Narvar vs. Omnipack

If you're not on a platform that has a branded post-purchase landing page or in-email estimated delivery date script, Narvar provides this experience. It's a nice-to-have for any brand that wants to provide a seamless, branded shopping experience for their customers. Narvar's grown rapidly and it seems they are increasing costs, which may be prohibitive and hard to justify for smaller companies.

Incentivized

On the efficiency of logistic work (warehousing, stock-taking, sending out products to end customers) Omnipack was very efficient and we were not complaining about this. It was unfortunately way worse in the area of communication and the way we were treated by them. Our SPC was changed multiple times over the course of our cooperation (ca. 2 years) and it was difficult to sort out anything with them. A lot of invoices that we received included some strange positions that we were disagreeing with. We did not feel like we were real partners to them. All this led to our decision of resigning from cooperation with Omnipack and switch to the competition.

Incentivized

• Narvar offered us a turn-key solution that we had up and running in less than a month.
• Narvar offered several out of the box widgets (solutions) to help build/customize content (calendar view, milestone icons, SMS messaging and personalize content based on items purchased).
• Narvar's solution is scalable/expandable to include returns (once we are ready).

• Logistics
• Support
• Warehouse

Incentivized

• Pricing is much more expensive than competitors.
• UI Design is often lacking.

Incentivized

• Communication with the client (our SPC was changed multiple times over just 2 years).
• Different strange positions were put on the invoices and it was difficult for us to understand them.
• We did not feel like we were treated as partners in this relation.

Incentivized

Once it's set up, it doesn't require much support. We used to have quarterly or bi-annual touch bases with an account person to review our rating and customer usage but haven't heard from them in a while - either because we're too small or they got rid of this interaction. Can't say we miss it though because we can see our rating and feedback, and there is only so much you can do within the confines of the platform without adding on new functionality.

Incentivized

At the time, Narvar had no other competitors to my knowledge. We looked at building this functionality in house which had a 3 month estimate. Everyone involved happily welcomed the tool.

When we talk about drop shipping operations Shopify is the number 1 in the world for all the major demands, so they solve a lot of questions that are pre-requisites for the business. Omnipack came as a supplementary and additional tool to solve a logistical problem that exists because the business was previously helped by Shopify.

Incentivized

• Not sure we could attribute ROI to this tool.

Incentivized

• Positive: when things were going smooth, Omnipack was very efficient and timely in sending out the orders to end customers.
• Negative: endless discussions about discursive invoicing, unclear processes, etc. led to inefficient utilization of our employees.
• In case us being late with the payment, Omnipack was stopping any activities and keeping our stock (we could not take even a part of it - even though the stock value was more than 10x the amount due).

Incentivized