How to Split-Ship Custom Macaron Gifts to Multiple Office Locations

Companies with multiple office locations face a specific version of the multi-recipient shipping challenge: instead of shipping to individual home addresses, gifts need to arrive in bulk at several distinct office locations, often on the same day, in quantities that match each office's headcount. A business headquartered in Los Angeles with satellite offices in Orange County and San Diego, for example, needs each location to receive the right number of boxes, delivered to the correct front desk or receiving dock, without any single office feeling like an afterthought in the process. This is what's known as split-shipping, and it's a service Macarons by Mila has refined specifically for corporate clients managing multi-location teams across Southern California and beyond.

Here's how split-shipping works, and what companies need to know to coordinate it smoothly.

What Split-Shipping Actually Means

Split-shipping refers to dividing a single corporate order into multiple shipments, each sent to a different location, rather than shipping one large order to a single address for internal redistribution. For a company with offices in downtown Los Angeles, Irvine, and San Diego, this means three separate shipments — each sized to that office's specific headcount — rather than one large shipment to headquarters that then has to be manually divided, repackaged, and redistributed to other locations, a process that often results in damaged packaging, delayed delivery to satellite offices, and inconsistent presentation by the time boxes reach employees at non-headquarters locations.

By handling the split at the fulfillment stage rather than leaving it to internal office staff, split-shipping ensures every office location — regardless of size or distance from headquarters — receives its macarons at the same quality standard, on the same timeline, without the burden of internal redistribution falling on an admin team that has enough else to manage.

Why Companies Across Southern California Use Split-Shipping

Multi-location companies across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego use split-shipping for a range of gifting occasions, including company-wide holiday gifts, employee appreciation campaigns tied to a specific milestone, client gifting for companies with regional account teams based in different offices, and all-hands or company-wide celebration moments where every office needs to receive its gift on the same day, even though the offices themselves are geographically spread out.

For companies with a headquarters in Los Angeles and smaller regional offices in Orange County or San Diego, split-shipping also solves a common fairness concern: employees at satellite offices often feel like an afterthought when gifts are shipped only to headquarters and then trickle down to smaller locations days later, arrives damaged, or don't arrive at all due to internal handling gaps. A coordinated split-ship ensures every location, regardless of size, receives the same experience on the same day.

Planning Headcounts and Quantities Per Location

The first step in setting up a split-ship order is confirming exact headcounts and delivery addresses for each office location involved. Macarons by Mila works with HR and operations teams to build out a location-by-location breakdown — how many boxes are needed at the Los Angeles headquarters, how many at the Orange County office, how many at the San Diego location, and so on — before production begins. This planning step prevents the common problem of running short at smaller offices or over-ordering at locations with lower headcounts.

For companies with offices outside the immediate Southern California region, this same planning process extends to those locations as well, ensuring a consistent gifting experience across the company's entire national or even international footprint.

Coordinating Delivery Windows Across Time Zones and Distances

One of the more nuanced aspects of split-shipping is managing delivery timing across locations that may have different transit times from our production facility in Los Angeles. An office in Orange County or San Diego will typically have a shorter transit window than a location on the East Coast, for example, and Macarons by Mila accounts for these differences by staggering ship dates so that every office receives its delivery within the same target window, regardless of distance.

This is particularly important for gifting moments tied to a specific date — a company anniversary, a holiday, or an all-hands announcement — where the goal is for every employee across every office to experience the gift arriving on the same day, creating a sense of company-wide unity even though teams are physically dispersed.

Point of Contact at Each Location

Successful split-shipping also depends on having a designated point of contact at each receiving location — someone who can confirm delivery, accept the shipment at a front desk or receiving dock, and coordinate internal distribution to individual desks once the shipment arrives. Macarons by Mila works with the central coordinating team (often HR, office management, or executive assistants) to gather this contact information for each location before shipping, reducing the risk of a delivery being missed, misdirected, or left unclaimed at a location without someone expecting it.

Packaging Considerations for Bulk Office Delivery

Split-shipped orders headed to office locations are typically packaged slightly differently than individual home deliveries — often shipped in bulk cartons containing multiple individually branded boxes, designed for easy distribution once they arrive at the office rather than requiring each individual box to survive shipping on its own. Macarons by Mila designs this packaging specifically to balance shipping efficiency with the presentation quality expected once boxes are distributed to individual employees at each location.

Common Scenarios for Split-Shipping

Companies across Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego most frequently use split-shipping for:

Company-wide holiday gifting, where every office location, regardless of size, needs to receive its allocation on the same day during a high-volume shipping season.

New office opening celebrations, where a company wants to send a coordinated celebratory gift to an existing office alongside a new location's opening day.

Regional sales or account team gifting, where client-facing teams based in different offices need synchronized gifts for a coordinated client campaign.

Company milestone celebrations, such as an IPO, funding announcement, or company anniversary, where the goal is a synchronized, company-wide moment across every location.

Getting Started with a Split-Ship Order

Companies planning a split-ship order should come prepared with a location-by-location list of addresses and headcounts, a target delivery date, and brand guidelines for the design itself. From there, Macarons by Mila builds a production and shipping plan that accounts for each location's specific transit time, ensuring every office — from headquarters in Los Angeles to a smaller satellite office in Orange County or San Diego — receives its shipment within the same coordinated window.

Serving Multi-Location Companies Across Southern California and Beyond

Macarons by Mila is based in Los Angeles and has extensive experience split-shipping to companies with offices across Orange County, San Diego, and the broader Southern California region, as well as locations further afield. Whether your company has two offices or twenty, our fulfillment process is built to make sure every location feels like an equal part of the gifting moment.

Coordinate Your Next Multi-Location Gift

If your company has multiple office locations and wants to send a coordinated, branded macaron gift to every team at once, reach out to Macarons by Mila to start planning your split-ship order. Share your office locations, headcounts, and target delivery date, and our team will build a logistics plan that gets every location the same premium experience, delivered on time.