Specialist Fulfilment

Book Fulfilment

Outsourcing your book fulfilment to Vdepot will enable you to focus on building your business, engaging with your readers and working on new editions.

  • Expert fulfilment for B2C, B2B, online and offline channels
  • Ship internationally with a range of courier options
  • Integration with your ecommerce platforms and other systems
  • Secure storage in remote access alarmed building with CCTV
  • Helpful, human service team; no cumbersome 'support tickets'
  • Introductions to experts via our ecommerce growth network

Flexible fulfilment that scales with your success

For each and every book you sell, we’ll ensure it reaches your customer on time and in pristine condition – whether you publish children’s stories, develop mental health journals or print yearly planners.

We have a tailor-made order management system which plugs into your selling platforms, and a fantastic hard-working team who will get to know your products and the way you like things done.

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Here’s how we help book brands succeed

Bespoke packing

Your customers will be excited to receive their new book and it's important that each order arrives in a speedy, spotless fashion. We'll use your branded packing materials in the fulfilment process, and use our experience to guide you on what packaging will work best for your items.

Expert contacts

In our 20 years we’ve built up a network of trusted experts, who between them can help with anything a growing business might need. Whether it’s marketplace, technical or creative expertise you need, we’ll be able to make recommendations and introductions for you.

B2B fulfilment

We can rework and prepare stock deliveries for your retail partners. We have experience in preparing stock for Amazon FBA, Harrods and other large-scale retailers.

Pay-as-you-use storage

Only pay for the space you occupy each week. Your products will have their own dedicated space within one of our warehousing facilities, which can grow with your business.

What our clients say...

"You can’t underestimate the relationship, it’s so important to have that good relationship with the people at your warehouse, it helps everything to run smoothly. I take my hat off to Vdepot, they are absolute stars.”

Laura, sales manager, stationery wholesaler

"We use Vdepot as our outsourced logistics partner for hundreds of SKUs, and have done for several years. The culture across the whole team is responsive, thoughtful, helpful and engaging and at realistic commercial price levels. I have recommended them on several occasions.”

Chris, director, packaging and design manufacturer

FAQs about our book fulfilment service

Yes, we can – Amazon has a long list of requirements for how products should be packaged and labelled to be received into their warehouses. Products that don’t meet these requirements could trigger non-compliance fees, or your products being returned to you at your expense.

Vdepot can do this preparatory work for you, ensuring items are correctly packaged, adding compliant labelling to your products, and arranging the shipments with Amazon. enjoy the benefits of being Prime-eligible while ensuring cost-effective storage and management of your inventory.

More on FBA

Yes, we can dispatch worldwide and work with the major carrier networks, including Royal Mail and DPD. Because of our high throughput, we’ve negotiated great prices from our shipping partners and can pass on the savings to our clients. Offer your customers next-day delivery and the ability to track their parcels.

For international shipments, our system can automatically print customs declarations using the order, product and company information you provide.

We don’t have a generic price list because there is so much variety in what our clients need, what they sell and therefore the right solution for them. We prefer to have a chat with you so that we can calculate the time and resources involved, and give you a fair, accurate proposal.

Other fulfilment companies might share standardised prices with you without asking you any questions, only to adjust your fees a few weeks after you have moved your inventory to their warehouse.

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Yes, we can prepare larger orders to be sent to your retail partners – whether the order is placed via a wholesale marketplace (such as Faire) or uploaded manually onto our system. We can do a separate price for this – we’d just need to know the requirements for a typical wholesale order.

Yes, we can gift-wrap your orders as an additional service – we can chat through your preferences for the pick/pack/gift-wrap process and prepare a bespoke quote for you.

Yes, we have a few clients that are B Corp certified. Contact us to learn more about how this works.

Yes, many of our clients sell FSC-certified products. We can talk you through how this works when you get in touch.