ApparelMagic
ShipNetwork fulfills DTC and wholesale orders for apparel brands running ApparelMagic, handling size and color variants, seasonal drops, and returns with one dedicated team.
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Why ApparelMagic brands look for a 3PL
Yes. ShipNetwork fulfills orders for brands running ApparelMagic. We plug into your stack, not the other way around. ShipNetwork connects through a direct API connection or a middleware connection, depending on how your account is configured, and our integration team confirms which one fits before anything goes live. ApparelMagic stays your system of record for products, orders, and customers. What changes is who runs the physical operation your system is reporting on.
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A style is not a SKU. It is a matrix
Six sizes across five colors is thirty units on a shelf for one style, and every drop multiplies it again. On paper the difference between two of those units is one character. On a pick line they look identical, and the wrong one going in the box is the single most common way an apparel brand loses a customer it already paid to acquire.
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Returns are structural in apparel, not a failure
Customers buy two sizes on purpose, and fit drives return rates that no other category has to plan for. Every returned unit needs inspection, a grading decision, and restocking, and it is only inventory again if someone processes it while the season is still live. Slow returns processing quietly turns sellable stock into markdown.
Wholesale and DTC are two different operations in the same building
A wholesale order is cartons, packing lists, labels, and a delivery window a buyer set. A DTC order is one unit in a mailer that has to look considered when it opens. Running both through the same people and the same process is where accuracy starts slipping, and it slips first on the wholesale side, where a mistake costs a relationship rather than an order.
Most 3PLs will treat your brand like everyone else's
A shared account rep juggling two hundred other clients does not learn a size and color matrix, and does not know which style is carrying your season. Rigid pricing and processes expect your drop calendar to conform to their template. Generic packaging erases the brand at the doorstep, and SLAs that look fine in Q1 collapse in Q4. It worked at $500K. It is breaking at $5M, not because the tech failed, but because they never really understood your business.
Process is Simple to Get Started
One partner across every channel you sell on
Apparel brands rarely sell in one place for long. There is the owned store doing the brand building, marketplaces doing volume on core styles, wholesale accounts placing seasonal orders months ahead, and often a retail program that arrived with a routing guide and compliance requirements attached.
ShipNetwork fulfills across those channels through direct API connections and pre-built partner integrations depending on the platform, including retail and wholesale programs running on EDI.
The value is not the length of an integration list. It is that one inventory pool serves all of it, so the units a wholesale order commits and the units your launch is selling are the same stock, counted once. One dedicated team, one set of reporting, and a returns process that puts sellable units back into that same pool while the season is still live.
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How ShipNetwork supports ApparelMagic businesses
A dedicated POD that learns your styles, not just your SKUs
Every ShipNetwork client gets a dedicated team rather than a shared queue. For an apparel brand, that means people who learn your size and color structure, your drop calendar, and which styles carry the season. When you call, you are talking to someone who already knows your account.
99.99%+ order accuracy at the variant level
Accuracy in apparel is decided on the units that differ by one attribute. ShipNetwork runs 99.99%+ order accuracy, which is what keeps a size error from becoming a return, a refund, a support ticket, and a customer who does not come back.
Capacity that absorbs a drop
Launch days, end of season, and Q4 are volume that arrives in hours. A nationwide warehouse network and SLAs built to hold in Q4, not just Q1, mean the orders your launch generated ship on the promise you made when you announced it.
Returns processed with the same care as the outbound order
Returns are part of the operation rather than an afterthought bolted onto it. Inspection, grading, and restocking happen inside the same team that shipped the order, which is what gets sellable units back into stock while the season is still selling.
Wholesale and DTC handled by one team
Cartons for a retail buyer and single units for a customer are both fulfillment work. Both sit with one dedicated team, working from one inventory pool, packed to each channel's requirements instead of split across two operations that do not talk to each other.
A dedicated POD that learns your styles, not just your SKUs
Every ShipNetwork client gets a dedicated team rather than a shared queue. For an apparel brand, that means people who learn your size and color structure, your drop calendar, and which styles carry the season. When you call, you are talking to someone who already knows your account.
A fulfillment team that knows apparel the way you do
We become an extension of your brand. A dedicated POD that knows your styles, your size and color structure, and your drop calendar, not a shared rep learning your account during an escalation.
99.99%+ order accuracy. In apparel the wrong size is indistinguishable from the right one until the customer opens the box, which is why accuracy is the whole game.
1-day fulfillment and 1-2 day ground delivery to 98% of the U.S. From a nationwide warehouse network, with custom packaging so the unboxing still belongs to you.
20+ years and low client turnover. ShipNetwork was founded in 2001, and clients stay because the relationship works, not because of a contract.
Brands That Have Scaled with ShipNetwork
Still Have Questions?
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Yes. ShipNetwork fulfills orders for brands running ApparelMagic, connecting through a direct API connection or a middleware connection depending on how your account is configured. Our integration team confirms which fits during evaluation. ApparelMagic stays your system of record and ShipNetwork runs the physical fulfillment behind it.
Yes. Variant level accuracy is the core requirement in apparel fulfillment, and ShipNetwork runs 99.99%+ order accuracy. Every client gets a dedicated POD that learns the catalog, including the size and color combinations that look alike on a shelf and cause most mispicks.
ShipNetwork's SLAs are built to hold through Q4 and promotional spikes, which is when a fulfillment partner is actually being tested. Launch volume arrives in hours rather than over a week, so the plan for it should be part of the conversation before you sign, not after.
ShipNetwork processes returns as part of the operation, including inspection, grading, and restocking. Apparel return rates are structurally higher than other categories because of fit, so returns speed decides whether a unit sells at full price this season or gets marked down next one.
Yes. Wholesale orders going to a retail buyer and single unit DTC orders are fulfilled by the same dedicated team from the same inventory, each packed to its own requirements. Retail and wholesale programs running on EDI are handled by that same operation.
Yes. Custom packaging is part of the standard setup rather than an upcharge exception. For an apparel brand the unboxing is one of the few physical touchpoints you get, and a 3PL that ships everything in the same plain box takes that away and calls it efficiency.
No. ApparelMagic stays your system of record for products, orders, and customers. ShipNetwork takes over the physical operation behind it: receiving, storage, inventory management, picking, packing, shipping, and returns, plus the labor and square footage those require.
Monthly order volume by channel, SKU count including size and color variants, average order size, your return rate, and your drop calendar. Those five things are what determine what fulfillment should actually cost an apparel brand, and pricing is built around them rather than a fixed tier.