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What they do is they make subtle, tweaks and sometimes not so subtle, tweaks and then don’t tell anybody about them until you run into them. When you’re trying to do a listing and we’ve started to see this as started in 2019 and we’re starting to see it happen more and more, and we want to approach that well, I have this conversation, so you we can give you some ideas of what to Do the first thing, as Kristin said, is not to panic.

The only constant with Amazon is change, so now is okay. This change is happening. What does it mean for my business and what does it mean for right now and what does it mean for going forward? So a couple of things that we want to talk about that have been working for some people is when you file your GTI, an exemption like we explained in our hotel bundles course. You need to make sure that your your when you’re going to list your item.

It’S in that exact category, because your GTI emption exemption is not blanket through every single category for every single thing, if you’re filing for the home and kitchen category, you need to make sure that product is in there, but we will also disclaim to you that seller, Central is seller central and sometimes they don’t know their ear from their elbow, and so we need to be persistent when you talk to them, if you’re finding error issues but making sure that that exact name matches the exact category that you’re filing in that may solve.

Some problems for you, but also your results, may vary, and it may not so another way to do that is talking about generic and filing your item as generic now with filing things with generic, you are not using your bundle brand with that. Your brand is, then, a generic if you want to get your bundle up, something we’re seeing or your mileage may vary on this one as well. This is sometimes working for some people and sometimes not working.

Now. We want to make sure that you understand that, when you’re creating listings, when you’re going to Cheeta an exception or when you’re trying to list after getting GT an exemption, if you’re getting errors or if you’re, finding that you aren’t getting the to your results to go Through your listing to go through make sure you’re asking yourself: do you want to have brands in my title or in my bullet points that should that can’t do not allow bundling or do not allowed to be? What’S the word, I’m looking for you’re not allowed to use those particular brands in your listing.

So if you’re saying that Kristin’s favorite things is your as in your brand name and you’re, not so when you’re looking at your item, as you know, you’re using Disney, for example, in your brain, if you’re calling it Kristen’s, favorite things and then you’re using Disney or Nike or something else restricted in your listing, it’s not going to go through, so you need to understand when it comes to that that you’re not you’re going to get a listing error, even if it’s a random listing error, if you’re trying to somehow circumvent rules.

So you need to make sure that whatever it is you’re doing for your GTI and exemption that across your entire listing that you’re, following all the rules and policies, it is really important to make sure that you understand when you’re, creating listings what you can and can’t Do that is one of the reasons why we have an entire module in the whole sale bundle system that talks specifically about what you need to know and consider when you are creating listings on Amazon, because there are words you can’t use and that’s one of the Things that Amazon is always changing and evolving.

Sometimes there are words we’re seeing this with gifts right now. Then they won’t. Let you complete the listing, unless you don’t have the word gift in it now, if you’re just trying to have in there, because it could be a gift. This is why the gift word and, in our opinion, Amazon, is making this part of the list, because everyone’s making things giftable right, it’s a can of beans, and it’s a gift beans like that.

Why would you want to keep any coupons, but anyway it’s it’s something that people have abused and when somethi abuse things on Amazon, Amazon has to take drastic action and unfortunately that negatively impacts. However, if you have something like gift bags – and you can prove that this is what it is and why it’s essential, if this is in the title, open up a case with seller, support and explain your situation and oftentimes you’ll be able to get that clear to Be able to list with that in the title now, if you want that easy to go through gift, is the only thing.

That’S stopping you from that. What you can do is take gift out, then open the case, and let them know that you were not allowed to put gift in the title. But your item is an actual gift bag or gift box or whatever it is, and then they can put it back in for you, so you want to get the listing through. Otherwise, you can’t complain about something that being listed if it hasn’t actually been lifted.

It might be into a draft mode or something like that, so you want to make sure another thing that has been helping. Some people get their listing through when using a bundle is using na or non-applicable in the brand field. So if your item does not have a brand, it is either generic or there’s no application. For example, you knitted a crocheted blanket. It does not have a brand there’s no UPC. You handmade this item that is non applicable when it comes to brand.

It’S your own brand, so you can use that or you can use, it doesn’t have a brand. It’S just this knitted blanket so using that has helped some people again. Your results may vary, but it’s something to try to see if your listing will go through it. In certain aspects, the reality is, if you’re running into roadblocks, with all of these listing issues contacting seller, support and keeping your case open, even if they send you a canned response.

Do not just dis just discount the fact that they’re going to give you a canned response and there’s nothing you can do about it. You can do about it, keep your case open and keep it the revolving door, not accepting their canned responses, because you need a response. You need a response and oftentimes seller support is the last to know in those changes when it comes to Amazon and so taking their own policy and putting it back and saying this is what your policy states and then go that way being able to utilize what You know and being able to get that case moving forward or escalated to somebody else who can actually help.

Now, honestly, we’ve had some people struggling with this and they have open cases. And yes, we understand this is frustrating anytime. Amazon changes, anything that results in listing errors or things like that. It’S going to be frustrating a few years back. They changed all UPC codes to have to be gs1 certified and everyone was upside down about, and everyone was freaking out about. Gs1 codes are so much money and I can’t afford that for every bundle I and all the rigmarole reality is everyone adjusted eventually to the new rule to a new policy.

It’S just the way it goes if you play on Amazon’s playground, you’re going to have to follow their rules and yes, we understand the struggle is real and it’s frustrating, but right now, there’s temporary solutions. There’S contacting them eventually, there’ll be a more permanent solution. Another thing you can do to start right now is it’s going to cost you money you’re in a business, and sometimes you have to invest in that by some gs1 codes to get yourself off the ground to start moving in that particular direction, because that might be The short answer to getting your bundle out there is giving it its own UPC code and buying that and being more legitimate about putting bundles out there as legitimate brand and legitimate UPC code, not one that you’re buying off of ebay randomly but which you cannot do Anymore, by the way, Amazon will not accept those now that goes to whether this reminds me back to the earlier days when getting engaged in categories was something that was expensive.

You, if you want to pay something to get you in. I invested a thousand dollars in my business to get on, get it in categories that I wanted to sell him, because I wasn’t confident I can do it myself. The same thing happens here when you are looking to invest in your business. If I want to sell bundles, I’m going to need to make an investment, whether it’s going into brand registry and going down that route, which is a six to seven month, lead time to be able to get your trademark approved before you can go to brand registry.

Or going gs1 codes to start for your brand and moving in that direction, we are seeing a lot of positives with being in brand registry. So if it’s something that you’re interested in learning more about, we actually have an entire training in the Amazon files hub. That teaches and talks about brand registry what it means and what it’s done for us you can learn more about by going to mommy and home.

Com slash hub. If that’s interesting to you, another thing about the hub is in another thing about what Amazon is doing for bundles and for brands, and things like that. It’S requiring custom packaging. If you have something that has a brand on it, Amazon is expecting you to have some sort of branding on either your product or packaging, or both and in the hub next month. We’Re going to be covering this in depth.

Talking about custom packaging, where you can get it from the different types of custom packaging that you can have, because you creating a legitimate brand for your bundle brand for your bundles things like that. They want you to be legit and so we’re covering all these things. In the hub, because these are something that Amazon is starting to require, someone in the group has already expressed that Amazon’s asking them for a photo of their product with a permanently affixed.

So that means you can’t just get a white box and put a sticker label on it and call it a packaging. Amazon wants you to be more legit and because of that, we’re going to do a whole training about custom packaging branded packaging and what you can do and not do in order to send stuff into Amazon so being more. Legit helps because to be honest, Amy and I aren’t facing any of these issues with GTIN and UPC’s and all that stuff, because we’ve registered our brand with Amazon.

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We don’t have any of these issues. We put a listing out there, it’s underneath our registered brand and off we go, and so we want that to be as easy for you. We understand it’s time-consuming and it costs a little bit of money, but that we’re not facing those issues because of brand registry and it’s something you want to be able to work towards and so we’re just giving you the information that we have right now available to Us as of February 20 2010, this could change in a week.

It could change tomorrow, but to be more up-to-date about some of these fixes so that you can start getting your listings, approved and and pushed through Amazon. Don’T give up on seller central, be persistent, be persistent. If you really want this, make it work, we are giving you some different solutions. If you have comments, questions want to know more make sure you put a comment below the article so that we can help you.

If you are not already a member of the Facebook community come on and join us at the foes of you on YouTube, we appreciate that um. This is something that is going to happen when you’re selling on online. It’S going to be happy with you run any business you’re going to run to snags when things don’t work. The way you want them to work and what are you going to do? Throw up your hands and give up no you’re going to work through and push through if it’s something you truly want – and this is what we’re encouraging you to do – is what’s the next step that you can take right now, based on what you’ve already tried to Make things work we’re going to continue to update you as things change through Amazon, we’re going to give you updates about new things that we’ve learned to be able to help? You get your listings up and active on Amazon without specific UPC codes.

You don’t have our GTIN numbers that that are available to you so with bundles and other things, so make sure that you subscribe. You pay attention. You join the Facebook group, so you’re in the know about the next fix the Amazon is going to provide so that we can move forward and get your bundles and listings active in and available for sale on Amazon. So in the words of Tim Gunn make it work, I’m a great one.

We’Ll see you guys next time,

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We had a request for a article that shows you how to do merchant fulfill, because a lot of people have only done FBA and we have never been a huge advocate for doing merchant fulfilled items. But in these crazy times that have changed merchant. Fulfilling right now seems to be a little bit faster than shipping things FBA. So this is. This is just going to be a short tutorial on number one: how to set up your shipping templates.

You can have multiple shipping templates for different items and different things, and and the reason why we do that and then adding an item. That’S merchants fulfill is as simple as can be, so I’m just going to walk you through those two things. The number one reason why you wan na have you might want to have multiple shipping settings or shipping templates is because you have either lightweight items or certain items that might be heavier and, of course you want to add specific things to that.

So, for example, if anything’s first-class mail, it’s under 14 ounces or more or something that can fit, you know you want to offer free shipping that you can have a free shipping template which basically means you’re building shipping into your price, and you want to make sure That you’re just offering free shipping all the time like some people like that some people don’t, but the price obviously goes up.

If you don’t want to worry about that, you just want to charge tipping which right now people are seeing to be completely fine with then in making sure that you don’t you know, cut your own throat is having one that’s that’s weight based so that you can Add a specific dollar or price amount per pound so that you don’t end up cutting your own throat and losing a bunch of money on shipping. I know from Michigan to California costs a lot more money to ship things there based on size and weight than it does to just ship, something in my region.

So, of course, using Priority Mail prepaid, like flat rate, I’m sorry, not prepaid flat rate type items are really helpful to be able to get those free from the post office. You can order them at usps.Com. I find sometimes, though, that it’s a little less expensive to ship things, Priority Mail cubic, and so that’s my own packaging and things like that know what your results may vary, depending on what your shipping and your shipping on vacuum versus something smaller.

So you want to have multiple shipping templates. If you don’t always want to offer shipping which, for me free shipping can vary if it’s under. If it’s not first-class meaning under 15 ounces, then most of the time the price can vary from seven or eight dollars. All the way to twenty dollars, depending on where it’s going and I don’t want to offer $ 20 free shipping on a lot of things. So I choose to have two different templates.

So I’m going to share my screen and I’m going to show you how I set these things up so that you can do it too: okay, so you’re in seller. Central. This is what the shipping template looks like. You can go to the top right of your screen and go to settings and then go to shipping settings and that’s what it will bring up this screen for you here now. This is my twenty twenty MF template that I’ve already set up, and it goes by through different shipping fees and what I choose to charge.

So these are things where this is our template. I already have so on the left over here. You can create a new shipping template and if you create a new one, you don’t you can copy from one that you already have, or you can just create a new one and if you create a new one, you’ll have to give it a name so that Your system knows so. This is us template we’re just going to call this test template and then it you can go down here and then you can either do price, banded or price per weight.

I suggest weight based because then you’re not you’re, no matter where it’s going, you don’t you can charge a certain amount for it. So you can you uncheck the box, that’s free economy, shipping, so you can remove that so that you’re not charging any free shipping and then you’ve got standard and expedited and at this point was expedited. I don’t often check that because, most of the time it gives you that I do not offer two-day delivery, so I always take that off.

That’S up to you! If you want to do that, I feel like there’s a lot of pressure right now. For me to be able to do that, and that’s of course your choice if you can guarantee that people can order by a certain time and you’ll ship the same day, so you can offer expedited shipping or not, and you can create as many of these as You want to so with these the region’s. You can add a new shipping rule.

You can add a new region. You can take regions off. So if you like, someone had asked if there’s ways that you don’t ship to California, for example – that’s an option so you can go to for me, it would be West and I can click west or click not West and change. All these I can select regions or all or you can deselect all and you can choose whichever regions that you want to go to so I’m shipping to everywhere here.

So I’m totally fine with that now you! What you order over here is how much per order you want to charge. So if you want to charge a standard $ 5 plus 50 cents, a pound or a dollar a pound, depending on how heavy your item might be, then that can be same and you can decide to ship to peel boxes or not peel boxes, depending on the Boxes that you check here, you can click Edit on the sides here and decide not to ship to certain places.

So if I uncheck the West, that means that I won’t be shipping to any of these places. If you so choose to get. I know some people have asked: do I have to ship to all the regions and actually no you don’t. You can decide that you’re, not shipping to certain places or not so you can edit those and then you know, click, OK or click cancel. So so I’m shipping to all the regions – and you can decide again here if you want to do Alaska Hawaii in Puerto Rico – that’s up to you and then the transit time is also a variable.

So you can change it to 4 to 8 days 2. To 3 days I tend to ship things out same day, so I try to do 2 to 4 days or 3 to 5, because I’m in Nam, in Michigan, so getting to California, is almost always going to take 4 or 5 days. So you try to want to be in that at different times there, so I’m I like standard of five dollars or $ 4.99 for shipping and then $ 0.50 a pound and then again, Alaska, Hawaii Puerto Rico are going to cost more.

So you can of course, go 2 dollars, a pound 5 dollars a pound, whatever you want to do for specific regions here same thing with expedited shipping. You also do not have to offer expedited shipping, if you don’t want to so you can click that box or not that box and then same thing here. Transit time is a variable that you can choose. Based on your location, I mean, if you’re in the middle of the country, it’s going to take you the same amount of time to ship, something maybe to California, as it would to the East Coast West Coast, depending on where you’re at you want to adjust this.

If you’re in California shipping to Nevada it’s going to be one to two days or two to three days, so it’s quite different for so your results may vary based on where you’re coming from and, of course, you can decide $ 8.99, more 99 cents, a pound. Fifty cents a pound wherever that’s going, and so that that is as simple as setting up the test. So we’ve got a test here and then you go ahead and click Save and then once it comes up, it should be in.

You know might take a few minutes to get there, but then it should be in your shipping templates so over here now I have new twenty twenty MF template free shipping template in our test, template that we just set up so now when you want to add A product to merchants fulfill you’re, going to go to add, offer you’re going to go to this here, go to add a product in inventory under add a product, add the a sin or the UPC.

And then your items should come up here and it usually looks like this. You click the box, you say: okay, I can sell. Mine here says: sell yours and you’re good. Then you come to this page. Make sure that you go to advanced view so that you can see all of the options here and then here’s your here’s, your shipping template. Sometimes your shipping template will be towards the bottom. I don’t know why the form is not exactly the same for every category.

Every item – sometimes it’s up here – sometimes it’s down here but making sure if you don’t see it that the fulfillment blog says I will ship the item myself. If you’re, not shipping, the item yourself, then that box might not appear so make sure that that’s on you put the quantity of how many you have for sale, your current price, and then you know you. Your tax code of course goes here. Your condition.

You create your seller SKU. I know if you guys, you know, there’s lots of articles on creating SKUs. We create custom SKUs, which usually has you know the date. This is our types of custom SKUs. We have. We have date year-month-day the vendor, how much the item cost, and then we have some acronyms for different things that we use this one has to be. You know, merchant fulfill something or whatever.

So this is the drop-down menu that you can pick whether you want to do free shipping. What do you want? Your your shipping templates now, our new one that I just made the test is not on there. I bet. If we refresh, then this will probably come back to our new tastic to me, I’m going to try that and hopefully it will show our testing remember to go to advanced view and then should be here there. It is so now our new testing shipment is there and then you, you do all the things that you need to do, that your seller, steel, making sure your shipping templates the right one that you want to choose your price, your quantity and then, once you put All these things in I’m going to match the low price here I’m going to put in shipping template here and then it should be a save and finish, and once you save and finish, your item is now available for sale on Amazon through a merchant fulfill.

If you want to add a condition like say, you have an item at FBA right now, but you want to actually convert one of those to merchant fulfilled. You do not have to convert the listing. You have an Amazon that can still be for sale, FB, FBA, and then you can change one. You can add one to merchant fulfill and it will look very much the same here. All you need to do is go to your inventory. Go to that Aysen and then you click add, add a condition and if you add a condition, then it will.

Let you create this. It will give you a warning, and it will say you already have this in your inventory – consider editing it. You ignore that you HIPAA. I want to fulfill this item myself and you change the SKU, and now you have two items available for sale, one FBA and one merchant fulfill. So that’s as simple as it takes now. Once you get in order, your orders are going to come in through your ear.

You have multiple blog fulfillment, there you’ll see it in seller, fulfilled items and merchant fulfill items when you’re looking to merchant fulfill an item make sure you go to your manage orders and then, on the right hand, side it will save you FBA orders or you merchant Fulfill orders or seller fulfill orders, and at that point your your item will come up of. What’S for sale once you’ve sold and then it’ll be time to ship and you hit by shipping and when you hit by shipping, then this whole template comes up of your shipping.

You have to put the package dimensions in there and the weight, and then it will give you all kinds of options to ship, whether that’s Priority Mail Boxes or your own Priority Mail with your own packaging. Ups, FedEx first-class mail and you you know, click the one that you want and then you hit by chipping in it and you purchased the label with the label on and then you can go to USPS comm. If it’s from the post office, you can schedule a free pickup, they will pick items up from your porch as long as you have at least one Priority Mail item, and you can order up until I think midnight of the same day for them to pick it Up from your front porch on the next day or your front, porch your back porch your box, wherever it actually give it allows you to give instructions on where you want them to pick it up.

So you don’t have to leave the house, you don’t have to go stand in line at a post office if it’s UPS, if you have a UPS driver coming to your house, to deliver a package, for example, you can hand your item to the UPS driver. Of course, social distancing right, you shouldn’t do that, so you can put it on their porch. You can also order a pickup. It might cost you money to be able to do that on UPS, depending on what kind of account you have, but there’s also ways for you to be able to get that stuff out without you having to necessarily pay a lot of money or to become in Contact with somebody they can pick it up from your porch, I like to use a Priority Mail Boxes as much as possible because it just makes shipping a no-brainer.

I know exactly how much it’s going to cost I could come. I can calculate my profit. All that kind of thing, so that makes it easier for me. Of course we all want to save a buck, so sometimes it might be better for you. I order supplies like bubble. Mailers, you can go Uline, you can go, I supply store, you can go! The boxer II you can go. Ups has some free stuff if you want to use their things, but you have to ship a certain way.

If you do that, I’m forgiving one Uline bubble fast. You know you can even order some of those supplies on Amazon. If they’re delivering at this time, so there’s plenty of ways to be able to get supplies for those things, you just want to check out all of those different resources. So I hope this helps. If you guys have any more questions specifically regarding merchant fulfilled, you can leave them below this article.

Make sure you tag me so that I know I’m who saying what and happy merchant fulfilled we’ll see you next time.

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