Deeply meeting merchants' fulfillment needs and continuously optimizing operational services! As TikTok Shop's official one-stop warehousing and fulfillment service, FBT (Fulfilled by TikTok) always focuses on more orders, faster speed, better operations, and lower costs, continuously refining product features and service systems.

To solve key pain points like out-of-stock loss of exposure, cumbersome multi-store restocking, inefficient returns handling, and limited combo fulfillment, FBT has recently launched several new features and service upgrades, requiring no complex settings or extra fees, helping merchants unlock lighter, more refined, and efficient cross-border operations. These four updates all center on "better operations":

New BackOrder In-Transit Sales: Completely avoid delisting due to stockouts, stabilize product exposure and sales

Unified Inventory Sharing Across All Channels: Scale operations, reduce inventory, increase turnover

New Dedicated Returns Warehouse Service: Revive return residual value in all scenarios, ease operational pressure

Upgraded Virtual Combo Products: Cross-warehouse fulfillment unlocks more combo sales opportunities

New BackOrder In-Transit Sales | Say Goodbye to Stockout Delisting, Stabilize Exposure & Sales

Running low on warehouse stock, about to sell out, but replenishment hasn't fully arrived, products are forced offline, exposure breaks, orders lost—this is a frequent headache for many merchants.

To tackle this, FBT officially launches the BackOrder In-Transit Inventory Sales Feature. It takes effect automatically throughout the process; merchants need no manual operation or extra fees. Once replenishment inventory reaches the Hub node, in-transit inventory is instantly counted as available inventory and displayed.

The platform fully manages inventory status and fulfillment timelines, precisely controlling order fulfillment rhythm, fundamentally reducing the risk of stockouts and delisting, effectively preventing exposure loss, continuously stabilizing natural product exposure and store sales, and maximizing product sales value.

Unified Inventory Sharing Across All Channels | Scale Operations, Reduce Inventory, Boost Turnover

Merchants operating multiple stores and SKUs often face heavy single-store stocking pressure, scattered inventory backlogs, high capital occupation, and low inventory turnover. To meet the scaled store group development needs, FBT fully upgrades cross-store inventory sharing capability.

FBT now supports sharing across CCCU stores, ACCU stores, and L2L stores, breaking through different store registration entity restrictions—one FBT account can bind multiple stores and multiple SKUs to share the same physical inventory. Merchants no longer need to stock separately for individual stores or SKUs, achieving unified centralized stocking and shared inventory across all channels.

This feature completely breaks down inventory barriers, effectively reducing duplicate stocking, inventory backlogs, and resource waste, significantly boosting inventory turnover efficiency and capital utilization. It perfectly fits multi-listing layout and refined one-inventory operations, making merchant management easier and lighter.

New Dedicated Returns Warehouse Service | Revive Returns Residual Value Across All Scenarios, Relieve Operational Pressure

Handling returns is complex, residual value of returned items is lost, inventory and capital are tied up—this is a major pain point in cross-border fulfillment after-sales. In June, FBT newly launched the Dedicated Returns Warehouse Service, covering all consumer return scenarios for FBT fulfilled orders, providing merchants with one-stop diversified return disposition solutions.

For returned products, the returns warehouse can provide professional quality inspection, repackaging, secondary listing for sale, product destruction, and return to merchant services, covering all return disposition needs. Flexible disposition modes can efficiently recover residual value of returns, reduce resource waste, and also standardize the disposal of invalid returns, greatly reducing merchants' after-sales operational pressure, alleviating inventory backlogs and capital turnover pressure, and completing the full-chain fulfillment service loop.

Upgraded Virtual Combo Products | Cross-Warehouse Fulfillment Unlocks More Combo Sales Possibilities

Previously, FBT virtual combo products required all associated SKU stocks to be in the same FBT fulfillment warehouse; cross-warehouse inventory couldn't be fulfilled, limiting combo sales layout and stock allocation flexibility.

After this major upgrade, virtual combo products now officially support cross-warehouse combo fulfillment. Different product inventories within the same combo can be flexibly distributed across multiple FBT fulfillment centers. The system will intelligently split orders and ship from different warehouses for fulfillment, perfectly solving the problem of combo orders failing due to scattered inventory.

This upgrade significantly boosts combo product inventory utilization and fulfillment success rates, unlocking more combo marketing plays, helping merchants increase average order value through linked single-product combos, and broadening store revenue potential.

From preventing stockouts to protecting exposure, unifying inventory to cut costs, to reviving return residual value in all scenarios and improving cross-warehouse combo fulfillment efficiency, FBT always focuses on merchants' real operational pain points, continuously iterating and empowering.

In the future, FBT will continue deepening the full chain of warehousing and fulfillment, launching more practical and lightweight quality services, constantly optimizing the merchant operational experience, lowering cross-border operational thresholds, and helping every merchant steadily cultivate and efficiently grow in the TikTok Shop cross-border track!

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Seller’s Home Review

FBT's four free upgrades hit cross-border sellers' inventory and fulfillment pain points directly; especially "In-Transit Sales" and "Cross-Store Inventory Sharing" can effectively reduce stockout risks and improve turnover. It is recommended that POP merchants prioritize the anti-out-of-stock and virtual combo features to optimize costs and drive sales.

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