When setting up an eCommerce, one of the most important points is the distribution of your products. And for this you could use different parcel companies. However, within them, there are also several services. Do you know what the Celeritas Point is? How do you help your customers receive your packages?
This time, we want to focus on this concept so you understand what it is and how it can help you and your customers better manage the shipping of orders. Shall we get started?
What is a Celeritas Point?
A Celeritas Point is actually an idea conceived by the courier company Celeritas (hence the name) to better serve its customers by allowing them to pick up their packages at their convenience. In other words, it's a network of locations where packages can be stored for customers to collect at their convenience , or where packages can be dropped off for future shipments.
Imagine that you buy a product in an eCommerce. Because of work, you can't be at home all day, and you can't receive the package at work either. So the option is to send it to a Celeritas Point so that, when you leave work, or on a break, you can go to that place and pick it up.
Now, think that, as an eCommerce owner, you have to send a lot of orders. However, you can't spend all day waiting for them to come for them. So the option of taking them to a Celeritas Point to process them becomes much more interesting and also avoid wasting time.
What places are Point Celeritas
Now that you know what a Celeritas Point is, the next question you might be asking is what kind of places are part of this network. They're actually shops, gyms, bookstores, etc.—common places where you might even go or shop yourself.
Celeritas currently has over 2000 key locations in Spain and Portugal where you can send and receive packages. These are like offices of the courier company, but they operate as separate businesses and simply act as intermediaries between the company and its customers.
How Punto Celeritas works
If you have realized that having a Celeritas Point for your orders could be a good solution, what you need is to know how it works.
It's quite easy. But the store where you buy your order needs to work with Celeritas and offer both home delivery and delivery to a Celeritas Point. Even if the Celeritas Point option doesn't appear during the checkout process, you can request it later using your order tracking number.
When buying online, one of the parts of the order processing will be shipping and in this case they can give you two options if you do it with Celeritas: at home or at a Celeritas Point. In most cases, a map will open with the location, based on your address, of Puntos Celeritas. That is, from stores that can receive the package for you and have it available for when you can pick it up.
After requesting it, you will only have to confirm the order and wait for the merchandise to arrive at that Celeritas Point. As soon as the company, Celeritas, sends you an email containing all the information you need to go to that place and pick up your package. Even so, if you already have a friendship with the owner of that store, he can even call you or send a wassap to notify you that you have a package.
However, we have also mentioned that a Celeritas Point can be the place where we can drop off a package that we want to send.
In this case, the processing for sending packages can be done online or at Punto Celeritas itself (here you must make sure because it may not be possible in some places).
The easiest thing is to process the shipment online where you can find out the price for it and also manage everything, including choosing where you are going to leave the package so that Celeritas can pick it up.
How much do they pay to be Punto Celeritas?
There is no doubt that if a store acts like Punto Celeritas it is because it really earns something. Just as Celeritas gains from expanding its network of places to pick up and send packages, the same goes for those places. It is a Win to Win, that is, both win.
However, the profit for these locations isn't very high. According to what we've seen online, Celeritas Points earn about 40 cents per order received. However, we've also seen that if the packages come from Amazon, the price increases to between 1 and 2 euros.
It might not seem like much, but if you gradually manage to receive more packages, or send more out, it can add up to extra income by the end of the month. Besides, you really don't have to do anything other than keep an eye on the packages until they're picked up, either by a customer or by a courier from the company that delivers them.
Advantages of using a Celeritas Point
Finally, and surely you have been seeing them as you read about the Celeritas Point, there are multiple advantages of using it. The main ones are the following:
- Being able to pick up the order whenever the customer wants. Receiving a package often means being at home all day because you don't know when the courier will arrive. However, in this case, when you are at Punto Celeritas you can pick up any time the place is open, even if it is not closed on weekends, those days as well.
- The places, Due to the fact that they are Punto Celeritas, they gain visibility. If customers have not entered, they can see the store and what is sold in it.
- Better flexibility. In the sense that, as an online store, you can offer your customers different options to receive their orders, not just home delivery (which sometimes forces you to have to wait for the courier).
Now that you know what a Celeritas Point is and how it works, would you dare to use it to receive your online orders?