Every successful Shopify merchant knows that shipping must be treated as much more than an afterthought during the development of your store.

The ability to fulfill orders efficiently, quickly and without any surprises can help make or break a store — and a poor shipping experience will quickly alienate your customers.

So, shipping is a priority.

But what do the ecommerce shipping statistics say?

Should you be offering free shipping or not?

How can you increase conversions based on your shipping policies?

Could your order fulfillment processes be stunting your store’s growth?

A quick look at a few key ecommerce shipping statistics backs up the importance of getting the logistics part of your operations right.

In this post, we’ll look at 11 eye-opening ecommerce shipping statistics that might just convince you to take another look at your shipping policies and procedures.

With almost four million live stores on its platform, there’s always a brisk market of people buying and selling Shopify stores.

As we head into more uncertain economic times, plenty of Shopify merchants are sure to be wondering whether now is the right time to sell — or to see out the headwinds that appear to have hit us.

Other Shopify merchants may simply want to flip a store they bought on the cheap or branch out into a new sector by raising funds from selling their Shopify store. Or perhaps they “bit off more than they could chew” and simply don’t have time to run their store.

Regardless of your reason to sell your Shopify store, it helps to understand more about where you’ll need to list the sale and what you’ll need to do. This guide will help you take the necessary steps to sell your Shopify store as quickly as possible.