Container & Carton Processing

Your prep is done. Let us handle everything after it.

For brands that are able to nail item-level prep, whether that's labeling, kitting, or bundling, one of the biggest bottlenecks that consistently remains is the carton labeling process for the Amazon fulfillment network. We completely eliminate this monkey wrench from your operational flows by receiving palletized or floor-loaded trailers or containers into our Georgia facility that only require carton labels. At that point we receive it, build your optimized shipment plans, label the cartons, consolidate onto floor-loaded FTLs, and get it checked in at Amazon regionals within 24 to 48 hours.

30+
floor-loaded FTLs into Amazon regionals every day
24-48h
to checked-in and sellable once our trucks reach the regional
21 days
of live unload appointments booked in advance
99.9%
Amazon compliance on every shipment we build
Two ways in

Carton or container. You send prepped goods. We own the rest.

Send goods that are already prepped or barcoded at the manufacturer. We own everything from our dock to Prime eligibility. Pick the model that matches how your inventory moves.

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Carton Processing

For sellers shipping master cartons from a warehouse or 3PL.

Send us one full truckload instead of coordinating five shipments to five Amazon facilities. We receive it, manually count every carton against your ASN, flag any overages, shortages, or damage with photos, build your optimized shipment plan, label the cartons, and consolidate them onto our full truckloads into Amazon regionals. One flat rate per carton covers all of it, including short-term palletizing and staging. No separate pick-and-pack line items.

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Container Processing

For sellers manufacturing overseas.

Route your ocean container into the Port of Savannah instead of the West Coast. We are two hours away in McDonough, Georgia. We devein the container, build your shipment plan, carton label to Amazon spec, and forward it into Amazon regionals as floor-loaded full truckloads. One flat rate per container, transportation to Amazon included. Sellers who reroute from Long Beach to Savannah see faster time to Prime even with the container on the water slightly longer, because the slow part was never the ocean. It was the inbound.

Why it matters

The problem with doing it yourself.

When you send direct to Amazon, one truck goes to a national inbound facility. Receiving alone can take 10 days. Then the FC transfer process begins, and Amazon quotes 26 days before your product is Prime eligible. During peak season it runs longer.

You are also paying placement fees on every shipment you do not optimize, managing five delivery windows and five carrier pickups per replenishment, and carrying weeks of extra inventory to cover the wait.

We built the service that removes all of it. We work one lane: getting serious sellers checked in faster, for less.

"About 90% of our customers don't use us for storage. Everything is very in and out of our facility. Our biggest value add is speed: getting your products checked into Amazon as fast as possible, under 48 hours, and Prime eligible from there."

Blake Hanson, Senior Account Executive, ZonPrep

How it works.

Your prep and your process stay exactly as they are. We handle every step after your goods reach us.

01

You ship to one place

Send prepped cartons on one full truckload, or route your container into Savannah. Your prep and your process stay exactly as they are today.

02

We receive and reconcile

Every carton is manually counted against your manifest. Our team is not told the count in advance, which forces a true count. Overages, shortages, and damage are photographed and sent to your team before anything moves.

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We build and label your shipments

We create your optimized shipment plan on your behalf and split it across Amazon regionals so you pay no placement fees. Where a do-not-separate sticker is needed, it prints on the same carton label as the FBA destination. One label, fully compliant, no double labeling fees.

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We consolidate and ship

Your inventory is floor-loaded onto full truckloads alongside other sellers headed to the same regionals. We hold live unload appointments booked 21 days out, so your product is unloaded and checked in on arrival instead of sitting in a drop-trailer yard.

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You watch it land

Track every shipment through your ZonPrep portal, from our dock to Amazon check-in. PODs drop automatically so you can file reimbursements.

What one flat rate covers

Most 3PLs hand you an invoice that reads like a receipt: a line item for every touch. We do not. Carton Processing is one flat rate per carton. Container Processing is one flat rate per container. Both include:

  • check_circleInbound receiving and a manual true count
  • check_circleDamage, overage, and shortage inspection with photos
  • check_circleOptimized shipment-plan creation on your behalf
  • check_circleCarton labeling to Amazon spec, do-not-separate included
  • check_circleShort-term palletizing and staging, no extra pick-and-pack fees
  • check_circleConsolidation onto floor-loaded FTLs into Amazon regionals
  • check_circleDelivery appointments, tracking, and PODs in your portal

Every quote is custom. We will not put a proposal in front of you unless it saves you time, money, or both. The word we use around here is fair.

Why sellers move to ZonPrep

  • boltSpeed that is earned, not promised. We are listed as a carrier in Amazon Carrier Central and move enough volume for Amazon to prioritize our trucks at the regionals.
  • handshake A named account team. White-glove account management, so the person you talk to already knows your SKUs, your seasonality, and your lanes.
  • verifiedCompliance built in. 99.9% accuracy. We file inbound defect cases on our own work and win them for you.
  • visibilityFull visibility. Every shipment, from our dock to Amazon check-in, in one portal.
  • engineeringBuilt by operators. We run inbound the way an 8-figure seller would run it in-house, because that is where we came from.

Questions sellers ask.

Do I have to change how I prep?

No. You prep or barcode at the manufacturer exactly as you do today. We handle everything after your goods reach us.

How is this different from Cross-Dock?

Cross-Dock moves shipments you have already created. With Container & Carton Processing we also build the shipment plans, label, and manage compliance for you. It is the fully managed version.

What does it cost?

One flat rate per carton or per container, custom-quoted to your volume, product, and lanes. Run the Opportunity Analysis and we will model it against what you spend today.

Can you handle containers coming from overseas?

Yes. Route into the Port of Savannah, two hours from our McDonough hub. We devein, build the plan, label, and forward into Amazon regionals.

Do you store inventory?

Short term, while product waits for its truck. The model is speed, not storage. Nobody profits from inventory sitting still.

Container to pallet

Where your container gets broken down.

Photographed on our floor in McDonough, Georgia.

Stretch-wrapped pallets built and staged at the ZonPrep facility Rebuilt and wrapped to Amazon spec.
Rows of staged pallets awaiting outbound transport on the ZonPrep floor Staged by destination, not by arrival.
Cartons received and sorted inside the ZonPrep warehouse Carton-level receiving and sortation.

See what consolidation through ZonPrep would look like.

Run the Opportunity Analysis on your real shipment history. We will show you your current lead times and costs against what they would be with ZonPrep, down to a per-pallet number.

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