Arts, Craft, and Hobby Supply Fulfillment Services
Arts and crafts are making a major comeback!
The global arts, crafts, and hobbies industry is expected to reach $5701.3 million by 2026.
From sewing to baking, to painting to photography – direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands that cater to crafters and hobbyist have tremendous opportunity to take their brand global.
But launching into new international markets can be challenging.
The goods new is ShipBob can help.
ShipBob is a best-in-class global fulfillment provider with premium technology. With ShipBob, you can expand your brand without being tied down in day-to-day operations.
Read on to learn how ShipBob can help you expand your arts, crafts, and hobby brand.
ShipBob made us think about things that we hadn’t thought about ourselves. That partnership and being so willing and open to work with their customers has made working with ShipBob such a pleasure.
Jordan Rondel,
Co-owner of The Caker
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What is arts, crafts, and hobby supply fulfillment?
Order fulfillment for arts, crafts, and hobby supply requires extra attention. It often involves packaging products that might contain a variety of different items.
Some examples of arts, crafts, and hobby products include:
- Baking kits
- Paints and markers
- Sewing materials like fabric, scissors, and needles
- Craft machines
- Supply organizers
- Jewelry making materials
- DIY products
Online brands that offer arts, crafts, and hobby supply might have a specific ecommerce niche, or offer a variety of supplies for different projects, which might call for the need to manage multiple SKUs.
ShipBob’s fulfillment process
ShipBob takes care of the entire retail fulfillment process for you, so you can save time, money, and headaches.
ShipBob offers direct-to-consumer fulfillment, so you can keep logistics operations under one expert.
Since ShipBob’s entire international fulfillment network (not just in Australia, but America, Canada, and Europe) is powered by a premium fulfillment technology, you have the option to split inventory across locations. This allows you to offer fast and affordable shipping, along with an exceptional unboxing experience with additional services like kitting, product bundling, and personal gift notes.
Offering fast shipping has been proven to significantly reduce cart abandonment and keep customers coming back for more.
Get a glimpse inside one of our fulfillment centers:
ShipBob’s fulfillment capabilities
Getting started with ShipBob as your 3PL is easy.
We offer fast onboarding, direct integrations with leading ecommerce platforms, and inventory and order management tools to provide transparency into the entire fulfillment and shipping process.
“Compared to other warehouses we’ve worked with, ShipBob processes orders so quickly to get them out the door faster.”
Harley Abrams, Operations Manager of SuperSpeed Golf, LLC
Here’s an overview:
Sync your store with ShipBob
ShipBob makes syncing your online store simple with direct integrations with leading ecommerce platforms, including Shopify, BigCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, WooCommerce, and Square Online.
Visibility into the fulfillment process
Maintain end-to-end control of the fulfillment process from your ShipBob dashboard. Search for orders, monitor order status, and track packages as they ship to customers.
Track inventory in real time
Once your store is connected to ShipBob’s dashboard, you get a number of valuable inventory management tools at your disposal. View inventory levels in real-time, set reorder points, keep a safety stock, and distribute your inventory strategically so you always have product in the right place at the right time.
Read on to learn more about how ShipBob works.
Distributed inventory
With ShipBob’s network of fulfillment centers, you can strategically split your inventory across our locations to get your products from point A to point B more quickly and affordably. Storing inventory near your customers helps reduce the shipping zones and costs associated with shipping orders to faraway destinations.
Distributed inventory also helps you stay competitive by offering fast shipping to your customers. When an order is placed, ShipBob’s algorithm automatically selects the warehouse and carrier that will give you the quickest turnaround at the best price. This strategy has helped our merchants bring 13% savings to their bottom line.
End-to-end customer experience
We care about the customer experience as much as you and strive to be an extension of your team. From custom branded boxes to free plain packaging, ShipBob works with you to provide the unboxing experience you want. We also help you offer the fastest, most cost-effective shipping options to meet your customers’ expectations.
As soon as an order ships, tracking is pushed back to your store. We also offer return management services, allowing customers to generate return shipping labels and track returns, while getting your products processed and back into your available inventory as efficiently as possible.
Order management
At ShipBob, we track your orders from A to Z. Filter orders by status, search for specific orders, see a quick timeline view of where your order is in the fulfillment process (e.g. when an order is picked, packed, or shipped), easily find shipping-related information (e.g., weights, dimensions, or carrier service), and get a quick snapshot of any orders that require action.
With order management software for your direct-to-consumer and wholesale shipments, you can manage subscriptions, make changes to your orders post-purchase, map your store’s shipping options to ShipBob, and automatically share tracking information with your customers.
How ShipBob improves your fulfillment and logistics
Save on fulfillment costs
Coffee creamer brand Prymal joined ShipBob in 2019 and was quickly able to save $8,000 per month on fulfillment costs, while at the same time achieving 4x growth.
Improve your conversion rate
Not only was BAKblade able to scale internationally by partnering with ShipBob, but they found adding 2-Day Shipping increased their conversions as well.
Store, ship, and grow internationally
Sunglasses brand Ombraz distributed their inventory across 3 fulfillment centers in two different countries. This has allowed them to ship to 55 countries on seven continents.
