[swalsh]

I think as trade tensions increase with China, there is going to be a huge market opportunity for people in the US to start overtaking some of that business that AliBaba currently owns. As a US based solution, you guys are tapping into a real opportunity here. Good luck.

* Quick idea, you guys should buy a warehouse, stick it in the middle of Odgan Kansas, and charge suppliers to store their stuff there, than ship it for them. With that location you can send almost anything to almost anywhere in the US in 2 days on ground as long as you get it out quickly, and you directly inject it into the carriers hub.

[rogerkirkness]

It's funny you say that because some of the largest distributors in the world are basically what we have + a 3PL facility attached to it. Our hope is to partner with distributors who do the physical stuff and provide better software, which so far is working pretty well. We would be really out of our depth on the physical side of things at this point. Shopify just waded into their own 3PLs though which is interesting. Shipbob also does this quite well.

[theturtletalks]

Yep it seems like Deliverr and Shopify are trying to pry sellers away from Amazon FBA.

I'm actually working on an open-source fulfillment system for Shopify where users can source their inventory from ShipBob, Deliverr, any custom 3PL:

https://github.com/openshiporg/openship

Could we integrate with Convictional?

[rogerkirkness]

Yes: https://docs.convictional.com/ although it's worth a conversation to figure out the easiest approach. [e-mail]

[hef19898]

Wasn't aware of the Shopify thing. I'm currently venturing into the physical things, which is one of few things actually good at anyway. So maybe we can have a chat one day? I'm based in Germany, so probably no immediate synergies, but I could imagine that customers might be interested in a combined solution of your tech and an carrier-independant party running daily operations.

[rogerkirkness]

Totally, [e-mail] if you want to continue the conversation.