Sellers ask us this constantly, usually right before they ship their first pallet to a prep center they've never seen in person: what actually happens to my boxes once they leave my hands? Not the marketing version. The real version — what gets checked, what gets rejected, how fast it moves, what it costs.<\/p>\n
I've been selling on Amazon for about ten years myself, and I co-founded 365PrepCenter in Lebanon, Ohio because I got tired of guessing what was happening at the third-party warehouses I used to rely on. So this is going to read less like a brochure and more like a walkthrough of our own floor, because that's what it is.<\/p>\n
A pallet shows up on our warehouse. Before it even gets broken down, someone — usually Oleg or Tatiana — checks the count against the packing list, inspects for shipping damage, and flags any SKU mismatches right there at the dock. This matters more than people think. If a case is short three units or the barcode doesn't match what's on the manifest, we catch it before it becomes your problem two weeks later when Amazon's inbound team flags a discrepancy.<\/p>\n
Receiving is billed per unit — $0.10\/unit when we're consolidating inventory into storage, and free when units go straight through to FBA — or $40 per pallet. Boxes get logged into inventory the same day in most cases. We don't charge a setup fee to get started, and there's no long-term contract sitting behind any of this — you can send one pallet and walk away if it doesn't work for you.<\/p>\n
This is the bread and butter of what we do. Units come in, we apply FNSKU labels, check for poly-bag or bundling requirements per your Amazon listing, and get them back into inbound-ready condition. Pricing scales with volume: $1.00\/unit for 1-50 units, dropping to $0.75 for 51-300, $0.50 for 301-1,000, and $0.35\/unit once you’re at 1,001+. Turnaround is 24-48 hours from the moment we log the units in — not from when the truck arrives, from when they're actually counted and entered.<\/p>\n
One thing I'll flag because it trips people up: if your units arrive with damaged FNSKU stickers already applied, or the wrong SKU labeled from a previous prep center's mistake, that adds time. We won't just slap a new label over a wrong one and call it done — we pull it, verify against your listing, and relabel clean. It's slower, but it's the difference between a smooth check-in at Amazon and a suspended shipment.<\/p>\n
If you're running Shopify, Walmart, or TikTok Shop orders through us, the cutoff is 11:59am Monday through Friday for same-day shipping. Miss the cutoff by ten minutes and your order ships the next business day — we don't make exceptions here because the carrier pickup schedule doesn't make exceptions for us either.<\/p>\n
Pricing depends on your daily volume: $2.00\/order if you're doing 10+ orders a day, $2.50\/order under that, plus $0.30 for each additional unit in a multi-item order. It's a structure that rewards consistent volume, which is honestly how most 3PL pricing works — the fixed costs of running the floor don't change much whether you're shipping 5 orders or 50.<\/p>\n
Storage is $1 per cubic foot per month, or $40 per pallet if that's a cleaner fit for your inventory shape. New clients get the first 7 days free, one time, which is enough to land and count a first shipment before storage starts billing.<\/p>\n
Kitting and bundling is priced by set size: $1.20\/set for 2-3 units, $1.50 for 4-5, and $1.75 for a 6-unit set, plus $0.20 for each unit beyond six. Complex or fragile bundles are quoted per project — we'd rather confirm your bundle configuration works before committing a full production run to it.<\/p>\n
FBA removals are a separate animal. If Amazon sends inventory back to us, receiving\/processing runs $0.50\/unit when it's 20+ units of one SKU, or $1.50\/unit for anything smaller than that — smaller lots just take more per-unit handling time relative to the batch. Repackaging after that follows standard FBA prep rates. Customer returns for FBM orders run $1.50\/unit standard, $3.00\/unit for oversized items.<\/p>\n
We take FBA, FBM, food (ambient only), cosmetics, supplements, electronics, apparel, and oversized palletized freight. We don't accept large furniture, anything frozen or requiring refrigeration, or lithium batteries — that last one is a hard no across the industry for a reason, and any prep center telling you otherwise is one insurance audit away from a very bad day.<\/p>\n
Every client gets their own login and personal ID (login link) at Ysell.pro — that's the WMS we run our warehouse operations on. It's not something we built ourselves; Ysell is developed by Fulfillmentbox.com, and we use it because it gives you real-time visibility into unit counts, cubic footage, and running storage costs without needing to email Tatiana every Tuesday asking for an update. It's available 24\/7, so if you're checking inventory at 11pm before deciding whether to place a reorder, you can just look.<\/p>\n
There’s a $50 minimum monthly charge, no setup fee, and no contract locking you in. Most new clients start with a small test shipment, so you can actually test the relationship before committing real volume to it.<\/p>\n
How fast do I get my Ysell login after signing up? Typically within 24 hours of completing intake. If it's been longer than that and you haven't heard from us, something got missed on our end — email us directly rather than waiting, because occasionally onboarding emails land in spam.<\/p>\n
What's the actual turnaround on FBA prep once units arrive? 24-48 hours from when units are counted and logged into inventory, not from truck arrival. Rush requests are possible — ask before shipping if you're on a tight FBA restock deadline.<\/p>\n
Do you charge extra for damaged or mislabeled inventory? Not a separate line-item fee, but relabeling wrong FNSKUs or repacking damaged cases takes longer than clean units, so it can push your job toward the back of that day's queue. We'll always flag it and tell you what we found before proceeding.<\/p>\n
Can I send a small kitting test batch first? Yes — just talk to us before shipping. We'd rather confirm the bundle works at small scale than build a full run around a configuration that needs adjusting.<\/p>\n