Iowa Fulfilment Services

Distribute your inventory and ship more efficiently

Your average ecommerce company oftentimes uses a fulfilment centre nearby, but while this model is logical for brick-and-mortar retail, it makes less sense for an ecommerce company whose customer base is spread out across the country. If you only have an Iowa fulfilment centre but much of your customers live on the East or West coasts, then the cost of shipping to those customers will be hefty. And, when you’re competing against retail giants and marketplaces like Amazon, this becomes a major competitive disadvantage. 

Instead, imagine that you could adopt the infrastructure and shipping capabilities of a national retail giant overnight — this is what ShipBob can do for your business. We have a growing fulfilment distribution across the globe. You can choose to ship from any or all of them based on where your customers live. Just check your data, choose the ShipBob fulfilment centres closest to your customers, and we’ll distribute your products from there. 

ShipBob uses best-in-class technology that searches the top mail couriers for the fastest, more affordable route quote for each shipment. We take care of picking, packing, and shipping, so you never have to spend time packing boxes again! 

Distributed inventory

With ShipBob’s network of fulfilment centres, you can strategically split your inventory across our locations to get your products from point A to point B more quickly and affordably. Storing inventory near your customers helps reduce the shipping zones and costs associated with shipping orders to faraway destinations.

Distributed inventory also helps you stay competitive by offering fast shipping to your customers. When an order is placed, ShipBob’s algorithm automatically selects the warehouse and courier that will give you the quickest turnaround at the best price. This strategy has helped our merchants bring 13% savings to their bottom line.

Order management

At ShipBob, we track your orders from A to Z. Filter orders by status, search for specific orders, see a quick timeline view of where your order is in the fulfilment process (e.g. when an order is picked, packed, or shipped), easily find shipping-related information (e.g., weights, dimensions, or courier service), and get a quick snapshot of any orders that require action.

With order management software for your direct-to-consumer and wholesale shipments, you can manage subscriptions, make changes to your orders post-purchase, map your store’s shipping options to ShipBob, and automatically share tracking information with your customers.

Reporting and analytics

To provide you with visibility into our operations and performance, and also hold ourselves accountable, ShipBob’s free analytics tool is packed with charts to help you with everything from year-end reporting, to better supply chain decision-making.

Data can be a competitive advantage, and our reports show an analysis of which fulfilment centres you should stock, days of inventory left before you run out, impact of promotions on stock levels, each shipping method’s average cart value, shipping cost, and days in transit, your fulfilment cost per order, storage cost per unit, and much more.