Ship your products from our French fulfillment centers and optimize your e-commerce logistics with byrd’s advanced 3PL services
As the third-largest European economy, it comes as little surprise that France is also the third-largest market for e-commerce in the continent. Just in 2021, online sales have grown by 15,1% for a total amount of €129,1 billion. If you add a population of 67+ million inhabitants, 62% of which buy online, you get a very attractive French e-commerce market.
That's a dynamic and fast-growing market, where the right third-party-logistics partner can be a decisive competitive advantage. If you’re looking to outsource your e-commerce fulfillment in France, byrd might be the perfect fit for you. A part of our wider European network, our French warehouses and delivery services will enable you to reach your customers quickly, conveniently and reliably, with the added flexibility provided by our state-of-the-art logistics management software.
With decentralized and location-based fulfillment you can get closer to your customers, whether you are a French online retailer or want to target the French e-commerce market. This is why our fulfillment centers, strategically located in the north of France, allow you to quickly distribute your products in the country's most populated areas thanks to excellent transport links (roads, ports, and airports).
Our 2,000 square meters fulfillment centers near Nantes are equipped with modern pallet and shelf storages, enabling you to store items of all sizes with high-security standards. In addition to that, with our smart and proprietary warehouse management software, the workforce can efficiently pick and pack your stock to successfully manage peak volumes while keeping a high fulfillment accuracy.
A picture is worth a thousand words! This is why we invite you to take a look inside one of our French warehouses with our interactive tour. Click and drag your mouse to use the 360° function or use the arrow keys on your keyboard. To move around the premises, click on the green arrow icon.
Our 3PL warehouses in France can take care of the whole order fulfillment process, from receiving your stock to processing returns.
We make sure to pick, pack and dispatch orders on the same day. Whether it’s single-order picking or multiple, such as bundles or subscription-based products, our warehouses can cover your distribution needs. Furthermore, to improve your brand awareness, we provide you with customized packaging options.
The packaging materials in use at our French warehouses include:
When it comes to buying online, customers expect fast, inexpensive, and reliable delivery. With byrd’s e-commerce fulfillment services in France, you can meet your customer’s expectations by offering next-day delivery with trusted carriers.
What is important to your customers when it comes to shipping? If you're thinking about reliable and fast delivery at a fair price, you're probably not too far off the mark. Especially, when you realize that for 64% of French online buyers, delivery is the most important criterion when making an online purchase.
Right? Great, because these are exactly the areas we've focused on. byrd offers you access to a network of the best and most popular parcel services in France, so that your deliveries in France will arrive the very next day. This allows you to keep up with e-commerce giants like Amazon when it comes to the delivery experience, leaving you free to leverage your advantages in other areas.
France is one of the most dynamic and competitive e-commerce markets in Europe. Focusing and offering the best post-purchase experience to your customers is a key factor for any online business.
One of the most important steps of this process is offering the best delivery experience possible, which includes: fast delivery, low shipping costs, and various options. This is why, we offer the following options:
Out-of-home deliveries enable online buyers more flexibility and sustainability, without having to comprise the safety of their parcels. On top of that, in 2021, seven in ten French e-buyers chose pick-up point deliveries (in commercial pick-up points and post offices).
At byrd, we now offer Pick-up point deliveries with Colissimo Point Retrait in France Mainland within 48 hours for e-merchants using Shopify or WooCommerce. By using this service, your customers can:
Thanks to our French fulfillment locations, we enable you to be as close to the end customer as possible, reducing delivery times. That makes your logistics much more cost-effective, while facilitating customer satisfaction through attractive shipping conditions.Â
With the help of byrd you can outsource, manage and optimize your entire e-commerce logistics in France with one cloud-based platform. Digital interfaces to various e-commerce systems enable a fully integrated fulfillment solution and automated order processing.
To be competitive in France, fast service is really important for us. Our customers receive their parcel in 48 hours, which is amazing! We’ve also seen our lost parcel number decrease drastically which helps increase the overall customer satisfaction.
"The key reason to work with byrd was the shared vision to conquer the EU space. With its European logistics network, byrd can enable successful scaling into new markets."
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Online retailers from diverse industries, sizes and countries of origin already entrust byrd with their logistics.
Your advantages with our advanced fulfillment platform
Our other fulfillment locations in Europe
Our fulfillment network helps your business grow, both within the French online market and internationally. Our warehouse network in Europe covers all leading markets and enables you to process orders quickly and efficiently. You can use individual logistics warehouses or strategically distribute your goods to avoid delays, get closer to your customers or expand to new European markets.
As of 2022, byrd has 2 logistics centers in France. They are located in strategically important locations in the north-western part of France near Nantes, to optimally cover both French and European markets, as well as the UK.
Our fulfillment centers in France offer 3.600 sq meters of overall storage space and are fully equipped with heavy-duty racking as well as pallet storage, enabling it to store items of all sizes even for long periods.
We work with top logistics service providers across Europe, and in particular with Chronopost, Colissimo, La Poste, Delivengo, and GLS in France. Our logistics partners include the most popular delivery services among French consumers, boasting years of experience and a large range of services, ideal for shipping your product in France and worldwide.
Your customers' expectations are high – and we are here to meet them. We offer same-day fulfillment so that shipments within France are delivered within 1-2 days.
Everywhere in France and internationally. We enable you to find the right delivery partner for you based on your costs and needs in terms of speed.
As a 3PL provider in France, we take care of all the fulfillment and logistics processes, including communication with the warehouse. You can keep track of your inventory and order fulfillment in real-time thanks to our dashboard, which is used by the staff as a warehouse management software.
