How To Package And Ship Wig Orders From Home For Your Hair Business

This is a guide on how to ship your wig orders from home without leaving your house at all, you can do everything that you would typically be doing at the post office and also having USPS come and picking up your order. But first, let’s get some of the most frequently asked questions online out of the way before we even get started with the tutorial. 

 Q: What Website Host Should You Use For Your Hair Business? 

A: Shopify is the website host that most hair business owners use. And that is what we using to show the process of how to package and ship wig orders from home.

 Q: Is Shipping Free? 

A: You do have to pay for shipping. So how the process works are your customer is going to go ahead and pay for shipping along with their order, then you are then going to take the money that they have paid and is going to be direct deposited into your business bank account and you are going to purchase the shipping label. that is how the shipping process works when you're shipping wig orders from home.

 Q: How Do You Ship Without Going To The Post Office? 

A: With USPS you can go ahead and schedule for them to pick up wig orders from your home. So on the USPS website, you can go in and schedule a pickup, which we'll be showing you the process of doing later.

Things You Need To Package And Ship Wig Orders From Home For Your Hair Business

The first thing you should do is invest in a thermal printer. It requires no ink whatsoever. All you have to do is purchase the shipping label papers. It prints faster, it can speeds up your process so much more, so we recommend a thermal printer. The next two things are interchangeable, you can either ship using your laptop or ship using your phone. But it’s much faster to use the laptop to ship. The next item uses to ship is a shipping scale. First, you zero it out and then place your items on this. If you're able to use a regular scale, that’s fine too. As long as it measures and both pounds and ounces, you can use whatever scale you want. This next item is a printer. Print out your business cards and your thank you cards. And then some pens some tape. And make sure that you disinfect your work area.

For your Shopify, first, log into your account. Then go ahead and select wig orders, which are in the top left-hand corner, and select unfulfilled, which is going to be all of the wig orders that you still have left to fulfill and to ship out to your customers. Then click on the select all check box in the top left-hand corner and that will select all of the unfulfilled wig orders and then click on create shipping labels. This is a little hack on how you can print out the packing slips. Select print packing slips, it will generate your packing slips and then it will pull up a PDF file, here so that you can print out your packing clips. After you have all the packing slips, then you can pack all of the orders according to the shipping list, and for accuracy, double-check to see if the hair wholesale for each order are correct. Then put your business cards and thank you card in each package.

So now we're going to move back to Shopify. so we're still going to be on our create shipping labels page and we are now going to be going through our wig orders and weighing our wig items. it'll then calculate our shipping cost and we can then purchase our shipping labels. And then weighing all of your wig orders and putting them into the system. and select buy shipping labels as how many you need. And print our shipping labels and then Shopify gives you the option to schedule your USPS pickup. Click on this option, it is going to bring you over to the USPS website. 

So now on to the fun part, this is how you're not going to have to leave your home! so on the USPS website, you can schedule a pickup, so you're going to enter in all your information, and where the item will be picked up from, you'll then click on check availability, and then you will enter in the number of packages they'll be picking up. you do have to schedule this 24 hours in advance or before 5 p.m the prior day. then USPS when they're in your neighborhood, the carrier will come around pick up your packages, they'll scan them into the system and then take them with them to the post office. you don't have to leave your home at all!

So that’s all for how to package and ship wig orders from home for your hair business and click HERE to see more!