Our today’s topic is “Amazon Shipping Templates”. Here we will discuss What is a shipping template and how to create a free shipping template in your Amazon seller central.
What is a Shipping Template on Amazon?
Amazon allows you, as a seller, to create and save custom shipping settings in a predefined format called a ‘shipping template’. Shipping settings range from ‘Standard’ and ‘Expedited’ to ‘Free Economy’ shipping. Each setting comes with its own unique transit times and shipping costs.
Why do we need to set a Shipping Template on Amazon?
Shipping Templates, the new method provided by Amazon for setting shipping rates in Amazon Seller Central. It determines what you charge for standard shipping, where you ship to (e.g. Europe), what you charge for it, what shipping options (e.g. Expedited) you will offer and for how much and what your handling time is.
Once you start using shipping templates, it is very important that you monitor which shipping templates are assigned to which SKU. This is especially important after first migrating (or if you have previously migrated). Using of the wrong template could cause the wrong shipping rate being charged for items.
Shipping charges for Amazon customer are configured in Seller Central as an account level setting. However, those prices can be overridden from Seller Cloud by attaching an Amazon Shipping Template to individual products. The shipping templates can be used even for Amazon’s international sites.
To create a new shipping template you have to do the following steps:
Navigate to Settings → Shipping Settings
> Click Shipping Template
> Click Create New Shipping Template
> Select OK
> Select Per / Item Weight _Based
> Unchecked Free Economy Box
> Then Click OK
> Unchecked Free Economy Box :
> Then Click OK
> Input Shipping Fee:
> And Click Save.
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