Amazon's warehouses are for selling, not storing — capacity limits, climbing fees and zero flexibility make them the most expensive place your reserve stock can sit. ProShip3PL holds your overflow on bins and pallet racks in Miami, FL, keeps counts live, and moves stock into FBA within 24–48 hours of your replenishment trigger. Your inventory stays yours until the moment it needs to sell.
Every experienced FBA seller eventually runs into the same wall from one of three directions. A capacity limit caps inbound right before your best season. A container lands and there's physically nowhere for it to go. Or the storage-fee line on the settlement report quietly grows into one of your biggest costs, driven by stock that sells in March but has been paying Amazon rent since November.
The two-tier answer splits inventory by job. Stock that will sell in the next few weeks belongs inside FBA, earning Prime badges. Everything else — the rest of the container, the seasonal position, the safety stock — belongs on cheaper, flexible racks outside, moving in only when velocity calls for it.
Our Medley warehouse is built as that outside tier: bins for compact stock, pallet racking for bulk, live location-tracked counts, and a replenishment desk that turns your trigger into an Amazon-bound shipment within 24–48 hours. Because prep runs on the same floor, reserve stock can enter storage raw and leave Amazon-ready.
| Amazon-side pressure | Two-tier response |
|---|---|
| Capacity limits on inbound | Reserve waits outside the network, using none of your allowance |
| Monthly storage fees scale with bulk | Only weeks of cover sit inside FBA at any time |
| Aged-inventory surcharges | Slow stock ages on our racks, not on Amazon's meter |
| Stock locked to one channel | Reserve ships FBM, Shopify, wholesale — or back to FBA |
| No inspection or rework inside FBA | Stored stock can be inspected, rebundled, relabeled anytime |
Shelf locations for compact SKUs and pick-ready remainders — billed per bin, per month, scaled up or down as stock levels move.
Full pallets racked as received, standard to extra-tall height classes — the workhorse format for container arrivals and bulk buys.
Q4 stock, holiday sets and pre-season buys held until launch windows — with prep scheduled ahead of the release date.
Full container receiving straight into racking, then measured release into FBA — the pattern that makes big import buys workable.
Stored stock can be inspected, relabeled, rebundled or repackaged without ever leaving the building — jobs impossible inside FBA.
The same racks ship FBM, Shopify and wholesale orders — reserve stock stays useful on every channel, not parked for one.
Container or production run received, counted, condition-checked and racked with live locations.
A reorder point, a weekly cadence, or a one-line email — whatever fits how you plan.
Triggered units come off the racks, get any outstanding prep, and are built into a compliant shipment.
The shipment hands to the carrier within 24–48 hours — and the loop waits for the next trigger.
Your buying doesn't have to shrink with it. The season's stock waits here and flows in as your limit allows — you compete on inventory depth others gave up.
Book the dock now: it unloads straight into pallet positions, and FBA receives it in slices over the following months instead of one impossible gulp.
Pull the slow stock out via removal order, hold it here off Amazon's meter, and re-enter it seasonally or rebundled — aging becomes a decision, not a fee.
That's the one-channel trap. With reserve here, direct orders ship same-day from our racks while FBA keeps its own stock for Prime buyers.
Three forces push against storing everything at Amazon: capacity limits that cap what you're allowed to send in, storage fees that climb steeply for inventory that sits — especially aged and peak-season stock — and control: stock inside Amazon can't be inspected, rebundled, diverted to another channel, or easily pulled back. A reserve outside the network sidesteps all three.
Bin storage suits smaller quantities and compact SKUs — a shelf location holding your loose stock, billed per bin monthly. Pallet storage suits bulk: full pallets racked as received, billed per pallet position by height class. Most clients use both — pallets for the bulk of a production run, bins for pick-ready remainders — and pay only for the space in use each month.
Replenishment from our racks follows the same clock as fresh prep: picked, prepped if needed, and handed to the carrier within 24–48 hours of your trigger. Because the stock is already received, inspected and often pre-prepped, replenishing from reserve is usually faster than pushing a new shipment from a supplier.
That's its main structural benefit. Capacity limits constrain what sits inside Amazon's network, not what you own. A container's worth of stock on our racks doesn't touch your Amazon capacity — you feed units in as limits and velocity allow, instead of being forced to shrink purchase orders to fit Amazon's ceiling.
It changes the fee math rather than making fees vanish: Amazon's rates penalize inventory that sits long — aged-inventory surcharges and peak-season pricing hit slow stock hardest. Keeping slow and reserve stock outside, and sending Amazon only weeks of cover rather than months, means your inventory inside the network keeps turning. Exact fee outcomes depend on your SKUs and turnover, so we'd rather map it with your numbers than promise a blanket saving.
The warehouse is a monitored, access-controlled commercial facility in Medley, FL, and your stock is tracked by location from receiving to release. For insurance on stored goods, ask us during onboarding — we'll explain the coverage options and what most clients choose to carry themselves.
Yes — pallet positions handle standard through extra-tall pallets, and long-term holds are normal for seasonal buys and container arrivals. Long-stay stock isn't forgotten stock: counts stay live, and you can trigger inspection, rework or removal to another channel at any point.
Yes. The reserve is yours, not FBA's: from the same racks we ship FBM and Shopify orders direct to buyers, wholesale cartons to retail customers, and transfers to other warehouses. Storage here keeps every channel option open — inventory inside Amazon can only do one job.
Same discipline as prep intake: counted against your PO the day it lands, condition-checked with photos of any damage, then racked with a live location record. You get a receiving report so your books and our racks agree from day one — discrepancies surface at the dock, not during a stockout.
Tell us what you'd store — SKU sizes, pallet or carton counts, expected dwell time, and how often you'd replenish FBA. We'll reply within one business day with monthly storage pricing and a replenishment plan matched to your sales pace.
Tell us what you'd store and how often you replenish — pallet and carton counts, SKU sizes, expected dwell time. You'll have monthly pricing and a replenishment plan within one business day.
