Supplier relationship
You select suppliers, place orders and pay them directly. WooliiPorter’s role starts when the parcel reaches the warehouse.
For merchants · The China leg
A China 3PL for brands that already have suppliers.
You found your suppliers. You negotiated the price. You pay them directly, and the factory price never enters our systems. WooliiPorter runs everything after that: receiving each supplier parcel at your China warehouse address with photo evidence, prep and relabelling from your written instructions, consolidation, a quote produced from the packed parcel, dispatch, and a bill that reconciles against that quote line by line.
Fit signals
Four signs the China leg is the part worth fixing
- Physical goods from two or more suppliers you found yourself, ordered again every month.
- Several domestic parcels regularly belong to one outbound shipment.
- The coordination lives in a chat thread and a spreadsheet, and one person holds it.
- The final route and price should follow the measured parcel.
Supplier locations, destination mix and how often parcels arrive tell us more about fit than a monthly parcel count does.
Order intake
Start by typing orders in. Connect the store when it earns it.
Create customer orders directly in the merchant console with no integration at all. WooCommerce stores install the free plugin from the WordPress.org directory. Everything else builds against Merchant API V1. All three routes land in the same merchant-scoped order and the same warehouse record, so moving between them changes nothing operationally.
Connect WooCommerce · Read the Merchant API reference · Connect an agent over MCP
Two models, decided per SKU
You choose per SKU, and you can change your mind.
Routing is evaluated per order line against live stock, so both models run inside the same store and often inside the same order. A line with no merchant-owned stock at the warehouse goes to supplier parcel forwarding. A line with stock reserves it and raises a warehouse fulfillment order. An order containing both pauses for your recorded decision and travels as one shipment.
Supplier parcel forwarding
Your supplier ships each order’s goods to your China warehouse address. Nothing is stored, so there is no storage charge and nothing of yours sits anywhere. Right for long-tail SKUs, seasonal lines and anything still being tested.
Read the details →China inventory fulfillment
Merchant-owned stock held at the warehouse, picked and dispatched without waiting on a supplier. Prep is done once on intake instead of per order. Right for steady repeat sellers. You keep title throughout.
Read the details →FBA prep and first leg
FNSKU, polybag and palletize executed in China from your declaration, photographed per unit, then dispatched to Amazon fulfillment centers in the US, EU, Canada or Mexico.
Read the details →Batteries, cosmetics and liquids
Sensitive cargo runs on its own routes with its own rate cards, and a dedicated product line covers liquids, powders and creams. Classification is made by the operator who opens the box.
Read the details →How pricing works
Every fee layer, the unit each is measured in, the platform-wide figures read from the live billing settings, and what is included at no charge.
Read the details →Destination notes
Germany, the UK and Australia — the thresholds and tax identity requirements that change what you declare.
Read the details →Control points
The four decisions that stay yours
What travels together
You decide which recorded parcels consolidate, which wait, which stay separate, and which need value-added work first.
The packed quote
Produced after packing and measurement, from the parcel that will actually travel. Nothing dispatches until you approve it — an agent connected over MCP cannot approve it either.
The mixed-order route
An order with both stocked and unstocked lines pauses for your recorded choice: forward the whole order, wait for restock, or re-check inventory.
Operating evidence
Every claim here has a record behind it
The record is the product. When something is disputed, both sides open the same parcel and look at the same photograph, taken by the person who was holding the box.
- Scan and photo evidence attached to each inbound supplier parcel at intake, per parcel, openable on demand.
- Measurements and recorded contents on the same parcel record, so an exception surfaces on arrival.
- Cargo type set by the warehouse operator who opens the box, with who confirmed it and when stored on the record. Your store category pre-fills the screen.
- Value-added services executed from your written instructions and closed with mandatory photo evidence before the order moves to packing.
- Consolidation, splitting and repacking decisions recorded before dispatch.
- Line-item settlement that reconciles against the packed quote and carries its ID.
- Inventory levels and the monthly storage statement computed from the same immutable stock-movement ledger.
Pricing
The whole structure is published. The rates come from your data.
Freight is lane-based — product line × destination country × zone × cargo type — and scoped to your account, so your rates come from your own destinations, weights and parcel mix. Everything else about the bill is published: the six layers that can appear on it, the billing unit for each, the platform-wide figures that apply to every account, and what is included at no charge.
Published platform figures: storage is 60 days free from receipt, then $0.50 per m³ per day; the fulfillment operation for an outbound order dispatched from stocked inventory is $0.99 per order + $0.20 per item. Your freight table is in your console once the account is active.
Destinations
The parcel is checked in China, before it leaves
Destination policy is evaluated before dispatch: a weight cap and four separate dimension caps per destination, shape rejection where a destination requires it, a declared-value floor per item and ceiling per parcel, PO-box rejection, recipient tax-identity requirements with stored validation patterns for Mexico, Brazil and South Korea, and item restrictions that resolve to exactly one of prohibited, restricted, or documentation-required.
Destination authorities set the rules; WooliiPorter applies them in the warehouse rather than at the border.
Questions
Can I use a China 3PL if I already have my own suppliers?
Yes, and that is the case WooliiPorter is built for. Merchants choose their own suppliers, order from them and pay them directly. WooliiPorter receives the resulting parcels at a China warehouse address, records and consolidates them, executes declared value-added work, quotes the packed shipment and dispatches it.
Does WooliiPorter see what I pay my suppliers?
No. Merchants pay suppliers directly and no purchase payment moves through WooliiPorter, so the factory price never enters its systems. WooliiPorter earns from the service lines on your bill, and its role starts when the parcel reaches the warehouse rather than when you place a purchase order.
Do I have to hold stock in China to use WooliiPorter?
No. Supplier parcel forwarding covers any line with no merchant-owned inventory at the warehouse, and a store can run entirely that way. Stocking is optional, decided per SKU, reversible, and carries storage charges only on what is actually stored — 60 days free from receipt, then $0.50 per m³ per day.
Is there a minimum, a subscription or a contract?
You pay per shipment. WooliiPorter charges no monthly platform fee, sets no minimum shipment count and requires no minimum order quantity to start. Settlement runs per shipment from a prepaid wallet rather than an invoice cycle, so there is no credit check and no payment terms to negotiate.
When does the shipping price become binding?
After packing and measurement. The packed quote is generated from the parcel that will actually travel, using the live rate table, and you approve it before dispatch. Estimates produced earlier are labelled as estimates everywhere they appear and are separate objects in the system.
What happens when one order has stocked and unstocked lines?
The order pauses for your recorded decision — forward the whole order, wait for restock, or re-check inventory — and then travels as one shipment. Keeping it whole is deliberate: splitting a mixed order produces two shipments and two shipping charges where one would have done.
Who decides whether my goods count as battery or cosmetic cargo?
The warehouse operator who physically opens the box at receiving, and the record stores who confirmed it and when. Your declaration and store category pre-fill the screen to save typing. Until someone has seen the goods, the item is priced on the pre-filled value and flagged as unconfirmed.
Can I try WooliiPorter with a single shipment?
Yes. You pay per shipment with no minimum count and no stock commitment, so one real shipment through one supplier tests the whole workflow — receiving, evidence, consolidation, the packed quote and settlement — on goods you were sending anyway.
Start here
Send one shipment.
Supplier locations, destinations and arrival frequency tell us more than total volume does. An account is free to create, and the integration application is submitted from inside it.
How the China leg runs, step by step · The 8-point vendor evaluation framework · Compared with catalog-sourcing platforms · Who you are dealing with