A clothing catalog is really dozens of near-identical products separated by one letter on a neck tag — which is why apparel prep lives or dies on variant discipline. ProShip3PL folds each garment to your approved spec, bags it in a fitted poly with the suffocation warning, keeps the size visible through the bag, and scan-verifies every FNSKU against the listing before it ships. A Medium leaves here labeled as a Medium, every time.
A single t-shirt style in six sizes and four colors is twenty-four listings that look almost identical once bagged. Mislabel one size break and buyers start receiving the wrong garment — with review damage and a returns wave arriving weeks before you can trace which batch went bad. Since January 2026 Amazon no longer offers prep or item labeling in the US, so nothing downstream catches the error either.
Our answer is procedural, not heroic. Each variant is processed as a closed run: opened, counted, folded to your photographed spec, bagged, labeled and sealed into cartons before the next variant touches the table. Barcode scans tie each unit to its listing at labeling time, and again at shipment build. Two independent checks, zero shared workstations.
Around that core sit the apparel-specific details: fitted bags sized to the folded garment rather than one bag for everything, suffocation warnings printed on the bag itself (the complete rules live on our poly bagging page), size tags positioned to read through the poly, and hangtag or ticket work done at the fold station. Ratio-packed factory cartons get sorted by size on arrival, so your first accurate count happens at our dock.
| Apparel failure mode | Where it starts | Our counter-move |
|---|---|---|
| Wrong size shipped to buyer | Two variants prepped side by side | Closed single-variant runs, scan at label & at shipment |
| Size invisible in the bag | Random fold direction | Fold spec puts the size tag against the poly |
| Missing bag warning | Plain bags used on garment-size openings | Warning pre-printed on every apparel bag we stock |
| Size-run shortfall found late | Ratio cartons never opened until Amazon | Sorted and counted per variant on arrival day |
| Unsellable returns pile up | No inspection loop for customer returns | Returns graded, rebagged and re-entered from the same floor |
A photographed fold standard per garment type, agreed once at onboarding — then repeated on every unit so presentation is a constant, not a lottery.
Bags matched to the folded garment's footprint, suffocation warning printed on — snug enough to keep the fold, loose enough to slide out cleanly.
Neck labels and size tags oriented to read through the poly, with size stickers on the bag where the garment's own tag can't face out.
Every unit scanned against the listing at labeling and again at shipment build — the mechanism that keeps a 2XL from wearing a Small's barcode.
Ratio-packed factory cartons opened, sorted by size and color, and counted per variant against your PO on the day they arrive.
Brand hangtags attached, supplier price tickets pulled, old retail stickers removed — buyer-facing details handled at the fold station.
Factory cartons opened on arrival, garments split by size and color, counts posted against your PO the same day.
Each unit folded to the approved photo spec, with obvious defects — stains, loose seams, wrong prints — pulled and photographed.
Fitted warning bag, hangtag work, and the variant's FNSKU applied with a verification scan on every single garment.
Single-variant runs sealed into cartons with contents recorded, and the shipment reaches the carrier within 24–48 hours.
That's a labeling-discipline failure somewhere upstream. Moving prep to closed variant runs with per-unit scans stops the bleeding on the next shipment — and the review graph follows.
We open and sort every carton by size and color on arrival, so your true size-curve inventory exists as data before anything ships to Amazon — and short sizes get flagged while a factory claim is still worth filing.
Apparel returns are survivable when they cycle fast. Undamaged garments get inspected, refolded, rebagged and re-entered into FBA through our returns processing loop instead of aging in a removal pile.
Since the 2026 change, unprepped apparel is your problem the moment it hits the FC. Route shipments through Medley and they arrive folded, bagged, warned and labeled — nothing left for Amazon to refuse.
Clothing generally must arrive folded and enclosed — most garments go into a transparent poly bag that carries a suffocation warning once the opening is large enough — with the FNSKU scannable on the outside and the fabric protected from dust and handling. Requirements shift by garment type and Amazon updates its rules, so we prep to the current apparel guidance at the time your shipment is built rather than to a frozen checklist.
One variant on the table at a time — that is the house rule for clothing. A run of Medium/Navy is counted, folded, bagged and labeled to completion before Large/Navy is opened, and every unit's FNSKU is scan-verified against the listing before it enters a shipment. Garment variants look nearly identical in a bag, which is exactly why we never let two of them share a workstation.
To a standard you set once. At onboarding we agree a fold spec per garment type — retail fold for tees, flat fold for denim, rolled or boxed for items that crease — and photograph the approved result. Every unit after that matches the photo, so a buyer unbagging your hoodie sees a folded product, not a factory wad.
When the bag's opening is five inches or wider, yes — and nearly every garment bag is. We stock pre-printed warning bags in the sizes apparel actually uses, so the warning is part of the bag rather than an extra sticker step. The full rulebook on thickness, print size and when a warning applies lives on our poly bagging page.
They should — and so should Amazon's pickers. We fold so the garment's own size tag or printed neck label faces out through the poly where possible, and where it can't, a size sticker on the bag does the job. That one detail cuts down wrong-size returns and stops warehouse mispicks between neighboring sizes.
Factory cartons usually land as ratio packs — one carton holding S through 2XL in a fixed split. We open, sort by size and color, and count each variant against your PO, so a shortfall in one size surfaces on arrival day, not as a stockout mid-season. If your goods come straight from China, our China-to-FBA page covers the full import routing.
Yes. We attach hangtags or swap them for your branded version, remove supplier price tickets or old retail stickers that shouldn't reach an Amazon buyer, and cover or replace non-compliant barcodes before bagging. Tag work happens at the fold station, so it adds handling, not a separate pass.
Because clothing comes back at rates most categories never see — fit is a guess until the buyer tries it on. Every return that can't be resold is margin gone, so the economics reward two things: prep that reduces wrong-size orders up front, and returns processing that gets undamaged garments inspected, rebagged and back into FBA instead of written off. We do both under one roof.
Textile products carry regulatory labeling obligations — fiber content, care instructions, country of origin, and stricter rules for children's items — and those obligations sit with you as the seller and importer. What we do: flag garments that arrive missing expected labels before they ship into FBA, and apply compliant labels you supply. We don't provide compliance advice, so confirm requirements for your product with your own counsel or testing lab.
Tell us the garment types, monthly unit volume, how many size/color variants you run, and where the goods ship from. We'll come back within one business day with per-unit pricing — no setup fee, no monthly minimum — and a fold-and-bag spec proposal for your line.
Tell us your garment types, monthly units and variant count. Within one business day you'll have per-unit apparel prep pricing and a proposed fold-and-bag spec — no setup fee, no monthly minimum.
