Amazon uses shipping templates to set up specific shipping settings. You can select different shipping templates for certain products in Channable.
For example, you might want to create a shipping template for products with shipping costs, and another template for products without shipping costs.
Step 1: Create Shipping Templates in your Amazon account
- In your Amazon seller account, go to Settings > Shipping settings.
- Click Create New Shipping Template and name your template.
Example: Here, we created two shipping templates titled "ShippingExtraCosts" and "ShippingNoExtraCosts".
Step 2: Dry run and copy your shipping template ID number
After you create your shipping templates, you can (dry) run your Amazon API and go to the settings step.
- Go to the Settings step and click Start dry run now.
- Click on the gear dropdown and select Shipping templates. A pop-up will appear listing your shipping templates and their IDs.
- In the Shipping Template Id column, copy the shipping template id you want to use for your category. You need this to complete the next step.
Step 3: Link the field in the Build step
- Go to the Build step > Category specific attributes and select the relevant category.
- Scroll to the Offer section. For Merchant Shipping Group, click the field, select Manual, and paste the id you copied in the previous step.
- For Fulfillment Availability, click + Add and fill in the Fulfillment Channel code and Handling Time fields.
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Fulfillment Channel Code - click the field and select Static values. Then:
- If you have a self-fulfilled inventory (MFN - Merchant Fulfillment Network), select DEFAULT.
- If you’re fulfilling orders through Amazon’s inventory (AFN - Amazon Fulfillment Network), select the appropriate Amazon code (e.g. AMAZON_EU).
- Handling time - fill in the number of days between receiving and shipping an order. By default, this is 1-2 days. Use this field only if you need longer than 2 days.
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Fulfillment Channel Code - click the field and select Static values. Then:
Important: You can't send a product to Amazon that has both an AFN and MFN. To use both, set Fulfillment Channel Code as “DEFAULT”, leave the Handling time field empty, and push your products to Amazon. After that, in your Amazon seller account, duplicate this listing to create a separate AFN listing by giving it a separate SKU.
- Repeat this step for each of your categories.
Your shipping templates will connect once you run your API.