Overview

Amazon has revamped its Merchant Fulfilled Network (MFN) shipping settings, introducing shipping templates as the centerpiece of a modernized fulfillment configuration system. These changes affect how sellers define transit times, set shipping rates, manage international delivery, and organize shipping preferences across their catalog. For any seller handling their own fulfillment, understanding and migrating to the new shipping settings is essential to maintaining accurate delivery promises and competitive shipping options.

Key Points / What Sellers Need to Know

• Shipping templates replace shipping overrides — The legacy shipping overrides system has been retired. All shipping customization now flows through the new template-based system, and old overrides will not function under the updated settings.
• Templates allow per-SKU customization — Sellers can create multiple shipping templates and assign different groups of SKUs to each one, enabling tailored transit times, rates, and ship options for different product segments.
• BMVD rate flexibility — Sellers can now set their own custom shipping rates for books, music, video, and DVD products, replacing the previously fixed pre-set rates.
• Premium and expedited shipping options — Eligible sellers can configure premium shipping tiers such as one-day and two-day delivery, setting region-specific rates and transit times to attract Prime-like buyer expectations.
• International shipping controls — The new settings let sellers define which countries they ship to and configure country-specific transit times and shipping rates.
• Migration is required — Sellers who have not yet migrated will not see the new shipping template options and must complete the migration process to access these features.

How Shipping Templates Work

Shipping templates are the core building block of the updated system. Each template defines a set of shipping preferences including transit times by geographic region, available shipping speed tiers, and rate structures. Sellers can create as many templates as they need and assign specific groups of SKUs to each one. This replaces the older approach where overrides were layered on top of a single default configuration. The template model gives sellers much more granular control — for example, a seller could have one template for lightweight items with fast two-day shipping and another for heavy or oversized products with longer standard transit times. Amazon requires all shipping templates to meet minimum requirements, so sellers should review the shipping template minimum requirements documentation to ensure compliance.