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How important is next day delivery for Online Retailers?

08 Jun 2022 By By Alice Davies

New data suggests that 99% of retailers will offer same-day delivery by 2025...

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The Importance of Reviews for SEO

04 May 2022 By By Alice Davies

As an eCommerce company, you’ll no doubt already understand the importance of online reviews. Customers like having that reassurance - and it’s a cost-effective way of promoting your products and services online. As with any kind of online content, reviews come with their own difficulties, from managing negative reviews to ensuring all platforms are monitored.

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How To Choose The Right CMS For Your Online Store

13 Apr 2022 By By Alice Davies

Choosing the right content management system (CMS) for your online store is essential for handling large increases in traffic and a demand in products. It’s worthwhile spending time researching the most appropriate CMS for your eCommerce business type, ensuring it can perform as required and stand the test of time. Future-proofing is so important in the online world - especially when it comes to making money.

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How To Successfully Gift Online Influencers

24 Mar 2022 By By Alice Davies

We’ll outline exactly how to successfully gift online influencers and how you can build relationships with them to help promote your brand in the future.

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Shipster Investigates: Does Influencer Marketing Really work for Fashion Brands?

24 Feb 2022 By By Alice Davies

Influencer marketing has made waves in the marketing world over the past few years, particularly in the fashion industry. Lifestyle bloggers, Instagram influencers, and YouTube stars have donned the latest garments and charged their ring lights to promote some of the top brands out there...

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The Ultimate Guide to Selling on Amazon for New Starters

15 Feb 2022 By By Alice Davies

Amazon is one of the largest online marketplaces in the world. It’s also one of the biggest search engines too - yup, more users than ever before are using Amazon as their go-to search engine for products, finding exactly what they need, without having to use Google.

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Client Crush 2022: We’ve Got Eyes For Melvin & Hamilton This Valentine’s

08 Feb 2022 By By Alice Davies

We love all of our client’s equally - but this Valentine’s, we’ve only got eyes for one of our biggest crushes, Melvin & Hamilton 😍

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Tips To Slow Down Omicron In The Warehouse

19 Jan 2022 By By Alice Davies

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7 Shipping Rules To Make You Faster In 2022

03 Jan 2022 By By Alice Davies

When it comes to the eCommerce world, every retailer is different, which is why it makes sense that there should be shipping rules to fulfil every request. But can multiple rules slow down the shipping process? Not if you implement the right ones.

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Brexit Bother: When To Secure Your Inventory Before Christmas

02 Nov 2021 By By Alice Davies

Customers are frantically searching for the best Christmas gifts, decorations, and food - and with COVID-19 repercussions and Brexit in full swing, this is having a massive impact on the distribution and eCommerce world. With 87% of UK households buying online in 2020, meeting demand for Christmas 2021 may be no different.

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How to Successfully Promote Your Cyber Monday Deals

28 Oct 2021 By By Alice Davies

It’s in the name really - Cyber Monday is one of the biggest and busiest online shopping days of the year. But how exactly do you successfully promote your deals, without getting lost in all the online noise?

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When To Start Marketing For Black Friday

25 Oct 2021 By By Alice Davies

When exactly should you start activity marketing for Black Friday? And what kind of tactics should you use? Below, we’ll outline not just when you should start, but how you should start too.

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How To Successfully Sell On Instagram

23 Sep 2021 By By Alice Davies

There are now around 1 billion active users on Instagram. Considering there are almost 8 billion people worldwide, this is a substantial amount. What exactly does that mean for brands?

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Why Packaging Is So Important For Breweries

08 Sep 2021 By By Alice Davies

The brewery market is saturated with new, up-and-coming brands, as well as established names that have been doing this gig for a long time. But what’s becoming more and more clear is that it’s the battle of the packaging, which is making some brands stand out more than others.

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12 Podcasts To Help You Get Ahead in eCommerce

31 Aug 2021 By By Alice Davies

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Compare Review Platforms: Which Is Right For Your eCommerce Business?

15 Jun 2021 By By Alice Davies

In the eCommerce world, trust is a big factor when it comes to influencing buying decisions. Online customer reviews can make or break a product, as well as impacting buyers’ opinions of your business as a whole.

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Top 10 eCommerce Discount Strategies

01 Jun 2021 By By Alice Davies

In this article, we’ll outline exactly what an eCommerce discount strategy is, how it works, the benefits of implementing it, and some of the top strategies you should consider.

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Shipster Investigates: Clothing Returns - 100 Shoppers Tell All

11 May 2021 By By Alice Davies

We polled 100 online shoppers in the UK about their online returns preferences and habits.

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Earth Day 🌍: 8 Eco-Friendly Packaging Solutions you might not know about

20 Apr 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

With world earth day coming up on 22nd April, it’s a great time to start thinking more about how you can reduce your warehouse’s effect on the environment. A fantastic way to do this is through the use of eco-friendly packaging. Green technology has come on leaps and bound in the past few years, and there are now many ways to package your products both safely and sustainably.

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We are Digital City Finalists for the System Integrators Award!

18 Mar 2021 By By Hayley Cowburn

The award ceremony airs on 15th April 6:30pm. Those that want to watch must register at: https://www.digitalcityfestival.com/register-to-attend

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What can I customize with Shipster?

15 Mar 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

Shipster is bespoke software that is designed to be highly customisable by nature. This allows you to use Shipster in whatever way best suits your companies changing needs. You can make changes to your set-up as often you like through our dedicated support team.

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In the Spotlight: Busy Periods

16 Feb 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

Throughout the year, consumer demand ebbs and flows and warehouses have to adjust their processes accordingly to accommodate. The yearly busy periods are usually centred around Christmas, Black Friday, Mother’s and Father’s Day, Easter and Valentine’s day depending on your products and target market. Shipster is highly customisable software, which means you can tweak the way you use it to prepare for these busy periods and manage a sudden increase in workload...

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Client Crush: This Valentines We're Crushing on Couture Club

01 Feb 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

As Valentine's day approaches, we’ve been thinking about how much we love all our lovely clients. In the spirit of the holiday though, we can only have one Valentines, so this year we’re naming The Couture club our “Client Crush” of the year!

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London Fashion Week: Trends to Expect in 2021

20 Jan 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

Many fashion retailers, including our clients, will be looking to London Fashion week to help them predict what the big trends of 2021 will be. Whilst the high fashion you see on the runway is mostly reserved for the rich and famous, these styles are always diluted down into trendy, ready-to-wear clothing.

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Top Shipping Rules of 2020

05 Jan 2021 By By Rachel Bircher

2020 has been a significant year of constant change, and our clients have been requesting a variety of rules to keep their Shipster effective. Rule changes and additions are always no extra charge on top of your monthly support fee, and our technical team are always happy to create new functions to improve Shipster. Here are some of the top most used rules of 2020:

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Case Study: Santa's Shipping Rules

17 Dec 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Santa allows us to reveal the Shipster configuration he uses to send billions of parcels over Christmas.

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Brexit: Our Plan and What You Need To Do (Shipster Clients)

01 Dec 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

Information in the event of a Deal- or No Deal- scenario. Summary steps: 1. Send us your EORI number if you have not already 2. Add accurate descriptions to all your products, and put procedures in place to ensure it happen with all new products 3. Add commodity codes to your products and email support@shipstersolutions.com to tell us in which attribute we can find these codes.

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9 Ways to Cut Shipping Expenses with your Shipping Rules

05 Nov 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Using our numerous shipping rules you can fully customise your Shipster to save you the most money when packing and shipping parcels. Here are 9 of the most common rules our clients use to reduce expenditure.

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Black Friday Notice 2020

26 Oct 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Prepare for Black Friday: Our scheduled shipping rule freeze, help with additional installations and getting help on the day.

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Signs that your Warehouse is Haunted

22 Oct 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

It's spooky season, which means scary movies, ghosts, costumes and trick-or-treat bans are on everyone's mind. Let's make it a work activity by thinking about what might be lurking in the unexplored shadows and crevices of your warehouse, by looking for these signs of ghostly activity...

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We asked Rachel what it's been like providing Shipster support from home during the Covid-19 Pandemic

08 Oct 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Rachel answers what it's been like providing Shipster support from home during the covid-19 pandemic.

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10 Shipping Rules for Fashion Businesses... with GIFs!

10 Sep 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Since fashion e-commerce retailers form a large portion of Shipster users, we have developed a large range of shipping rules that cater to their unique needs. These rules are designed to help streamline the shipment of clothes and accessories, saving these businesses time and money!

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Warehouse Cost Reduction Ideas

11 Aug 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

There may be more ways to reduce your warehouse costs than you would think…

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Automated Shipping for Small Businesses - Taking your business to the next level

23 Jul 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

The benefits of taking your despatch system to the next level with Shipster. Are you a small-to-medium business looking to take the leap?

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In the Spotlight: Automated Packaging Selections

06 Jul 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

We get a lot of requests about automating the decision making process for deciding which box/envelope packaging to use. The issue can be solved in several ways...

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In the spotlight: Shipping in other Languages

17 Jun 2020 By By Rachel Bircher

Shipping internationally may be more complicated than you’d expect and involves navigating multiple countries’ varied postal systems and policies on foreign imports. Here are some of the ways Shipster can help streamline this process for you.

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In the Spotlight: What to do with Failed Shipments

11 May 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Every now and then you will come across a shipment that refuses to cooperate. How do you process yours?

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Fashion Customers spend on Comfort during Pandemic

06 Apr 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

In fashion, customers are ditching bras for pyjamas (Adore Me’s new best selling item) and swimwear for loungewear. Customers seem to be putting off buying Spring-Summer collections, delaying the bikini and buying into comfort.

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Our COVID-19 Response

19 Mar 2020 By By Tony Cheetham

Actions we're taking during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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In the Spotlight: Shipping Weight Management

18 Feb 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Processing hundreds or thousands of shipments every day means even the smallest inefficiency in your shipping process can stack up unnecessary costs. Changing how you allocate and ship parcels according to their weight can be revolutionary.

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The Top Custom Shipping Rules of 2019 that didn’t cost a penny

06 Jan 2020 By By Hayley Cowburn

Here are the trendiest custom shipping rules of 2019 – ideas that have seen many of our clients through a fantastic year of growth for not a penny more. Perhaps there’s something that can be adapted for your warehouse in 2020!

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Christmas at Oddsphere 2019

17 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Just a little entry about how we’re celebrating the festive season this year :)

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In The Spotlight: Introduction to Temperature Controlled Shipping

09 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Do you need to start looking into temperature-controlled shipping or curious about cold shipping in general? Let’s dive in…

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"Thank You for Delivering" - Shipster Christmas Video 2019

01 Dec 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

"Here's to all the people who are delivering a merry Christmas in the UK. The factory workers, warehouse staff, pickers, packers and drivers..." Check out our video thanking every person involved behind the scenes when it comes to this manic time of year!

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Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson “break the internet” with Beauty eCommerce Launch

04 Nov 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

For Those That Don’t Know: Who are they? What happened? And how did they achieve one of the biggest beauty e-commerce launches in history?

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It’s October Already! Is Your Dispatch Point Ready for Christmas?

01 Oct 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

The Most Popular Time to Start Christmas Shopping is October-November. Don’t be reactive this year, brace for impact.

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Visiting London eCommerce EXPO 2019

25 Sep 2019 By By Hayley Cowburn

Our Highlights: Latest Insights into the expectation of Delivery Customers, Black Friday Figures & eCommerce Innovations

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