Shipping template help needed
Hi everyone! I have several templates for shipping. I only really use 2. My default migrated template offers free economy shipping. It offers expedited shipping for $8.99. That is for books that will fit in a padded priority envelope. The other template I use I call the “not expedited shipping” template. That template is for books that will not fit in the priority padded envelope. I still have free free shipping on that one for books that I ship media mail. To me that means up to 10 days to get there. All of a sudden today while I was re-pricing my books, I noticed that amazon has made a change to my “not expedited shipping template”. I still have the free economy shipping, BUT now there is “standard shipping” for $5.49 to get it to the destination by 12/19-12/21 if I ship the book today. I am very frazzled right now because I am only figuring this out right before Christmas! All of my orders have been on time and no one has complained as of yet…
Help!
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My recommendation is not to ever use “free economy” as the parameters there are Amazon-defined. I prefer a little more flexibility. As a bookseller, I use just four templates. Two of these I use for books over $X in value. Those two offer free shipping, but not using the “free economy” but rather offering free on the Standard shipping choices. One of the two is for heavier books and does not allow expedited.
Then I have the same sort of setup with two other templates for books under $X in value, and charge for standard shipping on those.
From time to time check your templates to make sure nothing has been changed. Using Media Mail for all standard orders, I always want the maximum allowed transit time.
Also you should always fill in the handling time field when you add books. That overrides the default handling time – which Amazon may change for you without notice.
So also check that default handling time ever so often.
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Seller_Hi7wbO2Kbo6bl
My recommendation is not to ever use “free economy” as the parameters there are Amazon-defined. I prefer a little more flexibility. As a bookseller, I use just four templates. Two of these I use for books over $X in value. Those two offer free shipping, but not using the “free economy” but rather offering free on the Standard shipping choices. One of the two is for heavier books and does not allow expedited.
Then I have the same sort of setup with two other templates for books under $X in value, and charge for standard shipping on those.
From time to time check your templates to make sure nothing has been changed. Using Media Mail for all standard orders, I always want the maximum allowed transit time.
Also you should always fill in the handling time field when you add books. That overrides the default handling time – which Amazon may change for you without notice.
So also check that default handling time ever so often.
