ShipBob 3PL warehouse integration, how does it work with Magento?

ShipBob is the most common 3PL for US meal-kit brands under 50k orders/week. The integration pattern:

• Order push (Magento → ShipBob), on order placement (or on Wednesday cutoff + 1h auto-fill), Magento pushes orders to ShipBob via the ShipBob Orders API with line items as recipe SKUs, dietary tags, box composition metadata, ice-pack count, and target delivery date.
• Kitting + pick list, ShipBob warehouse staff pull the recipe ingredients (pre-portioned in vendor delivery), assemble the box according to your recipe pack-list, scan each box at kitting (lot tracking), and stage for carrier pickup.
• Tracking + lot push-back (ShipBob → Magento), ShipBob webhooks the tracking number, ship date, and lot/batch IDs back to Magento. Updates order extension attributes and triggers a "your box shipped" Klaviyo email with the recipe-card box-insert URL.
• Returns / damaged box, rare in meal kits (food can’t be re-shipped) but damaged-in-transit boxes need credit issuance. Magento RMA module triggers an auto-credit on photo-upload of damage.

Alternatives: Ryder (larger volume, full-truckload cold-chain), Misfits Logistics (meal-kit specialist), Lineage Logistics (frozen specialist). All four have Magento extensions or REST integrations. ShipBob is the best documented and fastest to onboard.