For Shopify sellers who also sell on Amazon

Finally know which orders Amazon should ship.

WhatBox prices every Shopify order two ways — your real in-house cost and Amazon MCF — side by side, in dollars. Then it ships whichever one's cheaper, automatically.

Live and running in production today — not yet listed on the Shopify App Store. Apply for free beta access, or join the waitlist to hear about public launch instead.

Order #10482 · Decision card
Amazon MCF
arrives Jul 23
$9.24
In-house
box + postage + labor
$10.58
The category gap

Every other MCF app is a pipe.

Connect Amazon. Sync stock. Route orders. That's the whole feature set of every Amazon multi-channel fulfillment app for Shopify we've evaluated — and not one of them ever shows you a dollar amount. No fee preview. No cost comparison. Nothing.

WhatBox computes your actual in-house cost — box, postage, labor — and puts it next to Amazon's real fee, on every order, before anything ships.

The decision engine

Every order. Both costs. The cheaper way, automatically.

This is the whole product, distilled into one card on every order.

  • A 3D bin-packing engine packs every incoming order against your real box inventory — it knows your boxes and pulls item dimensions and weights straight from your Amazon listings.
  • Simultaneously quoted against Amazon MCF in real time: the actual fee, and the promised delivery date.
  • Your in-house cost, computed three ways: a rate table calibrated from your own postage history, or live carrier rates at your negotiated pricing (ShipStation today) — plus box cost and labor.
  • The result lands right on the Shopify order page: Amazon MCF $9.24 · arrives Jul 23 vs In-house $10.58 — MCF saves $1.34
  • Send to Amazon MCF straight from the order page — the exact fee is shown before you commit to anything.
  • Split orders: send some lines to Amazon, ship the rest yourself. WhatBox does the honest three-way math for a split shipment — two packages, two costs, one true total.
  • Custom packing-slip message, per store and per order.
One-click fulfillment

Commit with the number already on screen.

No guessing what Amazon will charge after the fact — you see it before you click.

Runs itself

Set the rules once. It keeps working.

FBA becomes a native Shopify location, and the routing happens without you touching it.

  • Your FBA stock counts toward Shopify availability; Shopify routes orders there, and WhatBox fulfills them through Amazon automatically — with an oversell buffer you control.
  • Tracking writes back to Shopify the moment Amazon ships; the customer's notified; only the lines Amazon actually shipped get marked fulfilled.
  • ShipStation copies of MCF-sent orders are automatically put on hold, so nobody double-ships.
  • Channel rules in plain English: ignore TikTok orders, never MCF a channel, prefer MCF for one SKU on one marketplace — priority-ordered, your call.
  • Every order sent to Amazon is tracked against Amazon's own promised delivery date.
  • Stuck too long, past the promise, undeliverable, returned, or lost? You get an email with the reason — and one-click fixes: retry at Amazon, or release it back to in-house shipping.
  • Delivery is followed all the way to the customer's door — confirmed delivered, or flagged.
  • Optional daily recap email: orders, decisions, savings, what's in flight, what needs you.
The watchdog Nobody else has this

Amazon's promise, checked automatically.

You find out when something's wrong before your customer has to tell you.

The money layer

See the P&L, not just the tracking number.

Every dollar, on every order, written down in plain English.

  • Savings counter: "Saved with WhatBox: $X" — counted only when an order actually shipped the cheaper way. Honest math, stated right on the card.
  • Per-order fulfillment P&L: shipping collected minus postage, box, and labor. Green or red, order by order.
  • Price guard: an alert when your Shopify price undercuts your Amazon price. One-click fixes — and it's raise-only, WhatBox never lowers your prices for you.
  • Full order history with reasons: every action WhatBox takes is written down in plain English.
Coming soon

What's next

These aren't live yet — they're on the roadmap.

90-day backtestSoon

At onboarding: "You would have saved $X last quarter" — before you commit to anything.

AutopilotSoon

Auto-routes orders once savings clear your threshold, with FBA stock-cover guardrails.

Restock advisorSoon

"You lost $84 in savings because SKU X was out of FBA stock — send 40 units."

Delivery-promise badgeSoon

A delivery-promise badge for your product pages.

Fee reconciliationSoon

Catches Amazon MCF overcharges automatically.

International marketplacesSoon

The same math, beyond the US.

Live checkout ratesSoon

Real shipping rates at checkout, not estimates.

Category contrast

One price. Every marketplace. Sync included.

No add-on menu.

Other MCF apps

  • Per-country pricing that stacks: $25–45/mo per country, then $15/mo for inventory sync, $10 for bundles, $10 for imported orders, $5 for a blank box, $5 to block AMZL. A realistic single-country U.S. setup lands around $60–85/month — a second country pushes it past $120.
  • Configuration stays locked until you approve payment.
  • No dashboard. No cost visibility anywhere.
  • When something fails, the fix is: recreate the order in Seller Central yourself.

WhatBox

  • One flat price. Every marketplace, sync included — never gated behind an add-on.
  • See your savings before you pay a cent.
  • Every order priced two ways, in real dollars, before it ships.
  • The watchdog catches problems automatically and hands you one-click fixes.
Simple pricing

Flat. All marketplaces. Sync included.

Launch pricing — subject to change as we head to public launch.

Starter

$15 / month
  • All marketplaces, flat
  • Inventory sync included
  • Decision card on every order
  • Per-order savings counter
  • One-click MCF fulfillment + split orders
  • The watchdog
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Scale

$49 / month
  • Everything in Growth
  • Autopilot access Soon
  • Full backtest depth Soon
  • Highest priority support
Join the waitlist

Marketplaces and sync cadence are never gated — every tier gets all of it. Try it fully functional; nothing to pay until you decide it's worth it.

Beta program

Want in before public launch? Become a beta tester.

We're opening up free access to a small group of merchants ahead of the public Shopify App Store launch. You'll run WhatBox on real orders at no cost — in exchange, we'll lean on you for feedback: bugs, rough edges, and the stuff that's confusing before it's obvious to us.

This is pre-launch software. Expect some sharp edges, and use it with the caution that implies. If that's a fair trade for free access and a direct line to shape the product, we'd like to hear from you.

Apply for beta access

WhatBox Built by a merchant,
not a vendor.
Founder story

WhatBox came out of Princeton Popcorn.

Princeton Popcorn is a real popcorn business selling on both Shopify and Amazon. Its founder ran both channels and kept guessing which orders MCF should ship — no tool would just show the two costs side by side. So he built one.

WhatBox has been running in production on Princeton Popcorn's own orders since day one. It's not a concept — it's the tool that stopped the guessing, now being opened up to other merchants who carry FBA inventory and pack their own DTC orders.

FAQ

Questions merchants ask us

It's live and running in production — just not yet listed on the Shopify App Store (we're in a custom-distribution phase ahead of public launch). Join the waitlist and we'll bring you in for early access.

Flat $15, $29, or $49 a month — every marketplace, inventory sync included, no add-on menu. You see your per-order savings on every tier. The trial is fully functional before you're ever billed.

No — WhatBox reads your live carrier rates from ShipStation, at your negotiated pricing, to calculate your true in-house cost. It's not a replacement, it's the missing math layer between your two shipping options.

Yes. Split orders send some lines to Amazon MCF and the rest through your own process, with honest three-way math since a split ships as two separate packages.

No. Price guard is raise-only — it alerts you when your Shopify price undercuts Amazon and gives you one-click fixes, but it never lowers your prices automatically.

The watchdog tracks every sent order against Amazon's own promised date. If it's late, undeliverable, returned, or lost, you get an email with the reason and one-click fixes — retry at Amazon, or release it back to in-house shipping.

Beta means using WhatBox now, free, on your real orders — in exchange for feedback while things are still being smoothed out. The waitlist is lower-commitment: it just gets you an email when WhatBox is publicly available on the Shopify App Store. Pick whichever fits how hands-on you want to be right now.

Join the waitlist

Not ready for beta? Hear about public launch instead.

The waitlist is the lower-commitment option — no beta, no rough edges, just an email when WhatBox is publicly available on the Shopify App Store. Want to use it now instead? Apply for beta access.