Back Office Outsourcing

Clear operational support, built to keep your business moving
We deliver outsourced back-office and BPO support specifically designed for eCommerce and consumer brands. Built directly on our deep contact-centre experience, we ensure your essential workflows stay accurate, efficient, and thoroughly customer-focused. We take on the repetitive operational tasks that slow your core team down, covering everything from high-volume data entry and order management to payments administration, market research, and revenue recovery. Everything is handled securely inside your own existing tools by a dedicated team that feels entirely in-house.
In-House Feel
Accuracy & QA
Works In Your Tools
Multilingual Delivery

What Back Office Support
Means With Newstel

What Back Office Support Means With Newstel

Process support built on contact-centre experience, not generic enterprise BPO

Founder: Jonas Fandrey

Most teams eventually reach a point where the behind-the-scenes work, including the data entry, order volumes, payment administration, and research, grows faster than the staff available to manage it well. It never stops, and it quietly eats up valuable time while introducing operational errors.

Back-office outsourcing simply means handing that repetitive work over to a trained team that runs it for you. Newstel’s BPO service grew directly out of our core contact-centre work, meaning we focus on customer-centric process support rather than attempting to cover every niche back-office function under the sun. You gain a dedicated team that works natively inside your tools and to your specific brand guidelines, with strict oversight built in so you always keep control.

  • Customer-centric by design: Every process is handled with the ultimate customer outcome in mind, not just the isolated task.
  • Works inside your tools: We operate completely within your existing systems and marketplaces, meaning there is no extra software layer for you to manage.
  • Brand-immersed specialists: The team is thoroughly trained on how you work before they ever touch your live business data.
  • UK and European QA oversight: Operational accuracy and service quality are actively checked and verified, never assumed.
  • Multilingual delivery: We offer support and backend processing across all your global markets, not just in English.
  • Flexible scope: You can start with a single process and add more functions smoothly as the relationship proves itself.

Why Outsource Your Back Office

The operational case for handing process work to a specialist team

Free Up Your Team

Move repetitive process work off your internal team so they can focus entirely on the tasks only they can do, such as growth, product development, and building customer relationships.

Lower Fixed Costs

Convert the high cost of permanent back-office headcount into a flexible support structure that scales to your demand, ensuring you are not carrying fixed salaries through quiet trading periods.

Greater Accuracy

A trained team working to set procedures and strict QA guidelines makes significantly fewer errors than work squeezed in around other internal priorities, which protects your business data and customer trust.

Faster Turnaround

Dedicated capacity clears backlogs and keeps day-to-day processing moving smoothly, so orders, data, and administrative tasks do not pile up when your core team is stretched.

Scale With Demand

Add capacity rapidly for peak trading seasons, product launches, or seasonal spikes, then scale back when demand settles, eliminating the need for a hiring and training cycle each time.

Process Insight

Because we run the work daily, we spot the operational bottlenecks and suggest practical improvements, ensuring the process gets better over time rather than just getting done.

The Usual Back-Office Handover vs Newstel

Most back-office outsourcing feels like posting work into a black box. Newstel keeps the work visible, branded, and improving, so it feels like an in-house team that happens to sit with us.
The Usual Outsourcing Experience

What back-office outsourcing too often looks like in practice:

A Separate Company

It feels like essential work disappears to a faceless supplier with little real connection to your brand.

Opaque Blended Rates

Bundled pricing that is hard to predict and harder to compare against what you actually get.

No Improvement Input

Tasks get processed exactly as handed over, with no one flagging how the process could work better.

Rigid Contracts

Long, fixed commitments that cannot flex when your business volumes rise and fall.

Generic Staff

Interchangeable workers with no real grounding in your brand, tone, or customer journey.

A Bolt-On System

A separate tool or process you have to manage alongside your own internal stack.

Back-Office Support With Newstel

How Newstel runs the same work differently:

Feels In-House

A brand-immersed team that works as an true extension of yours, not a distant supplier.

Transparent Hourly Pricing

One fully loaded hourly rate, so you can see exactly what you are paying for.

Identifies Improvements

We run the work daily and actively flag where the process can be made faster or more accurate.

Flexible and Scalable

Capacity that moves dynamically with your demand, without rigid long-term lock-in.

Brand-Immersed, Trained Specialists

A consistent team trained on your specific brand and contact-centre quality standards.

Works Inside Your Systems

We operate directly in your tools and marketplaces, with nothing extra for you to manage.

Why Partner With Newstel

These are the reasons brands choose Newstel for back-office work specifically, beyond the general case for outsourcing: it comes down to how the work is run, checked, and priced.

Contact-Centre DNA

Our back office grew out of years of customer-facing work, so the team handles your data, orders, and admin with the final customer outcome in mind, not just the isolated task in front of them.

UK-Led QA

Work is checked under strict UK and European oversight, with accuracy and error rates actively tracked rather than assumed, ensuring quality stays completely visible so you can act on it.

Brand Immersion

Specialists are thoroughly trained on your brand, tone, and processes before they touch live work, so what we produce looks and reads exactly like your own internal team did it.

Transparent Pricing

One fully loaded hourly rate, billed purely for productive time, with no blended mystery rates or fragmented add-ons, making the cost easy to predict and easy to defend internally.

Flexible and Scalable

Capacity expands seamlessly for peaks, product launches, and seasonal spikes, then scales back when things settle, meaning you pay only for the support you need rather than a fixed headcount.

Multilingual Delivery

We process and support tasks across your global markets in your customers' native languages, so expanding into new regions does not mean rebuilding your back office each time.

What We Handle

Our back-office service covers the operational work that keeps an eCommerce business running. Start with one specific area or hand over several; the workflows below are what we manage day to day.

Data Services

The essential work that everything else depends on. We keep your data clean, current, and exactly where it needs to be across the systems you already use, ensuring your reporting and operations are built on information you can trust.

  • Data Entry and Input: Accurate data entry outsourcing across your systems, ensuring records stay reliable rather than slowly drifting out of date.
  • Data Cleansing: We find and fix duplicates, gaps, and formatting errors, transforming your data into something you can actually act on.
  • Data Transfer and Migration: Moving records between systems carefully with strict checks, so nothing is lost or mangled during the move.
Order management specialist monitoring Amazon and marketplace orders across two computer screens in a Newstel office.

Order and Marketplace Management

Order management specialist monitoring Amazon and marketplace orders across two computer screens in a Newstel office.

Selling across your own store and various marketplaces creates a steady stream of operational work. We manage the order and stock side so it runs smoothly, including the day-to-day of selling on Amazon.

  • Amazon Order Management: We handle the complete order workflow on Amazon, keeping listings, orders, and fulfilment issues under control.
  • Logistics Coordination: Keeping orders moving smoothly between you, your customers, and your fulfilment partners.
  • Inventory Management: Tracking stock levels and system updates, so you are never caught out by overselling or inventory gaps.

Payments and Finance Admin

The finance-adjacent administration that simply has to be right and on time. Because this work touches sensitive data, it runs entirely under controlled access and strict QA.

  • Chargeback and Payment Admin: Managing chargebacks and payment queries carefully in highly secure, permission-controlled environments.
  • Invoice Processing and Ledger: Processing incoming invoices and keeping the ledger up to date, so your finance team is not left chasing admin.
  • Product Claims Processing: Handling claims accurately and consistently, ensuring customers are dealt with fairly and records stay perfectly clean.
Market research specialist analysing competitor pricing, customer sentiment and partnership opportunities across two monitors in a Newstel office.

Research

Market research specialist analysing competitor pricing, customer sentiment and partnership opportunities across two monitors in a Newstel office.

Decisions are always better when someone has done the foundational legwork. We run the research that informs your commercial and customer decisions, then hand it over in a structured form you can immediately use.

  • Competitor Research: Tracking exactly what your competitors are doing on pricing, product range, and market positioning.
  • B2B and Market Research: Finding and qualifying new partners, suppliers, or broader market opportunities to support your expansion.
  • Customer Sentiment Analysis: Pulling together what customers are saying across channels, allowing you to see clear patterns rather than one-off comments.

Revenue Recovery and Engagement

Some back-office work directly recovers revenue you would otherwise lose. We run the outbound recovery and engagement work that turns near-misses into completed sales.

  • Abandoned-Cart Recovery: Outbound follow-up on abandoned carts to win back sales that were almost lost.
  • Declined-Payment Recovery: Chasing failed and declined payments, ensuring a technical payment glitch does not cost you the order.
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  • Engagement Support: Supporting marketing campaigns and proactive customer engagement that keeps buyers active.

How the Newstel Model Works

We do not drop a generic team onto your work. We build a dedicated team around your processes, plug it into your systems, and run it under structured QA, so quality is designed in rather than hoped for.

A Dedicated, Brand-Immersed Team

Newstel team leader training a dedicated customer support team on brand standards, processes and onboarding.

We recruit and assign a specific team to your account, then immerse them in your brand and processes before they touch live work. The same people stay with you, ensuring knowledge builds rather than resets with every handover.

  • Recruited For Fit: Specialists chosen for the exact skills and temperament your work requires.
  • Brand Immersion: Trained deeply on your tone, standards, and precisely how you want things done.
  • Process Training: Walked through your workflows before going live, rather than learning on your live data.
  • Consistent Team: The same people stay on your account, allowing operational context to compound over time.
Newstel team leader training a dedicated customer support team on brand standards, processes and onboarding.
Newstel team reviewing documented workflows, standard operating procedures and process ownership during a training session.

Workflow and SOP Build

Newstel team reviewing documented workflows, standard operating procedures and process ownership during a training session.

We document how each process should run as a clear standard operating procedure, and we actively look for ways to improve it as we go. You get a process that is highly repeatable and constantly getting better, not just a temporary pair of hands.

  • Documented SOPs: Every process is written down, so it runs the exact same way every single time.
  • Improvement Input: We flag bottlenecks and suggest faster, more accurate ways to work.
  • Clear Ownership: Defined responsibilities across the board, so nothing ever falls through the gaps.
  • Version Control: Procedures are kept current as your business, products, and tools change.

Direct Integration With Your Systems

We work directly inside your existing tools and marketplaces rather than alongside them, meaning there is no extra software layer for you to manage and no awkward seam between your team and ours.

  • Your Tools, Not Ours: We operate entirely in your own systems, helpdesks, and marketplaces.
  • Secure Access: System permissions are scoped to exactly what the work needs, and no more.
  • Clean Onboarding: We carefully map systems and access levels before going live, ensuring a smooth launch.
  • No Bolt-On: Nothing extra for your internal team to learn, configure, or maintain.
Newstel team reviewing quality assurance scores, accuracy tracking and weekly reporting on a QA dashboard.

Structured QA Under UK and European Oversight

Newstel team reviewing quality assurance scores, accuracy tracking and weekly reporting on a QA dashboard.

Quality is checked, never assumed. We track accuracy and error rates, review work to a strict standard, and report on it, all under UK and European oversight, allowing you to see how the work is performing and completely trust what comes back.

  • Accuracy Tracking: Error rates are carefully measured, making quality a definitive number you can see.
  • QA Reviews: Work is evaluated against a defined standard, rather than just spot-checked at random.
  • UK and European Oversight: Core management and QA operations sit under firm UK and European control.
  • Regular Reporting: Clear, data-driven updates on output and quality, so there are never any surprises.

Security, Compliance and Data Protection

Trusted With Your Customers’ Data

Back-office work means handling personal, payment, and order data, including sensitive chargeback and payment administration. We treat that as a core responsibility, with controlled access, vetted people, and thorough oversight built directly into how the daily work runs.

  • Controlled Access and Permissions: Specialists work with access scoped precisely to the specific task within permission-controlled environments, ensuring data exposure is kept to the absolute minimum the work requires.
  • Vetted, Trained Specialists: The people assigned to your account are rigorously vetted and trained on secure handling protocols before they ever work with live data.
  • Secure Systems and Your Tools: We work entirely inside your approved systems and secure workflows rather than moving data into unmanaged or external tools.
  • Payment and Sensitive-Data Handling: Chargeback, payment, and claims data are handled under exceptionally tight operational controls, given their highly sensitive nature.
  • QA, Audit Trails and Oversight: Work is logged, reviewed, and overseen under strict UK and European management, ensuring handling stays visible and fully accountable.


The result is back-office support you can hand over with complete confidence: access is controlled, people are accountable, and sensitive data stays inside processes you can see.

Transparent Back-Office Pricing

One hourly rate, no hidden complexity.

Back-office outsourcing is often priced in a way that is hard to read, with blended rates, bundled extras, and minimums that make it tough to know what you are really paying for.

We keep it simple. One fully loaded hourly rate, billed for productive time, so the cost is easy to predict and easy to defend to whoever signs it off.

One Fully Loaded Rate

A single hourly rate that includes the team, management, and QA. No separate line items appearing later, and no blended rate you cannot break down.

Pay For Productive Time

You pay for work done on your processes, not for idle capacity. As volumes move, the cost moves dynamically with them.

No Fragmented Add-Ons

The things that should be part of the core service, such as oversight and reporting, are part of the rate, not extras bolted on afterwards.

Flexible, Not Locked In

Scale up for peaks and back down when things settle, without a rigid long-term commitment to pay through quiet periods.

Clear Reporting

You can see the hours and the output behind them, so the spend always ties back directly to work you can point to.

No blended mystery rates. No surprise minimums. No long lock-in to carry through the slow months. You see exactly what you pay for and what it produces.

That predictability is the point. Back-office support should make your costs easier to plan, not add another line you cannot explain, so you can scale the work up and down with confidence.

Real Results From Real Back-Office Work

Figures from live Newstel client work

Our data-driven approach ensures that your brand can measure the impact of our back office support work. 

30% Reduction In Cart Abandonment

Wolfson Brands saw a 30% reduction in abandoned carts, through outbound abandoned-cart recovery.

Over £500k In Recovered Revenue

Additional revenue without additional advertising costs. Make the most of your website traffic.

These results demonstrate the real business impact that a strong back office support team can have with minimal client input.

Industries We Support

Our back-office work sits mainly with eCommerce and consumer brands. If that is you, the team already knows the operational shape of your business.

eCommerce & D2C

Online and direct-to-consumer brands that need order management, data cleansing, and revenue recovery work handled efficiently at volume.

Retail and Consumer Goods

Consumer brands managing complex order processing, data updates, and administration across multiple retail channels.

Marketplace Sellers

Brands selling on Amazon and other global marketplaces that need order workflows, stock tracking, and listing work kept constantly under control.

Subscription Brands

Recurring-revenue businesses requiring steady, reliable processing for billing administration, cancellations, and customer data updates.

Health, Fitness & Wellbeing

Consumer health and wellbeing brands handling sensitive customer records, product claims, and private order data securely.

Travel & Hospitality

Booking-led businesses managing seasonal traffic volumes and the intensive back-office administration that sits behind every guest reservation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

All Your Questions Answered

What is business process outsourcing and back-office support?
It means handing operational, behind-the-scenes work over to an external team that runs it for you. Newstel’s version is highly focused: customer-centric process work built directly on our contact-centre experience. We cover data, order and marketplace management, payments and invoice admin, research, and revenue recovery, rather than attempting to cover every niche enterprise back-office function.
We handle data entry, cleansing, and migration; order and marketplace management, including Amazon operations; chargeback and payment administration, invoice and ledger processing, and product claims. We also manage competitor, market, and customer-sentiment research, alongside outbound recovery for abandoned carts and declined payments. Please note that enterprise-level corporate finance, HR, and IT BPO sit outside what we do.
It is built directly on top of it. The exact same brand-immersed, QA-led approach we use for customer conversations is applied to your back-office processes. This is why the work stays thoroughly customer-centric rather than purely transactional.
No. We immerse a dedicated team in your brand guidelines and workflows, and they operate entirely inside your own software tools. Because of this, the output looks and reads exactly like your own team produced it. It feels entirely in-house, not handed off.
Newstel operates from the UK, Germany, Turkey and the Philippines, with management and QA held firmly under UK and European oversight, alongside multilingual delivery across global markets. We will always be entirely clear about where your specific work sits as part of the scoping phase; we do not claim UK-only delivery.
We protect your business with controlled access scoped tightly to each task, vetted and trained specialists, and work kept strictly inside your approved systems. We also apply tighter handling controls for sensitive payment and chargeback data, all of which is logged and overseen under UK and European management. We describe our practices honestly and will confirm specific controls with you rather than making blanket regulatory guarantees.
Yes. We work inside your current systems, helpdesks, CRMs, and marketplaces, including Amazon, rather than adding a separate tool for you to manage. We set up secure, scoped access levels during the onboarding phase.
We charge a single, fully loaded hourly rate that includes the team, management, and QA, billed purely for productive time. There are no blended mystery rates and no fragmented add-ons, making the cost exceptionally easy to predict and budget for.
Yes. We add capacity seamlessly for peaks, launches, and seasonal spikes, then scale back when demand settles. This ensures you do not have a fixed headcount to carry through your quiet trading periods.
Typically, within a few weeks, depending entirely on the complexity of the process and how quickly system access can be granted. We set out a clear, predictable timeline during the discovery and scoping phase.
We track accuracy and error rates, review work against an agreed standard, and report clearly on output, all under UK and European QA oversight. Quality is a definitive number you can see, not something you have to take on trust.
Yes. Outbound recovery is one of our core back-office services. For Wolfson Brands, abandoned-cart recovery reduced cart abandonment by 30%.
We work mainly with eCommerce and consumer brands, ranging from SMEs to mid-market businesses. If the operational shape of your business matches what is described on this page, it is likely a good fit. We will always be completely honest with you if it is not.
Yes, and most of our clients do exactly that. We recommend starting with the single process causing your team the most operational pressure. Once we prove the relationship and trust builds, we can expand the scope smoothly.

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