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Pick, pack & ship · USA

Pick and pack fulfillment
with nothing itemised

The pick and pack quote you were given is probably not the price you will pay. Most rate cards look cheap because the box, the void fill, the tape, the label and the receiving are all billed separately afterwards. Ours is a flat per-order rate with standard packaging materials inside it, from an owned warehouse in Austin, Texas.

Pick and pack fulfillment operation in a US warehouse
Flatper order
Packaging included
No minimums
0
day handling time
$0.50
per cu.ft storage
1-3
day ground nationwide
$2M
insured
Read the rate card properly

Where a cheap pick fee stops being cheap

A quote of a dollar an order sounds competitive until you add up what sits outside it. These are the lines to look for on any pick and pack proposal, including ours.

Packaging materials

Box, mailer, void fill, tape and label stock billed per order on top of the pick fee. On a small parcel this can exceed the pick fee itself.

Receiving

Charged per pallet, per carton or per unit to take your inbound stock in. Reasonable in principle, easy to underestimate when you restock often.

Minimums

A monthly minimum means you pay for volume you did not ship. In a seasonal business that is most of the year.

Peak surcharges

Q4 uplifts on storage and pick rates, applied in the quarter you can least afford them, often buried in the terms rather than the rate card.

Already have a quote in hand? Send it over and we will do a line-by-line comparison rather than just undercut the headline number.

What you actually pay

Three lines, quoted against your real orders

Storage at $0.50 per cubic foot per month on space actually used, with no pallet minimum and no seasonal tier. A flat pick and pack rate per order with standard packaging materials included, plus a small charge per additional unit on multi-item orders. Shipping at our negotiated carrier rates, passed through.

That is the whole structure. Prep and labeling, if you also need FBA inbounds handled, is $0.75 per unit from the same floor. Receiving your inbound stock is part of the service, not a separate invoice line.

We quote against your actual order profile rather than a published table, because an operation shipping ten single-item mailers a day and one shipping two hundred multi-item boxes are genuinely different jobs and a single number would be dishonest about one of them.

“If a 3PL will not quote your real order profile, the rate card is marketing.”
Packing station with branded packaging materials
The process

What happens between an order and a parcel

1. Order arrives automatically

Orders flow from Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify or TikTok Shop into our system through the channel integration. Nothing waits on someone reading an email, which is how weekend orders go missing at smaller operations.

2. Picked from a scanned bin

Stock lives in bin locations with live counts. Picks are scan-verified against the SKU on the order, which is what keeps mis-picks and oversells near zero rather than relying on familiarity.

3. Packed to your spec

Right-sized packaging to protect the item without paying dimensional weight for air. Your branded boxes, tissue and inserts if you supply them, because unboxing is part of the product for a lot of brands.

4. Shipped before cutoff, tracked

Labeled on our negotiated carrier rates, handed to the carrier the same business day, and the tracking number pushed back to your channel the same day it ships.

Packaging

Right-sizing is the cheapest shipping saving available

Carriers bill the greater of actual weight and dimensional weight, which means a half-empty box is a tax you pay on every single order for the life of the SKU. Picking the right carton size is unglamorous work that compounds: on a few hundred orders a month it is usually the largest controllable saving in a fulfillment operation, ahead of any rate negotiation.

We hold a range of carton and mailer sizes and pack to the item rather than to whatever is nearest. Where your product would ship cheaper in a poly mailer than a box, it goes in a mailer. Where it genuinely needs protection, it gets it, because a damaged arrival costs the refund, the return freight and the review.

If you supply branded packaging, we store it at no charge and use it as specified. If you want us to source custom packaging, we quote it openly rather than marking it up inside a per-order rate.

Dimensional weight controlled

Packed to the item, not to a default box, so you stop paying volume charges on empty space.

Your branding, no markup

Branded boxes, tissue, cards and inserts stored and used to your spec at no storage charge.

Damage cost weighed in

Protection where the item needs it. A cheap pack that arrives broken costs the refund, the return and the review.

Common questions

Pick and pack FAQs

What does pick and pack mean?+

Pick and pack is the warehouse work between an order arriving and a parcel leaving: a picker retrieves the right items from their bin locations, a packer puts them in suitable packaging with any inserts, a shipping label goes on, and the tracking number goes back to your store or marketplace. It is the operational core of ecommerce fulfillment.

How is pick and pack priced?+

We quote a flat rate per order against your actual order profile, with standard packaging materials included rather than itemised. Multi-item orders carry a small additional pick charge per extra unit. Storage is separate at $0.50 per cubic foot per month, and shipping is at our negotiated carrier rates.

Are packaging materials charged separately?+

Not for standard boxes, mailers, void fill and tape. Those are in the per-order rate. Custom branded packaging you supply is stored and used at no markup, and if you want us to source custom packaging we quote it transparently.

Is there a minimum order volume?+

No. There is no monthly minimum, no minimum order count and no setup commitment. We own the building, so we are not padding a rate card to cover a lease on space you are not using.

How fast do orders ship?+

Orders that reach us before the daily cutoff are picked, packed and dispatched the same business day. That is what allows you to set handling time to zero on Amazon and to advertise a realistic delivery date everywhere else.

Which channels can you pick and pack for?+

Amazon FBM, Walmart, eBay, TikTok Shop, Shopify and your own site, all from one inventory pool. The same floor also preps and forwards FBA inbound shipments at $0.75 per unit.

Do you use my branded packaging and inserts?+

Yes. Send us your boxes, mailers, tissue, cards or inserts and we store them and pack to your spec. Unboxing is part of your product for a lot of brands, and a 3PL that ignores that is costing you repeat purchases.

Where do you ship from?+

Our own warehouse in Austin, Texas. Central placement puts most of the continental United States within one to three ground days.

Send us your current quote. We will compare it line by line.

Flat per-order pick and pack, packaging included, $0.50/cu.ft storage, no minimums.

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