One China warehouse account, every sales channel. We store, pick, pack and ship your orders from 24,000 m² of networked cloud-fulfillment space across Shenzhen (3,000 m²), Suzhou (13,000 m²) and Dongguan (8,000 m²), backed by in-market overseas stations in Los Angeles, New York, Germany, the UK and Japan.

What you get

• WMS integration with Amazon, Shopify, TikTok Shop, eBay, WooCommerce and custom storefronts — orders sync automatically
• Real-time inventory, unified tracking and unified billing across every channel
• Same-day dispatch: orders received before the 16:00 China cutoff are picked, packed and handed to the carrier that day, with tracking live the same day
• Branded packaging, inserts and gift-box assembly — no minimum order quantity
• Photo QC on every outbound order; mis-pick and miss-ship rate under 0.01%
• 20+ domestic receiving hubs in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Yiwu and Suzhou, so suppliers drop goods near their own factory
• 800,000+ CBM handled per year for 10,000+ active clients; client repeat rate above 85%

How an order runs

• Connect your store, or send orders by CSV or API
• Suppliers deliver to the nearest receiving hub or straight to our warehouse
• We inspect, label and store, with stock visible to you in real time
• Orders are picked, packed and shipped the same day before cutoff
• We select the best line per order — express, dedicated line, postal or DDP freight

Delivery to your customers

Parcels move on the channel that fits destination, weight and the delivery date you promised: international express to the US typically 1–3 days, dedicated lines 5–10 days, economy services where budget matters. Transit times are approximate and vary by carrier, season and customs clearance.

One English-speaking account manager owns your account end to end, with a 2-hour response on any clearance or transit exception and 24-hour resolution target.

Decision Tree: Which China Fulfillment Model Fits Your Stage?

Choosing a China fulfillment center is not a one-size-fits-all decision. The model that saves a solo founder will bottleneck a multi-channel brand scaling into Europe. Use the branching path below to locate your current stage, then read the operational implications beside it.

Stage A — Solo Founder or Pre-Revenue Startup

• Typical profile: Testing 5–30 SKUs on Shopify or TikTok Shop; monthly volume under 300 orders; no private warehouse staff.
• Recommended model: One-piece dropshipping with blind shipping. Stock sits in the provider's cloud warehouse; each order ships individually with no supplier branding.
• Key selection criteria: Zero minimum order quantity, API or CSV order sync, same-day tracking upload, English-speaking account manager.
• When to graduate: Monthly orders exceed 500 or you begin receiving repeat-purchase complaints about inconsistent packaging.

Stage B — Growing DTC Brand

• Typical profile: 30–300 SKUs; 500–5,000 orders/month; selling on Shopify plus one marketplace (Amazon or eBay); branded packaging required.
• Recommended model: Dedicated ecommerce fulfillment with pick-and-pack, custom inserts and photo QC per outbound order. Inventory pooled in one cross-border fulfillment hub so stock serves every channel without splitting.
• Key selection criteria: WMS integration with your storefront, mis-pick rate disclosed at the order-line level (not the order level), cutoff time that aligns with your peak ordering window, SLA-backed exception response.
• When to graduate: You open a second sales region (e.g., EU) and need local stock positioning or regional carrier routing.

Stage C — Multi-Channel Enterprise Seller

• Typical profile: 300+ SKUs; 5,000+ orders/month across three or more platforms; FBA replenishment, wholesale B2B and direct-to-consumer running simultaneously.
• Recommended model: Networked fulfillment across multiple warehouse nodes (e.g., Shenzhen for electronics, Suzhou for general merchandise, Dongguan for apparel and home goods) combined with in-market overseas stations for storage and last-mile dispatch.
• Key selection criteria: Total warehouse footprint and geographic spread, NVOCC and freight-forwarding credentials for ocean and air legs, unified billing across channels, capacity to handle seasonal surges without deprioritizing your account.

Quick Reference: Stage-to-Model Mapping

Worked Example: Shenzhen Warehouse to US Customer in Five Days

Abstract promises are easy to make. Below is a concrete, day-by-day timeline showing how an order placed on a Monday afternoon actually reaches a residential address in California. Every timestamp is drawn from standard operating procedure at our Shenzhen facility; actual transit may vary by carrier load, customs inspection volume and destination ZIP code.

Day 0 (Monday) — Order Received and Dispatched

• 14:32 CST: Customer places order on your Shopify store. The order lands in our WMS within seconds through the API we expose.
• 14:33 CST: WMS assigns a pick list. The item is located in Zone B, Shelf 12.
• 15:10 CST: Picker retrieves the item, scans the barcode at the packing station. Photo QC captured automatically.
• 15:25 CST: Parcel weighed, labeled with your branded packing slip, sealed. Carrier label printed.
• 15:47 CST: Parcel sorted into the US-bound dedicated-line cage. Handover manifest generated before the 16:00 CST daily cutoff.
• 16:00 CST: Cutoff met. Tracking number uploaded back to Shopify. Your customer receives a shipment confirmation email the same evening (their morning).

Day 1 (Tuesday) — Export Clearance and Line-Haul Departure

• Morning: Consolidated pallets arrive at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport cargo terminal.
• Afternoon: Chinese export customs clearance completed. Air waybill issued.
• Evening: Flight departs Shenzhen bound for Los Angeles.

Day 2 (Wednesday) — Arrival and US Customs

• Morning (LAX local time): Freight arrives. Deconsolidation begins at the LAX cargo facility.
• Afternoon: US Customs entry filed. Under normal conditions, release granted within hours. If selected for examination, add 1–2 business days (this is the primary source of timeline variance).

Day 3 (Thursday) — Last-Mile Handoff

• Morning: Cleared parcels transferred to domestic last-mile carrier (USPS or regional partner).
• Afternoon: First domestic scan visible to end customer.

Day 4–5 (Friday–Saturday) — Delivery

• Residential delivery completed. Signature or porch-drop confirmed depending on service level selected.
• Total elapsed time from order placement to delivery: approximately five calendar days for this lane.

Note: This timeline assumes the order clears the 16:00 CST cutoff on a business day, uses a dedicated air line to the US West Coast, and encounters no customs hold. Express services can shorten the window to 1–3 days; economy services extend it. Always communicate estimated ranges, not guarantees, to your customers.

China Fulfillment Provider Due Diligence Checklist

A polished website does not prove operational competence. Before committing inventory to any global fulfillment network based in China, run through these ten verification points. Each item includes what to ask and what evidence to expect.

• 1. Business longevity and registration. Ask for the business license issue date and years of international logistics experience. Cross-check against the National Enterprise Credit Information System. A provider operating since 2011 has navigated multiple regulatory cycles.
• 2. Warehouse footprint and ownership model. Request total square meterage, city-level locations and whether facilities are self-operated or subcontracted. Self-operated space means direct control over staffing, security and SLA enforcement.
• 3. Accuracy metric definition. Ask specifically: "Is your error rate calculated per order or per order line?" An order-line denominator is stricter and more honest. Insist on seeing the formula in writing.
• 4. Daily cutoff and same-day dispatch proof. Confirm the exact cutoff hour (in China Standard Time). Request sample tracking logs from the past 30 days showing pickup timestamps relative to cutoff.
• 5. Exception SLA with escalation path. Written commitment for initial response time and resolution target. Ask for the escalation contact above the account manager and the communication channel (email, WhatsApp, WeChat).
• 6. System integration depth. Test the WMS connection with a sandbox store before going live. Verify that inventory sync, order push and tracking writeback all function without manual intervention.
• 7. Regulatory credentials. For ocean freight: NVOCC filing number. For air freight: IATA or national aviation association membership. For customs brokerage in destination countries: local clearing team or licensed broker partnership. Request certificate copies.
• 8. Overseas presence for stock and re-routing. In-market stations in key markets (e.g., Los Angeles, New York, Germany, UK, Japan) shorten the last mile and let orders change lanes. They do not accept returned parcels. Ask which locations are owned versus partnered, and who inspects a returned unit in-country.
• 9. Scalability evidence. Annual throughput in CBM or parcels, active client count and client retention rate. These numbers indicate whether the provider can absorb your growth without degrading service.
• 10. 2026 regulatory readiness. With the EU eliminating the EUR 150 duty-free threshold from July 2026 and the US suspending the USD 800 de minimis exemption for China-origin small parcels, ask how the provider adjusts declaration workflows, pre-clearance procedures and channel recommendations under the new regime.

Running this checklist takes roughly two weeks. It is faster than recovering from a bad fulfillment partnership. If you would like a ready-made scorecard template aligned to these ten items, contact our team and we will send one within one business day.

The Same Need, Phrased Five Ways

Buyers arrive at this work with different vocabularies, and the difference is not cosmetic — each phrasing asks for a different scope, and a provider quoting the wrong one produces a plausible-looking answer to the wrong question.

• Fulfillment services for ecommerce — the broadest form. It asks for order-level labour: receive, store, pick, pack, hand over, record. It says nothing about borders, and a domestic-only operator can answer it honestly.
• Ecommerce fulfillment China — the same scope plus an origin constraint. Receiving from Chinese factories, the export filing, and the channel choice now sit inside the request, which is why this phrasing usually costs more per order and delivers fewer exceptions.
• Order fulfillment China — narrower still, and the most literal: the unit of work is one order, not one shipment. Ask what the cut-off is, because that single number decides whether the promise is same-day or next-day.
• China fulfillment service — the vaguest phrasing and the most dangerous, because it is easily answered by a broker who owns neither the floor nor the filings.
• Best China fulfillment service 2026 — a search, not a specification. What it is really asking is which operator still holds up after this year's changes to low-value entry rules in the United States and the European Union.

Convert the phrasing into a scope sentence before requesting a quote: which orders, from where, to which markets, under whose export filing, and inside how many hours. Five answers written down in those words are worth more than any ranking page.

The Layer Under the Phrase: What a Connected Warehouse Really Exposes

“We integrate with your store” is a sentence every buyer hears and almost nobody can verify before signing. It describes four different interfaces, and a facility only becomes system integration fulfillment in the meaningful sense when each layer is separately available and separately documented.

The bottom layer is the WMS system itself: the record that knows a bin location, a pick wave, a packed carton and a shipped parcel. Everything else is a conversation with that record. Our own WMS API is the surface those conversations run over, which means a storefront, an internal tool or a third-party service can push an order and pull a status change rather than waiting on a scheduled export. A fulfillment API that only answers in one direction — accepting orders but never returning tracking — is a submission form, not an interface.

Above that sit the two ledgers sellers usually already own:

• ERP integration — the finance and purchasing side. It wants issues and receipts, not parcels: what left stock, what came back, what the month cost. If this layer is missing, someone retypes the warehouse report into the accounts system, and the two numbers disagree forever.
• OMS integration — the order side, when orders originate somewhere other than the checkout: a marketplace console, a phone order, a wholesale portal, a crowdfunding platform. The question here is whose record wins when the same order exists twice.

The failure mode is rarely a missing connection; it is a connection that degrades quietly. Four checks separate the honest ones from the badge on a homepage:

1. WMS API integration tested in a sandbox with real payload shapes — a split shipment, an address with diacritics, a line cancelled mid-pick.
2. Whether a sync failure queues and retries, or drops the order until a human notices.
3. Which events write back: dispatch, partial dispatch, stock adjustment, return receipt.
4. Who owns the mapping table when you add a second sales channel, and whether that work is billable.

Ask for the endpoint list and an event list. A warehouse that can produce both in five minutes is describing a system; one that produces a screenshot is describing a service level.

Related Services

FulfillDock by SBT (Shenzhen Shibotong International Logistics Co., Ltd.) is a China-based third-party logistics provider and international freight forwarder. Since 2011 we have helped US and European e-commerce brands turn China’s manufacturing strength into a delivery advantage, running one integrated chain — receiving, warehousing, fulfillment, customs clearance and last-mile delivery — so sellers on Amazon, Shopify, TikTok Shop, eBay and independent storefronts can scale without building logistics themselves.

The scale behind that promise: 24,000 square metres of networked cloud-fulfillment space across three Chinese warehouses — Shenzhen (head office plus a 3,000 m² warehouse), Suzhou (13,000 m²) and Dongguan (8,000 m²) — positioned inside the South China and Yangtze Delta export ecosystems close to both factories and ports, and supported by 20+ domestic receiving hubs across Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Yiwu and Suzhou. Overseas, staffed stations in Los Angeles, New York, Germany, the UK and Japan pair with in-country clearance teams, while long-term partnerships with more than 20 major shipping lines and airlines give us allocated fixed space on the lanes that matter most.

Today we deliver to 50+ countries through 50+ official shipping channels and handle more than 800,000 CBM a year for 10,000+ active clients — 30,000+ businesses served to date, with a client repeat rate above 85%. Our service stack covers the full cross-border journey: ecommerce fulfillment and cloud warehousing; Amazon FBA prep and first-leg delivery; small-parcel dropshipping; country-specific direct shipping lines; door-to-door sea and air freight DDP with duty pre-paid and VAT/IOSS handled; hybrid sea-air combinations for peak season; and dedicated channels for special cargo such as batteries, oversized furniture and project equipment.

What sets us apart is execution and accountability. Orders placed before our 16:00 China cutoff are picked, packed and handed to carriers the same day, with tracking live the same day and a mis-pick and mis-ship rate under 0.01%, measured per order line. A team of 100+ staff — around 70% of them in customs clearance, solution design and after-sales follow-up — means every shipment is owned end to end by one English-speaking account manager, backed by a 2-hour response and 24-hour resolution promise on any exception. There is no minimum order quantity, and we reply to every inquiry within 24 hours.

Part of the SBT Logistics family: our China domestic platform is Shibotong International Logistics (www.sbt56.com), and our sister international brand is FulfillNexa by SBT (www.fulfillnexa.com).