Company Background

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Realtime Despatch is a UK registered limited company (Reg. number 750978 incorporated in 1963).

Realtime Despatch is a family owned business run by me; Charlie Armor. What follows is a bit of background about me and the company.

The screech of brown packing tape coming off the roll is one I grew up with. My father wrote books about selfbuild, seventeen editions in all. As well as appearing in the usual way in bookshops we sold them ourselves by mail order. Every morning before breakfast my mother would pack up the orders received the day before and have them ready for the postman to collect. When the tape dispenser started screeching downstairs it was time to get up and get ready for school. One of my first bits of code was a little mailmerge program that printed address labels and payment receipts.

I started work as a project manager in the IT industry, first with McDonnell Douglas and then working in Sydney and Brussels, managing software teams in electronic trading projects. I moved back to the UK to project manage interactive TV and web Ecommerce projects.

Daventry Warehouse

Over the years I worked on a number of IT projects that required the services of a fulfillment house to receive order information and despatch goods. This experience convinced me that there was a need for a fulfillment service that was designed to meet the needs of Etailers.

In April 2000 I launched the Realtime Despatch fulfillment service from a warehouse in Daventry (pictured). I was unable to find cost-effective software to do the job we required so all the warehousing and fulfillment software was developed in-house.

After three years and a lot more brown packing tape I sold the fulfillment side of the business in order to concentrate on developing the software.

I have used my experience in running a fulfillment operation and warehouse to design what I believe to be the most flexible and user-friendly solution on the market.

My background in the Ecommerce software industry has meant that I was able to work with a world class software team to develop the Realtime Despatch applications, the development team is certified to CMM Level 5 and ISO 9001:2000.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss how the Realtime Despatch software could be of use to your own organisation.