Optimise Pet Accessory Fulfilment With 3PL Services, Technology, and Expertise Your Brand Needs
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What pet accessory brands need from a fulfilment partner
From collars and leashes to toys and apparel, pet brands manage large catalogues, frequent reorders, and size variations that complicate fulfilment. Here’s what to look for in a 3PL that keeps costs low and tails wagging.
Cost-effective shipping for high-volume pet products
When products ship from a single fulfilment location, shipping to distant regions (higher shipping zones) increases fulfilment costs. Choose a fulfilment partner with a distributed network and inventory distribution and placement capabilities in the US to reduce average zones and control spend.
Streamlined SKU and bundle management solutions
Collars, leashes, and accessories in multiple sizes and colours can overwhelm your operations, get hard to track, and are easy to accidentally oversell. Look for a platform with an intuitive product catalogue that tracks each product variant as its own SKU, and that allows you to create virtual bundles that automatically deduct the individual components at checkout, simplifying mix-and-match ordering.
Seamless management of multiple sales channels
Expanding to Amazon, Chewy, or big-box retailers often means managing separate workflows and warehouses. Partner with an omnifulfillment partner that handles both DTC orders and B2B shipments – including Amazon FBA prep orders and automated EDI retail distribution (for major retailers like Chewy) – that all draw from a shared pool of inventory for real-time visibility and control across sales channels.
Optimised returns and exchanges for perfect pet fit
Pet parents often buy multiple sizes and return what doesn’t fit. Choose a provider that facilitates a seamless returns experience, integrates with returns portals (such as Loop and AfterShip), offers designated options for returned products (restock, quarantine, or disposal) set by SKU, or that can route returns to a different returns location if preferred.
Reliable subscription delivery for loyal pet customers
Recurring shipments of chews, supplements, or litters need to leave the warehouse on schedule every time. Choose a fulfilment solution that puts your recurring subscription orders on autopilot, ensuring subscribers always receive their refills on time.
Expansion to meet international customer demand
Viral products can quickly attract customers globally, complicating cross-boarder compliance and extending transit times. Choose a partner with a global fulfilment network that offers local fulfilment in countries including the US, the UK, Canada, Europe, and Australia, and provides Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) shipping options for transparent cross-border costs at checkout.
ShipBob’s fulfilment solutions that pet accessory brands care about
ShipBob helps pet accessory brands simplify fulfilment with distributed inventory, advanced SKU tracking, and automated bundle management — so you can scale faster and deliver a better experience for every pet parent.
Distributed inventory network
ShipBob’s distributed fulfilment network lets you place inventory closer to customers across the US. By stocking multiple locations, you reduce average shipping zones and avoid costly long-distance shipments.
Our platform helps you easily estimate shipping costs, leverage real-time analytics for multiple locations, and utilise the automated inventory distribution to keep shipping spend under control. With ShipBob, you gain the flexibility and cost-efficiency needed to protect your margins and deliver a better experience to pet parents everywhere.
Advanced SKU and bundle management
ShipBob’s intuitive Product Catalogue enables you to track every product variant as its own unique SKU, providing precise inventory tracking and a single source of truth. Effortlessly create and fulfil custom virtual bundles, with automatic inventory deductions for each component after checkout.
This streamlined approach helps eliminate overselling and simplifies even the most complex product catalogues, so your operations team can focus on growth.
Unified omnichannel fulfilment
ShipBob supports marketplace integrations and the EDI fulfilment process, as well as Amazon FBA prep, allowing you to fulfil DTC parcels and B2B shipments to major retailers from a single pool of inventory.
With real-time visibility and automated order routing, ShipBob streamlines your operations and helps you scale across every channel with confidence.
Flexible returns management
ShipBob facilitates a seamless returns experience, and integrates with partners like Loop and AfterShip that make initiating returns and exchanges easier. You can set up restock, quarantine, or disposal rules by SKU directly in the ShipBob dashboard, ensuring returned items are processed according to your brand’s needs.
This level of control helps keep your inventory accurate and up-to-date, while providing a smooth experience for your customers. If you prefer, you can also have returns sent to a non-ShipBob location of your choosing.
Automated subscription fulfilment
ShipBob’s platform automates subscription workflows based on subscriber cadence, putting recurring orders on autopilot and integrating with leading subscription apps (like Ordergroove and Recharge), ensuring shipments are picked, packed, and shipped on schedule.
Global DDP shipping and fulfilment
ShipBob’s global network lets you store inventory near customers in key markets across the US, the UK, Canada, Europe, and Australia. With DDP shipping options, you can also provide transparent landed costs at checkout.
Our partnerships with leading couriers and local fulfilment centres ensure fast, reliable cross-border delivery, even during sudden demand surges. Scale confidently worldwide, knowing your customers receive their orders quickly and without hassle, wherever they are.
Lot tracking and freshness control
ShipBob’s platform allows you to mark SKUs as lot-controlled and capture lot numbers and expiration dates during the receiving process via the WRO to maintain end-to-end traceability. ShipBob supports FEFO (First Expired, First Out) picking – automatically prioritizing items with the nearest listed expiry – to help reduce waste and enhance the customer experience.
Types of pet accessory products that companies fulfil with ShipBob
- Wearables
- Collars
- Leashes
- Harnesses
- ID tags
- Pet apparel
- Grooming
- Brushes
- Nail clippers
- Dental products
- Shampoos
- Wipes
- Home and travel
- Beds
- Couriers
- Travel bags
- Car safety accessories
- Feeding and training
- Bowls
- Mats
- Treat pouches
- Training tools
- Toys
- Plush
- Rope
- Interactive toys
- Scratching pads
- Chew toys
- Waste management
- Bag dispensers
- Biodegradable bags
- Litter accessories
- Specialty
- Calming products
- First aid kits
- Seasonal accessories
Success story: PetLab Co. runs a $100M+ DTC & B2B business with ShipBob
PetLab Co., a pet wellness brand focused on canine supplements, leveraged ShipBob to scale their DTC and B2B orders. With a lean 2-person logistics team, they utilised multiple ShipBob fulfilment centres across the US, enabling them to deliver orders quickly and support significant year-over-year growth.
ShipBob’s omnifulfillment capabilities allowed PetLab Co. to seamlessly manage both DTC and B2B orders, including EDI retail distribution for Chewy and integrations supporting Amazon FBA prep and other major marketplaces.
ShipBob’s Inventory Placement Program, lot tracking, and custom packaging solutions helped PetLab improve delivery speed and maintain brand consistency at scale. The partnership allowed PetLab to focus on product innovation and customer experience, while trusting ShipBob as a true extension of their brand.
Success story: NutriPaw chose ShipBob over 12 other fulfilment solutions
NutriPaw, a fast-growing dog treat brand specializing in supplements for canine health, evaluated numerous fulfilment providers before selecting ShipBob as their partner. Their decision was driven by ShipBob’s flexible technology, Customisation Suite, and deep understanding of what matters to pet brands.
With ShipBob, NutriPaw was able to rapidly scale their order volume, regularly shipping over 30,000 orders per month and even more during peak seasons. ShipBob’s distributed fulfilment network, transparent pricing, and ability to execute custom unboxing experiences were crucial to NutriPaw’s rapid scaling. The partnership has been instrumental in supporting NutriPaw’s explosive growth, ensuring reliable fulfilment and a consistent customer experience.
Success story: RIFRUF improved shipping speeds after switching to ShipBob
RIFRUF, a dogwear and pet accessories brand, partnered with ShipBob after facing issues with their previous 3PL. Since switching, they’ve experienced faster shipping, fewer lost packages, and more responsive customer service. The transparency in fees has also provided greater predictability and control over their fulfilment expenses.
RIFRUF benefits from ShipBob’s distributed fulfilment network, which allows them to strategically place inventory in different regions of the US and offer fast, reliable delivery at checkout. This upgrade in fulfilment speed and reliability has enabled RIFRUF to grow efficiently and provide a better experience to their pet-loving customers.
ShipBob services all customers benefit from
- Connectivity & integrations: ShipBob’s 50+ turnkey integrations with all major ecommerce channels and tools – including Shopify, Gorgias, Klaviyo, NetSuite, Loop, AfterShip, and more – enable you to grow your business smarter, faster, and stronger than ever before. In addition to the ShipBob App Store that lets you instantly connect your tech stack, you can also leverage ShipBob’s Develop API for custom builds.
- Transparent, cost-effective pricing: Unlike many 3PLs, ShipBob has easy-to-predict billing that makes it easy to plan for spend, without too many line items. ShipBob also negotiates rates with couriers and passes those savings on to you.
- Real-time visibility: Track shipments, orders, and inventory across locations from one dashboard. Manage one pool of inventory across sales channels and push stock levels back to your store so you don’t oversell.
- Full-stack fulfilment platform: With ShipBob, you get an all-in-one OMS, IMS, WMS, RMS, TMS, and analytics for a consolidated tech stack. ShipBob’s platform acts as a mini-ERP, being a single source of truth for your orders and inventory.
- Easy, comprehensive onboarding: We’ve onboarded thousands of ecommerce merchants and helped some of the fastest-growing brands scale effortlessly. Our implementation team sets you up for success with everything from configuring your ship options, to syncing your online store.
- Support for growth: ShipBob aims to be the last fulfilment partner you’ll need. Whether you’re shipping 1,000 orders per month or 200,000, we have you covered. With a large fulfilment network to scale into, new channels to expand into, and additional capabilities to tap into, you won’t outgrow ShipBob.
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How it works
How ShipBob goes from your online store to your customer’s door
1. Connect
Connect your store, import your products, then send us your inventory.
2. Store
We store your inventory in any combination of our fulfilment centers.
3. Ship
As soon as a customer places an order, we ship it from the nearest fulfilment centre.
FAQs about pet products and accessories fulfilment
From storage requirements to shipping best practices, pet brands often have specific questions about logistics. Here are some of the most common answers to help guide your fulfilment strategy.
How does ShipBob handle the unique inventory needs of pet accessory brands?
ShipBob’s intuitive Product Catalogue makes it easy to manage complex catalogues by tracking each product variant as its own SKU, which helps prevent accidental overselling. You can also create custom virtual bundles that automatically deduct the individual component SKUs from inventory at checkout.
Can ShipBob help monitor inventory with lot tracking to keep products fresh?
ShipBob supports end-to-end lot tracking with expiration-date control — from receiving and stowing lots separately, to FEFO picking that automatically ships items with the nearest listed expiry first, which helps reduce waste. You can designate SKUs as lot-controlled in the ShipBob dashboard, record lot numbers and expiration dates on the WRO, and ShipBob tracks which lots are used in each order for full traceability.
Can ShipBob support custom packaging and branded unboxing experiences for pet accessories?
ShipBob offers a Customisation Suite that allows you to use custom branded boxes, poly mailers, and marketing inserts to create a memorable unboxing experience. Clients provide their own branded packaging, which ShipBob stores as unique SKUs and uses for order fulfilment.
How does ShipBob help reduce shipping costs for heavy pet products?
By leveraging ShipBob’s distributed fulfilment network and the Inventory Placement Program, you can automatically distribute inventory across different regions of the country, helping to reduce your average shipping zone and minimise costly long-distance shipments. For brands with their own warehouse fulfilling heavy or oversized items in-house, ShipBob’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) can help optimise operations and boost efficiency.
Does ShipBob support both DTC and B2B fulfilment for pet accessory brands?
Yes. As an omnifulfillment partner, ShipBob enables you to fulfil direct-to-consumer (DTC) orders, marketplace orders, and B2B retail orders (including Amazon FBA prep and EDI retail workflows in the US) from a single pool of inventory.
How does ShipBob manage returns and exchanges, especially for sizing issues?
ShipBob facilitates a seamless returns experience and integrates with popular returns portals such as Loop and AfterShip, which make initiating returns and exchanges easier.
You can set restock, quarantine, or disposal rules by SKU directly in the ShipBob dashboard, ensuring efficient processing and accurate inventory updates for returned or exchanged items. You can also choose to have returns sent to a non-ShipBob location.
Can ShipBob handle subscription orders for recurring pet accessory shipments?
Yes, ShipBob’s subscription fulfilment puts your recurring orders on autopilot, ensuring each one is picked, packed, and shipped on time, every time.
What technology integrations does ShipBob offer for pet accessory brands?
ShipBob offers turnkey integrations with dozens of major ecommerce platforms, marketplaces, and returns solutions.
How does ShipBob help pet accessory brands scale during peak seasons or product launches?
ShipBob’s scalable fulfilment network and real-time analytics allow you to quickly adjust inventory distribution and order workflows, helping you meet sudden spikes in demand without sacrificing speed or accuracy.
Can ShipBob fulfil international orders for pet accessories?
Yes, ShipBob’s global network supports international fulfilment from centres in the US, the UK, Canada, Europe, and Australia, offering local inventory storage and DDP shipping options to deliver across borders while maintaining transparent pricing and reliable transit times.
What kind of support does ShipBob provide to pet accessory brands?
ShipBob provides world-class support, including dedicated Merchant Success Managers, real-time analytics, and hands-on onboarding to help you optimise your fulfilment strategy and deliver a great customer experience as you grow.
Shipping costs are variable in nature, based on weight, dimensions, destination, service, and more. Request your custom quote here: https://www.shipbob.com/quote/.
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