Imagine a world where you're freed from the endless cycle of picking, packing, shipping, order adjustments, and returns. A world where your precious time is dedicated to nurturing your business. Outsourcing e-commerce fulfilment brings this freedom to life; your...
E-Commerce Fulfilment Articles
Get Ready for the Christmas Rush: A Checklist for Online Traders
The Foundations for a Successful E-commerce Festive Season As autumn paints our favourite high-street and online stores with warm hues, it's time for online traders to gear up for the festive rush. Having fulfilled Christmas for hundreds of e-commerce customers over...
Delivering Sustainable E-commerce Fulfilment
We've been providing e-commerce fulfilment and direct mailing services for almost 30 years, and environmental sustainability is an area we know matters to our customers and their customers. After COP26, which took place in our home city of Glasgow last year, we've...
We’re Organic!
We are proud to announce that Commands is now one of the few warehouse & fulfilment centres in the UK with organic certification. We worked with the Biodynamic Association to secure our certification. And mine and Andy’s thanks go out to our brilliant Team. They...
Celebrating the highs of a challenging year: 2020
As we approach the end of 2020, there is no doubt that this has been one of the most challenging and unpredictable years. However, as an e-commerce fulfilment service provider it has been refreshing to see the determination of different businesses to adapt. For...
7 tips to get your e-commerce right this peak season
I read last week that IMRG predicts UK online retail sales could grow by 25-45% YOY this Black Friday (2020). That was before the latest lockdown restrictions that many of us find ourselves under, came into force. It seems that everyone agrees, it’s going to be a...
What to think about when adding e-commerce to the mix
Delighted to say we have just won another alcohol customer this week – and a soft drinks customer too. That's our third this month. Since lockdown, this has been a definite trend for us. According to the Beverage Industry "Alcohol brands are growing at double, if not...
A New Way to Outsource E-Commerce Order Fulfilment
As non-essential stores open in England today, we have had some sobering news about the economy. However, one area that seems to be holding its own is internet sales. Month after month the ONS reports higher and higher internet sales and on Friday I heard that 43% of...
Helping Businesses Keep Their Doors Open
As an e-commerce fulfilment and direct mailing business, we have been working flat out throughout the COVID-19 crisis to help businesses stay open during lockdown. We have put in place safe working measures, found ways for our team not to have to use public transport...