It gets checked
Scanned and photographed at intake, with measurements and recorded contents attached to the parcel record. A problem surfaces on arrival, not at your customer.
FOR MERCHANTS · NO STOCK REQUIRED
Sell it first. Have the supplier send it to your China warehouse.
Supplier parcel forwarding is how you fulfil a SKU you have not stocked. You buy from your own supplier and have them deliver to your WooliiPorter warehouse address in China; we receive, record, consolidate and forward it to your customer. No inventory commitment, no minimum order quantity, and the supplier relationship stays yours.
COMMON MISREADING
The parcel stops at our warehouse. That stop is the point.
"Forwarding" sometimes gets read as the supplier posting straight to your customer. That is not this. The parcel comes to your China warehouse address first, and everything below is only possible because it does.
It gets combined
Parcels from several suppliers can travel as one shipment; one oversized parcel can be split across several. Your customer gets one delivery, not four.
It gets measured
The packed parcel is quoted from real dimensions and weight, so the price reflects what is actually shipping.
It gets one timeline
China-leg events and the international carrier merge into a single tracking record you and your customer can follow.
THE SEQUENCE
What actually happens, in order
- 01
Your customer orders
The line has no stock at the warehouse, so it routes to forwarding automatically.
- 02
You buy from your supplier
Your supplier, your price, paid directly by you. Use your WooliiPorter warehouse address as the delivery address.
- 03
You enter the tracking number
Add the domestic tracking reference and allocate quantities per product. The forwarding order is created once allocations cover the line.
- 04
We receive and record
Scan, photos, measurements and contents attached to the parcel record; exceptions flagged at intake.
- 05
You decide what travels together
Consolidate, hold, split or request value-added work such as relabelling or repacking.
- 06
Quote, dispatch, track
Packed quote from the live rate table for your approval, then one merged timeline through to delivery.
WHEN TO SWITCH
Forwarding is not meant to be permanent for every SKU.
Each forwarded order waits on a supplier shipment reaching the warehouse. Once a SKU sells predictably, holding stock removes that wait — and you can stock that one SKU without changing anything else about how the store runs.
See how stocked fulfillment worksStays on forwarding — long-tail SKUs, seasonal items, anything still being tested
Stays on forwarding — heavy or bulky goods where storage would cost more than it saves
Worth stocking — steady repeat sellers where the supplier leg is the slow part
Worth stocking — SKUs you bundle or relabel the same way every time
Either way — the decision is per SKU, and reversible
FIELD NOTES / FAQ
Supplier parcel forwarding questions
No. Your supplier ships to your WooliiPorter warehouse address inside China. The parcel is received there, scanned, photographed, measured and matched to the order before anything goes abroad. That intermediate stop is what makes consolidation, inspection and a measured quote possible.
KEEP READING
Most stores end up using both models.
Routing is decided per order line, so these are not either/or choices — they are two paths the same order can take.
GETTING STARTED
Start with one SKU you have not stocked.
Supplier locations, destinations and how often parcels arrive matter more than raw volume. You can open an account and try a single order before committing anything.
- Create your merchant account. Takes a few minutes, no commitment.
- Submit the integration application from inside the account — this is where you describe your suppliers, destinations and systems.
- The merchant console opens on approval, along with sandbox API keys.