Overview

Amazon sellers with Professional selling plans can streamline their order fulfillment workflow by confirming multiple shipments at once through a bulk upload feed. Instead of confirming each order individually, sellers can use Amazon's shipping confirmation template to upload tracking and shipment details for many orders in a single file. This feature is especially useful for high-volume merchants who need an efficient way to keep their shipment records current.

Key Points / What Sellers Need to Know

• Professional plan required — The bulk shipping confirmation feed feature is only available to sellers enrolled in a Professional selling plan. Individual plan sellers must confirm shipments one at a time.
• First confirmation triggers full charge — When you split an order into multiple shipments, the entire order is charged and marked as complete as soon as the first shipment is confirmed, even if additional packages have not yet been sent.
• UK/EU cross-border restrictions — Sellers shipping from outside the UK or EU to customers in those regions must ship each order in a single shipment. Splitting an order across multiple packages or combining multiple orders into one shipment can trigger additional tax charges for buyers and negatively affect product reviews.
• Supply Source ID now required — Sellers using feed files to confirm shipments must include a Supply Source ID (S2 ID), a unique location identifier found in Seller Central settings under the Supply Sources tab or via the GET S2 API.
• Template includes validation macros — Amazon's shipping confirmation template has built-in validation macros that help prevent common formatting errors during data entry.

How the Bulk Upload Process Works

To get started, download the shipping confirmation template from Seller Central and review the instructions on the field definitions tab, paying close attention to the accepted values column and any notes listed below the table. Enter your shipping information on the shipping confirmation tab, making sure to format all columns as text to prevent spreadsheet applications from stripping leading zeroes. The ship date must follow the yyyy-mm-dd format. Once you have filled out the template, save the file as a tab-delimited text file (.txt). Then navigate to Seller Central, select the option to upload order-related files, browse to your saved template, and submit it for processing.