Amazon restricts meltable inventory during hot months each year — inbound closes, and meltable stock left inside faces removal or disposal. Your chocolate business doesn't have to hibernate: ProShip3PL holds meltables in climate-controlled commercial warehouse conditions in Miami, ships your FBM orders all through the restricted season, and preps the return shipment so you're back in FBA the week the window reopens.
Chocolate, gummies, certain supplements, wax-based goods — anything Amazon classifies as meltable lives on a split calendar. When the restriction season arrives, fulfillment centers stop accepting it, and whatever remains inside past the cutoff isn't stored through the heat; it's pushed out or destroyed. The listing survives. The fulfillment method can't.
Sellers handle this badly in two familiar ways. Some simply go dark for the season — surrendering rank, reviews momentum and revenue to competitors with a summer plan. Others try to ride FBA to the deadline and lose the gamble, watching sellable product get disposed of because the removal decision came too late.
The third way is the one this page describes. Before the window closes, stock comes out of FBA — or arrives fresh from your supplier — onto our racks in Medley. Through the warm months, your Amazon listing runs merchant-fulfilled and we pick, pack and ship every order, with whatever insulated packing your product calls for. When Amazon reopens meltable inbound, a prepped shipment is already built.
One thing we say plainly: this is a climate-controlled commercial warehouse, not a certified cold-chain facility, and we won't dress that up. For many shelf-stable confections it's the right environment; for some formulations it isn't. Discuss your product's needs with us — we'd rather lose a quote than store the wrong product.
| Season phase | Where your meltables are |
|---|---|
| Cool months | Selling through FBA; reserve depth held on our racks |
| Window closing (announced yearly) | Removal orders out of FBA, landed and counted at our dock |
| Hot months | Climate-controlled holding; FBM orders shipping daily from Medley |
| Window reopening | Inspected, re-prepped shipment arrives as inbound reopens |
| All year | Expiration dates logged per lot, rotated first-expiry-first-out |
Bin and pallet positions in conditioned commercial warehouse space — the environment your shelf-stable confections were built to travel through, discussed against your product's tolerance first.
Removal orders planned weeks ahead of Amazon's announced cutoff, received, counted and racked — so the deadline passes with your stock on our shelves, not in a disposal queue.
Your listing goes merchant-fulfilled and every order picks from our racks, packs to your spec, and hands to carriers daily. Rank and revenue keep breathing through the heat.
Insulated mailers, liners or gel packs worked into the per-order routine — you set the thermal standard for your product, we execute it on every shipment.
Dated confectionery logged by lot at receiving and rotated first-expiry-first-out, with shelf-life runway checked before any unit heads back toward FBA.
Inspection, fresh labels, expiration checks and carton build scheduled backward from the reopening date — your shipment arrives as the doors open.
Removals leave FBA with weeks of margin; stock lands here counted, photographed and racked by lot.
Orders reroute to our floor; the first day's shipments go out with your thermal packing spec applied.
Daily pick-pack-ship across Amazon FBM and your other channels, with expiration rotation running underneath.
A prepped, date-checked shipment meets Amazon's reopened inbound — and the FBA season starts at full depth.
File the removal orders now — processing takes time you can't compress. Our dock receives the outflow, counts it against the removal manifests, and your stock sits out the season instead of being destroyed.
Summer transit needs a summer spec. We'll pack every warm-month order with the insulation or gel packs you specify — and hold the FBM promise windows that give parcels the shortest possible ride.
Keep the production schedule; change the destination. Supplier freight lands here in any month, waits in conditioned space, and flows toward FBA or FBM as the calendar allows.
That's the expensive default. An FBM season from our racks keeps the listing alive, the reviews flowing and the rank defensible — so reopening week is a resumption, not a relaunch.
Amazon restricts meltable inventory during hot months each year: fulfillment centers stop accepting inbound meltable products for a defined season, and meltable stock still inside when the window closes is removed or disposed of rather than stored through the heat. Practically, your product is an FBA product for part of the year and must live — and sell — somewhere else for the rest. Amazon publishes the exact window annually, so always confirm the current dates in Seller Central.
Two places, in sequence. Stock already in FBA should come out via removal order before the deadline Amazon announces, rather than face disposal. From there it lives in a warehouse that can both hold it appropriately and ship it — because the goal isn't storage, it's continuing to sell through the restricted months. Our Medley facility does both jobs: racked holding in climate-controlled commercial warehouse conditions, and FBM fulfillment from the same racks.
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. We operate a climate-controlled commercial warehouse in Medley, FL, not a certified cold-chain or refrigerated facility. For many shelf-stable meltables — coated candies, gummies, wax-based products — that environment is what their manufacturers already ship them through. Whether it suits your specific product depends on its formulation and tolerance, so discuss your product's needs with us before committing inventory.
Your listing switches to merchant-fulfilled for the season, and orders flow to us. We pick from your racked stock, pack to the standard you set — which for meltables often means insulated mailers or cold packs you supply or we source at your direction — and hand to carriers daily. Buyers keep buying all summer; the only thing that changed is which building the order ships from.
Yes, as a packing instruction we execute: many meltable sellers have us pack summer orders in insulated liners or with gel packs, and we build that into the per-order workflow. What we don't do is decide the thermal packaging spec for you — you know your product's melt behavior and transit tolerance. Bring us the packaging standard, or the problem, during onboarding and we'll work out the workflow together.
Backward from the reopening date Amazon announces: stock is inspected after the summer hold, any prep gaps closed — FNSKU labels, bags, expiration labels for dated confectionery — cartons built, and shipments handed to carriers so they arrive as fulfillment centers start accepting meltables again. Sellers who re-enter in the window's first days own the fall season while competitors are still creating shipping plans.
Model both against the calendar. If velocity will genuinely clear the stock before Amazon's announced deadline, selling down is cleanest. If there's real doubt, a removal order to our dock protects the inventory — removal takes time to process, so the decision has to be made weeks before the deadline, not days. The worst outcome is the third one: stock trapped past the cutoff and disposed of. We'd rather receive a removal that proves unnecessary than watch sellable product get destroyed.
They keep ticking, which is why dated meltables get expiration tracking at receiving: dates logged per lot, stock rotated first-expiry-first-out, and units re-entering FBA checked against Amazon's remaining-shelf-life expectations before they ship. A summer in storage is only a good decision if the product still has enough dated runway to sell through in the fall — we flag lots where that math is getting tight.
Yes — that's one of the quiet advantages of the off-Amazon season. The same racked inventory fills Amazon FBM, Shopify, Walmart, eBay and Etsy orders, so the restricted months become the season you build direct channels instead of the season you disappear. When the window reopens, whatever should return to FBA does, and the multi-channel setup stays in place.
Tell us the product and its formulation, unit and carton volumes, whether stock is coming from your supplier or out of FBA by removal order, and how orders should be packed in warm months. We'll reply within one business day with per-unit and storage pricing plus a season plan — and an honest conversation about whether our climate-controlled conditions fit your product's needs.
Tell us the product, the volumes, and how summer orders should be packed. Within one business day you'll have storage and per-unit pricing, a season plan spanning exit, FBM and re-entry — and a straight answer on whether our conditions fit your product.
