hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video my name is nikki kirk and
i am back in oregon i'm at my parents house not because of staying here again but because
the campground we're at shampoo state park is very loud like everyone decided to come outside when
i was gonna start recording my video so i decided to head over here and do this familiar back porch
and record some videos for you so today is a much requested video all about the new amazon shipping
process called send to amazon and you know it's just like that when we're all getting used to
and knowing and not really loving but it's working right how to do the old shipment process and
then now they come out with this new one which unfortunately will roll out across the board so
a lot of people were asking me about it and you can still do the old way of sending to amazon your
fba shipments so i'm talking about fba today you can still do the old way but they will eventually
force us all to use this way so it's best to learn it if you can so today i'm going to walk
you through how to use send to amazon as always i am just a seller like you who is trying to help
you guys out as much as i can so i've done the process i might miss some things there might be
some things i got wrong so if i did anything wrong or you know a way around it please let us know
send amazon has been out about a month now and so there are some things that are working on and
i'll go over what's not working and what's to come in this video but as of right now
this is how you do it so on the old way of sending fba shipments you used to be able to
add a product like a brand new listing you're not i'm not talking about adding a whole product
although that would be the same thing but just adding your listing to an existing product page
you could add it and at the end of the process it would say do you want to include it in an
existing shipment and you could decide which one or it would be create a new shipment if you didn't
have any going from what i can tell this new way does not have that literally every time i went to
add a product it would add a new workflow and unfortunately you can only have nine workflows
at any given time so i was literally as part of the adding a product process i was having to void
out the workflows because again you can only have nine and i don't need every single individual one
on its own workflow and so that part is really annoying and i hope they fix that because that
seems really weird so like i mentioned as i was going through the workflow i would add my product
you know normal adding my skew and all that add my offer my price and then i would literally go
through is this danger's good so no and then i would have to avoid out the workflow as the last
step so it's an extra step which is of course dumb no one wants to be doing extra work but
that's how i'm doing it right now so what i did was i went ahead and added all my products voided
out the workflow and then at the very end when everything was there i went to manage inventory
and then it hit to send replenish and just created one massive workflow from that as opposed to where
i used to be building on top of it now this is one area where i might need to change going
forward i'm undecided but what i mean is some sellers will actually add a product listing
on their phone in store now i don't do that for fba i do it for fbm but not for fba because
for fba i like to make my own skus and i use rev seller and the desktop version or laptop to do
that so that's something i never did but i will say i mean i could use the app to figure out my
break even price so it might be something that i do going forward where i just create the listings
in store i really don't like adding extra work in store because sourcing is my most favorite thing
and the packing and all that is not so fun and so i like to keep that on a separate day
so it might be something that i do going forward if you don't make skus then it's probably really
easy just to list it in store but i like to make my skus and as a quick reminder because i've had
this asked a few times and i do have it in a couple videos but i'll just go over it anyways
the way i make my own skus is that i do the store i bought it from so on this example i got it from
dicks and then i do the price i got it for and then i go ahead and say be that's my abbreviation
for break even so again you can make up your own skus your own abbreviation whatever works for you
and then i do the break even price and how i get that is from rev seller it's super easy you just
go to this little target symbol right here and you click on it it'll tell you your breakeven's price
and i want to know the break even price because i want to know what's the lowest i can go just
break even like i get my money that i paid for the item and it covers amazon fees what is that price
that's like my lowest price i want to sell it for of course sometimes you have to take a hit and
sell it for no profit or you know under profit because that sometimes you make bad buys and
believe me that happens to everyone but in general the break-even price is really helpful so i know
if i'm going below say it's like 12.99 if i'm going below 12.99 i know i'm now losing money
on this product and like i said the skus are only for you and they go across board so when
you're in your manage inventory you can see your sku number that you gave it and so now
that's how you know your breakeven price and you can price your products accordingly it also
transfers over to any uh web developer app type things you use so i use seller board to track my
product and my profit and i can see my sku and i know how much the item costs there on seller board
so it's really helpful for me for that making skus is entirely optional you don't have to
but i would recommend it now my overall opinion on this new send amazon workflow is that
it is i can see what they were trying to do i can see the good it might eventually be
but overall it's like more cumbersome and clunky and it's causing me to do extra steps which no
one wants extra work so that's really annoying but i can see some aspects that are kind of cool and
i'll go over those as we go through the workflow so like i mentioned in this example once you add
your product it's gonna add it automatically to the new workflow so here we've got my new
workflow and you'll see this yellow prep and labeling details needed unfortunately you're
gonna have to fill that out for every single item even items that are already existing
on the old workflow if you remember you could hit prep all and it would say you know if there's no
prep needed you could do it for all of them in that shipment and it would do it all you have to
do each one individually now but the good thing is if you do it during this process when you are
sending and creating the listings you don't have to ever do it again so it can be a one-time thing
but if you do have a lot of stuff that you already have in inventory and you're replanting you are
for one time only gonna have to go through and individually do each one so then you would just
hit save on that and now it's asking you for the quantity and this is the point where you have to
go back and void the workflow because you're not gonna be able to add any new ones to it now if you
were that was your only new item and you want to go add everything to the existing inventory that
you already have that makes it really easy you can actually just go over here to all fba skus you
click that and all of your fba skis are there so now we're just gonna hit and we're gonna say i'm
gonna send you know 10 units of this 20 units of this whatever your units are it's really easy now
and once you hit the units it's going to say ready to pack and you just hit confirm and it's going
to move them over onto this other tab your sku's ready to send now if your item has an expiration
date this is the area now where we are inputting that into the shipment so again this is something
where now you're only having to do it one time and it's not multiple times like you're used to
but there's a lot of confusion about expiration dates so really quickly i'm going to go over that
if your product does not have an expiration date but amazon is asking for one i just make one up a
year or two out it's typically beauty products and they'll have a little symbol on them that say it's
good for 12 months after you open it so for me i just make one a couple years out now if it does
have an expiration date or you have like maybe have coffee and the coffee has you have like all
these different boxes of k-cups and there's like three or four expiration dates what i do is i just
pick the closest one because obviously the other ones are fine and you need to have everything you
know within 90 to 120 days or further out to be able to send fba but that's how i do it i just say
pick make up an expiration date if it has one now some people ask me if i label them myself i
did not make the product so i'm not comfortable putting a label of expiration on there because
i'm i have no idea really right so i'm not going to tell the customer when it expires by so i don't
personally label my own things if it needed it like by a legal standpoint the brand would have
put it on there and so that's just me just so you know about expiration dates when you have to go
put it in just pick the closest one if you have multiple now if you get units wrong or you found
some that you forgot to count or whatever it is you can just go ahead and go back and hit modify
or cancel now the thing that happened to me was i actually bought some stuff that i couldn't send in
fba didn't know that until i started to make the shipping process but when it errored out i was
like okay and so you just go ahead and hit remove and it'll still show up on your process like the
photo and it'll look like it once the expiration date or units but once you've hit removed it's
fine it won't go forward into the next step but it is a little confusing because it won't go away
like it used to when you would exit out as with anything that you are trying or learning for the
first time it's best to go slow and do it when you have some extra time so for me i knew what i was
getting into i had already kind of walked through it before i started my first shipment doing it
but it does it's you're going to get frustrated and you might have to google or look for a video
that shows you what you're doing you know things are going to happen so definitely recommend going
through it all pretend you're going to put a shipment together but you don't actually have
to you can use whatever inventory you already have and just pretend and just kind of walk through and
get a feel for it i did make sure to like triple count and like before i hit any kind of submit i
made sure i counted and packed everything and made sure i got everything off the counters because
there's been some times where i'm like oh shoot that thing over there that i didn't see so i went
slow counted double counted and made sure that i had it all because it is confusing this whole
process is so different from how it used to be so once all you'll have your items in you'll go ahead
and hit this button here where it's giving you the skill count and the item count at the bottom
and right next to that is where you're going to print your labels now this is the step where
you're going to print all your labels for your entire shipment and you can actually come back to
it and do it so if you miss it just go ahead and come back to this step and print your labels now
the cool thing about the new one is that you can actually print labels kind of throughout the whole
entire process but it won't let you print them all at once it's like print a couple extra here which
i did not know how to do until last year how to go back and print labels so this would be really
helpful for me back in the day when i didn't know how to do it because you can easily print so
maybe you ripped the label on accident done that or you put it on the wrong thing and then when
you went to take it off it ripped also done that so if you need to print like one or two extra it
does make it a little easier you can just go next to the item and hit print i also like now that
there's a photo next to it the whole entire way because that is really easy to you know visually
see what it is you can also figure out how you want your thing to look so there's only a certain
amount of different things you can add so you can take the photo away if you don't want the photo
you can add your fn skew if you want your fn skew that's not really helpful to me personally but
maybe you want to know what it is so you can have that you can change all your little options right
here okay now back to the labeling so i now use a rolo if you didn't know it's awesome and i love it
but the chrome extension currently does not work with send to amazon and i did contact
rolo seller support and they were telling me that they are working on it so as of this video it's
not there and because i was trying to film the whole process for you i had to figure it out so
all i did if you want to use your rolo right now what i went back to is the manage inventory page
and selected all my products and hit print label from there from the drop down and then i entered
in my units how many i had and printed the labels there because the rolo extension will work there
but even though it showed up on the individual so it showed up on the individual the roll a
button if you don't use a rollo i'm really sorry that i'm going through all this right now but
a button pops up that you say print it for the rollo and it'll format for whatever label you have
now the problem was that it's popped up the button but when i went to do it it's really just doing
a 30 up label still it wouldn't do the old way of how the roll it doesn't do that converter because
it doesn't work yet but i was excited thinking oh it's working so as of right now it's not actually
working so you have to go do it another way or if you have a printer and your old 30 up labels you
can just do that while rollo figures it out i'm hopeful that there's a lot of sellers who use it
and so they'll do it like they knew they were like yeah we're working on it we have a lot of amazon
customers so hopefully they'll have it out now if you're confused about what i'm talking about as
far as labels i'm talking about the fn sku labels i have a whole video i did on why you want to use
them versus merchant barcodes so merchant barcode is the upc fnsku is the amazon barcode you always
want to do amazon in short because that means your customers are getting your product not some other
seller's product but if you want to know more i'll link it here i recommend highly printing
an fnsku for every single one of your products even if amazon says you don't have to you should
do it okay so once we've got it all ready to pack i moved on to the next one so this next screen is
showing you your shipment breakdown so it's really easy and nice because it shows it in two boxes so
i had one shipment of shoes which if you didn't know shoes always go to one warehouse so they
all went to one warehouse and everything else went to a separate warehouse it was quite nice
having everything go to one warehouse it made it easier i could see how it would be more annoying
to have been broken out like everything else into two or three different warehouses so i'm
not looking forward to that but for this first one it was nice that everything went there
and now you can box it up however you want so at the first one my shoes were all going in one box
so that was easy i just went ahead and select one box for everything and then my other one ended up
being four boxes so all you do is you say how many boxes you have i have four and then it'll give you
an excel sheet to download now the web form that we're all used to when you have under 50 skus
is coming soon but right now it's not there so you do have to use the excel form i use a mac so
i don't have excel and i don't like numbers so all i do is upload it into google sheets and you guys
it's really easy if you've ever had a big shipment of over 50 skus not products individually but 50
different kinds of skus then you've already had to do this and that's a little easier now actually
because you don't have to put the expiration date on that form it's just the quantity that's
going in every box so if you've never had to do an over 50 shipment i understand that it is
frustrating because i was there when i first had to do it but it's actually a little easier
it's not as easy as having it on the web form but it is pretty easy
so all i do is upload it to google sheets input what is in which box when you get the web form
filled it out you put in your weight in your dimensions and then you just download it back
as an excel sheet from google forms and upload it to amazon if there's any errors it'll pop up so i
accidentally put a measurement where it wanted the weight and it was like no that's not right
it knew that it was wrong so i was like okay and then i went back and it tells you where it's wrong
so it's pretty helpful then you upload that and the next step is your shipping labels luckily this
did work for rollo part and i just printed all the labels and dropped them off at the ups store
if you are doing a small shipment or you are just starting out on amazon i would actually recommend
testing out this new workflow and learning send to amazon because they will make you do it eventually
and honestly i'd rather only know how to do the one thing than have to learn one and do the other
one so definitely mess around with it get in there see how it's working you don't have to actually
make a whole shipment so you can test it out and see and then just delete or void the workflow out
later i really recommend testing it though because they do tell you that they are eventually going to
roll it out now if you want to use the old way you still can at the pop-up at the top it'll say
click here for the old way and if you accidentally x out of that if you go back to your workflow
it'll pop up again that pop-up because i axed out to see how you would go about going back to the
old one and it just popped right back up for me so definitely test it out and see if you can do it
get the frustration out maybe have a glass of wine handy i don't really know however
you deal with frustration but it is going to be difficult learning something new as always amazon
is always changing things so i really wanted to help everyone who was asking because if it was
not for you guys asking i would be using the old workflow because that's just how i am i want to
keep using the stuff that i know and that worked but so i guess it's a good thing i'm learning it
for you guys along with you guys so i hope this video was helpful if you want more in-depth how
to do stuff how to get started selling on amazon i have my beginner fba course which goes over it's
got 10 different modules it goes over everything from opening your account to sourcing to sending
products and beyond it comes with a really awesome community of sellers it's all on its own app so
it's definitely worth it if you want to check it out and you want help from me i'm in there
answering messages and answering questions in the group so definitely check that out and as always
if you need help getting ungated and anything from premium brands like adidas nike jordan adidas
original or you need help just getting engaged in the categories like topical grocery or toy i have
my ungating guides as always new sellers friendly new seller specific all the links are below thank
you guys so much for watching and i hope this video was helpful happy sourcing and happy hunting
you