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Taking advantage of services like FBA E= xport and Amazon Selling Coach are great steps toward increasing the synerg= y generated between great products, great customers and superior logistics.= We spend countless hours talking to sellers to discover what we can do bet= ter, so your FBA experience is the best it can be. Check out what we have b= een up to this month. And now for the News FBA to launch unplanned services option on May 21 On May 21, 2013, FBA will launch unplanned services, a new option for when = you are unable to prep or package your products yourself, and do not choose= a planned service such as the FBA Label Service . Unplanned services may include activities we perform such = as labeling, bagging, poly bagging, and taping in order to make products re= ady for safe and efficient storage and delivery. Performing these tasks une= xpectedly on your behalf affects our processes and can cause costly delays = in making products available to customers, which in turn affects your abili= ty to sell your products quickly. Beginning May 21, 2013, we will introduce an Unplanned Service Fee for unit= s requiring labels, if those units are received with barcode labels missing= , and you have not chosen to use the FBA Label Service. To give you more ti= me to understand the potential impact on your business, beginning April 2, = 2013 we will display the unplanned Labeling services we perform on your beh= alf and preview the fees within your Seller Central account. See the help page for information about Unplanned Service Fee . FBA sellers can now see reimbursement details in Seller Central Payments re= ports In response to Seller feedback we have made changes to make understanding y= our FBA inventory reimbursements easier. New details in the Seller Central = Payments reports make it simple to identify reimbursement transactions and = understand the reason and corresponding order (if applicable) for which you= are being reimbursed. New reimbursement details include: - Instead of "Balance Adjustment," reimbursements will be identified as an = "FBA Inventory Reimbursement." - Reimbursement details will include an amount, a reason for the reimbursem= ent, a Reimbursement ID that matches the entry in your FBA Reimbursement Re= port, the applicable customer order, and item details. - Reimbursements that were previously grouped in a single transaction, beca= use they happened for the same reason, will now be reported separately thro= ughout the day. You can see these changes in the Payments section of Seller Central in= the Transaction View, Transaction Details View, and all versions of the Se= ttlement Report. Try out a new and improved shipment creation workflow You asked us to improve the shipment creation workflow. We listened. We are= excited to invite you to try out a new and improved shipment creation work= flow. The new workflow is a tool in your Seller Account designed to improve= the process for creating a shipment of your inventory to Amazon fulfillmen= t centers. The new workflow provides a number of unique features and benefi= ts, including: - Brand New Look: The shipping workflow has been completely re-designed wit= h an updated look and feel that is cleaner and easier to navigate. - Improved Visibility into Prep Requirements: With increased access to FBA'= s packaging and prep requirements, you will be able to quickly find easy-to= -understand resources designed to improve your inbound experience. - Shipment Plan: The Plan Page acts as a virtual cart where you can add, re= move, and update information for the products you want to send to Amazon fu= lfillment centers before you create your shipments. - New Prep Services: As part of the new workflow, we are introducing severa= l new prep-related services. For select product types, you can now easily c= hoose to have Amazon perform the product prep for a per-unit fee. You will = also have increased visibility into FBA's packaging and prep requirements. To access the new shipment creation workflow, click the "Opt-in" button on = the floating banner in your Seller Account, which is located on the Invento= ry Amazon Fulfills page. Your participation is optional. If you wish to tra= nsition back to the current experience, simply select the "Opt-out" button. We're always in your corner with Amazon Selling Coach We are always looking for ways to help you increase your FBA sales. The Ama= zon Selling Coach feature offers personalized notifications on inventory, p= roduct, and fulfillment opportunities to guide you in maximizing your effec= tiveness as a seller. With the Amazon Selling Coach, you can identify: - Top FBA opportunities in brands you already sell - High-demand FBA products with limited availability on Amazon.com - Inbound quantity recommendations for your FBA products - FBA products eligible for Zero-Fee Fulfillment - Missed FBA opportunities due to out of stocks - Top FBA opportunities in product categories where you already sell See the Amazon Selling Coach help page for more information. Delight customers around the globe with FBA Export International selling is easy with FBA Export. Reach millions of internatio= nal customers and let Amazon help you grow your international online busine= ss with our world-class fulfillment resources and export capabilities. Simply sign up for FBA Export and let Amazon id= entify and enable your export-eligible products on the Amazon.com website f= or international customers to purchase. Amazon fulfills your orders and ha= ndles the export process, allowing you to reach new customers in 65 countri= es while taking much of the complexity, cost, and effort out of selling int= ernationally. To view products in your inventory that qualify as exportable, see the Expo= rtable Inventory report. For more assistance, please contact Seller Support. https://sellercentral.a= mazon.com/gp/contact-us/contact-amazon-form.html If you'd rather not receive future e-mails of this sort from Amazon Service= s, please opt out here: unsubscribe =C2=A92013 Amazon Services. All rights reserved. Amazon.com, 410 Terry Aven= ue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210 - ------=_Part_27033205_596937693.1366291171874 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FBA Newsletter

 

 

In this edition

FBA to launch Unplanned Services option on May 21

FBA Sellers can now see reimbursement details in Seller Central Payments reports

Take Part in a Beta Release for a New Shipment Creation Workflow

We're always in your corner with Amazon Selling Coach

Delight customers around the globe with FBA Export

Reminder about bundling boxes

Adhering to our prep and shipping requirements is a simple way to improve the receiving time in our fulfillment centers. Our shipping and routing requirements state that boxes should not be bundled together using bagging, taping, elastic, or extra straps. Shipments that are received in this manner are sidelined during the receiving process so they can be separated. This delays the receiving process for your inventory. Please do not bundle or tether your boxes together.

Visit the FBA Shipping and Routing Requirements help page for more information.

Simplify tracking multiple shipments with bulk uploads

Shipment tracking numbers can now be uploaded in bulk above the Shipping Queue in Seller Central as soon as they are ready for pick up from the carrier. Simply click the "Upload Shipment Notification File" link.

Tracking numbers can also be submitted through Amazon Marketplace Web Services (MWS). To learn more about MWS, go to Fulfillment Inbound Shipment API. MWS is only available to Pro Merchant sellers.

For more information about the Shipment Notification File Upload, see How to Bulk Upload Shipment Tracking Numbers.

Simpler Sales Tax reporting

A new Sales Tax report replaces the Customer Taxes report and details all transactions for states where you have elected to collect sales tax. Now you can view data for a complete year in a single report. The new report also contains taxes paid at a district level, and if you are also an MFN seller, you will be happy to know, you can get information on your MFN and FBA transactions in a single location. The existing FBA Customer Taxes Report will be available through April 2013, with transactions captured only through February 28, 2013. But you can start using the new Sales Tax report, which contains all transactions for 2013 to date, to track your transactions.

Seller Success

International apparel seller drives sales, cuts costs with FBA

Fulfillment by Amazon helped South Korea-based apparel seller, Doublju, cut both shipping costs and shipping times in half to the delight of customers around the world.

"We save a lot of money thanks to FBA and the more money we can save for ourselves and our customers, the more successful our company will be."

Penny Jin, international ecommerce manager for Doublju

Read Doublju's Seller Success Story

More Success Stories

SB-Transformations.pngWe sat down with four sellers to hear how FBA has transformed their online businesses. Watch these videos on how Online Sellers Find Success with FBA.

Subscribe to the FBA Newsletter

We normally send the FBA newsletter to the e-mail address associated with your seller account. Now you can subscribe additional e-mail addresses to the newsletter using our online subscription form. This way you can make sure that key people in your business are able to get the news and updates that help them manage your business with FBA. Go to Subscribe to the FBA Newsletter to sign up today.

Calculate your fulfillment fees

Compare your costs for fulfilling inventory with FBA's pricing. How much does it cost to pack, prep, and ship your orders to customers? How much do you pay for packing materials and storage? Enter your expenses into the FBA Revenue Calculator for any product in the Amazon.com catalog and compare your costs side by side with FBA's pricing.

Go to the FBA Revenue Calculator

FBA Updates

You can read recent issues of FBA Updates in Seller Central Help.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/
customer/display.html/?
nodeId=200619460

Global Selling

Global Selling with Amazon manual (pdf)

Global Selling with Amazon manual (Kindle)

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April 2013 Newsletter

Greetings from Fulfillment by Amazon

With Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) in your corner, you have access to an ever-growing suite of features and services designed to help optimize your FBA business and increase your revenue. Taking advantage of services like FBA Export and Amazon Selling Coach are great steps toward increasing the synergy generated between great products, great customers and superior logistics. We spend countless hours talking to sellers to discover what we can do better, so your FBA experience is the best it can be. Check out what we have been up to this month.

And now for the News

FBA to launch unplanned services option on May 21

On May 21, 2013, FBA will launch unplanned services, a new option for when you are unable to prep or package your products yourself, and do not choose a planned service such as the FBA Label Service. Unplanned services may include activities we perform such as labeling, bagging, poly bagging, and taping in order to make products ready for safe and efficient storage and delivery. Performing these tasks unexpectedly on your behalf affects our processes and can cause costly delays in making products available to customers, which in turn affects your ability to sell your products quickly.

Beginning May 21, 2013, we will introduce an Unplanned Service Fee for units requiring labels, if those units are received with barcode labels missing, and you have not chosen to use the FBA Label Service. To give you more time to understand the potential impact on your business, beginning April 2, 2013 we will display the unplanned Labeling services we perform on your behalf and preview the fees within your Seller Central account.

See the help page for information about Unplanned Service Fee.

 

FBA sellers can now see reimbursement details in Seller Central Payments reports

In response to Seller feedback we have made changes to make understanding your FBA inventory reimbursements easier. New details in the Seller Central Payments reports make it simple to identify reimbursement transactions and understand the reason and corresponding order (if applicable) for which you are being reimbursed.
New reimbursement details include:

  • Instead of "Balance Adjustment," reimbursements will be identified as an "FBA Inventory Reimbursement."
  • Reimbursement details will include an amount, a reason for the reimbursement, a Reimbursement ID that matches the entry in your FBA Reimbursement Report, the applicable customer order, and item details.
  • Reimbursements that were previously grouped in a single transaction, because they happened for the same reason, will now be reported separately throughout the day.

You can see these changes in the Payments section of Seller Central in the Transaction View, Transaction Details View, and all versions of the Settlement Report.

 

Try out our new shipment creation workflow

You asked us to improve the shipment creation workflow. We listened.

We are excited to invite you to try out a new and improved shipment creation workflow. The new workflow is a tool in your Seller Account designed to improve the process for creating a shipment of your inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers. The new workflow provides a number of unique features and benefits, including:

  • Brand New Look: The shipping workflow has been completely re-designed with an updated look and feel that is cleaner and easier to navigate.
  • Improved Visibility into Prep Requirements: With increased access to FBA's packaging and prep requirements, you will be able to quickly find easy-to-understand resources designed to improve your inbound experience.
  • Shipment Plan: The Plan Page acts as a virtual cart where you can add, remove, and update information for the products you want to send to Amazon fulfillment centers before you create your shipments.
  • New Prep Services: As part of the new workflow, we are introducing several new prep-related services. For select product types, you can now easily choose to have Amazon perform the product prep for a per-unit fee. You will also have increased visibility into FBA's packaging and prep requirements.

To access the new shipment creation workflow, click the "Opt-in" button on the floating banner in your Seller Account, which is located on the Inventory Amazon Fulfills page. Your participation is optional. If you wish to transition back to the current experience, simply select the "Opt-out" button.

 

We're always in your corner with Amazon Selling Coach

We are always looking for ways to help you increase your FBA sales. The Amazon Selling Coach feature offers personalized notifications on inventory, product, and fulfillment opportunities to guide you in maximizing your effectiveness as a seller.

With the Amazon Selling Coach, you can identify:

  • Top FBA opportunities in brands you already sell
  • High-demand FBA products with limited availability on Amazon.com
  • Inbound quantity recommendations for your FBA products
  • FBA products eligible for Zero-Fee Fulfillment
  • Missed FBA opportunities due to out of stocks
  • Top FBA opportunities in product categories where you already sell

See the Amazon Selling Coach help page for more information.

 

Delight customers around the globe with FBA Export

International selling is easy with FBA Export.  Reach millions of international customers and let Amazon help you grow your international online business with our world-class fulfillment resources and export capabilities.

Simply sign up for FBA Export and let Amazon identify and enable your export-eligible products on the Amazon.com website for international customers to purchase.  Amazon fulfills your orders and handles the export process, allowing you to reach new customers in 65 countries while taking much of the complexity, cost, and effort out of selling internationally.

To view products in your inventory that qualify as exportable, see the Exportable Inventory report.

For assistance, please contact Seller Support.

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