There are different ways to send packages or merchandise to your home. To create shipping labels you must consider the following:
Collect customer data.
Verify that the data is correct.
Consider the requirements of the company or parcel service that will carry out the shipment.
Complete the shipping details.
Print the label 2 times.
Now let's look at each of the steps in detail.
1. Collect customer data
The most important step to achieve a successful delivery is to have all the data of the person who made the purchase in your online store. These are:
Name
Address (street, number, neighborhood, municipality or town hall, state, postal code, country)
Telephone or contact number
Email
Home references
The most common and effective way to obtain this data in an online store is through a form during the purchase checkout . This way, you or the person in charge of managing your brand's e-commerce will be able to carry out the dispatch and generate the shipping guide with the parcel service or grouper you work with.
If you have your own fleet of delivery phone leads people, you can add the package to the shipping route.
2. Verify that the data is correct
Verification or verification of data is essential for home delivery of products. This process can be carried out through automated processes such as an email or WhatsApp to the customer.
It is preferable that this be done during the first few minutes after the purchase is made and before generating the shipping guide to allow for adjustments or changes.
When creating your online store with Tiendanube, for example, you can send confirmation emails or emails to request missing data. You can customize each message from each order. See an example below:
Sample shipping label data confirmation email.
3. Consider the requirements of the company or parcel service that will carry out the shipment
Since there are different ways to send packages — from parcel services, parcel aggregators, last-mile logistics companies, your own fleet with delivery people from your company, pick up in store or click and collect and through the fulfillment model — the requirements may vary slightly depending on the shipping provider you have.
At Tiendanube you can print shipping labels directly from each order, but these will only work if you have an internal service or your own fleet for order delivery.
When you decide to use a parcel service, you will be able to check their label requirements directly in their applications and you will also be able to print them from their platforms.
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4. Fill in the shipping details
Once you know the data, specifications or shipping format of the package you will use, you can complete the shipping information when creating your shipping guide on the platform of your package or grouper.
We share with you an example of a shipping label format from Skydropx , Tiendanube's ally in Mexico.