The KeepSpace
Journey
KeepSpace started up in May 2016, and we've been on an epic ride ever since.
We owe a huge thanks to our community for joining us on this journey about KeepSpace. We hope that the ecommerce community will continue to be a part of our story.
KeepSpace has always put transparency, integrity and innovation at the core of their values. In those values, we have below the highlighted achievements since our founding.
As regular attendees of the Spacecubed community, we had the privilege to share about KeepSpace’s soft launch during our presentation. The topic was on how to fairly divide equity amounts for early founders. We had received a wonderful response from the community.
April 2017
Making Lots of Friends.
We have been so grateful to be able to use our technology, skills and logistics to create the best synergy for our ecommerce providers that are selling their goods across multiple platforms. We have increased our integration to also include Xero and BigCommerce.
June 2017
More API Integrations.
Realising the importance of integration with existing systems, we began developing a more robust and improved API integrating system for KeepSpace to continue supporting our ecommerce users.
August 2017
Achieving 500 Orders!
With our growing user base and our fulfilment partners, we have completed 500 orders! All orders have been picked and packed by our operations team and shipped out from our warehouse to be delivered across Australia!
October 2017
Sharing to the Startup Community.
We shared about the growing success of KeepSpace while sharing with ecommerce businesses how to best market their businesses to a group of targeted markets for their product demographic.
May 2018
Our 5000 Orders Milestone!
Boom! We fulfiled 5000 orders at KeepSpace!
Fantastic work from all of the companies that are with us on the journey. Thank you so much for trusting us with your ecommerce operations.
August 2018
Holding our First Ecommerce Event!
We brought the Users of KeepSpace together to share the good, the bad and the messy side of building an ecommerce business. This event of over 50 people had no holding backs, sharing the wins and the losses.
December 2018
Sharing Value to the Community.
As we got to know more and more ecommerce businesses, we realised the importance of informing them about the best practices and improvements to get their business organised for growth.
January 2019
Re-locating our Warehouse.
We re-located to our new premises as of the 2nd of January. We took possession of a site location that was three times larger than our earlier placement, enabling us to expand and grow substantially.
March 2019
A New Milestone, 20000 Orders!
We sent out 20000 orders from our new KeepSpace warehouse!
We are so proud of all of the companies that joined us on this journey. Also, a big shout out to the team that shipped them out safely and securely.
May 2019
Running Quarterly Events.
In response to the growing ecommerce community, we have begun running quarterly events that cover various ecommerce topics. We named this series of events the Ecommerce Experience.
January 2020
Version 3.0 Released.
This update provides a range of new functions and abilities within our view platform. It is to help ecommerce businesses make quick and effective decisions with their orders. Plus, it is faster and stronger.
September 2020
Growing to a Team Size of 16.
Our team has grown to 16 incredible people! Each one of them has gone through a unique walk of life. We share our values with our local community as well as the users to interact with us daily. Go, team!
December 2020
Unstoppable! Past 100000 Orders!
KeepSpace has been going through a growth spurt! 100000 orders have been picked, packed and sent from our warehouse!
A big round of applause to our users, our team and our fulfilment partners for pulling through the hectic pandemic. Ecommerce and KeepSpace are here to stay.
January 2021
Extending the Warehouse.
We now have an entire 1600 square metre warehouse under our name! It is a mind-blowing achievement to manage this whole floor for our users in Perth. So grateful for the amazing growth we have had.
March 2021
KeepSpace’s Studio.
Creating quality content is critical for a company to do well in this era. Therefore, we decided it is our focus to provide videos of knowledge and resources that will help ecommerce businesses.
Check out our powered-up content from here.
October 2021
A Giant Software System Update.
A large part of us fulling well is to be able to have a system that supports the ecommerce community. We launched our new Admin Panel which will be the backbone of the coming a picking application called ‘PickRun’ and our packing application called ‘VIN’
November 2021
200000 Orders!
It took 4 years to hit our first 100000 orders. We’ve managed to hit our second round in less than a year!
A big round of applause to our users, our team and our fulfilment partners for standing firm during this enormous growth of online retail. We are super grateful to have you all on this journey.
June 2022
Opening Melbourne Location
After 2 years of our vision for an east coast location is Finally here. After COVID borders now open in June 2022 we made the trip across to the east coast. 5 of us Ventured across the great roads of Australia and made the Journey to Melbourne to set up our first small location to make KeepSpace a stamping point in the Easter Cities.
We made this video to be able to share what we did to get there and also the initial set up of two warehouse locations in the east coast. Enjoy the journey with us in the video we have here to share.
December 2022
Multi-warehouse Functionality
As an amazing Christmas present, we have developed our software to achieve multi-warehousing inventory management! This means duplicating our digital shelves for where our awesome users’ stock will be located within our facilities.
January 2023
Inbound App V1.0 Release!
It has been a time of refining since the release of our Picking application, PickRun. Now, we have expanded it to have a new processing function!
We are proud to share with you the release of our internal inbound application, which now allows our goods that arrive to be processed even faster than they already are.
August 2023
Packing App V1.0 Release!
It With the release of the picking app we have now released our first version of our packing application of version 1.
This is allowing that our packing ability to be increased and also opening up the speed of our ability to complete packing support to the team going through the Christmas rush of 2023. This allowed our team to pump out so many more orders so much more quickly to which was an amazing achievement internally.
July 2024
FrontEnd V4.1 Release!
Building our front end for the fourth time, we have learned a lot about the pervious version and with this new version coming forward it is with all the features we have had people to come and love but with now all the speed and preparation that others have been asking for.
Version 4.1 is now with the fastest front end and most advanced front end we have ever built with all the luxury and capability that would rival the largest 3PL organisation in the world.
Since people have loved our platform they have request for a SAAS and in doing so we will link this together with our warehouse locations around the world.
Finalising the portal of the platform of all the functions we have build for ourselves into the warehouse to be now available for the people using our system as a service.
Allowing an application to be available on the popular platforms allowing them to be able to sync their stock to what the warehouses has available to be able to be connected to the drop shipper websites to be able to match on to the inventory available in the warehouses to ensure that sales are made based on stock availability across multiple sites all synchronised.
Our vision is to establish our presence into the United States of America to allow our presences and support to be available to the businesses who wish to operate with our services to be provided to the American communities.
Our vision is to be within the European Union and have an access point for our Users to be able to enter into this location allowing them to sell to the Europeans and we are seriously considering the Netherlands/ Rotterdam as our point of entry.
An ability to allow a formulated approach to get returns back into the system of stock available after passing a matching management of how to establish their return quality and practise to move them back in if returns are to be allowed for payment or how the operations move on quality checks so that it allows for the stock to be resold once again.n.
KeepSpace Journey
How it all began in KeepSpace
KeepSpace started up in May 2016, and we’ve been on an epic ride ever since. From our beginnings as a travelling and decluttering service to a 3PL ecommerce fulfilment service and education platform. Founder Jesse Emia and Co-Founder Vien Emia understood the need of nurturing and supporting the ecommerce community.
We owe a huge thanks to our community for joining us on this journey about KeepSpace. We hope that the ecommerce community will continue to be a part of our story. The amazing team at KeepSpace has always put transparency, integrity and innovation at the core of their values. In those values, we have below the highlighted achievements since our founding.
October 2016
As regular attendees of the Spacecubed community, we had the privilege to share about KeepSpace’s soft launch during our presentation. The topic was on how to fairly divide equity amounts for early founders. We had received a wonderful response from the community.
April 2017
KeepSpace continues to build multiple partnerships with a range of ecommerce stores within Perth that are doing amazing things.
We have been so grateful to be able to use our technology, skills and logistics to create the best synergy for our ecommerce providers that are selling their goods across multiple platforms. We have increased our integration to also include Xero and BigCommerce.
June 2017
Realising the importance of integration with existing systems, we began developing a more robust and improved API integrating system for KeepSpace to continue supporting our ecommerce users.
By improving our API and documentation, we will have greater access to supporting a larger range of users within ecommerce.
August 2017
With our growing user base and our fulfilment partners, we have completed 500 orders! All orders have been picked and packed by our operations team and shipped out from our warehouse to be delivered across Australia!
This has been an exciting achievement and milestone for us at KeepSpace.
October 2017
We came back to present KeepSpace to the Morning Startup community. We shared about the growing success of KeepSpace while sharing with ecommerce businesses how to best market their businesses to a group of targeted markets for their product demographic.
May 2018
Boom! We fulfiled 5000 orders at KeepSpace!
Fantastic work from all of the companies that are with us on the journey. Thank you so much for trusting us with your ecommerce operations.
August 2018
After a long-awaited request, we brought the Users of KeepSpace together to share the good, the bad and the messy side of building an ecommerce business. This event of over 50 people had no holding backs, sharing the wins and the losses. Giving back the human side of this crazy world we call ecommerce.
December 2018
As we got to know more and more businesses, we realised the importance of informing them about the best practices and improvements to get their business organised for growth.
We had the pleasure to present about ecommerce order fulfilment, SKU management and importing and exporting to the ecommerce community. We also were able to share about the huge market size of China and get local ecommerce businesses excited about the massive potential in the land just up north.
January 2019
We re-located to our new premises as of the 2nd of January. We took possession of a site location that was three times larger than our earlier placement, enabling us to expand and grow substantially.
We are so grateful for the opportunity to be able to manage some of the great ecommerce businesses growing out there.
March 2019
We sent out 20000 orders from our new KeepSpace warehouse!
We are so proud of all of the companies that joined us on this journey. Also, a big shout out to the team that shipped them out safely and securely.
May 2019
In response to the growing ecommerce community, we have begun running quarterly events that cover various ecommerce topics. We named this series of events the Ecommerce Experience.
This is a partnership with Spacecubed where we help build and grow the ecommerce community here in Perth. Click here to see the events.
January 2020
After months of hard work, we have finally completed and released version 3.0. This update provides a range of new functions and abilities within our view platform. It is to help ecommerce businesses make quick and effective decisions with their orders. Plus, it is faster and ready for more future updates.
September 2020
Our team had started small. Now, our team has grown to 16 incredible people! Each one of them has gone through a unique walk of life. We share our values with our local community as well as the users to interact with us daily. Go, team!
December 2020
KeepSpace has been going through a growth spurt! 100000 orders have been picked, packed and sent from our warehouse!
A big round of applause to our users, our team and our fulfilment partners for pulling through the hectic pandemic. Ecommerce and KeepSpace are here to stay.
January 2021
It was super exciting to have our new premises extension on the 1st of January. We now have an entire 1600 square metre warehouse under our name! It is a mind-blowing achievement to manage this whole floor for our users in Perth. So grateful for the amazing growth we have had.
March 2021
Creating quality content is critical for a company to do well in this era. Ecommerce and logistics are growing industries. We know amazing friends who are highly experienced in these broad topics. Therefore, we decided it is our focus to be able to help the businesses in these areas by providing our knowledge and resources. What could be the best way to do that? Videos.
Check out our powered-up content from here. Make sure to subscribe to our channels and stay up to date with the industry knowledge.
October 2021
Our team has been working diligently on our system to be able to build up and compete against the current leading players in this space. Our sole purpose is to be able to bring a system that is flexible and supportive to the growing ecommerce community with the thought of the end in mind. In August, we will be launching our new Admin Panel, a picking app called PickRun and our packing app called VIN.
Months and months of hard work and function requests have placed this as the focus since last year. Now, we can expect to finally see this available.
November 2021
It took 4 years to hit our first 100000 orders. We’ve managed to hit our second round in less than a year!
A big round of applause to our users, our team and our fulfilment partners for standing firm during this enormous growth of online retail. We are super grateful to have you all on this journey.
June 2022
After 2 years of our vision for an east coast location is Finally here. After COVID borders now open in June 2022 we made the trip across to the east coast. 5 of us Ventured across the great roads of Australia and made the Journey to Melbourne to set up our first small location to make KeepSpace a stamping point in the Easter Cities.
We made this video to be able to share what we did to get there and also the initial set up of two warehouse locations in the east coast. Enjoy the journey with us in the video we have here to share.
December 2022
As an amazing Christmas present, we have developed our software to achieve multi-warehousing inventory management! This means duplicating our digital shelves for where our awesome users’ stock will be located within our facilities. This fantastic accomplishment also came with the astounding 300,000 order milestone.
January 2023
It has been a time of refining since the release of our Picking application, PickRun. Now, we have expanded it to have a new processing function!
We are proud to share with you the release of our internal inbound application, which now allows our goods that arrive to be processed even faster than they already are.
We have seen the potential in our mobile devices and placed in some streamlined processes that work directly with the platform and your portals to speed up the movement within the warehouse.
August 2023
It With the release of the picking app we have now released our first version of our packing application of version 1.
This is allowing that our packing ability to be increased and also opening up the speed of our ability to complete packing support to the team going through the Christmas rush of 2023. This allowed our team to pump out so many more orders so much more quickly to which was an amazing achievement internally.
January 2024
Building our front end for the fourth time, we have learned a lot about the pervious version and with this new version coming forward it is with all the features we have had people to come and love but with now all the speed and preparation that others have been asking for.
Version 4.1 is now with the fastest front end and most advanced front end we have ever built with all the luxury and capability that would rival the largest 3PL organisation in the world.
Since people have loved our platform they have request for a SAAS and in doing so we will link this together with our warehouse locations around the world.
Finalising the portal of the platform of all the functions we have build for ourselves into the warehouse to be now available for the people using our system as a service.
Allowing an application to be available on the popular platforms allowing them to be able to sync their stock to what the warehouses has available to be able to be connected to the drop shipper websites to be able to match on to the inventory available in the warehouses to ensure that sales are made based on stock availability across multiple sites all synchronised.
Our vision is to establish our presence into the United States of America to allow our presences and support to be available to the businesses who wish to operate with our services to be provided to the American communities.
Our vision is to be within the European Union and have an access point for our Users to be able to enter into this location allowing them to sell to the Europeans and we are seriously considering the Netherlands/ Rotterdam as our point of entry.
An ability to allow a formulated approach to get returns back into the system of stock available after passing a matching management of how to establish their return quality and practise to move them back in if returns are to be allowed for payment or how the operations move on quality checks so that it allows for the stock to be resold once again.