SHIPPERS

Private community for fulfillment operators

SHIPPERS

When something breaks at 6pm on a Friday, this is the room you go to. Operators who have already been through it, answering honestly, with nobody selling you anything.

Apply to join See what it is

Membership is by application. Every member is reviewed and approved before they get in.

01 / What this community is

A closed room of operators
who tell each other the truth

Shippers is a private Slack community of fulfillment operators. Third-party logistics providers, brands running their own fulfillment, freight people, and the software folks who keep it all upright. More than 200 of them, trading real answers since 2021.

Ask about a WMS that started behaving strangely, a carrier invoice that does not add up, a client request you have never seen before, or what someone actually pays for labor in your market. You get answers from people who ran the same problem last quarter.

No vendors pitching

Nobody is in here farming leads. Vendors and consultants do not get a seat to sell from, and that rule is enforced.

Discretion is mandatory

What gets said in the room stays in the room. Members talk about rates, clients, and mistakes because they know it will not travel.

A monthly call

Everyone gets together live each month to work through whatever is at the front of people's minds right now.

In person too

Members get invitations to networking events around the country, including gatherings at the major industry conferences.

That is the whole product. It is also why we screen everyone who comes in.

02 / Background on how this community was formed

It started because
somebody answered first

Chad ran a large ecommerce brand, a retail aggregator, and handled fulfillment in house. One of the most popular brands on the roster kept hearing from customers about how well their orders showed up. So they asked him to take over all of their fulfillment.

Doing your own fulfillment is one thing. Doing it for somebody else is another. He had a hundred questions and no good place to put them.

A few people in the industry were kind enough to entertain every one of those questions. That is the part worth sitting with. They had no reason to help and they helped anyway.

Those conversations turned into a group. Notes got traded, hard lessons got shared, wins got celebrated, and operators who wanted the same thing kept getting added.

Five years on, that group is more than 200 operators who answer each other honestly because somebody did it for them first. It ran as a free community that whole time, funded out of pocket, because the point was never to make money off it.

It has outgrown that. Keeping the room this good takes real work now, so membership is paid, and the money goes back into resources, events, and keeping the wrong people out.

03 / Join

Apply for a seat

This is not an open sign up. You apply, we read it, and we approve the people who belong in the room. Keeping it selective is the entire reason it is worth being in.

Monthly
$150 / month

Billed monthly, per company. Two members included.

AnnualSave $360
$1,440 / year

Works out to $120 a month. Per company, two members included.

Need more than two people from your company in the room? Extra members are $75 a month each, or $720 a year each, which is $60 a month.

Everyone is approved before they get in

No application is waved through. We look at who you are, what your company does, and whether you will add something to the room. If it is not a fit we will tell you, and you are not charged anything while your application is being reviewed.

  1. Apply. A short form about you and your company, and what you are hoping to get out of the group.
  2. We review it. A real person reads every application. You hear back either way.
  3. You are approved and you pick your billing. Monthly or annual, then your Slack access turns on.
Apply to join

Takes a few minutes. No payment until you are approved.