As an ecommerce seller, in order to save money, you can pick, pack and ship the parcels by yourself at beginning.

However, you can outsource these works to a professional 3PL, when meet following 3 points:

1. There are more than 20 orders per day.

2. The orders quantity keeps steady and increasing.

3. You haven't enough time to pick, pack and ship the parcels by yourself.

After outsourced, you can focus your energy on the more important things for your online store, like branding and marketing.