Let me tell you about my swag delivery nightmare. You will probably recognize yourself in my story.
One day, as a marketing manager of an IT company, I organized a gifting campaign. It was an internal project to strengthen relationships between the Marketing department and other technical departments. At that time, the creation of marketing content heavily depended on the subject-matter experts, and we wanted to motivate them to collaborate with us while saying thank you to the most engaged ones.
Out of hundreds of subject-matter experts in the company with 4K+ employees, we selected 137 of the most influential and experienced people.
For each one, we ordered a cozy branded travel pillow with a thank-you embroidery and added a postcard handwritten with a warm personalized message. Then, we packed the gifts into nice craft paper packages and prepared them for swag shipping.
And then my nightmare began…
Under the nightmare, I mean swag delivery, 137 gifts to 13 countries, which fell on my shoulders. First, I had to find all gift recipients’ delivery addresses and contact details, and clarify their presence during the swag delivery timeframes.
Second, I spent hours researching logistics companies’ delivery zones and customs requirements (my delivery list contained the EU, the USA, Georgia, India, and Kazakhstan). Some of them deliver to the USA but not to Georgia or India. After that, I had to fill in 137 delivery requests in different systems…Uggh…
The nightmare continued when parcels were delivered to the wrong addresses, lost in transit, not picked up on time, and returned to me. There were so many nuances and human mistakes along the road! I remember spending two weeks on swag shipping, if not more.
I only dreamt about a one-stop swag delivery tool
There are no words to explain my overwhelming feeling, and I only dreamt about a single tool with all the logistics in ONE place. At that time, I wished I could:
- Enter all contact info on ONE intuitive interface (not an Excel tab) or even upload a ready list of addresses.
- Send parcels without dozens of logistics forms and separate payments, ideally, with ONE button.
- Monitor all swag delivery statuses on ONE dashboard.
- Get notifications in the ONE system and avoid spam from several logistics firms to which I accidentally subscribed.
And you know what? Several years after I found this ONE solution on the Swag42 Platform.
With this system, you don’t need to order multiple swag deliveries manually—you just insert the swag recipients’ data and click the magic button to send. No routines with forms or declaring goods, as transportation goes to the swag provider.
The good news is that you don’t pay extra for delivery processing or using the Swag42 Platform—you pay only what the logistics firm invoices for.
Swag shipping in 3 steps
First, you order swag on the platform, and when it appears in your stock, send it wherever you need with a few clicks:
- Choose the quantity of items and sizes
- Enter the recipient’s data and delivery address
- Confirm the delivery data and send.
The delivery will be automatically paid using the billing data that you previously entered for swag ordering.
On the Shipments tab, you will see the current swag delivery status, estimated delivery date, and a tracking number—all in one system. Cool, isn’t it?
Though my story has a happy ending—all 137 gifts reached their owners, some of them on the second try—I always recommend that everyone in my place delegate the corporate merch delivery to professionals and use a free Swag42 Platform.
If you are also overwhelmed by global gifting, contact the Swag42 team to make it smoother or order swag on the self-service Swag42 Platform.