Craft catalogs don't look like normal FBA inventory — they're hundreds of small SKUs, spill-prone materials and kits waiting to be assembled from bulk components. ProShip3PL handles the width: per-SKU intake and labeling, contained bagging for beads and glitter, kit builds at the bench, and one inventory pool serving both Amazon FBA and your Etsy shop from Miami.
The average craft catalog would terrify a normal 3PL. It isn't three pallets of one product; it's one pallet holding ninety products — bead strands in forty finishes, glitter in every hex size, findings, cords, charms. The unit of work isn't the pallet or even the carton, it's the SKU, and floors organized around bulk throughput mix those SKUs up. Ours assigns each one a bin identity at first receipt and never lets lookalikes share a bench batch.
Materials add their own hazard: craft supplies escape. Glitter migrates through single-wall bags, bead packs burst at the seam, sequins find every gap. Our containment bagging treats Amazon's sorting machinery as the adversary it is — sealed, warning-labeled, double-walled where the fill is fine enough to leak.
The growth lever is kits. Bulk components are cheap; a curated "make your own earrings" kit is a product. Our kitting service portions and assembles those kits on the floor, so your margin gets built in Miami instead of bought from a supplier.
And because most craft businesses straddle marketplaces, we run Etsy fulfillment and FBA prep off the same racks: one pool of stock, allocated where it sells, with no channel starving the other.
| Craft catalog trait | Our operational answer |
|---|---|
| Hundreds of shallow SKUs | Bin-per-SKU intake; lookalike variants never batched together |
| Spill-prone fills | Sealed containment bags, double-walled for glitter-fine material |
| Units too small to scan | Carded, bagged or multipacked up to Amazon's handling minimums |
| Kits sold, components bought | Bench assembly from bulk under the kit FNSKU |
| Etsy + Amazon split | Single inventory pool; FBA waves and direct Etsy orders from one floor |
Wide catalogs received without chaos — per-SKU bins, per-SKU labels, scan verification on every unit that leaves.
Loose-fill products sealed against Amazon's sorters — double-bagged where fine material could migrate, warnings applied per the rules.
Components portioned and combined into finished craft kits at our kitting benches — your product, manufactured light.
Charms and micro-packs carded or multipacked so nothing bounces at Amazon check-in for being too small to handle.
Skeins and fabric bundles bagged flat with labels on the bag — adhesive never touches fiber, folds stay retail-clean.
Direct Etsy orders picked and shipped from the same racks that feed FBA — see our Etsy fulfillment service.
Shipments broken down to SKU level at the dock, each variant binned separately, damage photographed on arrival day.
Beads, glitter and loose fills sealed into sorter-proof bags; soft goods bagged flat with labels kept off the material.
Bulk components portioned and married into finished kits, one SKU per bench run so nothing cross-contaminates.
Stock split between FBA waves and Etsy direct orders on your instruction — both channels fed inside 24–48 hours.
Because they batched lookalikes together. Our floor runs one variant per bench batch, verifies against your spec before labels print, and keeps 6mm and 8mm physically apart from dock to carton.
A single-wall bag met a sorter and lost. We re-bag the surviving stock in double-walled containment, and future shipments go in packaging designed for the machinery, not the shelf photo.
Hand it to the bench. Components arrive from your suppliers, kits leave under the kit FNSKU, and the hours you spent portioning beads go back into designing the next product.
Merge the pools. One stock position on our racks serves both — FBA gets prepped waves, Etsy orders ship direct daily, and you rebalance allocation with an email instead of a forklift.
Craft catalogs are wide, not deep — 400 SKUs of 30 units beats 30 SKUs of 400 units — so our intake is built for width. Each SKU gets its own bin identity from the first receipt, labels are printed per-SKU and applied with scan verification, and similar-looking variants are processed in separate batches so a bag of 6mm beads never gets an 8mm label. Small units, strict separation: that's the whole game.
Kit assembly is the highest-value thing a prep floor does for craft sellers. Bulk beads, cords, hooks, felt sheets and instruction cards arrive as separate supplier shipments; our benches portion, combine and pack them into finished kits under the kit's own FNSKU. You source components at bulk prices, and the sellable product gets manufactured — in the light-assembly sense — right here in Miami.
Containment-first bagging. Loose-fill products like beads, sequins, glitter and micro-pom packs go into sealed poly bags — double-bagged where a single wall is asking for trouble — with suffocation warnings applied per Amazon's bag rules. A glitter spill inside a fulfillment center can get inventory flagged as unfulfillable, so the bag is engineered to survive rough sorting, not just to look tidy at our bench.
Yes, and craft sellers are exactly who this is built for. One inventory pool sits on our racks: part flows into FBA fully prepped, and Etsy orders ship directly from our floor as they come in — same stock, two channels, no double-buying. Our Etsy fulfillment page covers the direct-to-buyer side in detail; the practical win is that a slow week on one channel doesn't strand inventory allocated to the other.
Not always on their own — a single charm or a small bead pack can be physically too small for Amazon's handling and scanning requirements. We solve it in prep: bagging with a properly sized barcode area, carding, or grouping into multipacks that clear the minimums while making better commercial sense anyway. Nothing gets sent that will bounce at check-in for being unscannable.
We receive against your purchase order and count at the carton and inner-pack level as standard, with photo-documented damage reporting on day one. For bulk-bagged smalls where inner counts matter — say, verifying your supplier's claimed 100-piece bags before you promise 100 pieces on a listing — sample-based verification is quotable as a deeper inspection tier. Tell us what level of certainty the SKU needs.
Soft goods bring different risks: crush and moisture instead of spills. Yarn skeins get poly bagged so labels never stick to fiber and bands stay intact, fabric bundles are bagged flat to keep folds clean, and both are packed in cartons that won't compress them into unsellable shapes. The label always goes on the bag, because adhesive on a yarn band or a fat quarter is a ruined unit.
They change the timing, not the standard. Craft buying spikes ahead of gift seasons and again in January when resolution crafters arrive, so we stage inventory in advance and replenish FBA in 24–48 hour waves as your velocity climbs. Kits aimed at a holiday get built weeks before it, because assembling during the surge means selling out of your best week while the benches catch up.
The liquid-adhesive corner of a craft catalog — glues, sealants, some finishes — gets reviewed SKU by SKU against Amazon's current rules rather than waved through. Most water-based craft products are straightforward; solvent-based items are case-by-case, and we'll tell you directly if a SKU needs different routing rather than making promises a compliance check would undo. Send the product list and we'll flag anything that needs a closer look.
Tell us the shape of the catalog in the form: SKU count, typical unit sizes, whether you want kits assembled, and which channels you sell on — Amazon, Etsy or both. Per-unit rates come back within one business day, with no setup cost and no monthly commitment, and dual-channel sellers get both the FBA prep and direct-fulfillment sides quoted together.
Describe the catalog — SKU count, materials, kits you'd like assembled, and how your sales split between Amazon and Etsy. Per-unit pricing for prep and fulfillment arrives within one business day.
