If you have 2nd day and next day expedited shipping price, double check your settings.
May be I’m the only one that didn’t know this… I received 2 next day orders and I got screwed…
I had my price banded shipping settings (long story as to why I needed price banded option) but when they sent this email out, I had to suck it up and change to per item.
Instead of changing the existing template, I created a new one and made it default. I wanted to reference it back if needed.
I thought this was done and over with, but I guess the change took affect today. my prices is $44.95 to cover the UPS next day cost. But 2 orders I received today was charged $10.99.
I looked everywhere and found out all of my listings were set individually to the old template. See attached image. “migrated template” is the name to my old template. And since I didn’t change it to “per item” and left it at at price band, it defaulted to $10.99.
So, creating new template and making it default didn’t take over this. I didn’t even know the listings were set to the old template by SKU level.
If you didn’t know, go check your “manage all inventory” page and make sure it is pointing to the correct template you want.
I have to take a lose and ship these 2 orders out… T.T
I really wish Amazon stops tweaking things and fix the real issues…
Thank you for your suggestions. They work for sellers with a limited number of SKUs, but booksellers often stock of thousands of individual titles. Even if we have more than one copy of a book for sale, they are often in differing conditions, so almost all books require their own SKUs.
I will have to see how it goes with flat-rate shipping on Amazon. Shipping prices vary, and we win some and lose most.
On other venues, I am allowed, if necessary, to request more shipping money, particularly when shipping books abroad. About half the time, the buyers pay up, especially if they are not spending their own money. I also offer to ship books to their friends in the US who can hand carry books to purchasers abroad.
Oy vey! Can’t wait. I am old enough to remember the inflation of the 1970’s and a lot of habits developed back then are coming back to me.
Buy it when you see it at a good price. Next time you shop for it, the price will be higher.
Does anyone else remember 55 MPH speed limits? I remember visiting my sister at Cornell, in my 1970 VW Bug, and it taking hours to drive there from our home in the Hudson Valley.
My car was also later stolen, by a thief who drove it to someplace in SW Virginia, and abandoned it because the gas had run out. My father recovered it, I am not sure how, and I drove on until 1977, when I moved back to Manhattan.
1969 Bug with F70 Pos-A-Traction tires on mag wheels in the back and A60 Pos-A-Traction tires on mag wheels on the front. I could literally pop the clutch and pull the front end off the ground. Use to Bracket Race it. Bought it in 1973 for $1600. After blowing 9 transmissions in 18 months, I sold it … should have kept it as I missed it as soon as it was gone.
Oh the stories that car could tell … from a Tijuana MX run to off road adventures in the Los Angeles Forrest Mountains to Bracket Racing at Orange County Raceway.
I may have completely misunderstood, but you said you made your new template the default, however you never said that you moved the items from the old template to the new default template. Making a different template the default will not automatically migrate existing listings to the default template from other templates. You still need to move all the existing items from the old template to the new template. Listings only “default” to a default template when they are created.
A simple work around in this case is to give the original template a new name (ie: Main Template Original) and then rename the new template with the original template’s name (ie: Main Template). If all of the ASINs were set originally to Main Template, then doing the above will link the ASINs to the new shipping template because the new template will have the shipping template name that is already in the Manage Inventory individual edit pages.
If the ASINs/SKUs are linked to a shipping template by name in the Manage Inventory edit section (which is also done on the excel template uploads the same way), then the shipping template with that named is what those ASINs/SKUs are linked to. Amazon is just giving us 3 different methods (ways) to link the ASINs/SKUs to the shipping template of choice.
It works as we have done it every time we have changed our shipping template. The value behind it is we 1) retain the old shipping template as is and 2) allows for an easy swap when ever we do it. Now all of our products are the same size and ship from one location so that keeps it on the simple side. However, we could do it with multiple shipping locations and multiple grouping variations of ASINs/SKUs using different shipping templates if needed.
Note
… one does need a Professional account to have access to shipping settings in this way.
By this reasoning, renaming a template should remove every SKU from that template since the name no longer matches, rendering all SKUs on that template as template orphans with no template at all.
Not if the SKU is linked in the Manage Inventory edit page. If you have not taken the time to set up the shipping template in the Manage Inventory edit page ( or via an excel upload ), then your SKUs would be linked to the default shipping template when you created the SKU.
You are linking by the name of the shipping template so the SKUs don’t have to be changed if you name the new shipping template that you want to use to the name that you already have on the SKUs. (and to do that you have to rename the old shipping template).
Yup, that’s the part I completely missed… T.T
I thought creating a new template and making it a default would make all my listings automatically use the new default.
I used to only modify the existing templates but this time, for the first time, I created a new one. So that’s where my mistake was.
