0010 Preparing Your Items For Shipping

welcome back to getting started with

Amazon FBA and in this video we're going

to be talking about the next step which

is getting your items to the Amazon

warehouse you'll now need to start

thinking about how you're going to

prepare your product for shipping and

that means then you're going to need to

get it to Amazon so let's walk through

the process and how it's going to work

for you to actually get your items in

position for Amazon to sell them and

fulfill

them now Amazon when you to go through

the process they are going to be

reviewing uh with you throughout the

process the list of unsuitable items you

want to make sure that you review the

list of things that you cannot sell the

last thing you want to do is to start

listing and making sales and you don't

want to list things that Amazon finds

unacceptable so this is going to be a

process that again you're probably going

to go through a bit of a learning curve

and education but the most important

thing is to make sure that you review

the list of unsuitable items that Amazon

says that you cannot

sell now Amazon does not make this a

mystery they spell it out in great

detail as to which products you can and

cannot sell and once again this is a

list that is objective there is no gray

area in it please make sure that you are

uh looking at this and that you know

that your item is not on this list of

prohibit lied

products now obviously you can either

send your items individually boxed or in

a bundle box um you'll want to make sure

again this is suitable for the customer

and that you're following the guidelines

which you're basically doing inside of

Amazon is creating a new shipment and

creating a label now this label is very

important because you're going to

actually get an Amazon barcode that

you're going to use to put over any

barcode in your packaging so you don't

want uh the your your box or your

packaging to make it to the Amazon

warehouse and to have its barcode or UPC

code on it you want to make sure that

the Amazon barcode is on it Amazon is

going to give you labeles for that so

that it will be correctly uh categorized

it's going to be correctly warehoused so

that when somebody actually buys to get

your item and it's actually sent to

them and then when your item is actually

shipped

it's actually going to be stored and

sorted in Amazon so again the barcoding

is very vital to making sure the process

works correctly in getting your items

ready for

sale at that point you'll be selecting

your carrier and you will have the

opportunity to either ship it yourself

or to choose Amazon's preferred carrier

most successful sellers use the Amazon

preferred carrier mainly because Amazon

pays the shipper to actually get the

product and to get it to Amazon and then

you actually are charged then at the end

of the month you'll just have to make

sure that you're keeping track of what

charges you're going to have assessed to

your account when you are actually doing

FBA now hopefully you'll be selling and

then your items will be selling it'll

kind of come out of what it is that

you're selling however you do want to

track how many shipments are going to be

charged to your account at the end of

the

month now once you actually have chosen

a carrier you're going to want to take

your box items with the barcodes then

you're going to want to put them into a

larger box with a packing slip so again

this is a two-step process you're going

to get your items listed and then you're

going to get them barcoded you're going

to choose a carrier and then you're

going to actually take those boxed items

with the barcode and then ship them in a

larger box to

Amazon when you provide details on

Dimension and weight you do need to be

specific and you need to be detailed and

you need to be correct this is a very

important part of the process because

you want to be charged accurately and

you don't want Amazon to have to

recharge you or to recalculate this

could delay your your your shipment it

could delay uh your purchase so you want

to make sure that again this is

something that you do

correctly now Amazon's going to give you

anep estimated shipping cost as to what

it is that you are going to be paid and

again um you can either void uh the

charges or accept them so in other words

if you're just kind of trying to test

the process you can void out uh those

charges or if you just want to get a

sense for how much it's going to cost

you for a particular item you can go all

the way through this process so that you

can see what the shipping charges are

actually going to be if you're trying to

determine what your profit is going to

be now in order to do this you are going

to need to have a PDF viewer or Adobe

Acrobat of some kind of way that you're

going to need in order to be able to

print that label for the outside of the

box now in the next video we're going to

give you a few tips on what you can do

to be successful in packaging and

preparing your items for shipment with

Amazon

FBA so with that thanks and I will see

you in another video