Looking to take some time off for the holiday but not sure how to protect your business in your absence? Read this post to learn how you can sit back and relax when you want to.
If you're unable to fulfill any orders while you're vacationing, change your Listings Status to Inactive. Within one hour, your seller-fulfilled listings will be removed from Amazon product detail pages and search results. It's best to take care of this a little bit ahead of time to be mindful of any pending orders that sneak through.
If you have any Fulfillment by Amazon listings, they will remain active on Amazon.
Remember:
Once you're done with your R&R and ready to sell again, you can change the status of your listings back to Active.
So there is that issue. The INBOX doesn't stop with vacation settings.
Since most messages are about Shipped Orders..IE/Not Received, Where's my stuff, Package damaged, etc. These messages come in the next week or so.
So even if we do put our account on vacation AFTER we shipped our last batch, the messages come during the next weeks Vacation time.
It's handled by never going on Vacation and checking messages everyday 365 days a year, just like Amazon set it up to be.
Isn't it true this impacts sales velocity of products.... one of the biggest ranking factors in the algorithm? So we should be truthful that you can take time off, but you will, indeed, pay for it.
Here's a person who gets it.
All I can say is "Oof."
I hope that you are able to find time to spend with loved ones regardless, @Seller_AXC06kcsKI1qG!
Let me know what ideas you have for ways to improve vacation and your work-life balance.