I’m thinking of taking a mini-vacation to Vegas with my family in the last week of September. Is there anything I should be worried about?
I’m planning on leaving on Thursday after 11AM and return back on Sunday. My default handling is 1 day but is set to 2 days on SKU level so any orders I receive after 10AM will be ok to ship on Monday.
My shipping template is the old one - per price, not per weight. No SSA, No AHT.
Will I be able to disable and re-enable my premium shipping while I am still under the price banded settings? I really don’t want to be on the per weight structure.
The only thing I can think of right now is the premium shipping. I’m planning to disable this on Thursday morning then reactivate it on Friday in the evening. This way, I won’t have to ship anything (2nd day/next day) but still get orders for them on late Friday to be shipped out on Monday.
Anything I should be worried about or careful about?
Thank you!
As long as you don’t edit the template, you should be fine, but it’s Amazon so no promises. Just turning it on and off shouldn’t break the grandfathered template.
Your orders during Thursday thru Sunday should be okay since, as stated, Thursday will go out Monday and Friday, Saturday and Sunday would go out Tuesday.
What you have not stated … for orders on Tuesday prior to leaving, will you be able to get them out early Thursday before leaving? And … for orders on Wednesday prior to leaving, are you planning to ship those early on Thursday before leaving (since normally those would go out on Friday)?
As far as the shipping templates, we probably would create a new shipping template for the time while we were gone with the parameters that we needed and assign all the SKUs to that template except one or two extremely slow selling SKUs to leave on the original shipping template. That way you haven’t made any changes to the original and still keep it live with the one or two slow selling items. When you come back, move all the SKUs back to the original.
When creating the new template, try doing the duplicate method and then remove the premium shipping and save the template with a new name (like “Non-Premuim”). Once you have it created then assign the SKUs to the new template. (Hint: If your SKUs are set to “the default template” then make the new duplicate the default template and then assign two slow selling items to the original template). Worst case would be to do a quick Partial Upload of all SKUs which assigns the new template.
that’s what I’m afraid of LOL
fingers crossed!
Even with the 2 day setting, I still ship them in 1 day - my handling time gap stays at around 1.5 so I don’t lose the 2 day lead. But yes, all orders received by Thursday early morning, I’ll be shipping them out.
I guess I’ll disable the premium and hope for the best.
Reporting back with the results.
I disabled the premium on Thursday morning and turned it back on Friday afternoon. It’s been several days and everything is back to normal with no issues. YAY!
I just found something that changed.
My default handling time is 1 day but I have 2 days set at SKU level. So ship by date used to display in 1-2 days. Now it’s showing 2 days.
I actually liked it when it displayed 1-2 days… I’m going to have to dig into this.
We have seen the same but don’t think it is worth looking into as Amazon is playing with Seller Central getting it ready for the New Gen Selling GUI. We simple watch this page to see what Amazon is showing for our ASIN handle time (which should be 2 days for all items and is set at 2 days at item level) …
Got it!
I actually started looking into it but soon realized it wouldn’t be something I would be able to figure out so I just let it go. I did change it to 1 day for all SKU level too. Estimated delivery date was showing too far out and I didn’t want to miss out on a sale.