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UK based shop currently fulfilling from UK only. I'm opening a second shipping depot in USA very soon.
There appears to be more than one way to handle the customer experience side of multiple country fulfillment. Is there a best practice? From my research, it looks like the following options are generally used:
1. create specific shopify instances for each country. This seems expensive and complicated and lots of duplicate work.
2. Hide items between warehouses by using a geo-blocker app of some sort? seems prone to failure and brittle.
3. create multiple shipping zones with SKUs scoped to specific zones. I have almost 1000 SKUs so this option seems like a management nightmare.
4. third-party warehouse management app that managers orders and fulfillment, but again overly expensive and a lot of duplicate work.
Anyone have any tips or best practices when it comes to rolling out a new country fulfillment center?
Hi @shoptube56 ,
This is Theodore from PageFly - Shopify Page Builder App.
You're opening a second fulfillment center in the USA for your UK shop. Here's how to handle the customer experience for multi-country fulfillment:
Options:
Best Practices:
Additional Tips:
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Theodore | PageFly
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Hiya! Thank you for the excellent explanation! It looks like the path of least resistance is to setup multiple shipping zones first. If it gets too complicated to manage, I will try looking in the Shopify App Store.
For SKU/Barcoding, I think if I embed the warehouse location into the SKU schema, it will make management a lot easier. e.g. 222-333-USA-01 vs 222-333-UK-01. I will have identical products split across locations. Any tips on this strategy?
Thank you so much for your help!
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