FBA prep centers in Texas.
Central-US shipping reach plus one of the largest Amazon FC footprints. Texas is one of the highest-traffic prep-center geos in the US. We list verified centers with capacity, pricing tier, hazmat coverage, and our last-verified date on every record.
Texas at a glance
Operating facts sellers ask about before committing to a prep center. Numbers are from our directory; we leave blanks rather than guess.
- Austin
- Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin
- 30.5M
- No
- 3
- Central-US shipping reach plus one of the largest Amazon FC footprints
Texas for high-volume FBA prep.
The case for Texas sellers actually pay attention to, plus the caveats we routinely have to remind sellers about during matching calls.
Texas is built for central-US distribution. A Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston prep center reaches a large share of the US population within a two-day ground lane, and Amazon's Texas FC footprint is among the largest in the country across the DFW metro, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. Houston is also a major container port for sellers importing through the Gulf.
Texas has no state income tax, which helps operator economics, though sales tax applies. The pitch is national shipping reach and FC proximity rather than a tax exemption, so Texas fits sellers who want one central node serving the whole country.
Where the prep actually sits.
Dallas-Fort Worth is the dominant prep metro, central to the country with a huge FC cluster (our Marketplace Prep operator is in Fort Worth). Houston adds Gulf port import and a large FC presence. San Antonio and Austin round out the major metros. Temple and Tyler (our Brown Box Ninja and Priority Prep operators) sit on the I-35 and I-20 corridors between the metros, typically cheaper per square foot.
What sellers miss.
Texas has sales tax, so the case is central-US reach, not tax savings. Texas's advantage is national distribution; if your demand is concentrated on a single coast, a coastal prep center may beat it on last-mile. Confirm freight lanes from your chosen metro to the FC clusters that serve your demand.
Verified prep centers in Texas
Marketplace Prep
Marketplace Prep is an Amazon FBA prep center in Fort Worth, Texas, founded by James McConnell and operating since 2020. It is a multi-service operator that also offers DTC, wholesale, Walmart WFS, and B2B fulfillment, with Amazon FBA prep as its productized core. Volume-tiered per-unit prep runs from $1.50/unit (500 to 1000 units per month) to $0.75/unit (3000+), with nine core services included per tier and an itemized add-on schedule. Third-party reviews are on Trustpilot (4-star across 11 reviews) and Clutch.
Priority Prep
Priority Prep is an Amazon FBA prep center in Tyler, Texas, running a single-purpose prep operation: FNSKU labeling, polybagging, bundling, bubble wrap, and inspection. Pricing is per-unit and published up front ($0.73 per FNSKU label, $1.03 per polybag including label) with a 20-item minimum and no contracts. The center guarantees a 2 business day turnaround and discounts the order 10 percent if it misses, and reports more than 2.5 million items prepped to date.
Brown Box Ninja
Brown Box Ninja is a Temple, Texas FBA prep center operating since 2014, run by managing member Amanda Sheppard. Per-unit FBA prep runs $0.90 to $1.30 per single unit (tiered by volume, no setup fee and no minimum order), covering inspection, FNSKU labeling, poly bagging, expiration dating, bundling, boxing, and shipping to Amazon, with a stated 1 to 2 business day turnaround. It handles retail and online arbitrage, wholesale, private label, and select hazmat. Beyond FBA prep it also offers merchant fulfillment, carton forwarding, kitting, cross-docking, and pallet storage at $20.00 per pallet per month, so it is a multi-service 3PL with FBA prep as the lead service.