What an APOB is, why marketplaces require it, the documents, and how to add a warehouse or fulfilment centre to your GSTIN — by marketplace.
An APOB (Additional Place of Business) is a warehouse or marketplace fulfilment centre added to a GSTIN you already hold, so you can legally store and ship inventory from it. Marketplaces require their fulfilment centre to be listed as your APOB before they let you inbound stock.
Under GST, you can only store and dispatch goods from a location that appears on your GST registration. So a marketplace's fulfilment centre must be added as your APOB in that state, on a GSTIN you hold there — which is where a VPOB comes in if you have no office in the state.
| Marketplace | What's added as APOB | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | FBA centre / IXD | Amazon sellers |
| Flipkart | FBF warehouse | Flipkart sellers |
| Meesho | Fulfilment centre | Meesho sellers |
| Blinkit / Zepto | Dark store | Blinkit · Zepto |
| Own / 3PL | Warehouse / godown | How to add APOB |
Full portal walkthrough: how to add an APOB in the GST portal.
You can add several APOBs to one state GSTIN (multiple warehouses), and repeat the VPOB → GSTIN → APOB sequence for every new state you expand into.
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💬 Talk to our team View plans →APOB (Additional Place of Business) is a warehouse or marketplace fulfilment centre added to a GSTIN you already hold, so you can legally store and ship goods from it.
Under GST you can only dispatch goods from a location on your registration. So Amazon, Flipkart, Meesho and quick-commerce platforms require their fulfilment centre listed as your APOB in that state.
File a GST amendment of registration adding the centre as an additional place of business, with its address proof. Once the amended certificate lists it, you can inbound stock.
Yes. You can add several APOBs (warehouses) to one state GSTIN, and repeat the process in each state where you store stock.
A VPOB gets you a GSTIN in a new state; an APOB adds an operating location to a GSTIN you already hold. Most sellers need both, in sequence.
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