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What it takes to have a successful Shopify store
As a leading order fulfillment provider for top ecommerce sites, ShipBob partners with online retailers that have achieved remarkable business growth by selling on Shopify.
What it takes to have a successful Shopify store
Even with a powerful ecommerce platform like Shopify, building a successful ecommerce business can be challenging. From landing page optimizations to inventory management to shipping your Shopify store orders, your attention and time are divided between numerous tasks at once.
Time is a precious resource for anyone running a growing ecommerce store. Focusing on fulfillment-related tasks instead of more strategic projects can prevent you from scaling your business to its full potential.
Forming and leveraging a successful partnership with a fulfillment partner is crucial, as it allows you to focus on building a successful Shopify store.
5 Shopify websites in high-growth mode
Here are 5 Shopify stores that have leveraged ShipBob to outsource fulfillment, enabling them to scale their business.
1. EZ Bombs
EZ Bombs, a family-founded and operated spice blend brand, experienced rapid growth after going viral on social media platforms. While self-fulfilling orders, they shipped over 100,000 orders in a single month. At that point, they realized that to scale their business, they needed to outsource order fulfillment.
“The month after we offloaded fulfillment to ShipBob, we were able to pick our heads up a little and realize there were other, more strategic things we could do instead of shipping. Outsourcing fulfillment was the last piece we needed to unlock to keep growing, and ShipBob helped us with that.”
Brandon Castaneda, Founder and CEO of EZ Bombs
Through their partnership with ShipBob, the EZ Bombs team has been able to focus on marketing initiatives and take vacation time during peak season. In total, EZ Bombs saved 1,600 hours per month by leveraging ShipBob’s fulfillment solution.
“By working with ShipBob, we don’t have to focus on logistics anymore. We’re more focused on how to make EZ Bombs bigger, better, and provide a better experience for our customers. That has been especially great for TikTok. We’ve shifted our focus from fulfilling orders to creating better content, building the brand, and honing in on our marketing.”
Brandon Castaneda, Founder and CEO of EZ Bombs
2. Taste Salud
Taste Salud is a hydration drink mix inspired by co-founder Josh Leyva’s Hispanic heritage. The brand exploded in popularity after their first launch, and from that point on knew that self-fulfillment wasn’t going to be sustainable for them. That’s when they outsourced fulfillment to ShipBob.
“When I hear about people trying to do their own fulfillment, I’m kind of skeptical. Having gone through that experience of packing orders, I would tell anyone that’s thinking about starting a business that it’s really, really well worth your time to consider partnering with a professional like ShipBob. A lot of people think, “I don’t need that,” or “I don’t want to waste money on a fulfillment provider.” But in reality, partnering with an expert like ShipBob will free up so much of your time, speed up shipping, and lead to a better customer experience.”
Tyler McCann, Co-Founder of Taste Salud
Since then, Taste Salud has more than tripled their business, expanded into B2B sales channels, and achieved over $20M in sales. Along the way, ShipBob has scaled with Taste Salud, enabling them to achieve seamless order fulfillment.
“ShipBob has invested into automation. It’s no wonder that orders get out within 24 hours of being received – ShipBob is really good at what they do. We’ve scaled so much, and there have been zero hiccups in fulfillment with ShipBob. I don’t think even as we keep scaling in the years to come that there will be any hiccups there.”
Tyler McCann, Co-Founder of Taste Salud
3. Barefaced
Started with the intention of simplifying skincare routines, Barefaced eventually outgrew their fulfillment solution: self-fulfilling orders from the founder’s garage. They wanted a solution to improve inventory management, which led them to outsource fulfillment to ShipBob.
“Logistics can be so challenging and tedious, and it takes up so much time. We’re such a small team and we all wear so many different hats, so we needed a fulfillment partner that was able to take care of the logistics piece for us. It’s great that we found ShipBob and have them as our partner. In order for us to do what ShipBob does, we would have to hire 10 or more employees. It’s crazy to think how much ShipBob does.”
Callie Tivnan, E-commerce Manager, and Christina Williams, Customer Success Manager at Barefaced
They leverage many of ShipBob’s partner integrations, including Shopify Plus, Recharge, Loop, Gorgias, and more.
4. Sharkbanz
Sharkbanz is on a mission to reduce the risk of shark attacks for surfers, ocean researchers, and general beachgoers. Their patent-pending wearable technology creates an electromagnetic field that deters sharks but is imperceptible to humans.
As their popularity grew, so did their orders.
“When we first started the company, we only sold direct-to-consumer through our Shopify store, so fulfilling orders wasn’t a huge issue — but once we started to gain traction and then expanded to selling through retailers, we realized that we needed to outsource fulfillment.”
Nathan Garrison, Co-Founder and CEO of Sharkbanz
Sharkbanz tried out several 3PLs but couldn’t find one that offered both excellent customer service and user-friendly data and analytics, that is, until ShipBob.
“Finally, we found ShipBob, which gave us the best of both worlds and offered a true fulfillment platform. Our Merchant Success Manager provides excellent customer service, and ShipBob’s merchant-facing software is really intuitive to navigate. We love that ShipBob integrates directly to our website and our other ecommerce software we use, and that it gives us real-time data on inventory, order volume, warehouse processes, and shipments. Discovering that one provider could deliver all of these capabilities was a game-changer!”
Nathan Garrison, Co-Founder and CEO of Sharkbanz
5. NutriPaw
The founders of Nutripaw wanted to create an online store that helps both people and their pets. They started Nutripaw to make natural remedies for common dog problems, like hip and joint issues, and itch relief.
The London-based company successfully launched their Shopify store and quickly knew they needed to outsource fulfillment.
“Fulfillment is one of the areas that we were super keen to outsource to a partner who’s been doing it for a while and knows how it’s done. We can trust ShipBob to support and handle fulfillment for us, so that we can focus on the strategic side of our business, helping us grow and develop much faster.”
Adelina Zotta, Co-Founder of NutriPaw
With fulfillment taken care of, Nutripaw can now focus on expanding the products they offer on their online store.
“With fulfillment and shipping outsourced to ShipBob, we can finally focus on expanding our product offering to better capture our customers’ needs. In the next few months, we’ll be looking to release at least 2-4 new products.”
Adelina Zotta, Co-Founder of NutriPaw
ShipBob for Shopify stores
ShipBob is a leading global omnifulfillment solution that helps online retailers offer faster, more cost-effective shipping to meet customers’ expectations every day. Here’s how partnering with ShipBob can help Shopify merchants grow and scale.
“Having ShipBob integrated with our Shopify platform, international orders come through seamlessly without any intervention or manual work. All customs documents are loaded onto the order and handed off to the local international carriers. This DTC process is so valuable for our customers around the world.”
Sal Perera, Director of Supply Chain at CLEARSTEM
Integrate your Shopify store in minutes
ShipBob seamlessly integrates with Shopify, allowing you to link your online store and import products and orders with just a click. The backend work is already done for you, so you can get started without any ecommerce developer work, saving you any further web development costs.
Order and inventory data is pushed automatically between ShipBob’s dashboard and the Shopify ecommerce platform. This two-way flow of information offers transparent insight into your orders, inventory, fulfillment centers, shipments, customers, and more.
Automate the fulfillment process
When an order is placed on your Shopify store, ShipBob’s software automatically routes the order to ShipBob to be filled fast and efficiently by fulfillment experts.
Plus, once an order has shipped, ShipBob can automatically send tracking information back to your Shopify store, so your customers stay in the loop every step of the way.
Ship from multiple global markets
ShipBob is an official Shopify Fulfillment Partner for Managed Markets, meaning that ShipBob can seamlessly fulfill your Managed Market orders.
ShipBob allows online retailers to store their ecommerce inventory across a network of global fulfillment centers. With facilities in the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, and Australia, brands can speed up shipping times, avoid import taxes and duties, and improve the customer experience.
Leverage ShipBob’s Inventory Placement Program
Brands can automate inventory distribution, placement, and rebalancing with ShipBob’s Inventory Placement Program (IPP) in the US. By strategically placing inventory throughout the country, brands can reduce shipping costs and transit times by shipping from a fulfillment center that’s closer to the end customer.
Start shipping with ShipBob
Each of the five stores we mentioned has a unique story, but they share a common tech stack: ShipBob and Shopify. Using both platforms they’ve been able to achieve incredible growth.
Ready to scale and grow your Shopify store? Start fulfilling orders for your Shopify store through ShipBob.
