We plug into your stack, not the other way around. ShipNetwork connects to Shopify through a pre-built partner integration, so orders flow to our warehouse network and tracking flows back to your customers without your team touching it. Your store stays exactly as you built it.
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Almost every Shopify brand handles fulfillment itself at the start. It works, right up until it does not, and the failure is rarely dramatic. It is gradual, and it shows up in the founder's calendar before it shows up in the P&L.
Not because the tech failed, but because the operation was never designed for this volume. Orders that took an afternoon now take the whole day, plus two people, plus the weekend during a promotion.
Customers compare your shipping to what they get from marketplaces. Shipping from one location means the far half of the country waits four or five days, and you feel it in cart abandonment and in reviews before you ever see it in a report.
Rates improve with volume, and a single brand's volume is never enough to negotiate seriously. Every zone jump and dimensional weight surprise comes straight out of contribution margin.
A flash sale or a strong Q4 is the goal, and it is also the thing most likely to produce a two week backlog, a wave of support tickets, and a refund run that erases the promotion's profit.
The unboxing moment is one of the few physical touchpoints a DTC brand gets. A 3PL that ships everything in the same brown box takes that away and calls it efficiency.
Shopify is rarely the whole business for long. Most growing brands add Amazon, then Walmart or eBay, and eventually wholesale or retail through EDI. Each channel has its own expectations about speed, packaging, and cost, and each one is a chance for inventory to fragment.
ShipNetwork fulfills across those channels through pre-built partner integrations and direct API connections depending on the platform, including EDI driven retail programs.
One inventory pool, one dedicated team, one set of reporting. Adding a channel becomes a commercial decision instead of an operational one.
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Through a pre-built partner integration, Shopify orders reach our warehouse network without manual work, and tracking returns to your store and your customers.
Custom packaging options are part of the standard setup, not an upcharge exception. The box that arrives should look like it came from you.
Pricing built around your actual volume and mix rather than a fixed tier that punishes you for growing into it.
Built to hold in Q4 and through flash sales, which is when a fulfillment partner is actually being tested.
Returns handled with the same care as the original shipment, plus kitting for bundles and promotional sets, and subscription fulfillment that adapts when your monthly mix changes.
Through a pre-built partner integration, Shopify orders reach our warehouse network without manual work, and tracking returns to your store and your customers.
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Yes. ShipNetwork connects to Shopify through a pre-built partner integration. Orders flow to our warehouse network automatically and tracking returns to your store and your customers.
No. Your store, theme, apps, and checkout stay as they are. ShipNetwork takes over the physical fulfillment behind them.
ShipNetwork offers 1-day fulfillment and 1-2 day ground delivery to 98% of the U.S. from a nationwide warehouse network.
Yes. Custom packaging is part of the standard setup. The unboxing experience stays yours.
Yes. Shopify orders and orders from marketplaces or EDI driven retail programs are fulfilled by the same dedicated team, from the same inventory.
ShipNetwork's SLAs are built to hold through peak and promotional spikes. How a 3PL performs in Q4 is the question worth asking every provider you evaluate.
Receiving, storage, inventory management, picking, packing, kitting, shipping, and returns, plus the labor and space they require.