When cooperating with cross-border cloud warehouses, these precautions should be understood in advance!

At present, there are more and more domestic companies engaged in cross-border cloud warehouse warehousing and logistics, with varying scales and uneven service quality. Therefore, many merchants still have many doubts when looking for cross-border cloud warehouse cooperation. To address these issues, I have compiled a few precautions today. It is recommended that everyone master and understand them in advance before cooperating with Cloud Warehouse!

1、 I would like a detailed service quotation from the cloud warehouse service provider

Every legitimate cloud warehouse has a quotation sheet. Usually, in addition to warehousing services, cross-border cloud warehouses also provide cross-border logistics services. Therefore, this quotation table displays various warehousing fees and clearly states the charging prices of various logistics channels, truly achieving one-stop cross-border warehousing and logistics services.

In addition, other expenses such as handling fees and return fees will also be listed, which can be clearly understood before determining the cooperation.

2、 The most important storage fee should be confirmed in advance

After cooperating with the cloud warehouse, merchants will incur storage fees if they store their goods in the cloud warehouse. These storage fees may be linked to the daily shipment volume, such as requiring a certain amount of orders per day to use cloud warehouse services, especially for small and medium-sized sellers with low order volumes, which is very important.

3、 Check packaging quality to ensure compliance with shipping requirements

Packaging is a facade for cross-border e-commerce, not only related to the brand image of merchants, but also directly affecting the shopping experience. Due to the different types of products operated by each merchant, there may be differences in packaging requirements, even down to the exact number of boxes to use, what accessories to put, and how to wrap the outer box with tape. If the packaging is not firm enough and the goods are scattered during the mailing process, the merchant will not only face customer complaints, but also incur additional costs for re mailing.

A legitimate cloud warehouse service provider will have a professional operation team to provide customized packaging services for different customers. It is best to confirm the packaging style before cooperation to prevent unnecessary trouble after cooperation.

4、 Before cooperation, consult clearly about the issue of pre deposit

Cross border cloud warehouses generally adopt a pre deposit model, which is very similar to cross-border logistics cooperation. These fees may vary according to the regulations of each service provider, so before cooperation, it is necessary to clarify how much the deposit is or whether there are any other fees involved.

In addition, it is also necessary to clarify how often the account is reconciled. Legitimate cloud warehouse services usually have transparent and open service content, and understanding it clearly is more reassuring to cooperate.

5、 Understand the logistics time of different shipping channels

Merchants choose to cooperate with cross-border cloud warehouses not only to reduce warehousing pressure, but also to improve shipping efficiency. Merchants need to understand the delivery time, online delivery time, transportation time, etc. of different shipping channels, as each channel has a relatively fixed service time.

If merchants are concerned about timeliness, they should clarify the departure time, reserve packaging time, and overall transportation time to ensure that the goods can be delivered to consumers in a timely manner.

The above are the five precautions for cooperating with cloud warehouses, hoping to be helpful to merchants! For more information, please feel free to consult Takesendship!