Cin7 Core - 3PL Integrations
Unlock the full potential of Cin7 Core with advanced 3PL integration workflows
At a glance: b.solutions’ Cin7 Core + 3PL integration connects your inventory system with one or multiple 3PLs to automate order fulfilment, receipts, returns, stock sync, and advanced workflows like kitting and warehouse transfers. Designed for complex, high-volume operations, it ensures accuracy, speed, and scalability across your supply chain.
Overview
Managing inventory across multiple warehouses and third-party logistics providers can be complex, especially when you need more than the standard out-of-the-box integrations can deliver.
Our advanced Cin7 Core + 3PL integration is built for businesses that run sophisticated supply chains, handle complex stock sync scenarios, and demand total operational accuracy. From seamless returns processing and multi-warehouse fulfilment to ASN EDI compliance and RFID-powered auditing, we give you the tools to automate, optimise, and scale with confidence.
Cin7 Core + 3PL Advanced Integration Benefits:
Run multiple warehouses across different 3PLs or regions without losing visibility or accuracy. Every warehouse’s inventory, orders, and transfers stay perfectly in sync in Cin7 Core, so fulfilment decisions are always based on the latest data — no manual reconciliations, no stock surprises.
Connect geographically dispersed 3PLs into a single, unified Cin7 Core environment. Orders are automatically routed to the most cost-effective and time-efficient warehouse, enabling faster delivery times, reduced shipping costs, and better customer experience.
Set replenishment rules in Cin7 Core to trigger fulfilment directly from the correct 3PL warehouse to your retail or wholesale locations. This eliminates manual ordering and prevents costly stockouts.
Manage return authorisations directly in Cin7 Core, sync them with your 3PL, and ensure returned inventory is classified, processed, and restocked or quarantined automatically. This reduces human error, undue refund payments and speeds up reverse logistics.
Go beyond basic stock sync. Our integration accounts for virtual stock pools, reserved allocations, and quarantine inventory, ensuring both Cin7 Core and your 3PL have an identical, real-time view of available stock.
Whether it’s kitting, product personalisation like engraving, embroidery, on-demand printing, or custom packaging, our integration passes detailed fulfilment instructions from Cin7 Core to your 3PL, ensuring consistency even with complex workflows.
Automate the full transfer process between 3PLs or distribution hubs — from order creation and in-transit updates to receipt confirmation — keeping Cin7 Core fully aligned with actual stock movements.
Apply custom logic to orders before they reach your 3PL or on dispatch confirmation, covering scenarios like conditional fulfilment, short-ship or no-ship. Business rules are enforced automatically without manual oversight.
Ensure your shipments meet retailer requirements by exchanging accurate order and ASN data between your 3PL, your EDI system and Cin7 Core — avoiding penalties and delays.
Implement RFID scanning at your 3PL and retail locations, seamlessly integrated with Cin7 Core for automated shipment and inventory auditing, reconciliation, and loss prevention — eliminating the need for manual counts.
Scope Review
Product updates from Cin7 Core to your 3PL
Any new products or changes made in Cin7 Core are automatically sent to your 3PL, ensuring product information is always accurate across all systems.
Purchase order automation from Cin7 Core to 3PL
Purchase orders created in Cin7 Core are instantly sent to your 3PL for processing, eliminating manual entry and reducing errors.
Sales order fulfilment from Cin7 Core via 3PL
Sales orders ready to be fulfilled in Cin7 Core are transmitted to your 3PL, enabling timely and accurate order picking, packing, and shipping.
Goods in updates from 3PL to Cin7 Core
When goods are received at your 3PL, the relevant purchase order or inventory transfer in Cin7 Core is updated automatically, ensuring stock levels are always current.
Shipment tracking and updates in Cin7 Core
When goods are shipped from your 3PL, the fulfilment info in Cin7 Core for the relevant sales order or transfer is updated in real time.
Inventory transfer automation from Cin7 Core to 3PL
Stock transfer orders between locations are automatically sent to your 3PL(s), streamlining stock movements across warehouses.
Returns management between Cin7 Core and your 3PL
Returns received at your 3PL are synced with Cin7 Core — whether they are blind returns or linked to an RMA — ensuring accurate processing and restocking.
Continous stock sync between Cin7 Core and your 3PL
Stock levels are constantly aligned between your 3PL and Cin7 Core, including any adjustments made at the warehouse, so both systems always reflect accurate quantities.
Quick-fire questions
Anthony Herve, b.solutions’ Managing Director and Founder, talks about how our advanced Cin7 Core | 3PL integrations help businesses with complex, high-volume supply chains:
How does it help with multi-warehouse control?
What about expansion into new markets?
How does the integration improve returns?
Why is ASN compliance important?
And RFID — how does that come into play?
What about wholesale and marketplace rules?
Can it handle complex stock syncing?
Where does this integration really make a difference?
Want to know more? Watch the full interview.
Why choose b.solutions?
After a detailed consultation with our dedicated 3PL team, we’ll tailor your integration to meet your specific business needs including inbound logistics, kit assembly, carrier integration, returns management, inventory transfers, virtual warehouse usage and product personalisation handling.
We’re currently supporting nearly 400 ecommerce merchants with over 200 3PLs and WMS integrations across the globe.
CSV, XML, EDI, API, REST, SOAP or GraphQL… we’ve got it covered.
Our dedicated team of 3PL/WMS experts are here to meticulously plan how to automate your business operations and improve customer satisfaction, while you stay focussed on growing your top line.
Testing and training are, of course, part of our integration projects and once the integration is live, we’ll hand you over to our Customer Success Team for ongoing support & satisfaction.
We don’t just connect systems. We craft integrations that are built to last, with meticulous planning, precision execution, and unwavering attention to detail. From first conversation to long-term optimisation, our process ensures your business runs seamlessly.
Frequently asked questions
It’s a custom-built connection between your Cin7 Core inventory system and one or more third-party logistics (3PL) providers. It enables automated order fulfilment, inbound shipment management, real-time inventory syncing, and advanced workflows such as returns management, inter-warehouse transfers, kitting, product personalisation and more.
It’s ideal for businesses using Cin7 Core that have advanced order fulfilment requirements and complex, high-volume supply chain operations, often involving multiple 3PLs across several regions.
Unlike basic standard connectors, our integration supports complex logistics workflows including blind returns, 3PL-to-3PL and 3PL-to-store transfers, value-add services like kitting, product personalisation (engraving, embroidery), or custom packaging. It’s designed for businesses with more than simple pick-pack-ship needs.
Yes — you can run multiple warehouses with different 3PL providers across several regions, with real-time inventory accuracy in Cin7 Core. The system automatically routes orders to the relevant fulfilment location and can support different integration workflows for each 3PL.
Definitely. You can connect geographically dispersed 3PLs into a single Cin7 Core setup, enabling distributed fulfilment that reduces shipping times and costs for customers worldwide.
Absolutely. 3PL-to-store transfers calculated and created in Cin7 Core are synced to the 3PL and dispatch confirmations are automatically processed. This eliminates manual ordering and prevents costly stockouts.
Return authorisations created in Cin7 Core can be synced to the 3PL. Returns received at the 3PL and classified (restock, quarantine, disposal) are synced with Cin7 Core — whether they are blind returns or linked to an RMA — ensuring faster and more accurate reverse logistics processing.
Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs) are required by many retailers to confirm shipments before arrival. Our integration ensures your shipments meet retailer requirements by transferring accurate order and ASN data between your 3PL, your EDI system and Cin7 Core — avoiding costly compliance penalties.
Yes. When your 3PL uses RFID scanning for inventory counting and shipment auditing, our integration can exchange the relevant data with Cin7 Core and the RFID system for automated auditing, reconciliation, and loss prevention — eliminating manual stock counts.
We handle the technical configuration, mapping, and testing activities for you. Our team ensures your Cin7 Core environment is fully aligned with your 3PL’s processes so you can go live without disrupting operations.
Frequently asked questions from:
Small DTC retailers selling on Shopify
Our integration automatically logs and tracks every event across Cin7 Core, your 3PL and your return solution — giving your team a clear, centralised audit trail with real-time visibility into order, fulfilment, and return statuses.
We apply rule-based fulfilment logic at order and/or SKU level to automatically trigger specific workflows at your 3PL. This ensures that flagged items — such as fragile products, promotional kits, or hold-until orders — are handled precisely as required.
Our integration can send your 3PL advanced return notifications and clear handling instructions — whether an item should be restocked, quarantined, destroyed, or processed in another way — so nothing gets missed when returns arrive.
Retailers experiencing high-growth
Orders containing customised or personalised products can be automatically routed to 3PLs equipped to handle those value-add services. Integration workflows apply rules-based logic to identify specific product needs — such as assembly, engraving, embroidery, on-demand printing, or custom packaging — and ensure they’re sent to the appropriate fulfilment partner.
Inventory data from multiple 3PLs / WMSs can be aggregated and synced in real time across Cin7 Core and Shopify, providing a single, accurate view of stock levels. The integration supports complex stock sync logic (virtual stock pools, reserved allocations and quarantine stock handling), and region-specific availability — ensuring each channel reflects the correct inventory at all times.
Onboarding a new 3PL can be accelerated using a modular integration framework with pre-built connectors for providers across the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Asia. With minimal development effort, workflows are already mapped to handle order, inventory, and return data — making it easy to plug new partners into your existing tech stack.
Transitioning mid-to-enterprise retailers
Wholesale orders are identified separately from DTC and routed through fulfilment rules specific to B2B — including full-carton shipping and customer-specific packaging and labelling requirements. These instructions are automatically sent to the 3PL, ensuring every order is packed and shipped to spec, without manual oversight.
Marketplace orders from platforms like Zalando or Amazon are automatically identified and routed through fulfilment logic tailored to each channel — including specific labelling, packaging, and documentation requirements. These instructions are sent directly to the 3PL to ensure full compliance with marketplace standards.
Batch and expiry details are enforced at the pick and pack stage, with structured data captured by the 3PL and synced back into Cin7 Core. This ensures accurate tracking across systems and supports batch-sensitive logic like FIFO and expiry-based allocation.
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