ShipBob Fulfillment

Shipbob has put our amazon account in jeopardy with a 16% late ship rate. Technical support is a carousel that goes nowhere. They have an online "chat" window, where the representative does basically nothing but open a support ticket - which go unanswered. Additionally, they sent boxes of assembly parts to a customer (who had no idea why he got these miscellaneous plastic rings). This led to us having to product to assemble, costing us revenue. Most importantly, just google "Shipbob" and "BBB" and read the number of Better Business Bureau horror stories about Shipbob. Or just look at reviews and see how horrific the stories are. The onboarding is very slick, they put a lot of energy into getting you on, but they can't get products out, nor do they offer technical support that is useful or helpful.

Highly recommend ShipBob for B2C orders. They make the process much easier, transparent, and with analytics! Their team is also passionate about making sure you get all the support you need via email, phone, and scheduled meetings. They're quickly expanding internationally too, so there's a lot of opportunity to grow with them. They're still building up their B2B services. If your products are not fragile or heavy and can be shipped on pallets for B2B with their shipping services, I still recommend them. Unfortunately for us, our products are fragile, heavy, and parcel only, and the B2B services wasn't a good match. We tried their service where we make our own labels for B2B orders too but it didn't work out. They're extremely good at making shipping labels for you though! Truly an automated system if you let them take over fulfilment for you.

Shipbob has been able to offer great solutions to our needs from a 3PL. We were nervous about the change but now we don't look back!

Installation of the App was extremely easy and we had someone help us onboard who was there whenever we needed, so it made the process far from intimidating. When it comes to speed and reliability of order ingestion, the process is fairly straight forward and easy. If you have inventory ready, the process is seamless. I would say the only hiccup is with Amazon FBA orders but Shipbob is always willing to help. Overall when it comes to tracking upload speed, communication of order progress, and speed ShipBob has been a great partner. As with any 3PL there will always be some issues, it's the nature of the business, but it's good to know that we can rely on ShipBob's technical support team to get things figured out.

We really enjoy working with the ShipBob dashboard on a daily basis. For our customer service team, it's a simple way to keep track of the stage of every package (from picking, to shipping, to delivery), and to provide these details to our customers when necessary. ShipBob has also made it super simple for us to be able to file claims with carriers when we've had issues with them, and we love their carriers estimated shipping time tool (especially during peak time season). Their dashboard is easy to understand and makes changes and edits to orders simple. We've also loved working with their team, both with our team lead as well as with every customer service rep we've spoken to on the phone. Through their dashboard and analytics, we've also been able to analyze our inventory and distribution of it to our different warehouses. Overall, would highly recommend.

As far as 3pls go, Shipbob is the best I've worked with! In my personal opinion, more than cheap shipping rates and automatic fulfillment, having insight into exactly what's happening at the warehouse level is my top priority. Shipbob makes this possible with their software-- absolutely unparalleled. It provides full transparency into each stage of the pick & pack process and when there are issues (impossible to avoid in logistics), our Merchant Success Manager is just an email, phone call, or text away as well as support which is pretty responsive to my requests. I'm physically 10 timezones removed from where we ship from so that's super helpful. Shipbob's claim/reimbursement policy for lost or damages parcels is super fair, whereas other 3PLs I've worked with can leave you with huge bills, missing stock, and no way to find out why or where your products are. I love shipbob!

Having used a number of 3PL's over the years we know how hard it is to get a strong 3PL partner. We've been using Shipbob for the last 12 months and they have been a great partner for us. Their level of service and speed at which they get orders out to customers is fantastic (particularly in pandemic times where other 3PL's are struggling to get orders out). Their customer service to merchants is also exceptional. Our account manager Chetan is fantastic, as are Karina and Mahmood in customer service. The only opportunities for us are around streamlining of some administrative processes, which are being addressed by their product team (they're always happy to take onboard any challenge we have and get the product team involved) and price of storage is higher than other 3PL's (but this is because they want quick turns on inventory and don't want it sitting around). Overall, we're very pleased with our partnership with Shipbob.

Shipbob has been a great partner since we joined them a year ago. They literally saved us from a disastrous situation with a different 3PL group (I won't name names, but "RH" should give you a hint). Their support is great and quick to respond. The rates are fair. I particularly enjoy the "all-in" pricing model. And their growing network of warehouse locations, especially internationally, is really helping us to seamlessly expand our overseas operations. I would give 4.5 stars if I could. My main criticism has to do with the Shopify integration, specifically the warehouse locations. Currently, the integration is set up where ShipBob acts as the fulfillment service and does not support multiple warehouse locations. So whether you have 1 Shipbob location, 4 Shipbob locations, or multiple locations between Shipbob and other providers (we sometimes ship from our headquarters, for example), Shopify groups it all into one and really limits what you can see and do in Shopify. I've been told this is being addressed, so really looking forward to seeing this improved.

There is some good, and a lot of bad with this company.

Good: They ship orders promptly. They integrate with a lot of different ecommerce service providers.

Bad: Their shipping prices are ABSURDLY high. Shipping shoes from Texas to Colorado with ShipBob is $46. With Shopify Shipping it's $10. I cannot ask my customers to pay that much, so I have been eating about $18 of shipping on every sale. Storage - they talk about $40 per pallet and a price for shelves, without telling you how much can fit on a shelf. I can fit all my inventory on 22 pallets. So should be $880, right? But they are storing it on shelves and charging me $2600 a month. When a customer returns an item, shipBob takes 10 days AFTER IT ARRIVES, to even acknowledge arrival, much less inspect the product. Customers cannot wait that long for refunds or exchanges so I am processing those all manually early, taking the risk of damaged product. They use sketchy shipping subcontractors that leave your product sitting in a warehouse for a month on the regular. They lose packages in their own warehouse before pickup and blame the carrier. I am moving all my inventory out as we speak.

We have used Shipbob for the past 4 months after migrating from a more antiquated fulfillment organization. We evaluated 5 fulfillment organizations prior to choosing Shipbob. There are 3 major reasons we chose Shipbob. First, Shipbob gave us the ability to analyze how to distribute our product across multiple warehouses in different parts of the US. Currently, we use 2 locations and are debating with Shipbob about moving our products into a 3rd location. The primary advantage of multiple locations has been reduced shipping cost, however with the winter storms and COVID we have also been able to fulfill out of an alternative location when one of the locations has been offline. This process has been automated and seamless which has saved us from a major customer satisfaction issue. The second reason we chose Shipbob is that they are truly partnering with us. They have made recommendations (location, box size, etc..) to help us reduce costs. Their pricing transparency and reporting is excellent and has helped us close our monthly reporting days earlier than with our prior fulfillment vendor. Lastly, we chose Shipbob because of its ease of integration and Dashboard. Everything from setting it up to running your shipping, changing addresses, chasing down customer sat issues etc... is available to us in an easy to use, intuitive, user friendly dashboard. Ultimately, we are very pleased with our decision to partner with Shipbob.

I worked with several fulfilment centers in my career and never had a worse experience than with ShipBob. Our company kept receiving complaints from DTC customers that were receiving products heavily stained, dented and damaged, covered in black dust that looked like soot. We placed a number of trial orders and had the same issue every single time, products arriving in horrible conditions. After asking ShipBob multiple times for an explanation, product audit and resolution, we waited months and finally received appalling pictures that showed our expensive products "stored" in haphazard mounds on top of each other in filthy boxes on the floor. It was evident from the pictures that many units were stained, dented, broken, leaked. We requested a report of damaged vs salable units and a credit for the damages. After over three months, we still have received no answers on the counts and were told that all of our damages are due to a mysterious "manufacturing defect" and Ship Bob is refusing to cover for any of it. These are thousands upon thousands of dollars of loss plus DTC customers being lost due to the poor experience. Further to this, the customer service is absolutely useless for any matter beyond the simplest things and will just provide pointless "cut and paste" answers that do not resolve your issues. I absolutely DO NOT recommend this company to anyone who values their business and brand equity. I wish I could attach the horrible pictures for everyone to see.