Create Your Shipping Receipt Maker for Shipping Effortlessly

Shipping receipt maker for Shipping

in today's video what i want to do is go through exactly how i ship out all of my orders for my e-commerce business on a daily basis now i've been building e-commerce businesses now for the past nine years so i'm going to go through exactly what i'm doing nowadays but even if you're a beginner you're still going to be able to learn from this video because you're going to be able to take different things that i'm doing and apply it to your own e-commerce business that's going to help you do things a little bit more efficiently now if you're new to my channel and you've never seen my face before welcome my name is sam and on this channel i've released over 420 different videos breaking down various different tips and tricks to help you guys make money online so make sure you press the like button if you find any value in this video at any point but most importantly don't forget to subscribe hit the bell notification so that you don't miss all my future videos let's get right into it alright so one of the first things i would advise any e-commerce business owner to get as soon as they start selling on websites like ebay amazon and shopify is to make sure that you get a label printer what i was personally doing for the first year or two of me building my e-commerce business is i was using the normal inkjet printer which meant that i had to print out the addresses on a normal paper and then i had to stick that on the box and then ship out the order that way but the reason why i'd advise you guys to get a label printer is because you're going to be able to save money on ink not only that you're also going to be able to give your orders a more professional look so when the customer receives it it looks like it's come from a professional company and they're going to be more inclined to buy from you again and again so the first label printer that i got is this one right here which is the dymo 450 or label right to 450 so this is the first ever one that i got now i wouldn't recommend that you get this one wait until i show you the rest of them but the reason why i got this one is because instead of me using a normal inkjet printer i was going to be able to use this and use this size label to print out the addresses so this is the cheapest label printer that i'm going to show you out of the free that i've used over my years of building my e-commerce business but the only issue with this one is that you're not going to be able to print out a postage label with this one you're only going to print out the address so it's not really that useful but this is the first one that i used so the next one that i got after that one is the dymo 4xl so this one is a little bit more expensive and the reason why i got this is because i was going to be able to print out the postage labels like i've already said and this one is definitely good it's very efficient it's a bit dusty don't mind that but it's a very efficient label printer and i'd recommend anyone get this if you live in america live anywhere around the world you can get this but i wouldn't recommend that you get this one if you live in the uk and the reason why i'll say don't get that one if you live in the uk is because you should get this one instead which is the zebra gk 420d and the main benefit to getting this one is once you buy this which is around 250 dollars maybe 300 you're going to be able to get the actual labels for free but you're only going to be able to do that once you sign up for a royal mall business account but once you buy it you're not going to have to now spend 10 dollars every single time you want to refill your labels which is what you're going to have to do with something like this one and to order the labels is very simple all you've got to do is come into the royal mail website just like this once you've signed up for the business account and as you can see i'm on the thermal labels page just make sure it's the right one what you're going to do is scroll down select the quantity that you need so i'm going to select four then i'm going to edit the basket and as you guys can see right there no payment information is required so what i simply need to do is agree to the terms and conditions and then click on complete your order and as you can see the order's gone through and the only reason why i'm able to benefit from this service is because i've ordered the right label printer so this is the one that i've been using for the past two to three years i've had no issues with it very efficient and as i already said it's very cost effective because you're going to be able to get the labels for free and by the way if you want to get any of the label printers that i've shown you in today's video there's going to be links to all of them down below so the next thing that i personally did after i got my label printer is that i registered for a royal mail business account now of course this is only going to be applicable to anyone that lives in the uk but if you live in america canada australia wherever make sure that you register for a business account with your main postal service now in terms of the main benefits that i personally get when it comes to registering for a royal mall business account is that i'm going to be able to pay for my postage all at one time at the end of the month because the way that it works is that they send me an invoice for all of the postage that i did throughout the whole month and then i pay one time another benefit is that i get a free collection service which means that they come to my office every day or monday to friday anyway and collect all of the orders that we have so i don't actually have to go to the post office so my staff don't have to go to the post office anymore like what we had to do at the beginning so to sign up for a real more business account it's very simple you just go into their website go into the business page just like this check if you're eligible by going over here and all you simply need to do is fill out the application form and to be accepted i think it's quite simple you just need to make sure that you're shipping out a certain amount of orders on a monthly basis i'm not showing the exact amount so you're going to have to go into the website to double check and the main benefit before i forget when it comes to using a business account is that you get discounted shipping rates as well so the price that normal people have to pay when it comes to them shipping out their items at the post office you're going to be able to get a discount on that because you're shipping out orders on a regular basis the mistake that i made when i first started building my e-commerce business is that i was going to the post office paying for the normal everyday postage cost not realizing that i was going to be able to save money if i signed up for a business account so this is definitely something that you need to look into as soon as possible especially if you started shipping out orders because you may get accepted and you're going to be able to save money which means that your business is going to be able to make more profit all right so moving on to the next part of my daily workflow when it comes to shipping out my orders for my e-commerce business on a regular basis which is which software do i use and the software that i've been using for the past three or four years is zen stores so this is what the dashboard looks like and by the way this video isn't sponsored because i've been using them i haven't really had any major issues with them that's the reason why i'm showing you guys and it's very simple to use all you've got to do is sign up to it and i may have a link in my description that you can use if you want to sign up and you may get a discount the way that it works is very simple all you got to do is sign up for it and then connect your ebay store your shopify store amazon store whatever the case is by going over to settings and then clicking on store integrations and once you do that this is the page that you're going to see and then all you simply need to do is click on connect to store then you have all of these different options ebay amazon shopify etsy woocommerce etc so let's say you're going to connect an ebay store all you need to do is click on it just like that and then this is the page that you're going to see you simply need to sign in integrate your ebay account to your zen stores account and then from there every single time you get an order you're going to see all of your orders popping up here one by one and then what you need to do if you've already registered for a royal mail business account is that you now need to connect your royal business account directly to your shipping software and the way that you can do that if you do want to use end stores is by going over to settings and as you can see these are the carriers that i currently have at the moment which is royal mail my business account and amazon merchant fulfilled so if you want to connect your postal service you can do that by clicking on connect a courier by clicking on that and then you're going to have all of these different options right here now just to let you know you don't have to use zen stores all i'm simply showing you is exactly how most of the shipping softwares work so if you want to go away and look for a cheaper alternative you can do that you don't necessarily need to use zen stores because it may not be the cheapest one on the market it's just something that i've been using for the past few years so i created this test order here just to kind of show you how things work i just want to give you the walkthrough step by step just so that you can have an understanding so that you can learn some things from it and apply it to your own ecommerce business so if you are going to use a software like this all you now need to do is select the order just like this then you're going to click on create shipment and then it's going to give you the option of selecting your royal mal business account if you've connected your amazon account you can either use that as well or you can just use a normal address label if you're planning to go to the post office and pay for postage when you get there but in this case i'm going to click on royal mail and if i'm here it's going to give me a chance to select all of the different options like for example the weight or it's going to let me select the service so as you guys can see i mainly use the royal mail 24 standard large letter option then it also allows me to select my collection or drop of time as well and then i'm going to click on book shipment so right here as you can see the booking has been completed all i simply now need to do is click on print labels and then from this point all we now need to do is get the address label get the item put it inside the box and then simply stick the label on the box royal mail comes and collects it and that's basically the day done so i don't personally do this myself anymore i've got staff to help me out with this now but this is what i used to do every day monday to friday i used to come to the office do this every day print out all of my orders and pack all of them i just wanted to come down to the office just to kind of break down how all of this stuff works and hopefully you guys got some benefit out of it and if you did enjoy any part of this video and you got any value out of it don't forget to press the like button don't forget to subscribe as well and hit the bell notification i've got many more videos on the way that's going to help you out when it comes to growing your online business but if you're currently looking for a more in-depth understanding of what you need to know when it comes to building a business on ebay from scratch then you can visit .projectebay.com because i've created this guide to help any beginner out there that's looking to build their ecommerce business on ebay right now so you can check that out by going to that website or you can check it out by clicking the first link in the description down below or if you rather watch another video that i made not too long ago where i broke down everything you need to know about building an ecommerce business from scratch i'm going to leave that video right there you can check that one out straight after this one too because it's helped out so many people alright guys i'll see on the next one make sure you stay safe out there peace [Music] you