Are you new to AoB and have existing FBA items?
Amazon makes two Inventory Reports available for download that you can use in transitioning your FBA-listed inventory into your AoB account.
Due to the variations in the data provided by Amazon, there are a few slight modifications necessary for successful upload of your items to AOB as FBA items. They are:
- Amazon Fulfilled Inventory (AFI): This report is only your FBA items. Open it in your spreadsheet program of choice and add two columns: 'price' and 'fba' and use 'y', or 'n' (yes, or no) as the values to designate it to our system as FBA (y) or Merchant Fulfilled (n). The headers and column values should be lowercase.
- Active Listing Report (ALR) contains both FBA and Merchant Fulfilled items. The ALR doesn't include a quantity value in this report requiring that you add a numeric value to the quantity column for FBA items. Leaving those blank will result in the item not being available for upload.
Our favorite method? Upload both files instead of modifying either since they provide all you need when used together.
Editing existing inventory or adding items to AoB inventory using a file upload and want to designate some as FBA?
Create FBA items in your inventory using files you create yourself by adding an 'fba' column header and using 'y', or 'n' (yes, or no) values to designate between FBA, or Merchant Fulfilled.
Using the Single List Page (slp) to list or edit existing AoB listed inventory as FBA items:
- Click Enable FBA on your AoB Venue Settings page to turn on various FBA options in your AoB account.
- On your Single List Page check the box next to Amazon FBA to upload an item to Amazon as an FBA item.
- If you are creating a new listing as an FBA item you will click the Create Listing button
- or use the Update Listing button if the item is an existing inventory item being converted from a Merchant Fulfilled item to FBA to queue the item for upload to Amazon.
- The status displayed at the top of your listing page after creating, or updating an item, will display a link to allow you to print the label for your FBA item.
- Affix the labels to your items. Note: you can also wait to print your labels from Amazon directly.
- Go to your Amazon account to prepare your shipment and print shipping labels.
- Ship to Amazon.
- AZ will email you when they have received your inventory.
Automate Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF)
This option allows AOB to automatically transfer to Amazon any order details for FBA items sold on other active venues for fulfillment.
- Once enabled an MCF link will be placed on your Ship page to display any MCF orders that have come in. Depending on which set of ship pages you are using will dictate the placement of your MCF link
- If you're using only the single ship page then your link will look like this
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- If you're using the Multiple List Ship pages your link will be directly above the table displaying your various shipping pages:
- MCF orders will be sent immediately to Amazon.
- When Amazon has confirmed shipment of an order, the confirmation is sent to the selling venue along with the tracking and the MCF order displayed in your AoB account will automatically be placed in your Processed Orders.
- If for any reason Amazon does NOT accept the MCF order it will be moved to your On Hold Ship List and the error message from Amazon will display in the Comments section of the order details.
- Locate the order on your On Hold list and you will see a Create MCF option in the Action column to the far right.
- Clicking the Create MCF option and saving the page to resubmit the order in cases where the error is resolved.
Don't want to Automate MCF?
That is completely fine as it is not required that you automate the process.
- Any seller having FBA enabled will see a Create MCF option in the Actions column (farthest column to the right) of whichever Ship page you are using in your AoB account.
- Selecting Create MCF will transfer the order data to Amazon and move the order to an MCF link that will be displayed at the top of your Ship page. The location of this link will differ depending on which ship page link you're using which is explained in the section above.
- If for any reason Amazon does not successfully process the MCF transfer the order will be moved to On Hold with the error message from Amazon displayed in the Comments section of the order details.
- When Amazon sends a notification that the order has been shipped, the confirmation, including tracking, is sent to the selling site and your order in AOB will be moved to a Processed status.
- Selecting Create MCF will transfer the order data to Amazon and move the order to an MCF link that will be displayed at the top of your Ship page. The location of this link will differ depending on which ship page link you're using which is explained in the section above.
- Please note that Alibris Distribution Center orders are exempted from the Automate MCF functionality and will need your attention manually as described in Ship Your Books
Uploads to your Venues will behave differently depending on whether you automate MCF or not. To explain:
- When Automate MCF is enabled we monitor the listing status of your FBA items and only allow items to upload to any other active venues that are active in your Venue Settings when they are Active in FBA.
- When Automate MCF is NOT enabled we will upload all items to any active Venue Setting unless you have created 'Do Not List' settings on the item.
- This is important to note because you do not want to risk an item selling on a venue before Amazon even has it active in their warehouse.
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