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How to Set Up an Amazon Merchant Fulfilled Shipping Template

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How to Set Up an Amazon Merchant Fulfilled Shipping Template

As a seller on Amazon it is important to properly know how to set up an Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping template. The Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping template is the settings on the back end of Amazon Seller Central that Amazon sellers can create and assign to product listing offers that indicates the price and shipping expectations for Amazon customers. When Amazon shipping templates are set up correctly, Amazon customers have clear expectations when their order will arrive which will make for a better customer experience, more repeat business, and better Amazon product and seller reviews. For sellers, when the merchant fulfilled shipping templates correctly, the right amount of money is charged to the customer for shipping and the correct time is allowed for sellers to pick, pack, ship and time allotted for delivery. If an incorrect strategy around the shipping template is implemented, it can create a poor customer experience through a lost buy box, late delivery, incorrect charging of shipping, or unappealing merchandising offer to customers. This post we will touch on different strategies for Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping templates, Amazon shipping settings automation, and how to set up an Amazon merchant fulfilled shipping template on Seller Central.

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5 Most Important Reports for Amazon Sellers

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5 Most Important Reports for Amazon Sellers

This article covers the 5 most important reports for Amazon sellers. Amazon provides many different reports across a wide variety of business aspects. Given the amount of reporting that is available it can be challenging to identify which information is important to your business. Focusing on the few key performance metrics and analyzing historical data; insights can be made and actions can be taken from identifying issues and doubling down on what is working. Goat Consulting builds out managerial strategy reports for our clients in order to track Amazon KPIs and report to our clients the important metrics to reach our clients desired goals.

How Get Up to $50,000 in Bonuses from Amazon With Amazon Perfect Launch

How Get Up to $50,000 in Bonuses from Amazon With Amazon Perfect Launch

Brands that are new to selling on Amazon could get up to $50,000 in bonuses from Amazon with Amazon Perfect Launch. Getting money back in the first 90 days, while testing new Amazon programs is a win-win situation. If you are new to selling on Amazon, you could be leaving money on the table and losing out on different opportunities to get your products in front of potential customers. In this post, we will be covering the requirements for Amazon Perfect Launch, the different Amazon Perfect Launch Programs, how they are calculated, and a full list of incentives and the terms and conditions that apply.

How to get Referral Fee Reimbursement From Amazon

How to get Referral Fee Reimbursement From Amazon

Amazon charges a referral fee every time you sell a product on their marketplace. These fees vary depending on the category. Amazon does its best to be as accurate as possible when charging referral fees, but sometimes they may be inaccurate. For example, Amazon may miscategorize your inventory and charge an incorrect referral fee. If this is inaccurate you may be paying unnecessary fees every time you sell an item on Amazon.

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How to Increase Prices on Amazon

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How to Increase Prices on Amazon

How to increase prices on Amazon for brands and manufacturers selling on Seller Central is an important question to address as manufacturing, transportation, and labor costs increase. Raising prices on Amazon has a large impact on many facets of your business including buy box implications, the effectiveness of marketing, and variable selling costs on Amazon.

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Amazon FBA Fee Changes for 2022

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Amazon FBA Fee Changes for 2022

Amazon fees are ever-changing due to constraints including but not limited to macroeconomic effects, sales velocity, and competition. Depending on your product's size and category, the fee changes could impact your business in a variety of ways. In this post, we will cover the new fee changes to Amazon’s FBA program for 2022. It is very important to recalculate profit margin when large fee changes happen in order to make sure your product is priced appropriately. Below we will cover which product sizes were most negatively impacted, which product sizes were barely impacted, and other options for fulfillment moving forward. If you just have questions about calculating amazon fees, see our previous blog post.

What Are the Differences between Amazon Vendor Central vs. Seller Central?

What Are the Differences between Amazon Vendor Central vs. Seller Central?

When a company is first approaching the idea of selling on Amazon.com, the decision can be very daunting. Should they sell 1st party to Amazon? Should they sell 3rd party on Amazon? What is the best Amazon business model and how can a company protect its brand while serving its customer’s growing needs? In the post, we will cover the different business models while explaining Pros and Cons to each,

What is Frustration-Free Packaging on Amazon?

What is Frustration-Free Packaging on Amazon?

Amazon has offered Frustration-Free Packaging since 2008 to remove the irritation people felt when trying to unwrap their order.

The company teamed up with several manufacturers—such as Belkin, Hamilton Beach, Logitech, Fisher-Price, and more. Together, they applied the necessary mechanics to Amazon’s packaging that was able to remove excess, redundant materials while ensuring the full damage-protection of the ordered products.

Amazon Business - Connecting Vendors to B2B Sales on Amazon

Amazon Business - Connecting Vendors to B2B Sales on Amazon

This article describes the opportunity of Amazon Business for vendors to sell B2B. As we all know, Amazon is a great place for Vendors to reach end customers. While building this business to consumer marketplace Amazon developed relationships with many different vendors. Well, just like end consumers, businesses need to buy things to keep their operations running. This is where Amazon Business comes in.