Inventory & Fulfilment
Micro-Fulfilment: Offer Local Fulfilment to Other Stores
Post what you can pack and ship from your own shelves, in your own city, at your own price per unit — and search what other stores have offered, so an order far from your warehouse can be fulfilled by someone who is already near the customer.
Overview
Micro-fulfilment is a board of local fulfilment offers. A store with stock on a shelf in one city posts what it could pack and ship from there; a store with an order it cannot serve cheaply searches the board for someone who can.
- You post an offer. What you can fulfil, how many units, the city you would ship from, and your price per unit.
- You search other offers. By product name or by city, to find capacity near your customer.
- Offers expire. Each one can carry an end date, so the board does not fill up with capacity nobody has any more.
Who can use it. There is no plan restriction; the products:micro-fulfillment permission controls access. Find it at Shipping → Micro-fulfilment.
Step 1: Post what you can fulfil
Go to Shipping → Micro-fulfilment and click Create fulfilment offer:
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| Product | The product you can fulfil, in words. This is free text, not a link to your catalogue — it is how other stores find you, so use the name a buyer would recognise. |
| Quantity | How many units you are willing to commit. |
| City and country | Where you would ship from. This is the part that makes the offer worth anything: proximity to the customer. |
| Price per unit | What you charge the other store per unit fulfilled. |
| Expires | Optional. After this, the offer stops appearing in searches. |
Step 2: Find capacity near a customer
The search box filters the board by product name or city. An order going to a customer three hundred miles from your warehouse, but ten miles from another store holding the same item, is the case this exists for: shorter journey, lower cost, faster arrival.
How to think about it
This is a noticeboard, not a routing engine. It does not move stock, create orders, take payment, or settle money between the two stores — you find the counterpart here and then agree the arrangement between you. If you want orders routed across your own locations automatically, that is Fulfilment network, not this.
Two practical notes:
- Because the product is free text, write the name plainly. "Blue enamel mug 350ml" finds its match; "SKU-114-B" does not.
- The country defaults to UK on a new offer. Change it if you are posting from elsewhere, or your offer will be searched for by the wrong people.