"You cannot get more central than Crick. We pull containers off rail at DIRFT and they're on the M1 within minutes. For national trunking it's simply the best-positioned spot in the country."
Shopify fulfilment for Crick brands — orders pull through automatically, tracking writes back, and the parcel leaves the same working day in your own packaging.
WSUK fulfils Shopify orders for Crick brands in your own packaging — your boxes, tissue, cards and inserts, held alongside your product. From £1.00 per pick plus £0.35, returns £1.25. M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) on the doorstep; we also cover Rugby and Daventry.
The point of a Shopify integration is that you stop exporting spreadsheets. Orders, tracking and stock should move on their own.
Paid orders pull into the warehouse without you touching anything, and the tracking number is written back onto the Shopify order so the customer notification fires itself.
Stock levels update as orders are picked and flow back to Shopify — including across multiple sales channels, so you are not selling the same unit twice.
D2C brands live or die on the unboxing. We hold your boxes, tissue, cards and inserts and pack to your spec, not to a generic 3PL standard.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per order, no commitment. Long-term contract rates tier down as steady volume builds.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Most Shopify D2C orders — apparel, beauty, accessories.
Heavier D2C lines and multi-item orders.
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 →
Crick is small, but in logistics terms it is enormous. This unassuming Northamptonshire village in the NN6 postcode sits directly atop DIRFT - the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal - and beside Junction 18 of the M1, where the M6 also begins at Junction 1. It is, quite literally, the rail-freight heart of the UK's Golden Triangle. The Rugby core is around eight minutes away, and few points in Britain place a business closer to the intersection of motorway and rail than this.
DIRFT is the reason Crick punches so far above its weight. The terminal moves containers between rail and road at national scale, and the vast distribution centres that ring it - occupied by household-name retailers and grocers - depend on that connection to feed the country. The nearby Crick Industrial Estate adds further space, but it is the rail terminal that defines the area's purpose: this is where trunk-haul freight transfers from train to truck for onward delivery across the Midlands and beyond.
For all its national significance, Crick sits among familiar Northamptonshire and Warwickshire neighbours. Rugby is minutes up the A428, Daventry a short run along the A5, and Lutterworth with its Magna Park cluster lies just north via the M1. A base at Crick means being at the pivot point of the whole triangle - the place national 3PLs choose precisely because road, rail and the country's densest concentration of distribution capacity all converge in one spot.
The reason Northamptonshire suits D2C fulfilment is that it sits where the national carrier network already is. For Crick brands that means a real despatch promise on the product page rather than an optimistic one, and capacity that can absorb a campaign without notice.
M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
~8 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Rail freight, national distribution and 3pl.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) — around 8 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth.
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.
Local answers for Crick, plus the questions every shopify fulfilment client asks.
It sits directly on top of DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, right beside M1 Junction 18 and the start of the M6 at Junction 1. That combination of rail and motorway makes tiny Crick one of the most significant logistics locations in the country.
DIRFT is a major rail-freight terminal that transfers containers between train and lorry at national scale. Basing near it lets you tap rail trunk-haul for long-distance inbound, then distribute by road, cutting cost and carbon on high-volume flows.
Extremely close - around eight minutes. Crick effectively is the core, sitting at M1 Junction 18 where the M6 also begins. You won't find a base more central to the triangle's road-and-rail convergence than this.
Lutterworth's Magna Park, the UK's largest distribution park, is a short run north on the M1, while Daventry's estates lie along the A5 and Rugby's are minutes away via the A428. It's the densest warehousing area in the country.
Absolutely - it's the classic choice. National 3PLs cluster here because DIRFT, the M1, the M6 and the country's biggest distribution parks all converge within minutes, making Crick unrivalled for high-volume, multimodal national distribution.
Paid orders pull through to our Golden Triangle warehouse automatically, we pick and pack them, and the tracking is written back onto the Shopify order so your customer notification fires by itself. Inventory syncs back as stock moves. Integration is £150 per week.
Yes — we hold your boxes, tissue, stickers and inserts and pack to your spec. Nothing in the parcel says WSUK. The unboxing stays yours, which for most Crick D2C brands is the whole point.
Same working day on a 4pm cut-off. Late collections mean an afternoon order still makes that day’s despatch and reaches most of the UK next day.
Picks from £1.00 under 3kg, £1.50 for 3–19.99kg, £3.95 for 20kg+, plus £0.35 order processing. Storage from £4.50 per pallet per week, integration £150 per week, returns from £1.25. No setup fee, monthly rolling.
Yes. Scheduled launches get pickers booked against the date; unplanned spikes are cleared the next morning. The rate card does not change either way — no surge premium.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| Orders and tracking sync automatically | Yes | Rarely |
| Packed in your branding, not ours | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Same-day despatch on a 4pm cut-off | Yes | Rarely |
| Shopify, Amazon and eBay from one pool | Yes | Rarely |
We provide Shopify fulfilment across Crick, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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