Send to Amazon: Confirm carrier and pallet information

If you’re sending your inventory in pallet shipments, you’ll be asked to confirm carrier and pallet information in step 4 of the Send to Amazon workflow, after you print and apply box labels.

• Step 1 – Choose inventory to send
• Step 1b – Pack individual units
• Step 2 – Confirm shipping
• Step 3 – Print box labels
• Step 4 – Confirm carrier and pallet information (for pallet shipments only)
• Step 5 – Print pallet labels (for pallet shipments with an Amazon partnered carrier only)

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In this step, you will select the carrier that will ship your pallets to Amazon. You can take advantage of discounted shipping rates and automated tracking by selecting an Amazon partnered carrier and buying and printing shipping labels in the workflow. Alternatively, you can use a non-partnered carrier to book shipping outside of Seller Central.

For more information about pallet shipments and how to build pallets, go to Seller requirements for LTL, FTL, and FCL deliveries.

If you have selected an Amazon partnered carrier, follow these steps:

1. Confirm your Freight ready date and pick up contact details for all shipments in the workflow.
2. Review the pallet estimates for each of the shipments. If necessary, edit the pallet configurations to ensure that the shipping cost estimates will be accurate.
3. Confirm each shipment’s pallet configurations to display the shipping cost estimates.
4. Review all the shipping cost estimates and click Confirm all carrier and pallet information to proceed to step 5, Print pallet labels.

If you have selected a non-partnered carrier, follow these steps:

1. Confirm the Number of pallets in each shipment.
2. Click Print pallet labels to get four copies of each FBA pallet ID label for each pallet in your shipment. The labels include information that the fulfillment center uses to verify the arrival and contents of the shipment.
3. Place one label on each side of the pallet, in the center and near the top.
4. Schedule pickup and hand off your inventory to your carrier.
5. Select Mark all as shipped to tell us that your inventory is on its way.
6. Click Track shipment for each shipment in the workflow, and provide bill of lading (BOL) numbers in the Tracking events tab in the Shipment Summary.

For more information about carrier requirements and delivery of pallet shipments, go to Carrier requirements for LTL and FTL deliveries.

What if I need to cancel my shipments?

You can cancel your shipment by clicking the Delete shipments and charges button at the bottom of the page.

For pallet shipments, after you have confirmed your shipping selections and accepted the charges, you have one hour to void Amazon partnered carrier charges and get a full refund. After that time, voiding will cancel all shipments that you have created, but you will not be able to void the shipping charges.

You can void non-partnered carrier shipments at any time. Voiding will cancel all the shipments that you created and move them into Canceled status in your Shipping Queue. For more information, go to Send to Amazon: Change or cancel your shipment.

How are pallet estimates calculated?

FBA uses box content information that you provided in the previous steps to build the pallet estimates. We use a 3D model to determine the optimal number and fit of packages on a pallet, and the optimal number of pallets per shipment.

What happens when I mark a shipment as shipped?

When you indicate that you have handed off your shipment to the carrier, the shipment moves to Shipped status. Once it's in Shipped status, our fulfillment centers know to prepare to receive your inventory, avoiding unnecessary delays.