Overview

When shipping inventory to Amazon fulfillment centers, every box you send must have a properly printed and applied box label. This step is part of Amazon's Send to Amazon workflow and is essential for ensuring your shipment is received and processed without delays. Mislabeled or unlabeled boxes can result in receiving errors, lost inventory, or additional fees.

Key Points / What Sellers Need to Know

• Every box requires a label — No exceptions. Each individual box in your shipment must have its own unique label before it leaves your facility, whether you are shipping small parcels or full pallets.
• Labels must match the correct box — Applying the wrong label to a box is one of the most common shipping mistakes sellers make. Amazon uses these labels to reconcile your shipment contents, and mismatches cause processing delays.
• Box labeling is Step 3 in the workflow — The Send to Amazon process follows a specific sequence: selecting inventory, confirming shipping details, printing box labels, and then handling carrier and pallet information if applicable.
• Pallet shipments have additional labeling steps — If you are shipping via pallets, you will also need to complete carrier and pallet information in Step 4, and print pallet labels in Step 5 when using an Amazon partnered carrier.
• Small parcel shipments skip pallet steps — For standard small parcel shipments, you move directly from box labels to the final shipping details step.

How the Send to Amazon Labeling Process Works

The Send to Amazon workflow is a multi-step process that guides sellers through preparing shipments for Amazon fulfillment centers. After you have selected the inventory you want to send in Step 1 and confirmed your shipping configuration in Step 2, you arrive at Step 3 where box labels are generated. At this point, Amazon's system creates unique labels for each box in your shipment based on the contents and destination fulfillment center you specified. You download these labels as a PDF, print them, and physically apply them to the corresponding boxes. It is critical that each label goes on the correct box, as the label contains information Amazon uses to identify what should be inside and where it needs to go within the warehouse.