Cahoot Recognized as SourceForge Fall 2024 Category Leader

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Celebrated for Excellence in Fulfillment Solutions and Customer Satisfaction in 3PL Services

Cahoot, the groundbreaking peer-to-peer fulfillment network, proudly announces its recognition as a Category Leader for Fall 2024 by SourceForge, the largest software and services review platform. This prestigious accolade underscores Cahoot’s dedication to providing top-tier third-party logistics (3PL) services to eCommerce businesses, delivering innovative fulfillment solutions that enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

SourceForge’s Category Leader award is granted to companies that consistently deliver outstanding products and services, based on ratings and reviews from verified users. Cahoot’s peer-to-peer network model and commitment to cost-effective fulfillment solutions have received high praise from eCommerce businesses for helping them expand their reach, optimize order fulfillment, and improve customer experiences.

“We are thrilled to be recognized as a Fall 2024 Category Leader by SourceForge,” said Manish Chowdhary, CEO of Cahoot. “This award reflects our commitment to empowering retailers with the tools they need to compete with major marketplaces while providing excellent service to their customers. We thank our customers for their valuable feedback, which helps us innovate and provide exceptional service.”

Cahoot’s peer-to-peer fulfillment model enables brands and retailers to use their warehouse space as a part of a global network, optimizing distribution and delivery times while reducing costs. This approach has resonated strongly with eCommerce businesses seeking flexible, scalable, and affordable logistics solutions.

This latest recognition from SourceForge reinforces Cahoot’s status as a trusted partner in the 3PL space, supporting eCommerce businesses with agile, dependable, and customer-focused fulfillment solutions.

For more information about Cahoot’s award-winning fulfillment network, visit www.cahoot.ai.

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Rinaldi Juwono leads content and SEO strategy at Cahoot, crafting data-driven insights that help ecommerce brands navigate logistics challenges. He works closely with the product, sales, and operations teams to translate Cahoot’s innovations into actionable strategies merchants can use to grow smarter and leaner.

Cahoot and Manifest Peer into the Future of eCommerce Order Fulfillment

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In the lead-up to Manifest 2022, the leading conference focused on innovation in logistics and supply chain, Conference Chair Pam Simon is sitting down with leaders that are redefining what’s possible. 

One of those leaders is our own Manish Chowdhary, who sat down with Pam to talk about the future of eCommerce order fulfillment. Cahoot, recognized as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021, is empowering eCommerce merchants to offer fast and free delivery to their customers with a unique peer-to-peer platform.

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The Power of Many: The Case for Ecommerce Fulfillment Networks

Demand for eCommerce order fulfillment will continue to grow

The changes in shopping behavior brought by COVID are here to stay (and then some), says Manish. eCommerce sales grew an incredible 44% year-over-year from 2019 to 2020, pulling forward many years of demand. Far from reversing, though, 2021 is projected to see another 18% jump over 2020. 

Online sales growth, and thus demand for eCommerce order fulfillment, was primarily being driven upwards slowly and steadily by generational change prior to COVID. The pandemic, though, forced those that weren’t inclined to shop online to do so – and they discovered that they liked it. At the same time, companies large and small made enormous investments in multichannel order fulfillment, further increasing the convenience and ease of online shopping. Curbside pickup, same-day delivery, and vastly improved shopping portals are all here to stay, along with customer behavior. 

How can merchants future-proof their eCommerce order fulfillment?

Don’t end up like Macy’s. Manish relates the story we all know now, 

“In the 70’s, 80’s, and even 90’s, the Macy’s of the world went and built tons of buildings, got tons of leases, and then the consumer behavior changed. Those very assets that were helping them expand and grow became a liability.”

Big merchants that take the traditional approach of investing heavily in buying & building warehouses across the country tie up significant capital and run the risk of choosing the wrong locations. Moreover, warehouse space and personnel have never been more expensive – warehouse space is at an all-time low, and there are an incredible 400,000 open job positions for frontline eCommerce order fulfillment workers. A mid-size merchant that builds a second fulfillment center in a sub-optimal location will have the worst of all worlds – they still won’t be able to cover enough of the country with 2-day shipping, and their capital will be tied up in expensive real estate.

Outsourcing fulfillment to a provider like Cahoot, on the other hand, enables merchants to offer an Amazon-like delivery experience while keeping costs low. Customers expect fast and free shipping, and on top of that, Amazon keeps raising the bar for what ‘fast’ means. A distributed US fulfillment center network like Cahoot strategically deploys its customers’ inventory in multiple nodes across the country and can offer 99% 2-day and over 40% 1-day coverage. This level of service, in fact, enables Cahoot to provide Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP) to its customers – something very few other 3PLs even attempt.

Critically, Cahoot has dozens of fulfillment nodes, so as customer demand and needs shift, it can instantly shift its customers’ fulfillment profiles to match. Some merchants are familiar with the pain of signing up with a 3PL to extend their reach – only for sales to grow in a different part of the country, and to be back at square one. Cahoot’s eCommerce order fulfillment network has redundancy across the entire United States, and it solves present and future fulfillment needs for its clients.

What does Cahoot do differently to future-proof eCommerce order fulfillment?

Every other order fulfillment network is constrained by the warehouse and labor shortage – but not Cahoot. Cahoot is a first-of-its-kind peer-to-peer order fulfillment network that enables merchants to fulfill orders for one another. This ingenious design solves the capacity crunch by unlocking latent warehouse capacity and monetizing it for the fulfilling merchant. 

The idea was born out of ecommerce sales research. While looking at order profiles for a different project, Manish and his team realized that merchants on opposite coasts were selling identical products to people on the other coast. That is, a merchant in LA would sell a widget to a customer in NYC, and a merchant in NYC would sell the exact same widget to a customer in LA. They’d then both ship the product across the country – what a waste! This inefficient process hurt growth with slow deliveries, ate margins with long deliveries, and hurt the environment with extra emissions. Cahoot was born to help merchants solve this issue. 

It quickly grew to be more flexible and inclusive – any merchant with an excellent warehouse can fulfill orders for any other merchant, regardless of what’s being sold. In fact, Cahoot’s intelligent platform and shipping software optimize each and every label printed to ensure that a product ships from the lowest-cost warehouse that will offer a speedy delivery.

Find us at Manifest 2022

On January 25-27th, 2022, Manifest will bring together the most comprehensive ecosystem of innovation and transformation in LogisticsTech and end-to-end Supply Chain. We’ll be there, talking about the future of eCommerce order fulfillment with anyone and everyone! Come find us – we’d be happy to see you.

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Indy Pereira helps ecommerce brands optimize their shipping and fulfillment with Cahoot’s technology. With a background in both sales and people operations, she bridges customer needs with strategic solutions that drive growth. Indy works closely with merchants every day and brings real-world insight into what makes logistics efficient and scalable.

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Neighborhood Forest Partners with Cahoot to Make Earth Day a Little Greener

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Cahoot fulfillment announced today that it is partnering with Neighborhood Forest for the second straight year to efficiently distribute trees to children around the U.S. for Earth Day.

Neighborhood Forest is a non-profit with a simple mission: give every child the priceless joy of planting and watching trees grow. By doing so, they help beautify neighborhoods, put a dent in our carbon footprint, and instill a sense of magic, wonder, and love for the planet in our little ones. They have helped children plant over 100,000 trees since their inception in 2010, but this year will be special: they’re gearing up to give out a record 50,000 trees across 46 US states, Alaska, and Canada!

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Their growth is inspiring, but it also comes with a challenge. How can they efficiently distribute so many trees across the entire nation with a lower carbon footprint? After all, the carbon emissions from transportation are considerable, and we want to absolutely minimize them to support Neighborhood Forest’s mission. 

Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is becoming increasingly prominent in today’s world as forward-thinking leaders and brands seek to help solve the world’s most pressing challenges. According to Bloomberg, ESG investment has exploded in the last five years, growing more than 10x from $144 billion in 2016 to $1.64 trillion in 2021. Limiting emissions to protect our environment is a core principle of ESG leaders.

Cahoot fulfillment services should be on the shortlist for brands that recognize the importance of ESG.

Cahoot’s innovative nationwide fulfillment network dramatically cuts down the distance that packages need to travel for their final mile shipping, the least efficient part of the logistics process. By strategically placing inventory across the country, businesses and non-profit organizations alike can deliver items quickly while using sustainable and low-cost ground shipping. This makes Cahoot the perfect partner for Neighborhood Forest, because we minimize the cost and emissions of distributing trees for Earth Day.

Cahoot Founder and CEO Manish Chowdhary elaborates, “At its heart, Cahoot makes ecommerce and shipping greener. Ground shipping produces 85% less CO2 emissions and costs up to 50% less than air cargo. It’s a win-win for the planet, the merchant, and the end consumer whenever we optimize an order!”

With more than twice as many trees set to go out this year than last year, those emissions savings add up quickly. 

Vikas Narula, Founder of Neighborhood Forest, added, “We love Cahoot! They have helped us with very large, complicated logistics, fulfillment and shipping problems, which have greatly enabled us to scale and grow our operation exponentially. Best of all, we’re doing it affordably and sustainably. I don’t know where we would be without Cahoot..”

It may have been fate that brought Cahoot and Neighborhood Forest together – Katie Strand used the word “cahoots” in her fantastic “I Love Trees” song that was dedicated to trees, Neighborhood Forest, and Earth Day.

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Want to get involved with a fantastic organization that’s dedicated to helping make our planet greener? You can sign up to get trees from Neighborhood Forest here, and help them fund the tree delivery here.

ABOUT CAHOOT

Cahoot provides eCommerce order fulfillment services that power nationwide 1-day and 2-day deliveries at the lowest cost by design. Cahoot offers lower fulfillment fees because it enables merchants to fulfill for other merchants. Despite the low price, Cahoot’s service offers the highest SLA in the industry thanks to its top-class merchant fulfillment partners and robust software. Contact Cahoot to learn more about how they can boost your store’s profitable growth.

ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD FOREST

Neighborhood Forest was founded in 2010 by Vikas Narula.  When he was a college student in the early 1990s at Maharishi International University (Fairfield, Iowa), he learned of a free tree project started by David Kidd of Ohio. Vikas and his college friends adopted the program and gave away tens of thousands of trees to schoolchildren across southeast Iowa. What began with four schools in Minneapolis has grown to over 800 schools, libraries, and youth groups in 46 states across America and Canada. Neighborhood Forest’s goal is to reach every child in North America and, eventually, the world.

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Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

Cahoot Named a Spring ‘22 SourceForge Top Performer

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SourceForge, a leading business review site, has named Cahoot to its list of Spring 2022 Top Performers thanks to the Cahoot ecommerce fulfillment network’s strong reviews on the platform. Cahoot is rated 4.8 stars overall on SourceForge, and it ranks at least 4.7 out of 5 stars for each of SourceForge’s more detailed categories for Ease, Features, Design, or Support. 

“We take pride in our innovative approach to ecommerce fulfillment, and it’s rewarding to see happy customers share their stories on trusted sites like SourceForge,” said Manish Chowdhary, Founder & CEO of Cahoot. “We hope to see much more feedback, good and bad, so that we can continue to upgrade our service and improve on the best fulfillment network in the industry.”

Cahoot reviews on SourceForge consistently refer to Cahoot’s low cost, high standards, and personal approach to customers as reasons they love doing business with the company.

In a recent review, a Cahoot user wrote, “Their pricing is incredibly reasonable and the team could not be kinder and more involved in the success of your business.”

Another added, “The industry leading pricing with easy to use software. They have excellent support for distributed fulfillment where my warehouses can co-exist with those of Cahoot. Cahoot staff is highly responsive and they address any problems very quickly.”

Cahoot also enjoys a high average review score on prominent ecommerce platforms. They have a 5-star profile on both Shopify and Amazon, the two leading online sales channels for direct-to-consumer and marketplace sellers, respectively.

ABOUT CAHOOT

Cahoot is the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network. It helps online businesses offer nationwide 1-day and 2-day deliveries. In addition, Cahoot’s model is the lowest cost by design because it enables merchants to store and ship merchandise for each other. This novel business model also allows merchants to make extra money using their existing warehouse space and personnel.

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Rinaldi Juwono

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Rinaldi Juwono leads content and SEO strategy at Cahoot, crafting data-driven insights that help ecommerce brands navigate logistics challenges. He works closely with the product, sales, and operations teams to translate Cahoot’s innovations into actionable strategies merchants can use to grow smarter and leaner.

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NRF Forms a Package Coalition to Lobby around USPS

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Total Retail’s Caitlin Sullivan and Joe Keenan discuss the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) new Package Coalition, a lobbying group in support of the U.S. Postal Service.

The coalition is being led by Amazon.com and other retail businesses, including QVC and Columbia Sportswear. In addition to analyzing the merits of the Package Coalition, the hosts offer tips for retailers to optimize their shipping rates.

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Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

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Neighborhood Forest Partners with Cahoot to Make Delivering Trees for Earth Day a Little Greener

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BRIDGEPORT, CT (April 20, 2021) – Cahoot e-commerce fulfillment network announced today that it has partnered with a non-profit organization called Neighborhood Forest, which gives free trees to kids every Earth Day. 

Neighborhood Forest loves planting trees and watching them grow. An average American family creates an annual carbon footprint equivalent to what 75 trees sequester in their lifetime. According to GlobeNewsWire, the global average of each human’s carbon emissions per year is 6 TONS of Carbon Dioxide. SIX. TONS. Planting SIX trees per month (72/year) is enough to balance out that six tons per year. Neighborhood Forest helps offset that carbon footprint by introducing tens of thousands of children to the joy of growing trees every year. It has provided over 50,000 trees to over 400 schools, libraries, and youth groups since its inception in 2010.

Schools, libraries, and youth groups enroll in their program at https://www.neighborhoodforest.org/school-registration/. Parents sign-up to get a free tree for their child ahead of Earth Day. Trees for kids are distributed via the school, library, or youth group to plant with their family during Earth Week (April 22-30).

Neighborhood Forest experienced a record amount of tree sign-ups this year, significantly outpacing their nursery’s capacity to fulfill the orders in time for Earth Day 2021. They needed an immediate solution that aligned with their mission to help the planet. With some research, luck, and serendipity, they found Cahoot, the world’s first peer-to-peer e-commerce fulfillment network. With its collaborative “Power of Many” business model, merchants store inventory and fulfill orders for each other on the Cahoot network. 

Cahoot’s revolutionary technology and business methods cut down the distance packages need to travel. By intelligently placing inventory closer to customers – businesses and non-profit organizations can deliver goods quickly using sustainable ground shipping rather than air freight. This made Cahoot the perfect fulfillment partner for Neighborhood Forest, whose goal is to “Reach Every Child in North America.” Cahoot provided the essential additional storage and fulfillment services required to deliver thousands of 6-12” White Pine trees to kids throughout the U.S. in time for this Earth Day (April 22).  

According to Cahoot Founder and CEO Manish Chowdhary, “At its heart, Cahoot makes e-commerce and shipping greener. Ground shipping produces 85% less CO2 emissions and costs up to 50% less than air cargo. It’s a win-win for the planet, the merchant, and the end-consumer whenever we optimize an order! Our partnership with Neighborhood Forest is a no-brainer because we believe in a greener world while making green!”

“We are thrilled to partner with Cahoot.  Together, we’re enabling even more families across the US to make the world greener with the additional fulfillment capabilities that Cahoot brings. Best of all, we’re doing it affordably and sustainably with ground shipping. Coincidentally, there is even a mention of the word “Cahoots” in the popular “I Love Trees” song written and sung by Katie Strand in honor of trees, Neighborhood Forest, and Earth Day,” said Vikas Narula, Founder of Neighborhood Forest.

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Due to the overwhelming demand for trees, Neighborhood Forest has stopped taking tree orders for this coming Earth Day. However, they welcome others to join their carbon-neutral family with sponsorships and donations of any size at www.neighborhoodforest.org and support the GoFundMe campaign at https://www.gofundme.com/f/neighborhood-forest

ABOUT CAHOOT

Cahoot is the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network that helps online businesses offer nationwide 1-day and 2-day deliveries. Cahoot offers drastically lower fulfillment fees because it enables merchants to store and ship the merchandise for each other. This novel business model also allows merchants to make extra money using their existing warehouse space and personnel.

ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD FOREST

Neighborhood Forest was founded in 2010 by Vikas Narula.  When he was a college student in the early 1990s at Maharishi International University (Fairfield, Iowa), he learned of a free tree project started by David Kidd of Ohio. Vikas and his college friends adopted the program and gave away tens of thousands of trees to schoolchildren across southeast Iowa. What began with four schools in Minneapolis has grown to over 400 schools, libraries, and youth groups in 35 states across America and Canada. Neighborhood Forest’s goal is to reach every child in North America and, eventually, the world.

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Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

Fast Company Recognizes Cahoot in the 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards

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New York, April 28, 2020 — The winners of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to flattening the curve when it comes to the climate crisis, social injustice, or economic inequality.

New York, April 28, 2020 — The winners of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to flattening the curve when it comes to the climate crisis, social injustice, or economic inequality.

Cahoot is an eCommerce order fulfillment network that helps online businesses offer nationwide free 1-day and 2-day delivery to its customers at no additional costs. It cuts down the distance packages need to travel by having nearby businesses store and ship products for each other. So instead of flying packages by air long-distance to customers, merchants can ship via economical and greener ground shipping. In 2019 alone, Cahoot has cut down more than 2 million miles of carbon emissions for its network members. Also, Cahoot’s peer-to-peer model allows merchants to offset storage and fulfillment costs by fulfilling orders for each other. Therefore, every merchant on the platform can ship locally and beat fast shipping standards with better margins. This year, Cahoot is awarded Honorable Mentions for The Best World Changing Idea in North America and the Experimental category.

Now in its fourth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 26 winners, more than 200 finalists, and more than 500 honorable mentions—with Health and Wellness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and AI and Data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent judges selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 3,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. The 2020 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Vancouver to Singapore to Tel Aviv.

Illustrating how some of the world’s most inventive entrepreneurs and companies are addressing grave global challenges, Fast Company’s May/June issue celebrates, among others, an electric engine for airplanes that eliminates emissions from flights—and expensive fuel from the tricky financial calculus of the airline industry; a solar-powered refrigerator that finally frees people in remote villages from daily treks to distant markets, transforming the economics of those households; an online marketplace that connects food companies with farms to buy ugly and surplus produce to fight waste; and an initiative to offset all of the carbon costs of shipping, creating a new model for e-commerce sustainability.

Cahoot aims to continue making the world a greener place while leveling the playing field in eCommerce. “The key to sustainable one-day delivery is having fulfillment centers close to customers and shipping them cheaply using ground services,” says Manish Chowdhary, founder and CEO of Cahoot. “It is near impossible for smaller brands to build a distribution network to compete on a level playing field. We need to change the game. We can’t work in siloes building our own facilities trying to compete against Amazon. The only way forward is to work together.”

“There seems no better time to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, resources, and, in some cases, their scale to tackle society’s biggest problems,” says Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have uncovered some of the smartest and most inspiring projects of the year.”

About the World Changing Ideas Awards: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and brave concepts that make the world better. A panel of judges from across sectors choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With a goal of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to start working on solving the problems that affect us all.

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Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

Cahoot Partners with Walmart Marketplace to Enable Online Retailers to Offer Nationwide 1-Day and 2-Day Delivery

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Marketplace Sellers Leverage Peer-to-Peer Fulfillment to Grow Sales with Affordable Nationwide Fast Shipping.

BRIDGEPORT, CT (August 30, 2021) – Cahoot, the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network, announced its partnership and integration with Walmart (NYSE: WMT). Cahoot is now a certified shipping and fulfillment solution for Walmart’s marketplace sellers.

Cahoot’s revolutionary peer-to-peer fulfillment model enables brands and online retailers to affordably provide one-day and two-day delivery nationwide. With its rapidly growing network of eCommerce order fulfillment centers coast-to-coast, Cahoot is quickly becoming the fulfillment provider of choice for high-volume sellers on marketplaces such as Walmart, Amazon, and eBay and eCommerce platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce, and Magento.

“We’re excited to integrate with Walmart ahead of the record-breaking holiday season just around the corner,” said Cahoot Founder and CEO Manish Chowdhary. “The industry’s rapid growth has fulfillment capacity bursting at the seams. Our novel peer-to-peer model solves this problem by unlocking thousands of eCommerce merchants’ excess warehouse space and fulfillment capacity. Collectively, the Cahoot network is doing for eCommerce fulfillment what Airbnb did for lodging.”  

A Reliable Solution for Walmart’s Free 2-Day Delivery Program

Cahoot’s Walmart Marketplace Integration enables approved sellers to participate in Walmart’s 2-Day delivery program and display the Free 2-day shipping badge on their marketplace listings. Walmart has observed that sellers with this badge enjoy an up to 50% increase in conversion, making it one of the most powerful ways sellers can grow their sales. To help merchants delight their customers with exceptional delivery experience, Cahoot provides affordable same-day fulfillment 6 to 7 days a week and maintains a strict service level agreement of 99.95% on-time fulfillment and 99.9% order accuracy. 

Flexible Across Channels & Works Seamlessly with In-House Operations

The patented Cahoot eCommerce order fulfillment platform provides eCommerce merchants with unsurpassed ease of use and complete visibility into inventory, orders, fulfillment performance, and package tracking – across all sales channels. Unlike traditional 3PL networks, the Cahoot network can seamlessly integrate with existing merchant fulfillment, which upgrades their strategy without introducing more complexity. With Cahoot, orders automatically flow to the optimal shipping point, whether it’s a Cahoot fulfillment center or the merchant’s own warehouse. 

Cahoot has really helped us grow our multi-channel sales. We use Cahoot to fulfill our Walmart 2-Day orders and our Amazon standard and SFP orders. In addition to saving us money, we really like that their software and their fulfillment network work seamlessly with our own in-house fulfillment operations. Our old 3PL couldn’t do that.

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The Power of Many

Like the Airbnb marketplace of homeowners and travelers, the patented Cahoot order fulfillment network brings together the collective power of SMBs and their warehouses to fulfill orders, thus reducing fulfillment costs and expediting delivery. 

Cahoot is available for merchants looking to expand their reach for one- and two-day delivery services across all selling channels, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce, and more. Merchants can reach a Cahoot fulfillment expert at www.Cahoot.ai.

ABOUT CAHOOT

Cahoot is the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network. It helps online businesses offer nationwide 1-day and 2-day deliveries. In addition, Cahoot’s model is the lowest cost by design because it enables merchants to store and ship merchandise for each other. This novel business model also allows merchants to make extra money using their existing warehouse space and personnel.

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Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

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Cahoot Named to Fast Company’s Prestigious List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021

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BRIDGEPORT, CT (April 14, 2021) – Cahoot, the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network, announced that it has been named on the Fast Company’s Prestigious List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021. Cahoot enables brands and online retailers to affordably provide one-day and two-day delivery nationwide by storing and fulfilling goods for each other.  

Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies (MIC) list honors the businesses that have not only found a way to be resilient in the past year but also turned those challenges into impact-making processes. These companies did more than just survive; they thrived—making an impact on their industries and culture as a whole. This year’s list features 463 businesses from 29 countries.

“We are honored to be named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies and recognized for our work. We are enabling businesses of any size to affordably offer their customers the same superfast delivery experience as Amazon” said Manish Chowdhary, Founder and CEO of Cahoot.

Like the Airbnb marketplace of homeowners and travelers, the patented Cahoot fulfillment network brings together the collective power of many SMBs and their warehouses to fulfill orders, thus reducing fulfillment costs and expediting delivery. Cahoot’s optimization algorithm further analyzes all combinations of warehouses, carriers, and shipping services to find the most affordable and efficient way to deliver orders fast.

With consumers flocking to online shopping in 2020 due to COVID, eCommerce grew an unprecedented 44% year-over-year, nearly three times the historical annual growth. At the height of the pandemic, even Amazon’s fulfillment services faltered. Customer orders took almost a month to arrive as warehouses struggled to fulfill orders. Amazon stopped accepting non-essential goods in its warehouses and prioritized its direct sales over those of its marketplace sellers, leaving hundreds of thousands of sellers that rely on its popular fulfillment service (FBA) scrambling for alternatives. Such incidents have caused merchants to always be prepared with a backup provider when they need it.

This eCommerce explosion has led to a shortage in warehouse space, well-priced and available labor, and carrier capacity. Warehouse vacancies reached an all-time low in Q3 2020 while rents were at an all-time high. LinkedIn also reported a surge of 73% job openings for fulfillment workers, the highest among all categories, and wages began creeping up. Moreover, all major carriers, including USPS, increased rates and added surcharges to handle the unprecedented increase in demand. All of this has resulted in much higher operational costs for retailers. And, at a time when most consumers are struggling financially, raising prices is not an option for merchants.

“Traditional solutions do not meet the needs of SMBs – unlike large corporations that have the power to negotiate aggressively with landlords and carriers to stay competitive. With Amazon pushing its popular prime membership program to transition from 2-day free delivery to now 1-day, even the largest retailers are facing logistical challenges. But Cahoot changes all that by intelligently aggregating the power of many,” said Chowdhary.

By unlocking previously unavailable warehouse capacity from tens of thousands of merchants across the U.S., Cahoot is transforming eCommerce fulfillment into a new collaborative model that’s more efficient. Cahoot’s fulfillment model is also environmentally friendly besides scaling up to meet the rising consumer expectations of free and fast delivery. And for the first time, online merchants can monetize their existing warehouse space and labor in a way previously not imagined or possible. “Before Cahoot, we didn’t really know how to leverage our extra space and fulfillment capacity. Becoming a Cahoot Fulfillment Partner has been a great way to make extra money without the hassle of becoming a full 3PL. Onboarding was fast and easy; Cahoot software is so efficient that we pick Cahoot orders before our own!” said Robert Hill, CEO of Seismic Audio Speakers.

With Cahoot, merchants can expand to regions previously too far for fast ground shipping and too expensive for expedited air shipping. “My customers now expect free 1-day and 2-day delivery, which is very expensive and difficult to provide. But with Cahoot, I can now offer 1-day delivery in both the East and the West with ground shipping, in addition to my home state of Kentucky,” said Darren Somerville of Impact Battery.  

By providing fulfillment as a utility-like service as opposed to a competitive advantage previously available only to the largest and highly capitalized corporations, Cahoot aims to fuel even greater innovation – sure to benefit consumers around the world.

“Before Cahoot, we were selling only on Amazon. The inventory restrictions imposed by Amazon FBA were difficult for my business,” said Eli Miller, owner of Twinkle Toy. “Cahoot helped us grow by serving customers nationwide across multiple selling channels, including our own website. It’s a whole new opportunity that I would never have had without Cahoot.”

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Cahoot’s shipping volume increased five-fold year-over-year in 2020. Many merchants have found success through Cahoot: 

  • A chocolatier in Brooklyn, NY, added 34% more sales just by outsourcing fulfillment to 2 additional locations.
  • A prominent battery merchant in the Midwest maintained their Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime eligibility by expanding 1-day ground coverage to 45%+ of U.S. consumers.
  • Another merchant selling big, bulky products saved 88% on two-day delivery costs and tripled sales in just three weeks.

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Cahoot is available for merchants looking to expand their reach for one- and two-day delivery services across all popular selling channels, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce, and more. Merchants can reach a Cahoot fulfillment expert at www.Cahoot.ai

ABOUT CAHOOT
Cahoot is the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network that helps online businesses offer nationwide 1-day and 2-day deliveries. Cahoot offers drastically lower fulfillment fees because it enables merchants to store and ship the merchandise for each other. This novel business model also enables merchants to make extra money using their existing warehouse space and personnel.

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Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

Sellercloud Partners with Cahoot to Power Amazon-like Fulfillment

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Cahoot has just announced a partnership and integration with Sellercloud so that users of the two solutions can enjoy seamless information sharing and complete data visibility across both platforms. Sellercloud and Cahoot together make multichannel selling easier for merchants by helping brands and retailers convert better by enabling Amazon-like free and fast delivery for shoppers across all channels. With the new native integration, sellers will enjoy powerful listing, products, order and inventory management from Sellercloud along with fast, efficient fulfillment and logistics from Cahoot.

Cahoot Founder and CEO, Manish Chowdhary explained the power of the partnership: “Brands and retailers are finding it increasingly hard to compete and grow profitably on marketplaces because consumers want an Amazon-like experience. However, achieving this is really hard for merchants who operate in slim margins. Together, Cahoot and Sellercloud make the task easier for sellers. With our integration, sellers can now optimize their strategy everywhere they sell, from product listings, pricing, inventory to next-level fulfillment and logistics. Sellers now have all of the data and insights they need to make fast and smart data-driven decisions.

Moving Fulfillment from Cost Center to Profitable Growth Opportunity

Cahoot offers fulfillment services to online sellers who want to turn their operations from a cost center to a profitable growth lever. With its large and rapidly growing network of facilities nationwide, Cahoot is a preferred choice of sellers on marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, and eBay and ecommerce platforms such as Shopify, Magento, and BigCommerce. Cahoot transforms ecommerce order fulfillment from a headache into a fast, reliable, and affordable growth lever. Merchants win more customers with fast shipping, all while paying less for fulfillment thanks to Cahoot’s patented business model and innovative technology.

Sellercloud is always looking for ways to help our sellers improve their customer experience, so we’re excited to partner with Cahoot. Cahoot’s innovative technology and proven ability to power affordable, fast fulfillment across all channels will help our sellers grow faster.” said Shelly Boisvert, VAR Partner Development Manager of Sellercloud

Sellercloud’s mission is to provide merchants with tools that empower them to compete and win in today’s highly competitive landscape. Its products span a comprehensive range of features to help multi-channel sellers manage their ecommerce business in one streamlined and powerful tool. With Sellercloud, merchants can consolidate catalog and inventory management, push changes from one place out to multiple channels, make smarter purchasing decisions, and more.

Growing Fearlessly Without Adding Complexity

Sellers that enjoy success on one channel often find themselves challenged to replicate that success on new ones due to the exponential increase in business complexity. Solutions like Cahoot and Sellercloud are designed to keep the back-office simple so merchants can easily expand and grow on new sales channels.

For most sellers, adding channels increases managerial complexity and puts additional strain on operations. Unlike other fulfillment providers, Cahoot is built specifically to enable sellers to scale fearlessly across channels as diverse as Seller Fulfilled Prime and B2B retail replenishment. No other 3PL can handle such a wide variety of use cases or do so at the high level that Cahoot does.

Sellercloud and Cahoot teamed up to enable a joint customer, Healthyline, to exploit many growth opportunities at once without being overwhelmed.

We have ambitious growth goals for our own DTC site and in physical retail all at the same time. Using Cahoot and Sellercloud together gives us a powerful solution for managing all our channels” said Kristof Hommonai of Healthyline. He continued, “Before Cahoot, we were considering signing contracts with multiple 3PLs to put together a comprehensive nationwide solution for Amazon SFP. It was extremely complicated, expensive and we would have had to still find new technology to glue them all together. Consolidating with Cahoot helped us grow triple digits last holiday season and they’ve saved us money. We are now ready to offer the same Prime-like guaranteed fast delivery on all our channels.”

Cahoot is available for merchants looking to increase their online sales with affordable, fast delivery services across all popular selling channels, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce, and more.

ABOUT CAHOOT

Cahoot is the world’s first peer-to-peer eCommerce fulfillment network. The innovative Cahoot network enables online merchants to offer nationwide 1-day and 2-day deliveries at costs lower than what they’re paying for standard shipping today. Its best-in-class fulfillment software and highly vetted fulfillment partners combine to offer one of the highest SLAs in the industry, including late order cutoffs, fast receiving, and >99.95% on-time shipping. Through Cahoot, merchants help other merchants grow with the power of Amazon-like fulfillment on all channels.

ABOUT SELLERCLOUD

Sellercloud provides robust tools that can meet all of your operational needs – inventory and warehouse management, publishing listings to marketplaces, order processing, shipping, and even reporting. Sellercloud help e-commerce merchants optimize their operational workflow and focus on efficiency and growth. Founded in 2010, Sellercloud has 600+ clients, 2000+ Amazon and eBay accounts, employs 90 staff and is headquartered in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Written By:

Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart

Jeremy Stewart leads customer success at Cahoot, helping merchants achieve high-performance logistics through smart technology and process optimization. With a background in both ecommerce operations and client services, Jeremy ensures that every merchant using Cahoot gets measurable results—whether they’re scaling from one warehouse to many or managing complex returns.

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