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Shipping Made Simple: How To Help Reduce Your Delivery Costs

  • August 16, 2021
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  • Ashley Jenkins
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If you are the owner of a small retail business or even do some part-time e-commerce selling as a side gig, you’ll know how important it is to have your shipping operations as streamlined and cost-effective as possible.

Shipping Made Simple: How To Help Reduce Your Delivery Costs

Inferior delivery services can negatively impact your reputation in several significant ways.

Overly long delivery times and unnecessary delays can leave your customers unsatisfied, and customer satisfaction is a crucial element for any business’s bottom line.

Still, if your shipping and processing fees are too expensive in the eyes of your target audience, it may put them off from purchasing from you entirely.

Research suggests that extra charges such as shipping fees are one of the things that stop people from checking out online orders.

Nobody wants to pay above the average going rate just to receive their orders.

Most importantly, though, shipping fees constitute a substantial part of overheads for e-commerce and goods-based industries.

Inefficient and costly practices in this area can severely reduce your profit margins unnecessarily, ultimately affecting your bottom line as a direct result.

To maximize the money you can be making, you must get your delivery processes as cost-effective as possible.

This effort will also ensure you are not putting off any potential customers with excessive delivery fees.

Here are some simple and practical suggestions you can use to reduce your shipping costs.

Minimize Breakage

One of the most frustrating things in delivery is paying for the return or replacement of goods that have been damaged in transit.

This is an unpleasant experience for both your customer and your business as well, and it often impacts brand reputation as a direct result.

And while most carriers offer basic insurance on your goods as standard, these policies generally only cover damages worth up to around $100.

You need to make sure that the shipping services which you are hiring have a proven track record in terms of breakage. You can read online reviews, talk to the company and find out what happens if your goods suffer from damages. Leading shipping companies train their staff to properly handle fragile goods and products which ensures that they do not get damaged in loading, transit or unloading. 

Your primary means of doing this is packaging your goods as safely as possible.

Use the smallest packaging your goods will fit in as possible to reduce the possibility of products inside moving around and breaking.

Remember also to use void fill such as bubble wrap and shredded paper to transport fragile goods.

It is also beneficial to consider eco-friendly bubble wrap alternatives to secure your products without harming the environment, a factor that will please your customers as well.

If your goods also have specific delivery requirements, consider using a specialist courier, as they will be more likely to ensure your package arrives in good condition.

The courier service for your business is also a service that upholds your brand reputation. For this reason, you must always consider the professionality and reliability of the services offered.

Reliablecouriers.com, for example, offers specific medical and time-critical delivery services.

Invest in Automation Software

It may seem counterintuitive, but investing in automated shipping software might be an investment that saves you significant amounts of money over time, provided you ship enough goods.

Online shipping platforms utilize AI and algorithms to identify the most cost-effective, quickest delivery routes for your goods.

Therefore, this extra feature means you are paying the absolute minimum for your courier services as possible.

Ultimately, though, this will only be worthwhile if you are shipping enough goods that your savings will exceed the cost of the software.

Another software solution that can benefit your shipping processes to improve customer satisfaction that would naturally help transform one-time buyers into brand-loyal buyers is shipment tracking software.

Adding this feature to your shipping process means that customers can effectively track the precise location of their orders, directly ensuring the customer the convenience of knowing exactly when their order will arrive.

While this may not reduce your shipping costs, it can enhance your likeness or securing repeat orders, and improving sales will directly improve your profits.

Take Advantage of Flat-Rate Shipping

The weight of your packages usually determines delivery costs. And most couriers will have a function on their website to help you determine cost estimates per these specifications.

If you are regularly shipping heavy goods, utilizing flat-rate shipping may then be able to reduce your shipping rates significantly.

Flat-rate shipping instead offers fixed rates for shipping solely based on the size of your package and occasionally also the distance the parcel is being transported.

Therefore, flat-rate shipping is often much more economical for the transportation of heavier items, especially when the goods themselves have small dimensions.

Taking advantage of flat-rate shipping costs will also enable you to offer your customers a flat-rate shipping fee.

This means that your customers can rely on a standard shipping cost total that is easily predictable. Therefore, customer satisfaction will also be enhanced with this decision.

Not only will you be lowering the costs for your business, ensuring customer retention is possible, and allowing customers to save, but it will also ultimately make your customer happy.

And when customers are happy, brand loyalty numbers increase.

The Importance of a Professional Courier

There are several ways to lower your shipping costs that will benefit your bottom line. However, it is also important not to search for the cheapest courier service.

This decision could leave you relying on an unreliable courier service with a bad reputation.

Unfortunately, an unprofessional courier service will dramatically impact your business’s reputation, as the service will be directly linked to how the customer feels about your products and your reliability.

To ensure your chosen courier service is able to uphold your reputation, you must evaluate a few factors about the service.

These factors include the customer satisfaction of the service, their pricing compared to the market averages, and their overall reliability.

Reading through product reviews is a great way to establish how happy their customers are.

Conclusion

And you can take other measures readily available to determine the professionality and reliability of the service.

Once you have a suitable service to rely on, you can look into the suggestions mentioned above to lower your costs and enhance your business’s bottom line.

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