Total Office Services offers fulfillment and logistics services for small business and work-at-home merchants.  Fulfillment services act like a merchant’s warehouse fulfilling orders and ensuring that online shoppers get professional service. 

Outsourcing these sorts of operations may not make sense for every business, but there are at least five good reasons to consider using a fulfillment service. 

1. Flexibility

With so much seasonal shopping activity, merchants often find that they need to bring on temporary workers or invest in new equipment or supplies to manage the rush.

Outsourcing order fulfillment allows merchants to avoid the need to hire and train temps or buy new scales, lifts, or the like. Instead, the retailer simply needs to ensure that the product is in stock and ready for the fulfillment house to ship.  In this way, the merchant frees up their time to market their business and sell their product rather than worry about actually getting the product out to their customers.  Total Office Services takes your orders, packs and ships them to your customers.  Domestic or International shipments, Total Office Services handles the documentation and customs forms.

2. Lower Shipping Costs

Whether merchants are absorbing shipping and freight costs to offer free shipping or passing those costs on to consumers, it makes good sense to do everything possible to keep shipping costs down.

With this in mind, Total Office Services can help to lower the shipping tally. Most package-shipping services offer prices based — at least in part — on how far the shipments travel. Sending a box from L.A. to New York is more costly than shipping one from Philadelphia to New York.  Total Office Services can save you time and money on international shipments too.

3. Focus on What You Do Best

Often online entrepreneurs start businesses because they have a passion for the product or a passion for marketing, but, it is relatively less common that someone or some group starts a tee shirt business or an online hardware store because she feels especially gifted at stacking or packing boxes.

Using a fulfillment service for many merchant business owners is an opportunity to outsource many unfamiliar tasks and focus on what one does best.

Summing Up

Ecommerce fulfillment services have a lot to offer small and middle-sized retailers in terms of seasonal flexibility, cost reductions, growth, and focus.