How to configure shipping templates for Amazon APIs

Amazon uses shipping templates to set up specific shipping settings. In Channable, you can assign different shipping templates to specific products. For example, you might create one shipping template for products with shipping costs and another for products with free shipping.

In this article, we'll explain how to set up and use shipping templates from your Amazon Seller account in your Amazon channel in Channable.

Contents

• Step 1: Create Shipping Templates in your Amazon account
• Step 2: Dry run and copy your shipping template ID number
• Step 3: Link the field in the Build step

Step 1: Create Shipping Templates in your Amazon account

1. In your Amazon seller account, go to Settings > Shipping settings.
2. 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 channel and go to the settings step. 

1. Go to the Settings step and click Start dry run now.
2. Click on the gear dropdown and select Shipping templates. A pop-up will appear listing your shipping templates and their IDs.
3. 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

1. Go to the Build step > Category specific attributes and select the relevant category. 
2. Scroll to the Offer section. For Merchant Shipping Group, click the field, select Manual, and paste the id you copied in the previous step.

3. For Fulfillment Availability, click + Add and fill in the Fulfillment Channel code and Handling Time fields. 
   1. 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).
   2. 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.

4. Repeat this step for each of your categories.

Your shipping templates will connect once you run your API.