Makers around the downtown arts district rarely sell on one channel only — a run goes to Amazon, the rest goes to Etsy. Ship the finished run to our Medley dock by ground (one business day inside Florida) and we hold it as a single pool: FNSKU-labeled units into FBA, individual orders out the door, prep done in the 24–48 hours after your cartons land.
Lake Worth Beach produces an unusual density of small product brands for a city its size. Painters who moved into candles, printmakers selling apparel, jewelers, ceramicists, people who started at a downtown market stall and now hold an Amazon catalog. Nearly all of them sell across at least two storefronts, because handmade goods rarely fit a single audience.
That dual-channel life is where prep quietly turns hostile. Amazon wants uniform labeling, sealed packaging and box-content data. Etsy buyers want one carefully wrapped piece leaving today. Splitting a run between those two demands, at a folding table, after the making is done, is how creative weeks disappear.
Our answer is to stop splitting anything at your end. The whole run comes to Medley, gets counted piece by piece, and lives on our shelves as one number. You call for FBA quantities when Amazon needs replenishing; single orders leave for buyers the rest of the time. Nothing is stranded in a warehouse you cannot reach.
The geography question is really a freight question. Once cartons are riding a truck, a Medley dock and a dock in your own zip code both unload it the following morning — so what should decide your prep partner is turnaround, counting discipline and how fast a finished shipment reaches Amazon from where it was prepped. Opa-locka's MIA1 is roughly twelve minutes from our door.
| Lake Worth Beach detail | How it actually runs |
|---|---|
| Distance to our dock | ~65–70 min via I-95 — seasonal batch range, never a weekly errand |
| Ground transit | Next business day, studio door to Medley receiving |
| Channels fed from one pool | Amazon FBA, Etsy, Shopify, eBay, Walmart — same shelves, same count |
| Counting method | Piece by piece for handmade runs, not trusted to a case-quantity label |
| Prep clock | 24–48 hours between check-in and the outbound carrier |
| Drop-off window | Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00, booked ahead — one big run at a time |
A print run, a pour, a firing — boxed at the studio and counted here on arrival day against the quantity you declared.
Stock lives as a single number on our shelves. You decide what crosses into FBA and what stays sellable for Etsy orders.
Placement fixed once and repeated across the run — under the base, on the back, on a tag — then scan-verified per unit.
Suffocation-warning poly bags, bubble around ceramic and glass, shrink where a set has to stay together in transit.
Components arrive loose from separate suppliers and leave as one sellable unit under a single FNSKU.
Etsy, Shopify and eBay orders picked and packed off the same inventory, so a slow Amazon week is not a stockout everywhere.
You work to the quantity that suits your studio — no unit gets bagged or labeled at your end.
A carrier collects at your door in Lake Worth Beach; the cartons are checked in at Medley the following morning.
Piece-level count against your declaration, damage photographed, bagging and FNSKUs applied within 24–48 hours.
The FBA share leaves as a compliant shipment; the balance stays on our shelves shipping single orders as they land.
Those two days are the most expensive hours in your business and they produce nothing new. Hand the whole run over boxed; labeling, bagging and box-content data are somebody's full-time job here.
That is the tax on committing inventory to one channel early. Holding the pool here means the split happens when demand shows up, not months ahead of it.
Photographs at check-in end that argument. If damage traveled in with the carton, you have dated evidence for the carrier or supplier before we touch a single piece.
Fair — so we send the paperwork that substitutes for walking it: reconciled counts, damage photos, and shipment confirmations with tracking. Then come down once with a seasonal run and see the floor for yourself.
No, and nobody in this business should pretend otherwise on a city page. Our floor is in Medley, northwest Miami-Dade, roughly 65 to 70 minutes down I-95 from Lake Avenue. What Lake Worth Beach makers hire us for is not a short drive; it is a dock that receives, counts, labels and forwards inventory in 24 to 48 hours whether the carton traveled one mile or seventy.
One business day. Palm Beach County to Miami-Dade is a single ground zone for UPS and FedEx, so a carton handed over on Tuesday afternoon sits on our receiving floor Wednesday morning. Palletized LTL runs the same short lane and normally lands next day as well, though freight carriers commit to an appointment window rather than a delivery hour.
Yes, and that is why most dual-channel Lake Worth Beach sellers call us in the first place. Pieces sit in our storage under your account; the quantity you want on Amazon gets FNSKU labels and leaves as an FBA shipment, while Etsy and Shopify orders ship one at a time off the same shelves. You stop having to guess how many units to strand inside Amazon before a season starts.
Usually more sense, not less. Studio output arrives in waves — a print run, a pour, a kiln load — so you are not moving inventory daily anyway. Box the finished run, book a carrier pickup at the studio door, and it reaches Medley overnight. Some makers prefer to bring one large seasonal run down themselves, which we schedule as a dock appointment rather than a drop-in.
That is a genuine constraint for a maker brand and we treat it as one. Tell us where the FNSKU belongs — under the base, on the rear panel, on a hang tag — and that placement holds for every piece in the run. Where a label would land on artwork, we bag the piece and label the bag instead. Every label is scan-verified before the unit joins a shipment.
Not for prep, but it changes how we count and pack. Hand-made runs get counted piece by piece rather than trusted to a case quantity printed on a carton, and packing decisions follow size bands instead of one rule for the whole SKU. Send us dimensions and weights from the top and bottom of your variation range and we will quote against the real spread.
You get the same evidence a client standing on our floor would get. A receiving count set against the quantity you declared, photographs of anything that arrived crushed, damp or short, and a sealed-shipment confirmation carrying carrier tracking. Anything ambiguous — a piece we are not certain passes as new — gets photographed and sent to you before we decide for you.
Yes. Blanks, glass, resin, packaging stock and printed inserts can land here straight from your supplier and wait on a pallet until a run needs them, and sets can be assembled here from loose components instead of arriving pre-built. Sellers who list supplies themselves as Amazon inventory will find the packaging rules for those SKUs on our craft supplies prep page.
Amazon has offered no FBA prep and no item labeling in the United States since January 1, 2026, and a unit that lands unprepped is outside reimbursement if it is damaged or lost. For a one-person studio that means the labeling table is permanently yours — or ours. There is no paid Amazon fallback anymore for the run you did not have time to bag.
Three things: what the product is and how it is packaged today, roughly how many units move in a month, and which storefronts those units feed. Per-unit pricing and our written receiving instructions reach you inside one business day, and a first pickup from a Lake Worth Beach studio can be on a truck the same week.
Tell us what you make, how a run is packaged when it leaves your hands, and which storefronts it feeds. Pricing per unit and written receiving instructions land in your inbox inside one business day — and your next finished run can go out on a carrier pickup instead of onto your worktable.
