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Onboarding Your Own 3PL
Warehousing · For 3PL Providers

Onboarding Your Own 3PL

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Are you a 3PL? Sign up as a provider on our marketplace. Sellers post RFQs, your three_pl_partnership agent auto-drafts bids, you compete on cost × speed × reputation. Once contracted, the integration is standardized — one API for inventory, allocation, manifests, POD.

What you'll connect

Are you a 3PL? Sign up as a provider on our marketplace. Sellers post RFQs, your three_pl_partnership agent auto-drafts bids, you compete on cost × speed × reputation. Once contracted, the integration is standardized — one API for inventory, allocation, manifests, POD.

Prerequisites

  • Operating 3PL with US warehouse(s).
  • Decision-maker willing to commit ~2-3 weeks for full operational integration.
  • API capability or willingness to use our standardized operational endpoints.

Connect in 60 seconds

  1. 1
    Visit /3pl/onboard and create your provider profile.
  2. 2
    List capabilities (B2C parcel, B2B pallet, freight, cold-chain, hazmat, etc.) + certifications (SOC 2, FDA, AIB) + locations + monthly capacity.
  3. 3
    Configure your service catalog: per-unit pick fees, storage tiers, accessorials.
  4. 4
    Your three_pl_partnership agent starts receiving matching RFQs and auto-drafting bids based on your capacity/capability.
  5. 5
    When a seller accepts your bid, contract auto-generates → both sign via DocuSign → Stripe escrow → operational integration goes live.

What syncs after connection

  • Inventory levels
    You push to our /api/v2/3pl/inventory endpoint (real-time webhook or 15-min poll)
  • Pick tickets
    We push orders to your operational endpoint (we provide a reference webhook spec)
  • Manifests
    You push daily manifests via /api/v2/3pl/manifests
  • POD
    You push proof of delivery via /api/v2/3pl/pod with signature/photo URLs
  • Performance metrics
    Daily SLA stats roll up into your public reputation page at commerceindex.ai/3pl/{your-slug}

Troubleshooting + status

My bids never win

Reputation has a 40% weight in the rank score. Build it by accepting smaller initial deals and delivering — first 30 days of clean SLA gets you promoted to TRUSTED tier.

Capacity constraints

Update monthly_capacity_orders + current_utilization_pct in your profile. Our matching engine respects these.