Zola
ShipNetwork fulfills registry, dropship, and wholesale orders for brands selling through Zola, with a dedicated team and 99.99%+ order accuracy.
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Why brands selling into Zola look for a 3PL
Yes. ShipNetwork fulfills orders for brands selling into Zola. We plug into your stack, not the other way around. ShipNetwork connects through EDI platforms including SPS Commerce and Crstl, using direct API and EDI connections, so purchase orders, advance ship notices, and invoices keep moving exactly the way your registry and retail program already works. You keep your EDI provider and your vendor relationship. What changes is who packs the order, and what it looks like when it arrives.
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A registry order is a gift, and it does not look like a wholesale carton
Someone bought your product for a couple they care about, and what arrives at the door is judged as a gift. The outer carton, the interior packing, and what is sitting on top of the item when the box opens are all part of the purchase. The buyer is usually not the recipient either, which means the ship to address, the timing, and the presentation all have to be handled correctly on a single unit order.
Registry demand runs on someone else's calendar
Orders cluster around showers, completion events, and the wedding itself, and they concentrate heavily in the spring and summer with a second pull in Q4 gifting. Volume does not arrive as a curve you can staff against. It arrives in waves tied to dates that were set months ago by people who are not thinking about your capacity plan.
The order profile is the opposite of your wholesale business
Registry demand is mostly single unit orders going to many different addresses. Wholesale is pallets going to a small number of receiving docks. Same inventory, same building, completely different pick paths, packing standards, and carrier profiles. Running both through one process means one of them is being done the wrong way, and it is usually the one with the tighter margin for error.
The order data still has to be right, and deductions still accumulate
Purchase orders, advance ship notices, invoices, and tracking have to be accurate and on time, and shipments have to land inside required windows. Compliance failures rarely arrive as one event you can point at. They show up as deductions and disputes spread across months, against a channel whose whole value is putting your product in front of a buyer at a high intent moment.
Most 3PLs will treat your brand like everyone else's
A shared account rep juggling two hundred other clients does not learn your gifting requirements or your season. Rigid processes expect your packing standards to conform to their template, and generic packaging erases your brand at the doorstep, which on a registry order is the doorstep of somebody's wedding gift. SLAs that look fine in a quiet month collapse when the season lands. You end up renting space in someone else's operation and hoping it holds.
Process is Simple to Get Started
One partner across registry, retail, and DTC
Brands selling through a registry channel are usually home, kitchen, tabletop, textiles, or lifestyle, and registry is almost never the whole business. There is a DTC store, often a marketplace presence, and usually wholesale accounts with specialty and department store retail. The registry side is single units to individual recipients. The wholesale side is cases and pallets to receiving docks. Both pull from the same stock.
ShipNetwork fulfills across those channels through direct API connections and pre-built partner integrations depending on the platform, including EDI driven registry, retail, and dropship programs.
The value is not the length of an integration list. It is one inventory pool, one dedicated team, and one set of reporting, so a wedding season wave and a Q4 wholesale commitment are being planned against the same units by people who can see both.
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How ShipNetwork supports brands selling into Zola
A dedicated POD that knows what a gift order has to look like
Every ShipNetwork client gets a dedicated team, not a shared queue. The same people learn your SKUs, your packing standards, and the difference between a registry unit going to a recipient and a case going to a receiving dock. Your packing instructions are learned once, not re-explained every season.
Custom packaging so the box still looks like it came from you
Custom packaging is part of the standard setup, not an upcharge exception. On a registry order, the box is the only physical brand moment you get with a recipient who did not choose you, did not pay for the item, and may never have heard of you before it arrived.
Capacity built for waves, not averages
Registry volume concentrates in wedding season and again in Q4 gifting. A nationwide warehouse network and SLAs built to hold in peak, not just in a quiet month, are what keep a wave from turning into a backlog and a week of apology emails.
Single unit gift orders and wholesale pallets from one inventory pool
Both are fulfilled by the same dedicated team, from the same stock, with different pick paths and different packing standards. One forecast instead of two, and no situation where a wholesale purchase order quietly consumes the units your registry channel is showing as available.
99.99%+ order accuracy
On a gift order, the wrong item is not a support ticket. It is a bad moment for the recipient, an awkward one for the buyer, and a replacement you pay to ship twice. Accuracy is the cheapest protection you can buy on this channel.
A dedicated POD that knows what a gift order has to look like
Every ShipNetwork client gets a dedicated team, not a shared queue. The same people learn your SKUs, your packing standards, and the difference between a registry unit going to a recipient and a case going to a receiving dock. Your packing instructions are learned once, not re-explained every season.
Built for the order that shows up as a gift
An extension of your brand. A dedicated POD that knows your packing standards and your season, and custom packaging so the box still looks like it came from you.
99.99%+ order accuracy. On a gift order, the wrong item costs you the replacement, the shipping both ways, and the moment itself.
1-day fulfillment and 1-2 day ground delivery to 98% of the U.S. From a nationwide warehouse network, with 50M+ packages in buying power behind the rates.
20+ years and low client turnover. Founded in 2001, with clients who 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 registry, dropship, and wholesale orders for brands with a Zola vendor relationship, connecting through EDI platforms including SPS Commerce and Crstl using direct API and EDI connections. Your vendor relationship and your EDI provider stay as they are. ShipNetwork takes over the physical fulfillment behind them.
Yes. Custom packaging is part of the standard setup rather than an upcharge exception, and your packing standards are documented with your dedicated team during onboarding. On a gift order the box is the only physical brand moment you get, so it should not arrive looking like warehouse stock.
No. You keep your EDI provider and your existing retail connections. ShipNetwork connects through EDI platforms including SPS Commerce and Crstl, so purchase orders, advance ship notices, and invoices continue to move the way your retail partners already expect them to.
Yes. Single unit orders shipping to individual recipients and pallet quantities heading to a receiving dock are fulfilled by the same dedicated team from one inventory pool. They use different pick paths and different packing standards, but they are not split across two providers or two forecasts.
Registry volume arrives in waves rather than curves, so capacity is planned with your dedicated team ahead of the season instead of reacting to it. ShipNetwork's SLAs are built to hold through peak, which for a registry brand means wedding season as well as Q4.
You hold the vendor relationship and the requirements that come with it. ShipNetwork fulfills your orders to those requirements and returns advance ship notices, invoices, and tracking through your EDI connection on the timing your program requires. Your specific standards are reviewed during onboarding.
Returns processing is part of the operation, not an add on. Duplicates and exchanges are a normal feature of gift and registry channels, so units come back, get inspected, and go back into sellable stock where the condition allows rather than sitting in a corner of your office.
Receiving, storage, inventory management, picking, packing, shipping, and returns, plus the labor and square footage that come with them. Your team keeps the merchandising, the registry relationship, and the commercial decisions, and stops running the warehouse behind them.