China parcel forwarding
WooliiPorter is a parcel forwarding and consolidation service for buyers in metropolitan France forwarding Chinese marketplace orders and multi-seller parcels. You get a free China warehouse address; you pre-alert each seller parcel, we photograph it on arrival and store it free with no time limit, and when you choose which arrived parcels to ship together we consolidate them, quote international shipping from the packed box and forward the shipment to France.
Content updated: 2026-10-25
WooliiPorter is a parcel-forwarding and consolidation service. You pay Chinese sellers directly; we handle receiving, inspection, consolidation, repackaging, shipping, and tracking.
In English this service is called parcel forwarding, package consolidation or a China shipping agent. Shoppers in France also search for it in their own language with the terms listed here; WooliiPorter's account and support run in English and Chinese.
What package forwarding is, and how it differs from a shopping agent
Place your order directly with Taobao, 1688, JD, WeChat sellers, or other Chinese stores and pay the seller yourself — this forwarding workflow does not buy goods for you. (Personal accounts can use the separate WooliiPorter buying service at /services/daigou if they want the store order placed for them.)
Enter your WooliiPorter warehouse recipient, phone, address, and postal code as the domestic delivery address in China. Copy the details exactly from your dashboard.
After sellers ship, use Pre-alert parcels to add each China domestic tracking number with the product name, quantity and value. Arrived parcels are photographed and wait in My Parcels, with free storage and no time limit.
Tick the arrived parcels you want to ship together and submit one shipment. The warehouse packs them and quotes the packed box; nothing is charged before that. Pay for dispatch to France. For France, complete recipient details and a specific item-by-item declaration help the carrier process import data and delivery without avoidable clarification.
Current route data
These records come from the WooliiPorter shipping table. Final eligibility and price depend on the item, measured parcel, and destination details.
No route records are available here for this destination. Check the route finder or contact support before sending goods to the China warehouse.
Create and verify your account, then copy the assigned China warehouse address from your dashboard. Pre-alert each parcel once the seller provides its domestic tracking number. A store order number is different; do not invent a tracking number to submit a pre-alert.
Confirm that the seller is sending to your assigned China address. Enter each domestic parcel and its actual contents, and prepare the overseas recipient address. Sellers may split one purchase into several parcels.
Forwarding pre-alerts are for purchases you make yourself. If you need someone to place and pay for the store order, check the separate buying service and its quote first.
Check personal buying supportCheck the goods price, seller-to-warehouse shipping, requested warehouse services, international freight, and any import tax, duty or carrier clearance fee. You normally pay the seller for the goods and domestic delivery. Review the actual order quote for warehouse services and international shipping; a calculator estimate alone is not the complete landed cost.
For example, if two sellers each send one item, pre-alert the domestic parcels separately. After they arrive, choose whether to ship them together; compare one consolidated carton with separate shipments using the final dimensions and the greater of actual and volumetric weight. Adding the weights from the domestic labels does not establish the international chargeable weight.
Many Chinese sellers only support domestic delivery inside China. A forwarding warehouse gives you a usable China address, then turns domestic seller parcels into one international shipment to France. Common uses include fashion orders, craft supplies, collectibles, beauty tools, tableware, home organization products, and small wholesale samples.
For France, separate goods that need special handling from regular clothing or household items before consolidation, and reduce empty carton volume where the product can be repacked safely.
French Customs applies EU import rules to purchases arriving from outside the EU. Taxes, duties, and restrictions depend on the date, value, and product category; consult the current official guidance before dispatch. WooliiPorter can help organize parcel information for forwarding, but you are responsible for ensuring goods are legal to export from China and import into France.
IOSS handles VAT on eligible distance sales of imported goods in consignments not exceeding €150; it does not mean all import charges are prepaid. From 1 July 2026, EU rules introduce a temporary €3 customs duty for qualifying low-value imports, calculated by tariff classification rather than the number of identical units. Other entries can follow different duty rules. A China domestic purchase later forwarded overseas must not be assumed to have used IOSS. Confirm VAT, customs duty and any carrier handling charge for the actual shipment. Guidance reviewed 27 September 2026.
French postcodes are five digits, and the first two identify the department (for example 75 for Paris). The postcode therefore encodes the administrative destination, so a mistyped code can send import data toward the wrong department — copy the code exactly from the recipient rather than inferring it from the city name.
Shipping parcels one by one is often expensive. Combining packages into one shipment and removing unnecessary packaging can reduce volumetric weight and lower the final chargeable weight. This matters most for light but bulky goods such as shoes, plush toys, storage boxes, home goods, and seller cartons with excess filler.
In this forwarding workflow, you place and pay for the store order. WooliiPorter receives, records, consolidates, repacks and forwards your parcels. If you need help purchasing supported products, use the separate personal buying service and confirm its quote and platform eligibility first.
Import rules can change. Check the destination authority before dispatching restricted or unusual goods.
WooliiPorter's core service is parcel forwarding and consolidation: you buy from the seller yourself, ship to your WooliiPorter China warehouse address, and WooliiPorter receives, consolidates and ships the parcels to France. People also call this a China shipping agent, a forwarding address or a consolidation service. Buying on your behalf (a shopping agent or daigou) is a separate, optional WooliiPorter service.
This page describes self-purchase forwarding: you pay the seller, and WooliiPorter handles the parcels. A separate personal buying service is available for eligible products at /services/daigou. Check the supported platform, item quote and service fees there before paying.
Yes. Pre-alert each parcel; arrived parcels wait in My Parcels with free storage and no time limit, and you tick the ones to ship together to France. The warehouse packs them and quotes the packed box.
Personal shipments are priced on the greater of the packed box's actual and volumetric weight, rounded up to the route’s weight step (100 g on most routes), on the air-parcel service. Use the shipping calculator to estimate from currently enabled products and destinations; the final quote follows warehouse packing and measurement.
IOSS can collect VAT at checkout for eligible imported distance sales up to €150. It does not remove customs duty or guarantee no payment on delivery. Since 1 July 2026, qualifying low-value imports can incur a temporary €3 duty by tariff classification. Do not assume a domestic Chinese purchase uses IOSS; check the seller, shipment terms and current official customs guidance before dispatch.
Yes. Restrictions depend on item type and route. French Customs applies EU import rules to purchases arriving from outside the EU. Taxes, duties, and restrictions depend on the date, value, and product category; consult the current official guidance before dispatch. If your parcel includes batteries, liquids, powders, food, cosmetics, branded goods, or fragile items, create a support ticket before shipping.
Sign up for WooliiPorter and open your dashboard. Your warehouse address is shown there and should be copied exactly into the seller checkout page.