Congratulations on starting the journey towards building your own reputable, globally known, e-commerce business. You have identified your products, spent money on a website and product shoots, and your samples gained great reviews.
Then the orders grow, and the spare room stops working.
The signs it is time
- You are packing orders at night. If fulfilment has moved into evenings and weekends, the labour cost is real even though it is not on any invoice.
- Accuracy is slipping. Wrong items, missed orders and late dispatches almost always start when volume outgrows a manual process.
- You cannot answer “how many do we have?” instantly. Stock counts done from memory are a sign the system has outgrown itself.
- You are turning down growth. Declining a bulk order or delaying a launch because you cannot physically handle the volume is the clearest signal of all.
- Importation is the bottleneck. You have products but are experiencing logistical challenges right from importation.
What e-fulfilment warehousing gives you
Our e-fulfilment warehousing solution was designed to allow for your business growth, and to let you monitor your inventory, financial reports and other tools that are key to your business in real time.
- Your stock lives in a secured, properly racked facility with inbound quality checks and cycle counting.
- Orders flow to us and are picked, packed and dispatched by a team that does this all day.
- You watch stock levels, movement and financial reporting from a dashboard instead of a notebook.
- Last-mile delivery and constant communication with your customers is handled as part of the service.
The honest caveat
Outsourced fulfilment is not free, and at very low volumes it will not beat doing it yourself. The crossover point differs by product, margin and order profile. Talk to us with your actual monthly order count and average basket, and we will tell you plainly whether you are there yet.
Let Winnilinks give you a hand because we understand how to handle warehousing, fulfilment and distribution for you efficiently.
