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Inventory that's honest in real time
Stock splits across ShipBob's warehouses, and every channel selling against it needs to see the same number at the same time, not an hour later.
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ShipBob shipments reflected in your inventory, orders and books.
ShipBob is a third-party logistics provider, not a label-printing tool: you send inventory to its network of fulfillment warehouses, and ShipBob picks, packs, and ships orders on your behalf, with a dashboard and API showing stock levels and order status across its locations. We build the automation that gets that information flowing into your storefront, your accounting, and your support desk, instead of staying inside ShipBob's own dashboard.
It stores and ships the inventory, but the rest of your business doesn't see what it knows.
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Because ShipBob splits inventory across more than one warehouse, keeping every sales channel honest about what's actually available means syncing stock in real time, not on whatever schedule a periodic sync job happens to run. We build that connection so a storefront or marketplace reflects ShipBob's actual stock the moment it changes, instead of occasionally overselling something that already shipped from a different warehouse.
An order handed off to ShipBob for fulfillment is only half the workflow. We connect the moment ShipBob confirms a shipment to whatever's waiting on that information: an invoice that should go out, a customer notification with real tracking, a dashboard someone checks without logging into ShipBob directly.
Returns processed through ShipBob's network need to reach your books as a credit and your support team as a resolved case, not sit as a line item only ShipBob can see. We build that handoff so a return doesn't require someone manually reconciling ShipBob's records against your accounting system after the fact.
Where the Manual Step Usually Is
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A shipment that triggers what comes next
A confirmed shipment in ShipBob is a signal, not a dead end: an invoice, a tracking email, an update somewhere else, without someone checking ShipBob first to notice it happened.
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Returns that reconcile themselves
A return processed through ShipBob's network should show up as a credit in your books and a closed loop in support automatically, not as a reconciliation project at month-end.
What this looks like in practice
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ShipBob fulfills every order, while accounting and support run in other tools.
The problemAn order shipped from a ShipBob warehouse and nothing else in the business heard about it. Invoices waited for someone to check the dashboard, and support agents looked up tracking before they could say where an order was.
A confirmed shipment now sends the tracking email, closes out the invoice and updates the order in support and accounting at the same moment. Nobody opens ShipBob just to learn that something shipped.
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What we build on top of specific parts of ShipBob.
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Running fulfillment through ShipBob and still bridging it to the rest of your business by hand?
Tell us what's still getting checked manually, a stock count, a shipment status, a return. We'll scope what it'd take to make that connection automatic. And if ShipBob isn't where the actual slowdown is, that's fine too, the same question applies to anything else running on manual steps.
Let's talk →Questions people ask
What is ShipBob?
ShipBob is a third-party logistics (3PL) provider: a network of fulfillment warehouses that stores your inventory and picks, packs, and ships orders for you, with a dashboard and API for visibility into stock and order status. It's a service that fulfills orders on your behalf, not a label-printing tool you operate yourself.
How much does ShipBob cost?
ShipBob prices on a usage basis tied to storage, pick-and-pack, and shipping costs rather than one flat published rate, so the real number depends on your order volume and product mix. Get a quote directly from ShipBob for current numbers.
What kinds of products can I store and ship with ShipBob?
ShipBob fulfills a broad range of standard ecommerce products across its warehouse network, with specific categories and restrictions (oversized items, hazardous materials, and similar edge cases) worth confirming directly with ShipBob for your particular products.