ShipBob in Polar: true inventory and real landed cost.
ShipBob holds your true inventory and fulfils your orders. Connect it and Polar gets your real stock, not just Shopify's estimate, plus shipping and fulfillment costs, so landed margin is real and your inventory numbers are the ones that actually ship.
/Setup Guide
How to Connect ShipBob to Polar.
01 · What you need
A Polar account with Shopify
A Polar account with Shopify connected. This connector plugs in right next to your stack.
Connect your data →A ShipBob account
API access to your inventory, shipments and fulfillment costs so the AI Data Engineer can build the connector.
Open ShipBob →Polar's AI Data Engineer
ShipBob is ingested via the connector and blended with your orders and margin.
02 · Bring ShipBob into Polar
1
Ask the AI Data Engineer for ShipBob ~ minutes
Plain language, no code.
Describe what you need from ShipBob in plain language. Polar's AI Data Engineer reads the ShipBob API, writes the connector and pipes the data into your warehouse as governed data, in minutes. No code.
2
Blend with orders automatic
Cost meets orders.
Fulfillment and shipping costs blend into landed margin, and ShipBob's true inventory reconciles against Shopify.
3
See true margin the payoff
Landed, not gross.
Contribution margin now reflects real fulfillment and shipping cost, and your inventory is the number that actually ships.
Side by side
ShipBob ships the orders. Polar puts the cost in your margin.
ShipBob knows your true inventory and what fulfillment costs, but that lives in its own dashboard, apart from revenue and margin. So landed profit is a guess and your Shopify stock quietly drifts from reality. Polar fixes both.
ShipBob on its ownon its own
+ShipBob with Polarblended
Fulfillment cost sits apart from margin.
Fulfillment and shipping cost in landed margin.
True inventory lives in ShipBob, Shopify drifts.
True inventory reconciled against Shopify.
No landed-cost view per SKU.
Landed cost down to SKU.
Delivery performance disconnected from support.
Delivery timing next to orders and support.
The Gap
The ShipBob connector is only half of it.
Once your ShipBob inventory and fulfillment cost are clean and attributed inside Polar, you can use them wherever you already work. Ask Polar in plain language, pull them live through the Polar MCP, or schedule a snapshot into the report your team reads every morning.
ShipBob
inventory, shipments, cost
Polar
landed margin, true stock