Apparel fulfillment
Apparel Value-Added Services: Hang-Tagging, Ticketing, Poly-Bagging and Branded Unboxing
Updated October 2026
The tags, folds, bags and tissue that make a garment arrive looking the way your brand intends. We do this work on finished pieces, during the same scanned pick and pack as every other order.
Apparel value-added services are the finishing steps done to finished garments before they ship. The main ones are:
- hang tags and price tickets
- folding to a set standard, then poly-bagging
- steaming out creases
- tissue wrap and branded inserts
- assembling unboxing kits
All of this is done on garments that are already finished. We don't cut, sew, dye or decorate them.
By The Fulfillment.com team
Why presentation matters
Presentation is part of the product in apparel
A customer opening a clothing order notices things a buyer of phone chargers never would. They see whether the shirt is folded neatly or crushed, whether the tag hangs straight, and whether there is tissue and a thank-you card. Those details get added in the warehouse, after the garment leaves the factory. Doing them the same way on every order, without slowing the order down, is what value-added services are for.
The services
Apparel value-added services, one by one
Your written spec sets which of these your orders get.
Hang-tag and price-ticket application
We attach tags and tickets to your spec, so the piece looks at the customer's door the way it would on a store rail. Each size, color and style already has its own scanned bin, and the tagging happens alongside that. A medium gets the medium's ticket.
Poly-bagging and fold-to-standard
We fold each style the same way every time and seal it in a poly-bag. The bag protects the piece on the way, and the customer gets the same neat fold on every order. A set fold also helps at packing, because a look-alike from the wrong bin stands out when it doesn't fold the way it should. Dresses, tailored pieces and anything else that creases easily may need to lie flat or travel on a hanger. List those styles when you request a quote, and we'll confirm how we'd pack them.
Steaming and de-wrinkling
A garment can arrive from the factory creased, or come back from a customer wrinkled. Steaming freshens it before it ships out again. It changes how the piece looks and nothing about the piece itself. Returned garments get the same treatment after inspection and before they are bagged again, as our apparel returns processing timeline shows.
Tissue wrap, branded inserts, and unboxing
The branded extras that go into an unboxing include:
- tissue paper and ribbon
- stickers
- thank-you cards
- discount inserts
Each one goes into the written instructions for your orders, so the packer adds it the same way every time. At peak, an extra that was never written down is usually the first thing to go missing.
Relabeling and re-ticketing
We can take off a price ticket or hang tag and put a new one on. A line going to markdown is the usual reason. Another is stock that arrives with the wrong tag and needs your online tag before it can be sold. Two kinds of relabeling are different jobs: changing the care or fiber-content labels the FTC requires, and ticketing to a retailer's own standard (GS1-128 labels or a routing guide) for a wholesale account. We settle both line by line rather than as part of standard relabeling.
Kit and bundle assembly
Bundles and kits come together from finished garments and your branded materials, following a recipe you sign off on. Lookbooks, influencer packages and welcome kits for new customers are the common ones. Shipping kits on a schedule, such as a subscription box, has its own guide: apparel subscription box and kitting. How we assemble kits in general is on our kitting and assembly service.
The boundary
Where our work stops
Brands sometimes expect finishing work to include a little production. Knowing where it stops makes for a more accurate quote.
- We start with a finished garment. Cutting, sewing, dyeing, screen printing and embroidery all have to be done before your stock reaches us. Our part begins once it arrives, with tags, folds, bags, steam, wrapping and boxes.
- Everything is written down first. Each extra goes into the work instructions for your SKUs and gets done the same way on every order. That helps keep a finished order moving as fast as a plain pick, even at peak.
- Wholesale and label rules are settled line by line. A retailer's ticket standard, routing-guide and GS1-128 carton labels, and FTC care or fiber-content labels each depend on where and how you sell. They aren't part of our standard online order work. If your line needs any of them, tell us when you ask for a quote and we'll confirm how we would handle it.
In the flow
How value-added services are built into pick-and-pack
We agree on the extras your brand wants before your first order ships. After that they happen at the packing table, as part of the same scanned pick and pack every order goes through. The work is tracked in BestOMS, with Deposco running the warehouse behind it. Finishing for returned garments happens in our separate returns process.
Because the extras are part of the normal packing work, a tagged, wrapped kit can move as quickly as a plain order. The finish also has a better chance of holding up when a product drop or the fourth quarter brings far more orders. Prices for each extra depend on what your line needs, so they come with your quote.
Apparel value-added services FAQs
What apparel value-added services do you offer?
We attach hang tags and price tickets, fold garments to a set standard and poly-bag them, and steam out creases. For the unboxing we add tissue wrap and your branded inserts. We also assemble kits to a set recipe, such as lookbooks, influencer packages and welcome kits for new customers. All of it is done on finished garments. Kits are assembled from pieces that are already made; we don't cut, sew, dye or decorate them.
Does Fulfillment.com manufacture, alter, or decorate the product?
No. We are a 3PL, which means we are not a co-packer, a factory or a decorator. Every service we offer here works on a garment that is already finished. We don't cut, sew or dye clothing, and we don't screen-print or embroider it. Steaming takes the wrinkles out so a piece looks its best, and the garment itself stays exactly as it was made.
Can you apply hang tags and price tickets to my garments?
Yes. We put them on finished pieces to your spec, and the work happens in the same flow where each size, color and style is scanned into its bin and scanned again at pick. Wholesale accounts and some retailers set their own rules for tickets and labels. If yours do, confirm how we'd handle them for your line when you request a quote, so the setup fits how and where you sell.
Can you build branded unboxing and influencer kits?
Yes, from a written spec. Tissue, inserts, a poly-bag and the garments themselves go together into lookbook, influencer or welcome kits, built the same way each time. These are finishing touches on a regular order. Kits that go out on a schedule, such as a subscription box, are covered in our apparel subscription box and kitting guide.
Do value-added services slow down my orders?
They shouldn't. We write each touch into the work instructions for your SKUs, so a tagged, bagged and tissue-wrapped order goes down the same scanned packing line as a plain one. Getting the spec down before launch is what keeps those extras from piling up at peak.
Tell us how your orders should look
Send us your garments, your packaging and the extras your brand wants, and we'll write them into how we pack your orders. Your quote is free, prices each extra for your line, and doesn't bind you to anything.