Setting up an order fulfillment center on your Shopify store is like a rite of passage. Once you start selling enough inventory, it will become difficult, if not impossible, to ship on your own. For that reason, many people choose to outsource fulfillment so they can focus on growing their Shopify stores instead of packing boxes.
Of course, in order to outsource order fulfillment, store owners must complete some initial setup within Shopify. There are two broad ways to do this:
- Find and install the Shopify app for your fulfillment center of choice
- Add a custom fulfillment center to Shopify so that order information can be sent via email
Shopify has made it easy to setup order fulfillment centers through both of these methods.