Find out how pet complement model Choose Peanut switched to ShipBob and onboarded seamlessly, saved 50% on success within the first month alone, and now ships internationally with ease.
Buyer Profile
Named after its founder’s rescue canine, Choose Peanut is a UK-based pet complement model devoted to bettering our furry mates’ well being, one microbiome at a time. Its conscientiously-sourced probiotic merchandise characteristic premium, pure substances designed to assist your canine’s digestive well being and get rid of itchy ears and pores and skin for good. Choose Peanut additionally donates a portion of every buy to the Soi Canine Basis to assist the rescue, medical remedy, and adoption of avenue pets in Thailand.
Key metrics
- £1.5M in income since 2023
- £1.50 per order saved on shipments from the UK to the EU
- 50% cost-savings on success inside the first month alone of ShipBob
- 3x cheaper success since switching to ShipBob
About Choose Peanut
When Ilya Andre’s beloved rescue canine Peanut began having well being issues, he did what any good proprietor would do and began searching for a remedy.
Ilya quickly found the world of pet dietary supplements and located that probiotics did the trick for Peanut. He quicky realized that, whereas there appeared to be lots of false claims and poorly-created merchandise on the market, there was additionally a rising demand for good, thoughtfully-sourced pet dietary supplements; and, entrepreneur that he was, he noticed the chance.
Because it first launched as a easy probiotic complement line, Choose Peanut has shipped over 1.5 million orders and expanded its product line to incorporate anti-itch merchandise and shampoos – all in simply two years.
We sat down with Ilya Andre, Founder and Director of Choose Peanut, to debate why the model switched to ShipBob, and the way it’s saved them cash whereas enhancing their buyer expertise.
Ditching our previous 3PL after shock prices, damaged guarantees, and transport points
As informed to ShipBob by Ilya Andre, Founder and Director of Choose Peanut.
For the primary few months we had been in enterprise, we had been fulfilling orders ourselves. It was manageable at first however quickly we had been doing a thousand orders a month. The cons of protecting success in-house – particularly, taking the money and time to rent workers, broaden our warehousing house, and construct out extra refined operations – far outweighed the advantages. So, we began trying to find a fulfilment supplier that we may outsource to.
Earlier than ShipBob, we initially partnered with a UK-based 3PL, and it was a horrible expertise. I had by no means labored with a 3PL for DTC success earlier than, so I didn’t know precisely what I used to be stepping into, and the 3PL took full benefit of that. As soon as we began utilizing their service, we had been shocked by a ton of prices that the 3PL had by no means talked about in our preliminary negotiations with them. It labored out to be much more costly than anticipated – two or thrice dearer. It was an enormous blow to our enterprise’s profitability.
The 3PL additionally went again on their guarantees to us. Previous to signing the contracts, they assured us that we might be capable to use a selected service to ship orders; however after we onboarded, they informed me that transport by that service was inefficient for them, and that they’d be utilizing a totally totally different one as a substitute.
The charges could have been higher for the 3PL, however the brand new service’s service was terrible for our enterprise. It triggered tons of points for our clients, and the precise ticket administration of all these points grew to become an enormous slog for our customer support group, taking over a lot of their time. Worse but, hardly any of these points had been getting resolved – the 3PL would chalk it as much as the service, so we’d must file a declare with the service (which might by no means go wherever, in my expertise). Perhaps one out of ten tickets would truly get addressed.
We ended up with an enormous backlog of transport issues to repair, and it began actually impacting our clients. They would go away evaluations praising the product, however expressing dissatisfaction with the supply expertise. That’s once I knew I needed to discover one other success supplier – our previous 3PL was hurting our enterprise, and we would have liked a companion that will assist it thrive.
Onboarding to ShipBob seamlessly
Onboarding with ShipBob was extremely clean, and the ShipBob dashboard was tremendous simple to undertake, too. I like that it’s easy – easy sufficient for just about anyone to have the ability to hop in and work out. As a result of it’s so intuitive to navigate, we’re capable of practice folks to make use of it in a short time, and the analytics and information it shows are fairly complete.
“As quickly as ShipBob received ahold of our stock (after our previous 3PL held our stock hostage for an enormous cancellation price), all our inventory was moved and orders had been getting fulfilled in actually two days. It was superb how every part was processed so rapidly! Any kinks had been eradicated nearly immediately, and no issues endured. Switching to ShipBob has been so a lot better for our enterprise.”
Ilya Andre, Founder and Director of Choose Peanut
Saving 50% on success in only one month with ShipBob’s clear pricing and partnership community
ShipBob’s pricing has been so a lot better than our earlier companion’s; after switching to ShipBob, we halved our fulfilment prices in only one month. On prime of that, every part else has improved – buyer satisfaction with transport has elevated considerably, and there are not any points with supply. It’s not even a consideration for us anymore. ShipBob’s order accuracy and their capacity to barter with carriers on our behalf has saved us a lot time.
“Once we ran the numbers, on paper, our previous 3PL and ShipBob got here out about even by way of pricing. However our earlier 3PL sprang all these additional little prices and charges on us, and so they ended up being far dearer. ShipBob, alternatively, gave us clear pricing, and our invoices have been very true to their preliminary quotes. Price-wise, we saved 50% in our first month alone with ShipBob.”
Ilya Andre, Founder and Director of Choose Peanut
We’re additionally saving some huge cash on worldwide shipments because of ShipBob’s partnership community inside the broader ecosystem.
We ship to lots of clients throughout the EU, which suggests our enterprise wants an Import One Cease Store (IOSS) quantity with a purpose to streamline our VAT reporting and fee. Our previous 3PL initially mentioned that we may use their IOSS quantity for the aim of effectivity, however then they shocked us by charging an additional £1.50 per order to do it. That’s about 25% of the price of a few of our fulfilment, and throughout a whole bunch of shipments, it provides up fast!
Our expertise with ShipBob was utterly totally different. ShipBob instantly put us in contact with their companion Avask, which serves as our VAT compliance professional. We had been capable of arrange an IOSS inside two weeks, and we’ve been transport to the EU cost-effectively ever since.
Reaching tireless assist that solves points quick
All of the assist we’ve obtained from ShipBob has been so quick, so environment friendly, and so private. There’s a stage of care that we don’t see with suppliers and different service companions we work with that we get from ShipBob, with detailed effort all the time being put into fixing any issues that come up.
For instance, we had a short challenge with EU clients having to pay customs duties although we’re on IOSS, and we couldn’t work out what was the reason for it as a result of every part was going by high quality on our finish. Our account supervisor jumped proper on it and labored tirelessly to determine it out, and was capable of clear up the issue. ShipBob’s assist group just isn’t solely attentive, but additionally extraordinarily persistent, and I don’t assume we’ve had a single drawback that’s not been addressed nearly instantly.
What’s subsequent for Choose Peanut
With ShipBob dealing with our success seamlessly, we’ve got extra time to give attention to different priorities that can assist us scale our enterprise, like product growth. We’ve received a couple of new merchandise deliberate, and we’re excited to launch these and bundle them with our different merchandise for a fair higher worth. Finally, we wish to create extra merchandise that assist with extra area of interest issues for pets, and broaden our enterprise that approach.
We’re scaling as quick as we are able to within the UK, however one other space of focus is scaling the identical presents internationally. Proper now, we’re testing totally different worldwide markets to see that are greatest for us and placing collectively a plan to develop globally, in addition to engaged on getting inventory into ShipBob’s success middle within the EU. There’s an enormous market in Europe and we’ve already discovered that fairly a couple of international locations are worthwhile over time, so we’d like to proceed to lean into these alternatives – and for ShipBob to assist us do it!
Our objective is to scale to £1M a month in income by the tip of the 12 months. It’s a giant objective – particularly contemplating we donate a portion of every order’s income to animal charities and shelters – however with the best companions and the best priorities, something’s attainable for us.
Choose Peanut’s group at ShipBob
Matt Eager
Matt is the Account Government who helped Choose Peanut get began with ShipBob.
Sergio Estevez
Sergio is the Implementation Supervisor who onboarded Choose Peanut to ShipBob.
Kathryn Mileham
Kathryn is the Service provider Success Supervisor at ShipBob who helps Choose Peanut.
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