Temu orders reach AIMS360 through Shopify and Temu's own app, and draw on the same style, color and size inventory as your wholesale, EDI and web orders.
Marketplace integration · Temu
Temu's local seller program lets US brands sell to Temu shoppers from their own warehouse. The hard part is not listing. It is keeping Temu from selling a unit you already promised a department store. With AIMS360, Temu orders arrive through Shopify, land against the same style, color and size inventory as your wholesale and EDI orders, and ship from your warehouse or 3PL like any other order.
Does AIMS360 integrate with Temu? Yes, through Shopify. AIMS360 does not connect to Temu directly. Temu's own Shopify app lists your products on Temu, keeps inventory in sync and brings Temu orders into Shopify. The native AIMS360 Shopify integration then imports those orders into AIMS360 and sends stock and tracking back out. So Temu sells from the same open to sell figure as every other channel, and you control how much of it Temu can see.
How it works
Two connections do the work. Temu's app links Temu to Shopify. The AIMS360 Shopify integration links Shopify to AIMS360. Everything else is an ordinary AIMS360 order.
The style is built once in AIMS360 and sent to Shopify with images, colors and sizes. The Temu app lists the Shopify products you choose on Temu.
A Temu shopper checks out. The Temu app creates the order in Shopify, and AIMS360 imports paid, unfulfilled Shopify orders as they happen.
AIMS360 allocates the units, routes the order to your warehouse or your 3PL, and produces the pick ticket and the label.
The ship confirmation closes the order in Shopify with tracking, the Temu app passes it to Temu, and the lower stock figure flows back the same way.
Ownership
Most Temu headaches come from two systems both thinking they own the same number. Settle it before the first order.
| What | Owned by | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Style, color and size master | AIMS360 | Build the item once. Shopify and Temu inherit it, so a size added in AIMS360 does not have to be rekeyed on the marketplace. |
| Sellable quantity | AIMS360, via the Shopify inventory template | The template decides which warehouses count, and applies a safety buffer or a percentage. Temu can only sell what Shopify is shown. |
| Temu listing, price and category | Temu app and Temu Seller Center | Temu's rules for titles, images, categories and pricing live with Temu. Its app syncs the product data from Shopify. |
| Order capture | Temu, then Shopify | The order is created in Shopify by the Temu app, then imported into AIMS360 with the shopper's ship-to. |
| Allocation, pick, pack and ship | AIMS360 | The same allocation rules that protect your wholesale orders decide whether the Temu order ships from stock. |
| Tracking to the shopper | AIMS360, out through Shopify | Temu measures on-time shipment. The tracking number has to make the full trip back, not stop in your warehouse. |
| Returns disposition | AIMS360 | Returned units come back through Shopify and your returns process. AIMS360 separates good stock from damaged before it becomes sellable again. |
| Fees and payouts | Temu | Commission and settlement are between you and Temu. They do not pass through AIMS360. |
Temu's seller program
Temu started as a platform shipping from overseas. Its local seller program is different: you list, you hold the stock in-country, and you ship. That is the model this integration is built for.
What Temu says
Sellers hold inventory in-country and ship domestically, using their own carriers or Temu's logistics partners, which include USPS, UPS and DHL in the US. The program ran in more than 37 markets by April 2026, and US sellers could reach Canadian shoppers from December 2025.
What Temu says
Temu says a seller application takes about ten minutes, approvals usually come within one business day, and around half of new sellers make a first sale within twenty days. Its Shopify app has been on the Shopify App Store since October 2025 and is free to install.
| Requirement | As reported by 2026 seller guides | What it means in AIMS360 |
|---|---|---|
| Handling time | Ship within 48 hours of the order, with valid tracking | The order must import and reach a pick ticket the same day. Check the Shopify import and your warehouse cutoff. |
| Performance | On-time shipment and cancellation rates are monitored, with listing suppression for sellers who fall below the thresholds | Cancellations usually mean an oversell. That is an inventory template problem, not a warehouse problem. |
| Fees | Category commission of roughly 5 to 15 percent, no monthly subscription | Price your Temu assortment with the commission in mind before you publish it. |
| Business documents | Business registration, tax ID and a bank account in the business name | Nothing here touches AIMS360. It is between you and Temu. |
Sources: Temu's app listing on the Shopify App Store; Digital Commerce 360, “Temu's Local Seller Program Explained (2026 Update),” April 30, 2026; Retail Insider, September 2026. The table figures are third party seller guides, not Temu's published terms. Temu changes its seller policies without much notice, so confirm current terms in Temu Seller Center.
The real risk
A Temu shopper and a retail buyer can want the same medium in the same afternoon. Only one of them gets it. Decide which, before it happens.
Overselling on a marketplace almost never comes from a counting error. It comes from the marketplace reading stock on hand while your wholesale orders have already claimed part of it. In AIMS360 the number Shopify shows, and so the number Temu shows, comes from an inventory template you set per Shopify location. It can count only certain warehouses, hold back a safety buffer, publish a percentage of stock, and take allocated and pending orders off first.
Apparel on Temu
Temu is price-driven and fast-moving. Apparel adds size runs, returns and wholesale price relationships on top.
A style in six colors and seven sizes is forty-two sellable variants. AIMS360 builds them in Shopify from the style record, and the Temu app carries the variants over, so nobody retypes a size run on a marketplace form.
Your Temu price is public. If the same style sits with wholesale accounts, decide which styles and colors go to Temu at all. Some brands keep Temu to specific lines, overstock or made-for-marketplace styles rather than the full collection.
Apparel returns more than most categories. A returned unit comes back through Shopify and your returns process, and AIMS360 separates good stock from damaged before it is sellable again. The returns guide covers the flow.
A reported 48-hour handling window leaves no room for manual steps. Orders route automatically to your warehouse or to a 3PL connected by EDI or API, and the ship confirmation carries the tracking back.
Setup
Six steps. The first is the only AIMS360 project, and if you already run Shopify on AIMS360 it is done.
If Shopify is not connected yet, this comes first. Styles go from AIMS360 to Shopify with images, colors and sizes already built, and inventory starts syncing by warehouse.
Apply through Temu Seller Center with your business documents. Temu reports that approvals usually come within one business day.
Choose which Shopify products the app lists on Temu. Start narrow: a few core styles in the colors and sizes you can reliably restock.
In AIMS360, decide which warehouses count toward the Shopify location Temu reads, then add a safety buffer or a percentage so Temu never sees units already promised to wholesale.
Place test orders and follow each one: into Shopify, into AIMS360, picked, shipped, and the tracking number back on Temu. A channel that takes orders but cannot confirm shipments is not connected yet.
Check cancellations, late shipments and oversells every day for the first month. That is when a mapping or quantity mistake is cheap to fix.
Limits
Temu FAQ
How Temu connects, who ships, what Temu charges, and how to keep it from overselling your wholesale stock.
Yes, through Shopify. AIMS360 does not connect to Temu directly. Temu's own Shopify app lists your Shopify products on Temu, keeps inventory in sync and brings Temu orders into Shopify, and the AIMS360 Shopify integration carries those orders into AIMS360 and sends stock and tracking back out. Temu ends up selling from the same style, color and size inventory as your wholesale, EDI and web orders.
No, and we would rather say so plainly. The native connection is AIMS360 to Shopify. Temu reaches Shopify through Temu's own app, or through a third party multichannel connector if you already run one. The practical difference is who maintains each link: AIMS360 maintains the Shopify side, Temu maintains its app.
It is a free app on the Shopify App Store, published by Whaleco Technology Limited, the company behind Temu, and listed in October 2025. It syncs Shopify products to Temu, keeps inventory in sync and lets you manage Temu orders from Shopify. Questions about Temu listing rules or the app itself go to Temu seller support.
On this route, yes. Shopify is the bridge between Temu and AIMS360. Brands that already route marketplaces through a multichannel connector can bring Temu in the same way instead. Either way, the order has to land in AIMS360 against your real stock before anyone picks it.
A shopper buys on Temu, the Temu app creates the order in Shopify, and the AIMS360 Shopify integration imports paid, unfulfilled orders as they happen, with the ship-to details. From there it is a normal AIMS360 order: allocated, picked from your warehouse or sent to your 3PL, shipped, and confirmed.
AIMS360 updates Shopify in real time by warehouse, and the Temu app passes the Shopify quantity to Temu. The number Temu shows is therefore the number your AIMS360 inventory template publishes to that Shopify location, after whatever safety buffer or percentage you set. Check in the Temu app which Shopify locations it reads.
Yes. Choose which Shopify products the Temu app lists, and use the AIMS360 inventory template to decide how much of each style Shopify sees: which warehouses count, a safety buffer, a percentage of stock, and whether committed wholesale orders come off first. Starting with a narrow set of styles and a capped quantity is the safer way in.
You do, under Temu's local seller program, from your own warehouse or your 3PL. AIMS360 routes the order to the right location, the pick ticket and label come out of AIMS360, and the tracking number travels back to Shopify and on to Temu.
Seller guides published in 2026 report that Temu expects local seller orders to ship within 48 hours with valid tracking, and that it watches on-time shipment and cancellation rates. Those are third party reports rather than Temu's published terms, so confirm the current rules in Temu Seller Center.
Temu sets its own fees and does not publish one rate card. Third party seller guides from 2026 report category commissions of roughly 5 to 15 percent and no monthly subscription. Treat those as their published figures and confirm current terms in Temu Seller Center before you price.
Yes. A Temu order is an ordinary order once it is in AIMS360, so it routes to whichever location should ship it, including a 3PL connected by EDI or API. The warehouse's ship confirmation carries the tracking back through AIMS360 to Shopify.
Broadly, yes. eBay connects through Shopify's marketplace app, the same route AIMS360 uses for Walmart Marketplace and Target Plus. Shein also comes in through Shopify or a connector rather than a direct AIMS360 link. Ask us which route fits your setup before you list.
A Temu seller is a business that lists and sells products on Temu's marketplace. Temu Seller Center is where sellers apply, manage listings and see payouts. This page is AIMS360's page about connecting Temu to your ERP. For Temu's own seller sign-in or support, go to Temu directly.
Bring one style with a real size run. We will push it to Shopify, show what Temu would see after your wholesale orders come off, and walk a test order from Temu to the tracking number.
