Creating Parent-Child Variation Listings on Amazon
A variation listing is where more than one buying option is available from the same product listing page. Variations listing are enable buyers to have more choice but are more fiddly to create. Parent child relationships Variations are created using what is know as the SKU Parent-child relationship Parent SKU. Each variation set has a […]
Understanding Amazon Business Reports
You can find Business Reports under the Reports tab in your seller account. The following types of Business Reports are available: Sales Dashboard, Business Reports by Date and by ASIN, and Amazon Selling Coach. Data for these reports are generally available for up to two years. Seller Dashboard The seller dashboard has two graphs: Sales […]
Understanding Amazon Seller Coach Reports
Amazon Selling Coach Reports offers personalised recommendations to guide you in maximising your effectiveness as a seller. The report’s sections are: Inventory Opportunities Restocking advice back on your sales over the past seven days. Product Opportunities Products which customers have recently shown interest in and which have limited availability on Amazon. You can set your […]
Understanding what you are being charged for FBA fulfilment and storage
This can be a bit tricky. There are several methods to discover what you are being charged at a product level. Fulfilment fees FBA fee preview report. This should in theory have the fulfilment fees your FBA inventory, but in practise quite a few items are missing. See an annotated file here. Inventory screen. By […]
How to create Amazon FBA Shipping Plans
Sending inventory to FBA is managed rom Inventory > Manage FBA shipments Shipping plans For items to be sent to an Amazon warehouse, they need to be added to a shipping plan. There are two ways to do this From inventory select the FBA product and from the Action drop down menu select Send/Replenish inventory […]
Understanding Amazon FBA Fees
There are several different fees to consider when sending FBA stock: Fulfilment fees. A fulfilment fee is changed on each order based on the item size Storage fees. A monthly storage fee is charged based on the actual storage used Optional fees. These are fees for optional extras such as labelling, Fulfilment fees FBA fulfilment […]
Creating Amazon FBA listings (or convert FBM to FBA)
There are several options for creating FBA items. This post looks at how to convert FBM to FBA and also how to create new products as FBA listings. Converting items form FBM to FBA – Manually FBM items can be converted to FBA listings one at a time via the Manage inventory screen. The process […]
Understanding FBA Settings
Before sending up your FBA inventory for the the first time there are a number of setting which must be specified in Settings > Fulfilment by Amazon. Cross border fulfilment settings. Pan European FBA is a programme where listings can be delivered across Europe at the delivery rate of the ordering country. To qualify a […]
Benefits of Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA)
FBA is in many ways a brilliant service, as can be seen by its enormous popularity. Benefits include: Easy Amazon does most of the work including customer service and delivery and you have the benefit of selling to Amazon’s enormous customer base. Pay as you go fulfilment service with no contract or minimum fees Most […]
Managing Cross-Border Amazon sales
Managing sales obtained on Amazon sites outside your home country is much the same on all Amazon sites, however there are some additional factors to consider: Customer service Customer service should be in the native language of the site. There are companies to whom it is possible to outsource international customer service, however from experience, […]