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Eightx: Average Fulfillment Cost per Order by Vertical 2026

A blog post that models what it costs to ship one ecommerce order. We compare a brand’s fulfillment cost per order with its range.

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   1 · The source

   It’s a cost model, not a count of brands.

   Publisher	Eightx, a fractional CFO firm
   Appeared in	Eightx blog
   Published	Jun 29, 2026
   Who it covers	No brands. The range comes from prices, not from brands’ costs.
   Period	2026
   Data	Prices for pick and pack, packaging and ground shipping
   Original	eightx.co/blog/average-fulfillment-cost-per-order-by-vertical ↗
   We last read it	Sep 30, 2026

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   2 · The figures we use

   One figure, for fulfillment cost per order.

   Metric	Their figure	Statistic	How theirs differs
   Fulfillment cost per order	$11–$18	Modelled range	A cost model built from prices, not measured brands.

   “This is a known gap in public data: the by-vertical ranges here are built from component pricing plus carrier benchmarks, not a single primary source with transaction data.”

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   3 · What we leave out

   The page has more figures than the ones we use.

   The post also gives a range for each vertical. We use the range across all of them, $11 to $18.