Click & drop
Just trying to get my head around using click and drop, I am thinking to go through all my products and add the weights to try and automate the weight part which seems the most time consuming. I am just wondering if anyone else does this and can advise how you go about accounting for the wight of the padded envelope? I was going to add a few grams to each product but realised if people buy multiple it soon adds up. Also do you add the wights here on Amazon or using the product feature on click and drop?
any advice to a complete noob would be super appreciated
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
When I started using it I just waited for each order to come in and set the weight then rather than going through them all first
The system remembers them after you enter it once for each sku
Seller_j9oSEqvakoN0E
Thank you both, much appreciated you taking the time to reply, and alleviated some of my worries.
Seller_j9oSEqvakoN0E
one more question regarding accepted codes to use for vtr purposes
BPL
CRL
STL
which of these are acceptable for vtr purposes. I have been using UNH/UNG codes on OBA but cannot see them on my click and drop
Seller_j9oSEqvakoN0E
Do I use the same green and red 1st/2nd class tags for the bags with BPL, CRL
Seller_j9oSEqvakoN0E
now all i have to worry about is they don’t keep losing sacks of my mail
hoping it gets a first scan before they go walkies! bad enough the refunds without Amazon getting on at me for vtr
Seller_j9oSEqvakoN0E
so when Amazon gets confirmation behind the scenes, because delivery didn’t get confirmed what info are they using do we know?
Seller_j9oSEqvakoN0E
thank you so much for all your help, fingers crossed it all goes well I am not the most tech minded
Seller_bdSdLjti4IugQ
Greetings! I’m sure you have a much more longer list of products then us… How we do it is to weigh the whole thing when new to click and drop… you sell a green hat… green hat + jiffy bag = 120g… So you put that in and do a label… then every time going forward when you sell a green hat you can print the label and the weight will be remembered as 120g…
Your problem comes when someone orders multiple items of the same or different products… Because the automatic weight will be wrong… Someone orders 2 green hats it will make it 240g… so you could just put in the weight of the hat but then like you said you’ve got no jiffy weight…
So your options are
- Do what I said above and you can print all the labels for single orders straight away… … you will then need to weigh all double / multiple item orders manually…
- Put in the actual weight of the item and then go through each order and just add the jiffy weight on…
- Add the actual jiffy weight into the gram of the item but like you said if it’s a multiple order it will make it more then it is…
As for calculating weights of bags… We go to the dispatched orders and select the date the bag covers… i.e Saturday 1st to Monday 3rd… We then make sure all the orders are showing and select all the rows and paste into spreadsheet… we then use a formula to add up all of the weight column (you will need to do a search function and replace “g” and/or “kg” with blank (you don’t type blank you just leave it blank) so it doesn’t try and calculate this in the sum… you’ll then get the total weight of all the orders… and you’ll know how many orders it is based on how many rows… and with that you can calculate the average weight of the bag… sometimes we’re a gram over say 99g being the average and leave an order off to make the weight under or manifest it in another batch.
Seller_gqT2iqj2LrP6S
just enter the weight of the produect in the sku you will remember it . if the coustmer buy in bulk you just simple add up with the quantity
Seller_ht6uwFKVyviGr
Be very careful with C&D weights , if it goes beyond the specified weight on each envelope they will charge you an incorrect weight fee.
they are very strict and it mounts up very quickly to 100’s of pounds if you send high volume .
i had a very nasty surprise with them in January as like you i struggled with manually filling all those silly boxes .