Apex RedBeta, by invitation
Apex Red: Prep & Shipment Management
From supplier dock to Amazon.
Shipments, warehouses, prep centers and their billing, in the same system that buys and prices your stock. In beta and opened by invitation.
Free for sellers connected to a prep center that is approved on Apex.
- Step 1
Purchase order
- Step 2
Prep center
- Step 3
Received and counted
- Step 4
Shipment to Amazon
The path a unit takes in Apex Red, with the prep center's chat and bills beside it.
One system, all the way to the warehouse.
- Inbound API.
- FBA shipments built from your purchase orders through Amazon's current Fulfillment Inbound API.
- Counted on arrival.
- Short, damaged and over-delivered lines reconciled against the order.
- Prep in your margin.
- Prep costs per unit carried into the landed cost behind your margins and floors.
The beta, honestly
What works today.
Checked against the running application. Screens and steps may still change while it is in beta.
Working in the beta today
- Building an FBA shipment from your purchase orders, through Amazon's current Fulfillment Inbound API
- Packing and placement options returned by Amazon, with box contents, weights and dimensions
- Connecting a warehouse or prep center, and sending the order ahead so they can reconcile what arrives
- Receiving counts back against the order, including short, damaged and over-delivered lines
- Prep costs per unit, carried into the landed cost behind your margins and price floors
- Prep billing and invoices between a seller and their prep center
- Messaging between a seller and their prep center against a specific shipment
Not part of it
- Discounted carrier rates. Apex does not resell freight and has no carrier agreement
- Automated 2D barcode or label printing workflows
- Marketplaces beyond Amazon US
- A guaranteed turnaround, SLA or support commitment while the module is in beta
At a glance
Apex Red, in plain terms.
Shipments, prep center messages and prep bills sit in email threads and spreadsheets, separate from the orders they belong to.
Who it is for
What you need
- An invitation to the beta, or a connection to a prep center that is approved on Apex
- Your warehouse or prep center added in Apex
What you get
How it works
- Add your warehouse or connect your prep center
- Track the inventory held there
- Build shipments to Amazon
- Message your prep center and see its bills in the same place
Plans
- Beta, opened by invitation on any plan
- Free for sellers connected to a prep center that is approved on Apex
Good to know
- In beta: screens and steps may change, and some shipment steps are still being finished.
With ChatGPT or Claude
Assistants cannot read or act on this module yet.

Bring your prep center into Apex.
Free for sellers connected to a prep center that is approved on Apex.
Guides for Apex Red
- Inbound placement feeMinimal split or Amazon-optimized splits: what the inbound placement fee costs, which items pay it, and an estimate for your shipment by region.
- FNSKU labelsWhat an FNSKU is, how it differs from a UPC, what changed when commingling ended, label size and placement, and who can do the labeling for you.
How Apex Red compares
Side-by-side with the tools sellers usually weigh it against, including where they are the better choice.
- Apex vs BoxemListing and shipment prep
- Apex vs 2D WorkflowOperations and shipping economics
- Apex vs InventoryLabListing, shipping and accounting