Updated October 2026
We pack your finished garments, inserts and branded packaging into one box, built to your spec and shipped on your schedule. Every piece is scanned on its way into the box.
Apparel kitting means packing finished garments and their inserts into one box, to a set list of contents, and shipping it on a schedule. Common kits include:
Each piece is picked from a scanned bin for its size and color, then the box is finished with tissue and branded inserts. We assemble the box. We don't cut, sew, dye or decorate the garments.
By The Fulfillment.com team
A subscription box, a seeding mailer and a welcome kit are built the same way. You decide what goes in the box. We pull those pieces, put them together, finish the packaging and ship on the date you set. In kitting, that list of contents is called the bill of materials.
Everything in the box reaches our dock already made. Our work is choosing the right size and color of each piece, packing the box exactly as the list says, and making it look like your brand when it's opened. We don't cut, sew, dye or decorate anything.
Since a kit is made of single garments, it uses the bins, barcode scans and returns process that your everyday orders do.
These kits go to different people on different schedules.
A subscription box ships again and again, and what's in it usually changes each time. Before each ship date, we receive the pieces for that cycle, bin them and set them aside to match your subscriber forecast. Each new mix gets its own list of contents, so March subscribers don't open February's box. Subscriber numbers move from month to month, which is why we plan the program from your forecast and don't wait until the day boxes go out.
A seeding push sends a chosen set of pieces to a list of creators, often in a short window around a launch. Each kit is packed to a spec for that recipient or tier, finished so it looks good when it's opened on camera, and shipped to the list. A big seeding wave is a surge like any other, so we plan capacity around the window it has to ship in. Our guide to peak and product-drop fulfillment goes into surges in more detail.
A lookbook or PR kit goes to press and stockists. It pairs garments with printed pieces such as line cards and presentation materials. Pieces that crease easily are folded flat with tissue. If a look has to travel on a hanger, tell us when you ask for a quote and we'll confirm how we would handle it. The garments arrive finished and ready to show; our job is to pack and protect them, not to change them.
A welcome kit is often the first thing a new customer holds from your brand. It carries the piece they ordered plus the extras in your spec, such as a branded card, a sizing or care insert and tissue wrap. It can be a standing kit that goes out with every first order, or a one-time send for a campaign. Either way, we set it up as a kit with its own spec, so nobody at the packing bench is adding extras from memory.
We pick and scan kit pieces just as we do for single orders. Then we add the finishing.
Our guide to apparel value-added services lists the rest of our prep and finishing work. The service itself is kitting and assembly.
Sizes and colors turn a few designs into a lot of SKUs: 20 designs in 5 sizes and 3 colors is already 300 active SKUs. A curated box pulls several of them at once. Send it to a subscriber list every cycle and you need enough of each size and color on hand before the build starts. Finding a size short at the packing bench is too late.
So a subscription program runs to a forecast. Ahead of each cycle, we receive, bin and count the pieces against that cycle's bill of materials. Each size and color is tracked bin by bin, as our guide to variant inventory management explains.
The pieces a kit draws on are the same units your online store and marketplaces sell. They sit in one pool in BestOMS, with Dropstream connecting your sales channels, so a unit held for a box isn't also sold on your storefront. You can spread that stock across our warehouses, which reach 99.77% of the US in 1-3 day ground, whether you're sending fifty boxes or a launch-week seeding wave.
It means packing finished garments and their inserts into one box, to a set list of contents, and shipping it on a schedule. Monthly subscription boxes are the most familiar kind. Seeding mailers for creators, lookbook kits for press, and welcome kits for new customers go through the same steps. Each piece comes from its own scanned bin for its size and color, and the box gets its tissue and branded inserts before it ships. We only assemble the box. We don't cut, sew, dye or decorate the garments in it.
Every size, color and style sits in its own barcoded bin, and we scan each piece as it goes into the box. Before the box is sealed, we check it against the list of what that kit should hold, so a box that's missing a piece or holding the wrong one can be caught before it ships. On look-alike polybags the barcode is what tells a small from a medium, so the right size and colorway go in the box. It's the same bin-by-bin setup we use to pick single orders.
Yes. A subscription box is built over and over from a known list, so we receive, bin and set aside the pieces for each cycle before its ship date, working from your subscriber forecast. Nobody has to hunt for stock after sign-ups close. When the contents change for a new cycle, we set it up as a new list. Stock for your store, your marketplaces and your subscriptions sits in one pool in BestOMS, so a unit held for a box isn't also sold on your site.
Yes, built to your spec. We can add tissue wrap, branded cards and inserts, and a custom mailer, so the creator or new customer opens something that looks planned. Where your spec calls for them, we also apply hang tags and price tickets, polybag the pieces, and fold them to your standard. Kitting is assembly only: we don't make, cut, sew, dye or decorate the garments.
It depends on the build. The main things that set the price are how many pieces go in each kit, the finishing your spec asks for (tissue, inserts or a custom mailer), and how often and how many you ship. A two-piece welcome kit and a subscription box with several garments take very different amounts of handling. Send us your list of contents and we'll quote rates for your build.
Yes. A returned kit, or one piece from it, goes through the same returns process as any apparel order. We inspect and grade each piece. Sellable ones are refolded, re-tagged, re-bagged and put back into available stock, and worn or damaged ones go to B-stock or disposal. Your stock count updates as each piece clears inspection, so a returned piece can go into the next build instead of sitting unsold.