled out Batch Shipping a few months ago, the response from our users was overwhelmingly positive. Since then, we’ve been working secretly to make shipping in batch even easier. We’re happy to announce that we’ve released Batch Shipping 2.0, which covers all of your domestic shipping needs for USPS, Fedex…
USPS has this nice little advertising video about shipping to military personnel via APO/DPO/FPO. When shipping to military personnel, you are required to fill out a complicated 2-page customs form. We built that feature in Ordoro from the very beginning because some of our early customers were shipping…
Let’s say you are an Amazon Marketplace seller (Selling via sellercentral.amazon.com) and you made a shipping error on one of the orders you received. (You shipped the wrong product to the customer). How does the return process work? First, the buyer logs into their Amazon account and creates…
Can adding one sheet of paper to your parcel drastically increase your shipping costs?Yes, if you are shipping via USPS Media Mail. The USPS Media Mail shipping method can be a very cost-effective way to send books, CDs, DVDs and other educational material. The pricing for Medial Mail shipping…