Find Out How These Boutiques Grew Their Customer Base by Working Fewer Hours

Boutique shops are some of the best places to get authentic, high-quality products. Products that are handcrafted, lovingly designed and endlessly unique. Buying an item from a boutique not only rewards the maker but also helps to support independent retailers, something which is becoming more and more important in the day and age of the seemingly spluttering high street. But considering those same boutiques only have one static location and a handful of staff members, it can be hard to attract new customers.

The obvious way of doing this is via an online store, but this presents even more challenges, not only managing the online store but also getting those orders out to the customers, in a simple, safe and economical way. To combat this, a growing number of London-based boutiques are partnering with a revolutionary new type of order fulfilment, one which demands less of its small pool of workers and reclaims valuable time to be used on increasing customer awareness.

An Extra Pair of Hands

Outsourcing or using specialised tools and services is nothing new, whether it’s building an online shop, handling accounting and marketing, or anything else that makes your ecommerce business successful. So why spend time packing, managing carriers, bargain hunting, and sprinting to the post office when you could outsource just as easily? Logistics is actually one of the most rewarding processes to outsource as it’s many different facets means you reclaim lots of extra time.

Many retailers spend up to four hours every single day packing up their online orders, which is a lot of time for burgeoning brands. But similar to the overall concept, having someone else handle order fulfilment has often felt unfeasible for smaller boutique brands. This is because traditional 3rd-party logistics requires a shop to send half it’s stock to a warehouse somewhere outside of London, simultaneously reducing your product range and making it way harder to stay on top of orders.

But thankfully a new type of order fulfilment has begun to rise up for London-based boutiques, meaning they can outsource in a much more convenient fashion, reducing the amount of work they do, save time and focus on growing their customer base.

Thinking Outside the Box(ing)

Weengs is the London-based logistics start-up behind this order fulfilment revolution, providing up-and-coming shops a previously shut-off entry point into order fulfilment. Weengs’ unique collect, pack & ship method means online orders can fit seamlessly into your everyday routine.

Using Weengs is as simple as logging your orders into the app and from there, Weengs will do the rest. A driver will come into your shop during your chosen 2-hour time slot, pick up each item and transport it to a London-based warehouse, professionally pack each item, and find the best carrier for the job depending on your requirements. Using their intelligent algorithm, they’ll find the best deal for your products and send each item via tracked services.

Using Weengs, you’ll not only be able to say goodbye to packing, but you’ll have buckets of time to focus on growing your business, customer base, and of course, your sales.

Partnering with Weengs means

• Convenient daily collections from your shop
• Professionally packed products
• Tracked deliveries on each order
• No more packaging yourself
• More time to focus on your shop