There are several different sizes of label sheets (and countless more sizes of labels) and we’re going to talk about five of the more popular sizes. Some sizes require printers that are capable of printing in those sizes while others can be printed on by almost any printer.

Let’s take a look at what these different sizes are used for. Read More…

Order fulfillment is a critical part of your business. A fast and accurate fulfillment process will make your customer happy while a slow or inaccurate one will quickly anger and possibly lose your customers.

There are many ways your order fulfillment process can be compromised, let’s take a look at the top ten.

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As the Holiday Season starts warming up, your business should start preparing for an increase in orders and shipments. Your customers aren’t going to be very happy when you tell them they won’t get their order in time because you’ve run out of shipping labels or because your fulfillment process is slow.

Let’s look at some ways you can start preparing for the busy Holiday Season!

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Packing is the last stage in order fulfillment before the package is shipped. It’s an important part of your order fulfillment process that you should look at carefully when designing your fulfillment process. There are some technical and marketing duties of a good package as well as some fundamental basics most businesses can follow. Read More…

What makes a shipping label a shipping label? What are the important parts?

Here we’ll talk about some of the major parts of a shipping label. While we won’t go into detail in this post, we’ll give you a good overview about what you’re looking at when you’re looking at your shipping label. Read More…

When selling through eBay you’re recommended to use PayPal for many transactions. However, when you use PayPal the shipping label prints on one sheet and the packing list on another sheet. Having your order information spread out across multiple sheets can cause issues in the order fulfillment process, such as a customer receiving an incorrect order or slowed fulfillment time. Read More…

If you have read a few blogs here on the DIY Printing Tips blog, you may have seen us use the term “Print Your Own Master.” While this sounds awesome, what does it mean?

It means you understand how to print your own and you do it well. You may not get it perfect the first time every time, but you know your way around the printer and can get the results you want from it. But that’s not all.

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Printing your own shipping label sheets can be done with most office printers capable of printing on a regular, letter size sheet of paper. However, using an inkjet printer is not recommended since the barcode can come out a little blurry and un-scannable. Using a laser printer will typically get you the cleanest barcode…but what setting do you use on a laser printer to print shipping labels? Read More…

It is said that dogs have masters and cats have slaves; dogs work hard for their owners while cat owners work hard for the cats. This same idea can be geared toward your order fulfillment process. Is your order fulfillment process working to help make your life easier or are you working harder to keep your order fulfillment process working than it’s working for you?

Order fulfillment starts from the time the customer places their order to the time they receive the order. It encompasses every step from creating the packing list to putting the shipping label on the packing list. Below you’ll find a series of ten questions and explanations to help you determine if your order fulfillment process is a cat. At the end use the number of Cat Points you rack up to find out if your fulfillment process is a cat or a dog (or a cat-dog!).

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There will be times where an entire customer order will not fit in a single package; either because they have ordered so many things (yay!) or the items they ordered are too large to fit in a single package. When this happens you’ll need to send out their order in multiple packages. Read More…