Sending your products to Amazon's Fulfillment Centers (FBA) is a streamlined process that ensures efficient order fulfillment for your customers. This is the overview of steps taken when shipping to Amazon with Palletfly.
- Check for restrictions in your Amazon account
- If you do not have any issues on Amazon, add the item to your cart on Palletfly
- Within your cart, under 'Where do you plan to ship this order?' select "Straight To FBA"
We strongly recommend that you utilize a 3rd party program to allow you to create and save a draft shipment. You can find a 3rd party program under "FBA inventory replenishment" on our resources page Doing so will enable you to avoid these common issues:
- Gated (Restricted) to sell the product.
- Amazon splitting your shipment (You would need to advise us of the split prior to placing an order to ensure that we are able to comply with the split. Make sure to accept the shipment so that it won't change later. You can always go back later and cancel the shipment. DO NOT purchase shipping until your order is released to our shipping department)
- Inventory limits. Amazon may not allow you to ship in the full order which will result in having to take the order into a 3PL or your location and paying shipping twice.
- Additional Prep - Bubble Wrap, Stickering, ETC (We usually do not offer these services. You would need to check the listing and ask a sales rep if prep would be offered on your order)
- 2D/Transparency Barcodes - some brands only allow their products to be sold by authorized sellers. Amazon has a program that the brand signs up for. Once signed up, all their inventory will require a 2D/Transparency barcode in order for you to resell it. You would need to check the listing and ask a sales rep if 2D/Transparency barcode would be offered on the product in question.
- Hazmat - Amazon categorizes some items as hazardous material and will not allow you to ship the items to their warehouse to have them fulfill orders for you. You will still be able to ship these products on your own to customers. The only difference would be that you would have to have the order shipped straight to you instead of shipping into Amazon.
- Navigate to your Amazon Seller Central account.
- Go to 'Inventory' and select 'Manage Inventory'.
- Locate the products you want to send to FBA and select them.
- Click on 'Send/Replenish Inventory' from the action dropdown menu.
Verify and, if necessary, update the ship-from address to match the location where your products are currently stored.
- Click on 'Confirm and Continue' to proceed to the shipment creation page.
- Input the ship date provided in your shipment email to schedule accurate pickup by Amazon’s carriers.
Double-check all shipment details including quantities, packaging, and shipping addresses.
Amazon will provide you with shipping labels to be affixed to your shipment boxes or pallets. Print these labels as instructed.
Once the documents are prepared, email them on the designated shipment email thread.
Monitor the status of your shipment through Seller Central to ensure it reaches Amazon’s fulfillment center smoothly.
After your shipment is received and processed by Amazon, track the inventory levels and sales through your Seller Central dashboard.
Note that these fees may vary and must be quoted per order. This is a general Fee Table for most scenarios where we offer the service in house:
- ASIN / FNSKU labels - $0.50 each unit
- FBA Box labels - $2 each box
- FBA Pallet labels - $2 each pallet
- Split shipments - $25 each shipment (separate address and separate PDF attachments are considered to be split shipments)
- UPS / Fedex pickup scheduling - $20 for a single daily pickup