Outsourcing your e-commerce warehouse is cost-effective for stores of every size

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Let’s clear up a myth right away. You can outsource your store’s fulfillment even if your business isn’t particularly big. In fact, you can outsource it from day one even before you’ve made a single sale.

Outsourcing your warehousing and fulfillment is cost-effective — that much is well known — but for who? For stores of every size, as long as your partner is up to the job.

When your costs are tied purely to sales, your expenses become easy to predict.

You don’t pay rent or salaries, and you don’t spend your own days receiving, storing, packing, or shipping stock.

You also know that seasonal swings won’t disrupt your day-to-day — your partner makes sure orders get fulfilled whether volumes spike or go quiet, at the same transparent cost.

Every moment you’d otherwise spend on warehousing can go toward sales, marketing, buying, or product development instead. Or kicking back, if that’s what you fancy.

Outsourcing your warehouse means you get to be an online merchant — not a warehouse worker.

That’s where we at Plugo come in.

Every moment you’d otherwise spend on delivery fulfillments can be used for sales, marketing, buying, or product development.

Mikael Wahren, Head of E-commerce, Plugo

Why does outsourcing make sense even for a small online store?

Whether you’re a seasoned merchant or just setting up shop, you want your costs as lean as possible. At the same time, you don’t want orders stalling because of resource constraints the moment customers start showing interest.

Outsourcing your warehouse to us gets you both, with no fixed warehousing costs and no upfront investment. Use our calculator to check exactly what outsourcing would cost at your store’s volume.

Our service scales with you, from one order a day to a hundred or a thousand, so you never have to worry about whether your warehousing and fulfillment can keep up with customer demand.

Our pricing is completely transparent, so you know from day one exactly how your fulfillment costs are made up.

For the same price, you also get serious experience, but without the beginner mistakes that cost you money and customer satisfaction.

Make sure you get a transparent, real-time view of your inventory

Plugo’s advanced warehouse management system has already won praise from early customers.

Outsourcing your warehouse is a smart move, but you’ll still want to keep tabs on it as if it were sitting in your own garage. That’s why, when choosing a fulfillment partner, you should make sure you get the clearest possible view into your stock.

Plugo’s warehouse management system, Ongoing, is the most advanced in Europe, and for many online stores it can double as their ERP.

As a Plugo customer, you see your warehouse and inventory status in real time, with no delays.

When the systems talk to each other, you get real-time data straight from the warehouse management system, whenever you want it.

Mikael Wahren, Head of E-commerce, Plugo

Shopify, WooCommerce, MyCashflow, and many other e-commerce platforms can be integrated with Plugo easily, in just minutes. And there’s no charge for integration, either at setup or down the line.

For custom-built platforms, we offer a well-documented API, also free of charge.

When the systems talk to each other, you get real-time data straight from the warehouse management system, whenever you want it. You can also automate actions, like reordering products based on stock levels.

A whole range of marketplaces and 220 countries at your fingertips from day one, without fixed costs

Plugo’s warehouse management system also lets you sell on marketplaces beyond your own store. TikTok, Amazon, and others run through the same system — either directly or via a third-party app — so you never have to juggle separate inventories or product listings across channels.

You can also expand internationally with ease. Deliveries through us reach 220 countries. And returns too, if that’s what you want.

All of this with no fixed costs. Regardless of your order volume.

That’s what makes us a cost-effective choice for online stores of every size.

Mikael Wahren is an online merchant at heart and by background, but also a professional in modern fulfillment. At Plugo, he develops services that genuinely support the growth of online stores of all sizes.

For warehouses of all-sizes

Is Plugo the right fit for you?

B2B, B2C, D2C… whoever you’re selling to. Whatever products you’re shipping. Whatever platforms or marketplaces you’re using. Wherever your customers are. Yes, Plugo is for you.