Vdepot has a large network of trusted companies who can help you with all manner of business challenges and goals.
As our client, we can make introductions and recommendations for you.
- B2B & B2C orders, packed to your specifications
- Same day dispatch, next day UK delivery, international shipping
- Integration with your sales channels and systems
- Secure storage in remote access alarmed building with CCTV
- Helpful, human client support; no cumbersome 'ticket system'
- 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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Integrates with your business
Use our connections to build your book company
Marketplace Support
Accounting
Marketing & Social Media
Design and Photography
Eco Practices
International Support
Branding
How to use fulfilment to build brand loyalty
Based on what our most successful clients have done, here are five suggestions on how effective fulfilment could encourage customers to buy from you again.
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Branding
How emerging brands are utilising TikTok
If used strategically, TikTok can deliver your brand straight to your target audience – even if it is niche – and can be a transformative tool for increasing brand awareness and actively reaching your audience.
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Branding
How to get your products noticed by independent retailers
How do new brands begin to share their passion with independent retailers and get them passionate about it too?
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Branding
Inspire brand loyalty on Amazon with A+ Content
A great way to cultivate brand loyalty on Amazon is to display your brand. A great way of displaying your brand is utilising A+ Content.
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Best Practices
Questions to ask before choosing a fulfilment company
It’s crucial to work with a company you can trust, not just go with the cheapest-sounding quote you can find. Here are some important questions to use as criteria when selecting a fulfilment partner to suit your business.
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Best Practices
The advantages of barcoding
While Vdepot can carry out its fulfilment service without barcodes, there are many good reasons to adopt barcoding for your product range. Let’s talk through the advantages and then we’ll explain where to begin with getting your products barcoded.
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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.
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.
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.
We have two premises located on the outskirts of Norwich, East of England – about a 2 hour drive from London. Our rural location means we can keep site costs low while still being close to the UK’s major ports. The closest major ports are Felixstowe, London and Immingham.