What Packwide does not do
- Buy, hold or resell packaging
- Warehouse anything
- Add a markup to the manufacturer’s price
- Take a commission on packaging sales
The order goes out before you notice
Reordering fails because it depends on somebody remembering. Packwide sits between your store and your manufacturer and takes the remembering out.
01
Connect your store
Link Shopify or WooCommerce in a few minutes. Packwide reads your order activity and nothing else. If you sell offline, log usage by hand instead. The forecast works the same way.
02
Choose your packaging
Browse packaging listed by manufacturers on the platform and pick what you use. You tell Packwide roughly how many of each you get through per order, which is what turns your sales into packaging usage.
03
Packwide tracks usage
Every day, your order count becomes an estimate of packaging used. Over a few weeks that builds a picture of how quickly you get through each format.
04
Packwide predicts when you need more
Recent demand, how much you have left, and how long your manufacturer takes to deliver together decide when an order has to go out to arrive in time.
05
A purchase order is generated
Sent straight to your manufacturer at their wholesale price, with no minimum order quantity. You can see it, but you do not have to do anything.
06
The manufacturer ships to you
Direct to your delivery address. Packwide never takes possession of the packaging, and never adds anything to its price.
07
You confirm delivery
You and the manufacturer each confirm what arrived, independently. Matching confirmations update your stock and feed the next forecast. If the two disagree, the order is held for review rather than resolved in either party’s favour.
Packwide reads your orders, nothing else
Shopify supported
WooCommerce supported
Etsy coming soon
Manual logging supported
Connecting a store gives Packwide read access to your order history. It never reads customer details, and it never writes anything back to your shop.
What you pay
- The manufacturer, for packaging, at their wholesale price
- Packwide, £50 a month per connected store (ex VAT), for the platform
- Two separate transactions that never appear on one bill
Packaging decisions based on what you actually sell
Packwide monitors recent packaging usage, your manufacturer’s lead time and a safety margin to estimate when each item should be replenished. Busy month, the order goes sooner. Quiet month, it waits.
The inputs, for the curious
| Usage | Weighted, last four weeks |
|---|---|
| Lead time | Set by the manufacturer |
| Safety margin | Scaled to usage variability |
| Reorder point | Usage × lead time + margin |
You never have to look at any of this. Your dashboard says how many days of cover you have and when the next order is expected.
Straight from the maker to you
- Approved first
- Manufacturers are reviewed before any product of theirs can appear in the catalogue.
- They confirm
- Accepting an order starts the lead time the forecast uses for the next cycle.
- They ship
- Direct to your delivery address. Packwide never takes possession of the goods.
Two separate transactions
Packaging purchase
Business
Manufacturer
Invoiced directly by the manufacturer at their wholesale price. This payment never passes through Packwide.
Platform fee
Business
Packwide
£50 a month for each connected store, ex VAT, charged on a fixed date and known in advance. Order volume never changes it.
Common questions
Can I see an order before it is sent?
Every automatic order appears in your dashboard with the quantity, unit price and manufacturer. You can stop tracking an item at any time, which prevents new orders being raised for it.
What if a delivery is wrong?
You and the manufacturer confirm independently. If the two figures disagree, the order is held for review rather than resolved in either party’s favour, and your stock is not changed until a person has looked at it.
Does Packwide hold stock?
No. Packwide never buys, warehouses or resells packaging.
Which platforms can I connect?
Shopify and WooCommerce are supported today. Etsy is not yet available because it requires an approved developer app. Manual logging works for any seller.