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Hey guys,
I hope someone can help me out here.
We have just started Amazon SFP and I have a few questions and I'm not getting any proper answers from Amazon regarding these.
1) For all the SFP orders, is it mandatory to buy shipping from Amazon? What happens when you don't do it?
2) If there are large number of orders, it makes it impossible to do this for every order manually. Does anyone know any way around this?
3) Is there way to automate this with Royal Mail?
We do not want to manually buy shipping for each SFP order and trying to find a way around it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
13 replies
Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh
On point 1 you must use buy shipping for 98% of SFP orders. if you fall below that, you will likely lose your ability to offer SFP.
On your other points - there are elements if you search for Buy Shipping that advises on Buy Shipping in bulk, as well as use of API or third party integration tools. We haven't personally used any of these however.
Seller_iYCrwoyqEYtxD
Regarding Point 2 & 3 - lots of packing software integrates with Amazon to produce labels via Amazon Buy Shipping, so you wouldn't need to do this manually for every order. There's so many software products available I wouldn't even start to try to recommend one or other.
Seller_ZOZTdubuqFBLp
as per the other replys to your questions:
Foe SFP amazon monitor your performance in 3 key areas:
On-time shipment rate
Buy Shipping usage
Cancellation Rate
you can find the detail of this in your account health menu and then Eligibility
Whe you have orders pending on your dashboard you have the option to bulk print packing slips and also bulk buy and bulk ship shipping labels if youhave your shipping settings set up correctly this is real easy to do.
I am sure RM is one of the bulk shipping options so yes it can be doe with RM and your company RM account is invoiced rather that your Amazon account
Seller_IVuzF5F26xipN
as others have said, we use SFP and for us it is literally just a case of selecting all orders and clicking buy shipping in bulk, you can put the weights for each order if they are different or if you have sold more than one item, gives you one document with all 20/30/40 whatever labels and they just churn out the label printer. personally i always sort it by 'order date descending' before buying postage. once they've printed off just go to 'shipped' again sorted by 'order date descending' go down the list and write on the back of each label what the order is and get em all stickered up, might sound old school but it takes minutes, this works well for us because we have thousands of different designs/sizes and what we sell changes every day and by writing on the back of the label it's a manual double check that the right sticker is going on the right product when packaging
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