ShipBob Fulfillment

Repeated warehouse failures, lost sales and no accountability I've been a ShipBob customer for over four years, operating across the US, UK and Australia. While the service was generally satisfactory in the earlier years, my experience over the past 12 months has been absolutely appalling. I've experienced one major operational failure after another, including: UK warehouse: A series of wholesale orders took over six weeks to fulfil due to repeated picking and inventory errors. Some stock went missing and only reappeared in my inventory six months later. US warehouses: Changes to warehouse locations and receiving processes caused significant delays, misplaced stock and shipments taking up to two months to be received and stowed. One shipment missed an entire promotional campaign as a result. Account transfer: A relatively simple technical issue with a warehouse receiving order delayed an account transfer by approximately two months, preventing me from launching new products during that period. Birmingham UK warehouse: New and old versions of six of my bestselling products were incorrectly mixed together in storage. It took THREE attempts and several weeks to supposedly resolve the issue, during which I had to stop advertising and selling those products. Further Birmingham errors: After finally relaunching the products, a customer received a completely different product from the one ordered. The inventory records strongly suggest that products are still being stored under incorrect listings, despite the warehouse's repeated attempts to fix them. What makes these experiences particularly frustrating is how often one mistake snowballs into several more. Issues that should take days to resolve drag on for weeks or months, requiring constant follow-ups and escalations. The commercial impact on my small business has been devastating. I've missed important promotional periods, delayed product launches, lost selling opportunities, disappointed wholesale customers and had to stop advertising products because I couldn't trust the inventory accuracy. Despite all of this, I've continued paying substantial storage and fulfilment fees. I've received apologies and promises of improved oversight, but no proactive offer of compensation for the disruption or financial impact. After losing confidence in the service, I requested an early release from my contract. ShipBob acknowledged that several of these incidents fell well below their expected service standards, yet refused to release me without requiring payment of approximately $30,000 in remaining contractual minimums. So I'm effectively locked into paying for a service that has repeatedly failed my business, until November 2027. I understand that mistakes happen in logistics. What I cannot accept is the frequency of these failures, the extraordinary time taken to resolve them, and the lack of meaningful accountability when things go wrong. Some of the individual account managers I've worked with have been genuinely helpful, but unfortunately their efforts cannot compensate for the underlying operational problems. I deeply regret choosing ShipBob as my fulfilment partner. The stress, disruption and financial consequences have been enormous. I would strongly caution any small business considering ShipBob, particularly if you rely on accurate inventory management, timely receiving and dependable fulfilment. My experience has been anything but reliable.

This integration works perfectly connecting our Shopify store to Ship Bob. We have had zero issues with it--in fact, I barely even knew it was installed since it just works in the background and I've never had to worry about it!

The integration works smoothly & whenever we've needed customer service, Shipbob has been speedy in responding.

I'm very happy with the Service ShipBob is providing. Very fast shipping times for a good price! The support is also great.

Great fulfillment and customer service! ShipBob is always improving the experience and looking for ways to help their clients.

This app is really very good in as much as they have chosen to scan and crosslink. Some missing information would be very helpful in feeding back from this API actual cost of shipping, the weight of the shipment (actual vs dim), actual inventory.

I've been trying for 3 days to get help because the app isn't functioning with my shopify store. Have a wonderful customer service rep from shopify that helped me as much as he was able to and then opened a ticket for a tech from shipbob to help from their end, but after 3 days we still have yet to receive help from anyone on the shipbob end. As you can imagine this is keeping me from running my store. Very disappointed in how long it's taking someone to respond and help me with my issue. UPDATE: You replied on a Friday and your customer service reps are not available to help over the weekend so as you'll see I did reply back to the email but there was no one in your office to help me. The 3 days that I didn't receive a response were business days and not over the weekend. So if someone could please respond back to me because I've already answered that email, thank you. Unfortunately I'm out of the country at the moment so unless I can call your offices via WhatsApp we'll have to continue via email or chat, thank you.

Works great. Self-serve platforms are the standard for modern 3PLs and ShipBob is at the top. They've scaled seamlessly with our volumes, that have grown significantly over the last 3 years.

We've been working with Shipbob since 2018 and there are several reasons why Shipbob has been the perfect partner. First of all, speed to scale with us, pick-pack and ship with a business growing 1200% in a couple of weeks. Second of all, the locations across the US. We sells flammable goods that need to be shipped via ground, so Shipbob has been a great ally as they have 3pls all over the US facilitating 2-3 day delivery time for any customer in the US. Specially when weather challenges happen, being able to have different 3pls to ship from, allows you to ensure you seamless supply chain. Also their advanced software help us to quickly understand shipping costs and how to improve shipping times and costs by being closer to where your customer.

We've been using Shipbob for a year now and the service has been excellent, the automation flawless and the integration scaled with our needs. We're very pleased to work with Shipbob and they've kept up with us every step of the way as we've scaled our store, order volume and inventory variety.

I used this app to integrate our Shopify store with our Shipbob account to automise orders fulfillment. It works perfect!

After several years we are ending our relationship with Shipbob. They have overcharged us multiple times to the tune of thousands of dollars. Most recently, we submitted a work order to remove our few remaining items so we could close out our account. After paying for that work order, they "found" two cases of our most popular product of which we'd been sold out of for months. We relisted the item on our website and sold all but two units just in case there were any lost/damaged orders. We then submitted a disposal request for the warehouse to dispose of the two remaining 3.4 fl oz tubes of moisturizer so we could close our account. This should only cost a few dollars. Instead, Shipbob charged us $500 to dispose of two skincare products that fit in the palm of your hand. We raised the issue with Shipbob and weeks later we are still awaiting the refund...

Shipbob are great. The process and team are super. Hugely recommended. Using Shipbob has given me back hours daily and huge peace of mind.

A fulfillment service that meets the needs of our growing ecomm biz, continually expanding and improving which is great to see. Great customer service always!

Highly recommend ShipBob for B2C orders. They make the process much easier, transparent, and with analytics! Their team is also passionate about making sure you get all the support you need via email, phone, and scheduled meetings. They're quickly expanding internationally too, so there's a lot of opportunity to grow with them. They're still building up their B2B services. If your products are not fragile or heavy and can be shipped on pallets for B2B with their shipping services, I still recommend them. Unfortunately for us, our products are fragile, heavy, and parcel only, and the B2B services wasn't a good match. We tried their service where we make our own labels for B2B orders too but it didn't work out. They're extremely good at making shipping labels for you though! Truly an automated system if you let them take over fulfilment for you.

Great app and team, issues are handled quickly to keep my business on track and profitable. Now I can scale to the moon!

We use ShipBob for order fulfillment. They are a self service fulfillment operation, so as long as you feel comfortable navigating these waters with minimal support, I'd recommend them. However, after you reach a certain volume and $$ threshold, you get dedicated support. We've found the dedicated support very helpful. They just started offering 2-day delivery in the lower 48 states, so that was a big plus. We were considering using Deliverrr for the 2-day option, but they started offering this option before we made the switch. Sometimes standard shipping options are extremely delayed or never show up, (they use UPS mail innovations or DHL surepost for their standard options) but this might also happen elsewhere. International service offerings exist for Canada UK and EU. We also sell in Canada with ShipBob. As of now, they only offer Canada Post for standard and FedEx for expedited shipping. Very expensive options. The app itself works properly for us, although it would be nice to have ShipBob update inventory within Shopify. Perhaps we just haven't found this functionality yet.

Shipbob has been a great partner since we joined them a year ago. They literally saved us from a disastrous situation with a different 3PL group (I won't name names, but "RH" should give you a hint). Their support is great and quick to respond. The rates are fair. I particularly enjoy the "all-in" pricing model. And their growing network of warehouse locations, especially internationally, is really helping us to seamlessly expand our overseas operations. I would give 4.5 stars if I could. My main criticism has to do with the Shopify integration, specifically the warehouse locations. Currently, the integration is set up where ShipBob acts as the fulfillment service and does not support multiple warehouse locations. So whether you have 1 Shipbob location, 4 Shipbob locations, or multiple locations between Shipbob and other providers (we sometimes ship from our headquarters, for example), Shopify groups it all into one and really limits what you can see and do in Shopify. I've been told this is being addressed, so really looking forward to seeing this improved.

Great order fulfillment center and friendly onboarding support. They do exactly what they say they do

My orders are totally automatic. Everytime I get a new order on my Shopify website the order is automatically fulfilled. Customer service on ShipBob is solid too. I don't have to wade through the endless amounts of complex, confusing steps and flaky cryptic customer service like with Amazon! I'm so relieved I don't have to have store my products and ship them out manually. Plus, when I do get an order from a customer on Amazon FBM (fulfillment by merchant) I have ShipBob do the fulfillment as well. Your customer, most likely, wont receive your product as quickly as Amazon, but it's really nice having my products with ShipBob where I can easily access it and be able to have a ShipBob rep help with all things fulfillment.