Master the Amazon Bill Format for Shipping Effortlessly

Amazon bill format for Shipping

what's up guys josh here and this video is going to be about creating merchant fulfilled shipping templates for amazon i posted this inside my facebook group i said i'm trying to get into doing more merchant fulfillment anyone care to share the shipping templates or is there a shipping calculator online that can give me estimates i don't want to lose money on shipping merchant fulfilled has got me clueless i feel like a spoiled fba seller if you feel like i spoiled fba seller 2 or you just want to start selling merchant fulfilled on amazon this video is for you let's look into creating our shipping templates so my facebook group really came through with lots of great information here they let me know how they do things even some screenshots of their templates so i'm going to share this information with you and we're going to set up these templates inside seller central so the way you get to the shipping templates area is going to go to settings shipping settings and it's going to take you right here now the first and only template you're going to have is this one the migrated template it's the default template for shipping it's the one that amazon has set up for you and it's okay if you're going to charge shipping and if you're comfortable shipping you know to all these areas but we're going to tailor this to you or to myself to your own personal needs i'm going to show you how you can set this up so that you make sure that not only are you not losing money on shipping but you're including the correct transit time so you're not getting any kind of order dings on your account for orders not arriving on time so we're going to tier this shipping settings the way we like specific for your zone so the first thing we're going to do is just create a brand new template right here create new shipping template we're going to hit that and we can copy from the migrated if we want we can go ahead and do that and just hit okay let that build and we can kind of call this whatever we want if we want to say uh you know this is zone specific whatever you can call it whatever you want we're gonna go with the per item weight based system you can do price banded if you want price band means simply that if a product you're selling is you know zero to twenty bucks then you charge this amount of shipping if it's 20 to 30 bucks then you charge this amount of shipping to make it easier for ourselves we're just going to do per item and weight based okay i have all these options here you got free economy standard shipping expedia two-day delivery one day delivery and international expedia okay so you can check and uncheck any of these that you like so if you want to do one day if you're comfortable with that today comfortable that's expedited shipping you're comfortable with that go ahead and do that i am not going to select any of those because i'm just starting my merchant fulfillment journey and i'm not really want to get into that two-day delivery the seller fulfilled prime all that stuff i just want to go with the basic standard shipping so that's what i'm going to go with i'm not even going to do free economy because i'm actually going to put free shipping on standard okay so what we're going to do here is go over here and just take off this 449 per order and the cents per pound we're just going to zero all of it out all right you can see we've got it all zeroed out here right for all of these but we're still shipping to all of these regions this is the continental 48 alaska hawaii puerto rico and all those other places where we want to ship now if you don't want to do any of these you know domestic territories or you don't want to do any of the military addresses or puerto rico alaska hawaii it's simple all you have to do is just go ahead and delete these areas which for me i want to do i don't want to ship to on any of these uh extra areas all right so we deleted all those extra areas and now we're just left with the continental 48 and this would be fine if you can ship to the continent of the 48 states in two to four days for free this is a standard free shipping uh template but i want to tier this in a way where my transit time will get a little bit longer based on these zones or how far these states are away from me right so i want to make sure not only am i offering free shipping to the continent 48 i want to make sure that i have the correct transit time for all of these states now fortunately for me i am in texas so i'm kind of centrally located to the east and the west coast so if it makes it a little bit easier for me but if you are you know closer to the west coast or closer to the east coast this is where it's really important for you because a lot of states are farther away now the way we can find you know the states or the zones and we can use the pirate ship map here this is a very helpful and useful map to figure out your zones now like i said i am in texas so let's say i'm right here deep in the heart of texas as they say so i'm just going to click on this you can see these are my zones right i can ship pretty much in this whole entire area in two to four days probably if you go into this little green area you know maybe that's four to five four to 6 and then these yellow areas might take a little bit longer so these yellow areas or these states help here on top i might want to go ahead and put these into a separate bracket a separate tier so i can extend the handling time or even charge a little bit for shipping just to get it up to these areas because it might cost more and it's going to take longer so depending on where you are in the united states would you know help you set up those tiers so if you're in california let me refresh this if you're in california you can see you can pretty much ship from here to here right all this is good but once you start going out until you know the the east coast once you get into the zone seven and zone eight this is going to take considerably longer than your standard two to four day shipping which is right over here so you may want to go ahead if you're in the california area you might to go ahead and select all of these dates for two to four day shipping maybe free shipping and once you get into the zone seven and especially the zone eight you might want to extend your handling time and maybe even include a little bit of extra shipping charge just to get it all the way over here so what you're doing essentially is you're encouraging these people to buy from you because it's easier it's easier for you to ship it gets there faster it's a better customer experience and you want to kind of i don't want to say discourage people over here on the east coast from buying for you but you want to you know like i said make a good customer experience make sure the handling time is good and make sure you're not losing money on shipping so you want to encourage these people to buy and these people maybe not so much maybe charge them a little bit extra for shipping or extend that delivery time so like most americans you might not know what every single one of these states are so for uh reference we got this little picture here of all the states nice and labeled so for me like i said i might want to select some extended delivery times for states up here like oregon and washington maine maybe all of these top states they're just a little bit farther away from me i can set a different delivery time frame for these states so i'm going to go with probably oregon washington and maine just for the example that we're setting right now so we'll go back to the shipping settings and right here where it's got the 48 states we're going to edit these okay and here are the regions that it gives you you got northeast midwest south and west and you can select what other states you want for the shipping rule so like i said we want to take out uh what maine right and we wanted to take out oregon and washington i believe so we got those d selected okay remember this is for example only uh go ahead and set it up however you like for you where you know depending on where you're located we can go ahead and just save that okay so we just we excluded those three states okay just those three states now it says right here you get this little warning that you don't have all the regions assigned that's okay we know that we're going to assign them so we're just going to add a new shipping rule and we'll actually just select the rest of the states so main oregon and washington and again we're not selecting any of these because we're not shipping there we just want to do the content at the 48 we'll hit okay there it is again free shipping on all of this we're chart we're not charging anything for shipping but for main oregon in washington we want to bump up that handling time so we'll say uh five to eight days for shipping to those areas so this is what we got this is pretty much it we got the 48 states since we're in texas we're kind of in the middle ground like i said so we don't really uh have to exclude too much or put any different kind of rules we got washington and oregon maybe the tip top of california we got maine over here connecticut and stuff we might want to exclude those but depending on where you are you'll set these rules up for yourself this is our standard free shipping template the only thing we wanted to do was change the transit time based on where we are located for other areas again use the pirate ship map here to figure out where you are and what zones are farther away from you what states are farthest away from you go and edit those here and create different regions and transit times for those areas now as i get more and more comfortable with merchant fulfilling and shipping my own products i will change these rules up a little bit depending on how my experience is i might even go ahead and offer two day delivery once i'm super comfortable and know you know what areas can i ship to in two days if they order by 2 pm but for right now i think this is a nice basic starter place to begin now the last question that you might have is how do you even calculate the shipping cost and how do you build that in to your price well my friends we will answer that on the next video my name is josh everydayfba.com is the website i hope you liked the video if you did please give it a like drop a comment if you have any questions or have any other different ways how you should set up your shipping templates let me know guys and i'll see you on that next video if you are a brand new amazon fba seller or you want to learn how to start selling on amazon fba you want to get into selling used media books cds dvds you want to start doing some retail arbitrage some online arbitrage if you want to learn more about all this awesome stuff on how you can make money on amazon and make money online in general look in the description there's going to be a ton of links to help you get started 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