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"WSUK had us live in 36 hours and absorbed our Q4 peak without a blip. The rate card was exactly what we paid — no surprise charges at month-end."
The part of fulfilment that decides your refund rate. Pick methods matched to your order profile, every pick verified by barcode, and a packing spec written for the carrier network your parcels actually travel through.
WSUK provides pick and pack as a standalone operation from a Golden Triangle warehouse: batch, wave and zone picking selected to suit your order profile, every pick scanned and verified against the SKU, and packing to a written spec with materials matched to the product. Picks from £1.00 (under 3kg), £1.50 (3–19.99kg), £3.95 (20kg+), plus £0.35 order processing. 99.5%+ accuracy, same-day despatch on a 4pm cut-off. For the full service around it, see fulfilment services.
A wrong item shipped costs the pick, the outbound carriage, the return carriage, the re-pick and usually the customer. Accuracy is not a nice-to-have.
Single-line orders, multi-line baskets and big batch runs need different methods. We use batch, wave or zone picking depending on your actual order profile rather than one house style.
The picker scans the location and the SKU. If it does not match the order, it does not go in the box — which is how 99.5%+ accuracy is actually achieved.
Box size, void fill, fragile handling and labelling agreed with you and documented, so every parcel leaves the same way regardless of who packed it.
Everyone claims careful picking. What produces it is scanning, a written spec, and measuring the mis-pick rate honestly enough to act on it.
Three steps from order received to parcel on the vehicle.
Orders come in from your channels and are grouped into the right pick method for their shape — batch, wave or zone — against the day’s cut-off.
Each picker scans the location and the SKU. A mismatch stops the pick there, before the item ever reaches a box.
Packed to your written spec with the right box and protection, labelled for the carrier, and away the same working day.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per pick, no commitment. Long-term contract rates tier down as volume becomes predictable.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Single and multi-line orders under 3kg.
The bulk of typical order volume.
Two-hand picks with extra protection.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Late carrier collections from the M1 / M6 corridor are what turn a 4pm cut-off into a real one rather than an aspiration.
Pick and pack is the operational core of fulfilment: selecting the right items for an order from the shelves, and packing them so they arrive intact. It sounds like the simplest part, and it is the part that quietly decides your economics. A mis-picked order costs the original pick, the outbound carriage, the return carriage, the inspection, the re-pick and the re-send — and frequently the customer as well. Oversized packing costs you twice, once in materials and once in volumetric carrier charges that are calculated on the box rather than the contents. The things that fix both are unglamorous: choosing a pick method that fits your order profile rather than applying one house style to everything, scanning the location and the SKU so a mismatch is caught at the shelf, and writing the packing standard down so every parcel leaves the same way whoever packed it. This page covers that operation on its own; if you want the whole service around it — goods-in, storage, returns, channel integration — see fulfilment services.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Everything you need to know about pick & pack services at WSUK.
This page is the pick floor itself — methods, verification and packing standards. Fulfilment services is the whole operation around it: goods-in, storage, channel integration, returns and reporting. Most clients take the full service; this is here because picking accuracy is often the specific thing people are trying to fix.
The picker scans the location and the SKU, and a mismatch stops the pick before the item reaches a box. Variant-level verification catches the size-and-colour errors that cause most returns. The mis-pick rate is measured and reported monthly rather than asserted.
Whichever suits your order profile. Batch picking for lots of orders containing the same SKUs, wave picking to hit carrier cut-offs, zone picking where the SKU count is large. We look at your actual order data rather than applying one method to everyone.
Yes — branded boxes, tissue, inserts and cards held alongside your product, with plain packing for marketplace orders from the same stock.
From £1.00 per pick for items under 3kg, £1.50 for 3–19.99kg and £3.95 for 20kg and over, plus £0.35 order processing. No setup fee, no minimum, monthly rolling.
Yes, and it often saves more than the pick rate. Carrier charges are frequently volumetric, so an oversized box is charged on air. We agree a box matrix against your SKU groups rather than defaulting to one size.
4pm for same-day despatch, with late carrier collections from the Golden Triangle. Weekend and peak cover is available.
Yes — two-hand picks, bespoke protection and wrap for anything over 20kg or breakable, priced from £3.95 per pick.
Yes — mis-pick rate monthly by cause. If accuracy slips you will hear it from us rather than from your customers.
No. No setup fee, no minimum spend, monthly rolling, cancel any month with notice.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| Location and SKU scanned on every pick | Yes | Rarely |
| Pick method matched to your order profile | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Written packing spec per SKU group | Yes | Rarely |
| Mis-pick rate reported monthly | Yes | Rarely |
We provide pick and pack services across the UK’s Golden Triangle and beyond. Click your area for local information.
Send us a month of order data and we will tell you which pick method fits — and quote it — inside two hours.