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Stow is not always the answer. Here is the honest version.

Four ways to fulfil orders, with the real trade-offs of each. If one of the others fits you better, we will tell you so.

	In-house	Big-box 3PL	Amazon FBA	Stow
Best for	Very early stage, low volume	Huge, established operations	Selling mainly on Amazon	Growing brands going DTC across EU & UK
Setup effort	None, but it is all on you	Heavy, long onboarding	Moderate, Amazon-led	Live in about a week
Your branding	Full control	Often generic packing	Amazon boxes and rules	Your boxes, your unboxing
Customer relationship	Yours	Yours	Largely Amazon's	Stays yours
Pricing clarity	Hidden in your own time	Often complex, surcharges	Tiered and changeable	Itemised, no hidden fees
Contract	N/A	Often locked in	Platform terms apply	Rolling monthly, no lock-in

When each one actually makes sense

Keep it in-house when…

You are shipping a low, steady volume, you enjoy the control, and the time cost has not started hurting yet. A good shelf and a label printer go a long way early on.

Pick a big-box 3PL when…

You are at serious scale with complex, high-volume needs and the resource to manage a heavyweight onboarding and the account that comes with it.

Use Amazon FBA when…

The bulk of your sales already happen on Amazon and you are happy to ship inside their system, their packaging and their customer relationship.

Where Stow fits

You have outgrown packing orders yourself, you want fast EU and UK delivery without running multiple warehouses, and you want to keep your own branding and your own customer relationship. If that is you, this is the whole reason we exist.

Not sure which one is you?

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