Steps in shipping products sold online
by Raki Wright | Last Updated April 28, 2017
As mentioned in our post 6 Ways to Pick, Pack, and Ship?Faster!, here are 6 components of an effective shipping system:
- Well-Trained Staff
- Sufficient Product
- High Quality Shipping Supplies
- Flexible Carrier Pickup
- Systematic Procedures
- Smart Technology
What are the steps in shipping products sold online?
1. Acknowledge order
2. After charging credit card, provide receipt or paid invoice
3. Create an effective Warehouse Pick Ticket:
- Order number
- Customer shipping information
- Item # or Part #
- Item description
- Quantity shipped; and
- Other internal information
4. Create a shipping label, to include:
- Carrier issued barcode
- Shipping Method
- Return Address
- Customer shipping address
- Internal reference #
5. Advise customer of tracking number and shipment method
6. Use shipping label sheet (which combines packing list with shipping label)
7. Attach shipping label to package (Make sure you have these 7 essential shipping supplies)
- Boxes
- Envelopes
- Shipping label sheets
- Packing slip sheets
- Packing tape
- Bubble wrap
- Packing peanuts
8. Avoid these common shipping errors
- Old shipping address.
- Bad shipping address.
- Incorrect weight.
- Unreliable packaging material.
- Missing international paperwork.
- Barcode doesn’t scan.
- Shipped wrong product.
- Shipped wrong quantity.
How do you ship products you sell online?
