Arts, Craft, and Hobby Supply Fulfilment Services
Arts and crafts are making a major comeback!
The global arts, crafts, and hobbies industry is expected to reach $5701.3 million by 2026.
From sewing to baking, to painting to photography – direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands that cater to crafters and hobbyist have tremendous opportunity to take their brand global.
But launching into new international markets can be challenging.
The goods new is ShipBob can help.
ShipBob is a best-in-class global fulfilment provider with premium technology. With ShipBob, you can expand your brand without being tied down in day-to-day operations.
Read on to learn how ShipBob can help you expand your arts, crafts, and hobby brand.
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What is arts, crafts, and hobby supply fulfilment?
Order fulfilment for arts, crafts, and hobby supply requires extra attention. It often involves packaging products that might contain a variety of different items.
Some examples of arts, crafts, and hobby products include:
- Baking kits
- Paints and markers
- Sewing materials like fabric, scissors, and needles
- Craft machines
- Supply organizers
- Jewelry making materials
- Holiday and seasonal DIY products
Online brands that offer arts, crafts, and hobby supply might have a specific ecommerce niche, or offer a variety of supplies for different projects, which might call for the need to manage multiple SKUs.
ShipBob’s fulfilment process
ShipBob takes care of the entire retail fulfilment process for you, so you can save time, money, and headaches.
ShipBob offers both direct-to-consumer fulfilment and B2B fulfilment. This way, you can cater to both audiences while keeping logistics operations under one network.
Since ShipBob’s entire international fulfilment network is powered by a premium fulfilment technology, you have the option to split inventory across locations. This allows you to provide a memorable customer experience by offering fast and affordable shipping, along with an exceptional unboxing experience with additional services like kitting, product bundling, and personal gift notes.
Offering fast shipping has been proven to significantly reduce cart abandonment and keep customers coming back for more.
Get a glimpse inside one of our fulfilment centres:
ShipBob’s fulfilment capabilities
Getting started with ShipBob as your 3PL is easy.
We offer fast onboarding, direct integrations with leading ecommerce platforms, and inventory and order management tools to provide transparency into the entire fulfilment and shipping process.
“ShipBob’s pricing has been a lot more reasonable for us. Oftentimes, the end cost has been what we were quoted in our initial conversations nearly to the penny, so we’ve been very, very happy with the reliable service, transparency, and the economical pricing structure that ShipBob has in place. It’s a less expensive service, but even higher quality. It’s so much easier to plan cash flow, and the whole system is a better fit for us.”
Stuart Jones, Co-Founder of Canvas
Here’s an overview:
Sync your store with ShipBob
ShipBob makes syncing your online store simple with direct integrations with leading ecommerce platforms, including Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, WooCommerce, and Square Online.
Visibility into the fulfilment process
Maintain end-to-end control of the fulfilment process from your ShipBob dashboard. Search for orders, monitor order status, and track packages as they ship to customers.
Track inventory in real time
Once your store is connected to ShipBob’s dashboard, you get a number of valuable inventory management tools at your disposal. View inventory levels in real-time, set reorder points, keep a safety stock, and distribute your inventory strategically so you always have product in the right place at the right time.
Read on to learn more about how ShipBob works.
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 carrier that will give you the quickest turnaround at the best price. This strategy has helped our merchants bring 13% savings to their bottom line.
100% Coverage Across the Continental US
If you’re looking to expand into the United States, ShipBob has 2-Day Express Shipping that provides 100% coverage in the continental US from even just one fulfilment centre.
You can also distribute your inventory across ShipBob’s fulfilment centres across all regions of the United States. We leave it up to you to decide where you want us to store your inventory.
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 carrier 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.
End-to-end customer experience
We care about the customer experience as much as you and strive to be an extension of your team. From custom branded boxes to free plain packaging, ShipBob works with you to provide the unboxing experience you want. We also help you offer the fastest, most cost-effective shipping options to meet your customers’ expectations.
As soon as an order ships, tracking is pushed back to your store. We also offer return management services, allowing customers to generate return shipping labels and track returns, while getting your products processed and back into your available inventory as efficiently as possible.
How ShipBob improves your fulfilment and logistics
Save on fulfilment costs
Coffee creamer brand Prymal joined ShipBob in 2019 and was quickly able to save $8,000 per month on fulfilment costs, while at the same time achieving 4x growth.
Improve your conversion rate
After switching to ShipBob, RIFRUF was able to offer 2-day shipping, which helped increased their conversions.
Store, ship, and grow internationally
Sunglasses brand Ombraz distributed their inventory across 3 fulfilment centres in two different countries. This has allowed them to ship to 55 countries on seven continents.
