Mail Order Fulfillment Services
- product order fulfillment (storage, pick and pack, distribution, returns processing).
- catalogue request fulfilment .
- catalogue mailings (polywrapping and addressing) and direct mail fulfillment.
BTB Mailflight's mail order fulfillment centre handles order processing for a number of mail order businesses, from well known organisations like Boden, Diabetes UK and Tesco to smaller mail order companies like That Cute Age.
We can receive downloads of mail order data from your response centre, integrate our order fulfillment system into the back end of your website, or even develop your ecommerce website for you, or alternatively we can process your orders through our own response centre.
We fulfill all manner of products including:
- Medical equipment
- Toys
- Merchandise
- Consumer electronics
- Clothing
- Baby products
- DVDs
- CDs
- Perfume
- Cosmetics
- Homeware
- Toiletries
- Books
- Gardenware
We aim to leave you free to market your mail order business, source your products, and focus on your strategy, whilst we handle the job of fulfilling your products to your customers on time and in good order.
We appreciate that outsourcing your mail order fulfillment can be a big decision to make as there can be the perceived loss of control. However we will work very closely in partnership with you, and will give you access to the latest stock reports, order fulfillment reports, and sales reports so you can always have visibility of how your
mail order business is running.
As well as processing your orders we also have a response centre that can handle your customer queries by phone, post and email.
Fulfillment of Catalogue Requests and Brochure Requests
BTB Mailflight handle catalogue and brochure requests for some high profile mail order companies. This includes fulfilling:
- Clothing catalogues
- Travel brochures
- Information packs
- Welcome packs
- Product brochures
- Instruction manuals
- Directories
- Guides
Our sophisticated order fulfillment system is designed to automatically download
your data each day from your website or call centre (or our call centre), data is then linked to your personalised letter or label template that we will develop (multiple versions if necessary), addresses are printed and your pack is mailed out the same day.
As well as responding to individual catalogue and brochure requests we also
handle the distribution of bulk brochure requests e.g. to travel agents, shops, supermarkets and exhibitions.
Catalogue/Brochure Direct Mailing Campaign Fulfillment
As well as handling daily catalogue and brochure requests BTB Mailflight also have a mailing house division that specialises in the mass fulfillment of brochure and catalogue mailings for mail order companies.
We have 5 Sitma polywrapping lines and polywrap millions of catalogues and brochures each year. Smaller mailings will be polybagged or enveloped by hand.
As well as catalogue mailings we can produce other direct mail packs too. Whether it’s a simple postcard mailing or a complex mailer with numerous inserts and variations, we can provide the solution.
Our largest mail order catalogue client's mailing cycle involves high volume catalogue mailings followed up by postcard mailings. With our inkjetting capabilities we can print variable postal indicias so that they benefit from using the international postage service that offers the best price to that destination.
Our catalogue/direct mailing fulfillment capabilities include:
- Materials procurement & print management
- Data processing
- Laser printing – carrier sheets/letters/forms/invoices/statements
- Inkjet personalisation - high speed inkjetting of postcards, envelopes etc
- Print finishing
- Polythene wrapping
- Polybagging
- Envelope enclosing
- Specialist hand finishing
o Label application
o Hand inserting
o Boxing/packaging of bulk catalogues
o Covermounting/tip on's
o Hand matching
- UK mailings (Mailsort)
- International mailings
- Courier & freight
- Fulfilment of catalogue requests
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Diabetes UK produce a catalogue filled with a variety of literature, fundraising material and products i.e books, leaflets, t-shirts, sweatshirts, keyrings, mugs, posters etc. These items can be ordered by telephone and post and are ordered by people with Diabetes and their families, and by healthcare professionals and voluntary groups.
BTB Mailflight’s order fulfillment system provides Diabetes UK with a comprehensive solution:
- Maintenance of a customer database (sales ledger).
- Management of credit accounts (eg. for hospitals).
- Ability to hold and manage a schedule of variable discounts for customers by customer type and by products.
- Ability to manage a schedule of different postage/packing rates, variable according to quantity, urgency etc.
- Operation of a Freephone telephone line and Freepost address for orders.
- Handling responses by phone, fax or written order form and (in future) directly from voicemail and website.
- Receipt, capture and processing of orders and donations.
- Processing of payments (by direct debit, credit card, cheque, cash, CAF vouchers) and refunds.
- Generation of invoices, reminders, statements and letters.
- Production of sales, banking, transaction, debtors and stock reports.
- Receipt, checking and storage of incoming products, and maintenance of inventory.
- Accounting for collection boxes sent and received (for corporate and community fundraising).
- Picking, packing and despatching of products, including chargeable and non-chargeable items.
- Packs made up of several items with agreement on how to deal with incomplete packs (partial order fulfilment).
- Bulk orders of materials with the option to shrink-wrap items on demand for corporate fundraising.
- Photocopying of fast-changing leaflets from an "original" on demand.
- Enclosure of a despatch note with any item sent, stating what is enclosed, what is still outstanding, and, after 30 days, offering a refund if the order remains unfulfilled.
- Despatch to single or multiple addresses.
- Receipt, checking and recording of returns.
- Importing, merging and de-duplicating data held on various computer systems to produce a new mailing list.
- Production and despatch of letters or packs from mail merge files of names and addressees.
- Production and despatch to (a supplied list of) fundraisers of individually-numbered paying-in slips and providing
a text file to Diabetes UK, recording which number went to which fundraiser.
- Production of monthly mailings to professional members, from printed labels (or a mail merge file) and printed
inserts.
- Disposal of obsolete items as instructed by Diabetes UK (recycled or secure destruction).
Catalogue request fulfillment
Boden receive thousands of catalogue requests per day from potential customers in the UK and overseas. This includes online requests, phone calls to their call centre and postal requests.
BTB Mailflight store the catalogues and fulfill the requests with a same day turnaround SLA in place.
Catalogue mailings and postcards.
BTB Mailflight are responsible for polywrapping, addressing and mailing approximately 7 million Boden catalogues per annum. We also inkjet address and mail their postcards.
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