How Carpe scaled Canadian fulfillment with GoBolt to deliver sweat solutions faster, cheaper, and with full visibility.
🚀 The Results
- ~100,000 units fulfilled across Canada
- 10,000+ GoBolt Parcel deliveries (fully carbon-neutral)
- 1 fulfillment center—covering Canadian customers with fast and low-cost delivery
- Full visibility with GoBolt’s Merchant Portal, providing real-time dashboard and insights
The Challenge
Growing Canadian demand, but a slow, painful, and expensive customer experience.
Carpe, a fast-growing, U.S.-based, DTC brand solving sweat with targeted, effective solutions, saw organic demand picking up north of the border. But the only shipping option they offered to Canadians at the time — delivered duty unpaid (DDU) — was slow, expensive, and confusing.
“It would take ages to clear the border, cost a lot, and often arrive with a bill from customs. Total pain for customers.”
The problem wasn’t product-market fit. It was infrastructure.
The Solution
GoBolt: Fast, affordable fulfillment with established local presence across Canada.
When Carpe set out to find a 3PL, they were clear about their priorities:
- Fast delivery times
- Cost control
- A customer-obsessed team that could move fast
After exploring dozens of providers, GoBolt stood out.
“GoBolt was the clear winner due to solid costs, fast delivery to the majority of the Canadian population, and a culture I felt would cut through the BS and deliver real service,” said Kubica.
GoBolt now handles Carpe’s Canadian fulfillment from our GTA-based facility, optimizing delivery through a diversified carrier mix and GoBolt Parcel, our in-house final-mile delivery network.
With full regulatory compliance (via a relabeling stop in Chicago) and the support of GoBolt’s powerful merchant portal, Carpe can track orders, manage operations, and scale with confidence.
Why It Works
- ✅ Strategic location: Fulfillment from Toronto, an important hub for Carpe
- ✅ Carrier flexibility: Optimized mix of carriers to balance speed + cost
- ✅ GoBolt Parcel: Nearly 10K carbon-neutral deliveries
- ✅ Real-time insights: GoBolt’s merchant portal gives the Carpe team full visibility
- ✅ No fluff: A partner that moves fast, is customer-obsessed, and makes scaling simple
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