WE HOLD YOUR STOCK.YOU CALL IT OFF.

We physically hold your stock in our warehouse, but it remains earmarked for your account. You draw it down on demand via call-off orders. It stays off your balance sheet and out of your space until you need it — you carry neither the capital nor the storage cost of safety stock.

Capacity is sized to your forecast and order cadence during onboarding. It is not an open self-service storage product — slots are reserved against a reviewed supply plan, which is why the entry point is a consultation rather than a sign-up.

Stock already held at 888 ships on call-off within 24–48 hours of the request or an automatic threshold breach. That is the core advantage of holding stock versus ordering against a production lead time — replenishment is a dispatch, not a manufacturing run.

Across our Hungary and Spain operations, with multi-location split fulfillment available for EU distribution. Your account manager confirms the holding location and routing as part of the supply plan.

That works too. In client-held mode the stock lives in your warehouse and a threshold breach triggers a production order instead of a call-off. You still get the same daily monitoring, replenishment recommendations, and visibility — only the physical holding location and the replenishment action differ.

The warehousing service is the operation; the Stock-Keeping API is the integration layer for it. If you run an ERP or 3PL stack, the API keeps your systems in lockstep with the stock we hold — real-time sync, threshold events, and signed webhooks. The service stands on its own; the API is there when you want to wire it into your own systems.

Yes. Held stock is dispatched within 24–48 hours of a call-off request or an automatic threshold breach; every SKU is evaluated daily against its par level; a breach is flagged with an MOQ-rounded reorder recommendation before the line runs dry; receiving discrepancies are reconciled on scan-receive and written to an append-only variance record; and every movement is retained in an immutable audit trail for the life of the engagement. These commitments are set against your reviewed supply plan at onboarding.

The stock remains your property the entire time we hold it — it is segregated and earmarked to your account and never enters 888's saleable inventory. While in our custody it is insured against loss and damage. On exit, held units are returned or shipped on your instruction and the full stock ledger is exportable via the Stock-Keeping API, so there is no lock-in.

Holding your own safety stock carries an annual cost — capital tied up in units you can't yet sell, plus storage, handling, insurance, and obsolescence risk (an industry-standard carrying cost commonly cited around 18–25% of stock value per year). In consignment that cost moves off your books: we carry the holding, and you draw it down on call-off in 24–48 hours rather than waiting on a production lead time. Client-held mode is also available if you prefer the stock in your own warehouse — you keep the same daily monitoring and replenishment signals, and a breach triggers a production order instead of a call-off.