Brightpearl - 3PL Integrations
Maximise the power of Brightpearl through advanced 3PL integration workflows
At a glance: b.solutions’ Brightpearl + 3PL integration seamlessly links your inventory management with single or multiple 3PL providers, streamlining order fulfilment, returns, receipts, stock synchronisation, and advanced workflows such as kitting and warehouse transfers. Built for high-volume, complex operations, it delivers speed, accuracy, and scalable performance across your entire supply chain.
Overview
Coordinating inventory across multiple warehouses and 3PL partners is challenging, particularly when standard, out-of-the-box integrations fall short of your operational needs.
Our powerful Brightpearl + 3PL integration is designed for companies managing complex supply chains, advanced stock synchronisation, and high accuracy requirements. From automated returns and multi-warehouse order fulfilment to RFID-enabled audits and ASN EDI compliance, it equips you to streamline, optimise, and scale operations with confidence.
Quick-fire questions
Anthony Herve, b.solutions’ Managing Director and Founder, shares how our advanced Brightpearl + 3PL integrations support businesses running complex, high-volume supply chains:
What benefits does it bring to multi-warehouse control?
What about
new market
expansion?
How does it enhance return management?
What makes ASN compliance so important?
How does
RFID add
value?
What about wholesale and marketplace rules?
What about advanced stock sync needs?
Where does this integration truly add value?
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Brightpearl + 3PL Advanced Integration Benefits:
Operate multiple warehouses and 3PL partners across regions while maintaining full visibility and control. Our Brightpearl + 3PL integration synchronises stock, transfers, and order data in real time, so fulfilment is always based on accurate information, removing manual checks and last-minute stock surprises.
Bring all your regional 3PLs into one Brightpearl system for smarter, faster fulfilment. Orders automatically flow to the most efficient location, cutting shipping costs, shortening delivery times, and giving customers a better buying experience as you expand into new markets.
Configure replenishment rules in Brightpearl and Inventory Planner to automatically trigger fulfilment from the right 3PL warehouse to your retail or wholesale outlets. This prevents empty shelves, reduces admin, and keeps sales channels reliably supplied.
Return authorisations managed in Brightpearl flow seamlessly to your 3PL, enabling returned item classification, processing, and restocking or quarantining of goods. This reduces manual errors, prevents excess refunding, and speeds up your reverse logistics process.
Beyond simple inventory sync, our integration supports virtual warehouses, logical reservations and quarantine inventory tracking, ensuring that your 3PL and Brightpearl always match on inventory availability with a live, reliable view.
From kitting and product personalisation, such as engraving, embroidery, or on-demand printing, to custom packaging, our integration sends precise fulfilment instructions from Brightpearl to your 3PL, maintaining consistency across even the most complex workflows.
Automate every step of stock transfers between 3PLs or distribution centres, from order creation and transit tracking to receipt confirmation. Inventory data stays aligned at every stage, eliminating double-handling or reconciliation issues.
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.
Meet retailer and marketplace requirements by syncing order and ASN data between Brightpearl, your 3PL, and your EDI system. This prevents delays, avoids compliance penalties, and ensures partners receive accurate shipment information on time.
Use RFID scanning across warehouses, retail outlets, and 3PLs integrated with Brightpearl to automate inventory checks, shipment reconciliation, and loss prevention. Manual counts become unnecessary, saving time and improving accuracy.
Scope Review
Product updates from Brightpearl to your 3PL
Any product additions or changes in Brightpearl are instantly shared with your 3PL, ensuring up-to-date, accurate product information, everywhere.
Purchase order automation from Brightpearl to 3PL
POs created in Brightpearl are automatically transmitted to your 3PL, streamlining processing while eliminating manual input and reducing mistakes.
Sales order fulfilment from Brightpearl via 3PL
Sales order goods-out notes created in Brightpearl are automatically sent to your 3PL, ensuring fast, accurate picking, packing, and shipping.
Goods in updates from 3PL to Brightpearl
Goods received at your 3PL instantly sync with Brightpearl, updating purchase orders or inbound transfers automatically so inventory levels always stay accurate.
Shipment tracking and updates in Brightpearl
Shipments dispatched from your 3PL sync immediately with Brightpearl, ensuring sales orders and transfers always display up-to-date fulfillment status & tracking information.
Inventory transfer automation from Brightpearl to 3PL
Inventory transfers between warehouses are automatically routed to your 3PL(s), simplifying and accelerating inventory movements between locations.
Returns management between Brightpearl and your 3PL
Brightpearl seamlessly updates when returns (blind or linked to a RMA) arrive at your 3PL, to ensure precise processing and inventory reconciliation.
Constant inventory synchronisation between Brightpearl and your 3PL
Inventory quantities remain perfectly aligned between your 3PL and Brightpearl, with real-time updates for warehouse changes ensuring complete accuracy across systems.
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 tailored integration linking your Brightpearl inventory system with one or multiple 3PL providers. This setup automates order fulfilment, inbound shipments, and real-time inventory sync, while also supporting advanced workflows like returns, warehouse transfers, kitting, and product personalisation.
It’s best suited to Brightpearl users with complex, high-volume supply chains and advanced fulfilment needs, often involving multiple 3PL providers across different regions.
Standard connectors cover the basics, but our integration goes further, handling blind returns, warehouse-to-warehouse transfers, store replenishment, and specialised services like kitting, embroidery, engraving, and packaging customisation. It’s purpose-built for companies managing more complex workflows than standard fulfilment.
Yes — our integration lets you manage multiple warehouses with different 3PL partners, all while maintaining real-time inventory accuracy in Brightpearl. Orders are automatically routed to the right fulfilment location, with tailored workflows available for each 3PL.
Yes. Our solution can unify 3PLs located across different regions through Brightpearl, enabling distributed fulfilment that lowers shipping costs and shortens delivery times for global customers.
Absolutely. Transfers to retail locations are synced between Brightpearl and your 3PL, with dispatch confirmations handled automatically. This streamlines replenishment, prevents stock shortages, and eliminates manual processes.
Return authorisations created in Brightpearl sync directly with your 3PL. When returns arrive, they can be classified, whether restocked, quarantined, or disposed of, and automatically updated in Brightpearl. The integration supports both RMAs and blind returns, ensuring your reverse logistics capabilities are faster and more accurate.
Advanced Shipping Notices (ASNs) are mandatory for many retailers to validate shipments before delivery. Our integration ensures compliance by exchanging accurate order and ASN data between Brightpearl, your 3PL, and your EDI platform, helping you avoid costly penalties and delays.
Yes. If your 3PL uses RFID scanning for inventory counts or shipment audits, our integration can sync that data between Brightpearl, the 3PL and the RFID system. This enables automated auditing, reconciliation, and loss prevention, removing the need for manual stock checks.
Our team manages the entire process, from technical configuration and data mapping to thorough testing. We make sure your Brightpearl setup is fully aligned with your 3PL’s workflows, so you can go live smoothly without operational disruption.
Frequently asked questions from:
Small DTC retailers selling on Shopify
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 sends advanced return messages to your 3PL along with detailed handling instructions—whether items should be restocked, quarantined, destroyed, or processed differently, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
Retailers experiencing high-growth
Orders with personalised or custom products are automatically directed to the 3PLs that support the required value-add services. Rules-based workflows in the integration detect needs like assembly, engraving, embroidery, on-demand printing, or custom packaging, ensuring fulfilment is handled by the right partner.
Our integration can aggregate inventory from multiple 3PLs or WMSs and syncs it in real time with Brightpearl and Shopify. It supports advanced stock sync logic, including virtual pools, reserved allocations, quarantine handling, and region-based availability, so every channel always displays accurate stock levels.
Using our modular integration framework with pre-built connectors for 3PLs across the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Asia, you can onboard new providers quickly. Workflows for orders, inventory, and returns are already mapped, reducing development effort and making it easy to extend your existing tech stack.
Transitioning mid-to-enterprise retailers
Yes. Wholesale orders are separated from retail flows and routed with rules tailored to B2B needs. Full-carton shipping, custom packaging, and labelling requirements are automatically communicated to your 3PL, ensuring compliance and consistency with no manual effort.
Our integration automatically identifies marketplace orders from Amazon, Zalando, and other platforms, applying channel-specific fulfilment logic. Labelling, packaging, and documentation requirements are sent directly to the 3PL, ensuring every order meets marketplace compliance standards.
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