Our fulfilment process looks pretty much the same, whether you’re selling on just Amazon or multiple e-commerce websites.
It includes 6 steps that are all carried out using the integrated WMS.
Your Minatus experience starts with your products coming to our fulfilment company centre. We have a dedicated team responsible for the receipt of goods and verification. This process involves inspecting whether your products match the specifications you have entered in your purchase order.
You can control this process and other fulfilment services with our IWMS. See when your goods were received, what defects were identified and when they are ready for shipping.
Within 24 hours of receiving your goods, we perform all the necessary inspections and get your items ready for storage in our fulfilment warehouse in the UK. This is also logged in IWMS.
You’re always in the know of when your goods can be shipped. Using IWMS, you can keep tabs on your inventory and arrange sales without worrying about the unavailability of purchased products.
Because Minatus is your full-service fulfilment partner, we cover every process related to your goods and orders. So, when someone purchases your products through an eCommerce platform, IWMS keeps our teams informed about the action in real time.
From order logs to payment processing, everything is trackable for a swift fulfilment experience. This 360-degree view allows you and Minatus to handle your business order flow with agility.
It’s time to collect and retrieve your products. Fragile or sturdy, we pick all goods with extreme care. Besides, we run another inspection at this stage to make sure no defective order goes out.
Is your business associated with promptness? Our warehouse fulfilment services can be arranged for picking and shipping your items the same day if orders are logged before 2 PM.
You don’t want your customers to receive their orders in a shabby box or with missing pieces. At Minatus, we nip these issues in the bud by providing professional fulfilment services at the order consolidation stage. Enter packing, wrapping, labelling, repacking and more.
Our attention is equally thorough for single items, bundles, regular sizes and awkwardly shaped goods.
To get shipping right, we go back to IWMS to double-check what delivery method your customers have selected. Depending on their preferences, we send your items to a carrier facility for final-step delivery or a distribution centre.
All shipping processes are recorded in our IWMS fulfilment solution. You can easily track them and plan your business activities accordingly.
Are your e-commerce sales going up? Stick to your growth track whilst keeping overhead costs as low as they are now. By outsourcing order fulfilment to Minatus, you can get your products to your customers without technically doing anything. We can become a physical extension to your e-commerce business that manages picking, warehousing, packing, quality control and despatching operations.
Our fulfilment services cover your products’ journey from where your suppliers store them to where your customers want them delivered. We ensure complete control by integrating the warehouse management system (WMS) with the platforms you sell on, be it eBay, Shopify, Amazon or all three. This gives us a full picture of order placements and enables us to fulfil them as soon as they come in, thereby freeing up your time.
Making more sales can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, seeing orders flowing in an unstoppable fashion bodes well for your store’s financial health. But on the other hand, you may find yourself hamstrung by the inability to fulfil them on time or increased handling and shipping costs.
Minatus can get you through all those challenges.
We’re different from other e-commerce fulfilment companies in that we charge for a cubic metre of the space your products take up in our warehouse. In other words, you only pay when your inventory is physically stored with Minatus, whether it’s 1 or 500 items.
Additional charges include picking, labelling and basic fulfilment fees per product.
With our pay-as-you-go professional fulfilment services, you can pay less to get your products to your customers and run your business. As we take care of your orders from A to Z, you don’t need to rent a warehouse and hire workers for fulfilment operations.
Plus, when you leave fulfilment to Minatus, you can scale your e-store in any direction.
Getting more orders during peak season?
Outsource them to us and pay the same fulfilment price per order.
Are you into a sales slump?
Cover reduced costs as long as you need to have fewer orders picked, handled and shipped.
OR - £6.00 per pallet
We receive, check and scan the products you send to us into the warehouse.
Storage charges Per cubic metre per week
You only pay for the amount of space used in the warehouse.
Includes picking & packing into free mail bag* and shipping labels
Excludes carriage. *additional packaging may be extra
£0.62 per second item then -
£0.10 per every additional item
Example: 4 items on an order = £1.64 + £0.62 + £0.10 + £0.10
Total for 4 items £2.46
You send us your products direct from your suppliers. We check against your Pre Advice or Supplier Purchase Order raised in IWMS and notify you of any descrepancies.
We check the goods received for damage. We notify you if receipts from suppliers are completed or overdue.
Your products are identified and placed on shelves in our warehouse. IWMS Integrated systems update all your seller channels with the increase in stock ready for you to take orders.
Total time taken from receipt of your products to being placed on shelves averages around 24 hours but can take up to 48 hours in busy periods.
Integrated sales orders generated on your website or other sales channels like Amazon or eBay are immediatly ready for processing once they have passed through the payment gateway.
Orders can also be raised manually through your client portal or sent by eMail. Once in the IWMS order cockpit stock is allocated and channel balances updated in real time. They can be picked from the shelves by our warehouse team
As products are picked, quality checked and confirmed, transactions made by the warehouse team update the order status on IWMS and across portals.
All orders received by 2.00pm are despatched the same day.
Orders are packed according to your specifications. We can enclose free gifts, gift wrap, whatever you need.
Parcels are despatched using the delivery method selected during the check out process. This can be amended to provide more cost efficient or consignment based shipping.
Your customers are automatically notified that the shipment has left the warehouse, the consignment ref and carrier so they can check how their order is progressing with the carrier.
You can also check your client portal for updates and parcel tracking information which you can share with you customers
If you own an e-commerce store, you may be thinking you can remain a DIYer without hiring a fulfilment partner. But what this actually means is that you’ll spend most of your time drowning in fulfilment processes. Shipping orders is time-consuming, and you may not even realise it takes your mind off planning a business development strategy or exploring new channels to increase your sales.
E-commerce fulfilment companies like Minatus empower you to take a hands-off approach to fulfilment. The service provider can be tasked with all the behind-the-scenes processes to get your physical products from your customers’ online shopping carts to their doorsteps. Those that offer end-to-end e-commerce order fulfilment services can store your inventory, prepare each item for shipping and move it to the carrier you choose. All these processes do not require involvement on your part, saving time for you and your team.
Does outsourcing to a fulfilment company in the UK mean you’re outsourcing control over your products? A resounding no! Top-rated service providers should connect a management system and other tools to your online store so that you can maintain control over how your products are moved when your customers order them. With technology-driven, automated fulfilment solutions, you can monitor shipping processes and inventory levels whilst adjusting your e-fulfilment strategy on the fly.
Outsourcing fulfilment to a 3PL partner also makes sense if you:
Minatus has been serving as a UK-based fulfilment partner for businesses for years. Dozens of online stores rely on our e-commerce fulfilment solutions and storage capabilities to move their goods to their customers without delays and high Amazon fees. And here’s why:
Grab your key to explosive growth – no more late nights packing boxes in your garage or lugging inventory to the post office. With our order fulfilment centre handling your logistics, you can focus on the big picture
Think marketing, product development, and global expansion. Picture doubling your sales next quarter without adding extra staff. Imagine having your inventory, packing, and shipping operations streamlined and your customers delighted with fast and accurate deliveries.
With our fulfilment service, your success is closer than you think. Are you ready to make a move?
By cooperating with Minatus, you tap into years of process optimisation experience in the e-commerce world. We have UK-based infrastructure and resources to keep costs in check, negotiate the most compelling shipping rates, and simplify processes. Passing those savings onto your customers means happier shoppers and higher conversion rates.
But not only that.
We stay on the cutting edge of packaging, shipping, and logistics innovations, which you can use to your advantage.
Fulfilment outsourcing isn’t supposed to add to your manual operations. With Minatus and our WMS, you gain access to the latest warehousing technology and automation to upgrade the entire fulfilment process. This reduces human error and allows for faster processing.
Is your business discoverable on Amazon? Do you sell on eBay or Shopify? Whatever platform you operate on, we can successfully integrate our system as one of the optimisation-inspired e-commerce order fulfilment companies. This makes your orders flow directly from your store to our fulfilment warehouse for fast, accurate processing. Our system is automatically notified as soon as your order comes in, so we can start picking and packing right away.
With Minatus as your online order fulfilment company, you get complete visibility into your inventory and orders. You can track their status, see what has been picked and packed, check stock levels, and more. This gives you analytics to augment your e-commerce business – no more guesswork.
As your online order fulfilment provider, we put together reports to give you a heads-up on critical KPIs. Being no stranger to time-based performance, inventory, shipping, and returns, you gain priceless tip-offs to avoid issues and hone your e-commerce operations. You can use these reports to identify areas for improvement, spot trends, and make sounder business decisions.
Your customers are automatically notified that the shipment has left the warehouse, the consignment ref and carrier so they can check how their order is progressing with the carrier.
You can also check your client portal for updates and parcel tracking information which you can share with you customers
Your customers should be as delighted with the unboxing experience as they are with your products. That’s why we prioritise customer satisfaction by instantly shipping professionally packaged goods and being fast to work on returns.
Is your product or kit unusual? No problem. As an experienced 3PL operator, we can nail your complex fulfilment needs. Let’s discuss your product requirements in detail to find the proper warehouse solution to store and ship your items.
Let fulfilment by Minatus fuel your growth without straining your business resources. Your e-commerce future is coming now – be ready to embrace it!
