# Amazon Shipping Templates

## Overview

While you must always configure shipping defaults in Seller Central as an account-level setting, you can use the **Amazon Shipping Templates** workflow in Sellercloud to override them for specific listings. This feature allows you to adjust the shipping charges for your products based on the shipping service.

Sellercloud automatically updates shipping overrides on Amazon products once every 24 hours. Alternatively, you can post your products again to apply changes immediately.

Shipping templates can also be used on Amazon's international sites.

In Sellercloud, you can also import and assign [Ship By Region Templates](https://help.sellercloud.com/omnichannel-ecommerce/amazon-ship-by-region-template/) to customize shipping for different regions. However, you can only enable and apply one type of template to your products at a time. This means that you can’t use **Ship By Region** templates while using the ones described in this article.

## Prerequisites

To enable this feature:

1. Open a ticket with [Sellercloud Support](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630831494839563427) to ensure that the Windows Service **AmazonShippingTemplateUpdateServices** is running on your server.
2. Go to [Company Settings](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630848954242562863).
3. Click **Toolbox** and select **Amazon Settings > General Settings**.
4. Click **Edit**.
5. In the **Credentials** section, disable **Enable Ship By Region Templates**.

6. In the **Controls** panel, enable **Allow Shipping Price Update**.

7. Click **Save**.

## Create Templates

To create a new template:

1. In Sellercloud, go to your [Company Settings](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630848954242562863).
2. Click **Toolbox** and select **Amazon Settings > Shipping Templates**.
3. Enter a **New Template Name** and click **Add New Template**.

4. Populate the details of your template:
   - **Option** \- Select a shipping option for the template.
     
     The options on the menu are all of Amazon's available shipping options, including **Standard, Expedited,** **Next (day),** and **Second (day)** shipping with their locales. For example, **Exp Cont US Street Addr** refers to **Expedited shipping - 1-3 business days** \- when shipping to a street address in the continental United States.
   - **Amount**\- Set the shipping price.
   - **Type**\- Select a type for the shipping price:
     - **Additive** \- The **Amount** field will be added to the shipping price in the Seller Central price settings.
     - **Exclusive** \- The **Amount** field will be the exact shipping price the customer is charged, regardless of what is set on Seller Central.
   - **Restricted** \- Restrict the product's shipping to the locale selected in the **Option** menu. With this option enabled, you will not be able to ship products with this template to any location other than the selected locale.

5. Click **Save Template**.

## Manage Templates

To manage your Amazon shipping templates:

1. In Sellercloud, go to your [Company Settings](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630848954242562863).
2. Click **Toolbox** and select **Amazon Settings > Shipping Templates**.
3. To edit a template, click the **Edit** link next to it.
4. To delete a template, check the box next to it, then click **Select Action**, select **Delete**, and click **Go**.
5. To clone a template, check the box next to it, then type the name of the new template in the **Clone Selected to** field and click **Go**.

## Set a Default Template

To set a default template:

1. Go to [Company Settings](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630848954242562863).
2. Click **Toolbox** and select **Amazon Settings > Product Defaults**.
3. Click **Edit**.
4. Select a **Shipping Template**.

5. Click **Save**.

## Assign Templates

You can assign Amazon shipping templates individually per product or in bulk by uploading a file.

### Individually

To assign a template to a single product:

1. Go to the [Product Details Page](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630846719601169819).
2. Click **Toolbox** and select **Amazon Properties**.
3. Click **Edit**.
4. In the **Shipping** panel, check **Enable Shipping Override**.
5. Select a **Shipping Template**. The selected template will be the only one taken into account, regardless of all other shipping rules and templates applied.

If you only see **Ship By Region** templates as **Shipping Template** options, go to [Company Settings](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630848954242562863) \> **Amazon Settings > General Settings** and disable the **Enable Ship By Region Templates** checkbox.
6. Click **Save**.

### In Bulk

To assign templates to multiple products:

1. Follow the steps to [Bulk Update Products](https://descartessystems.aha.io/pages/7630834039903362072).
2. Generate a template file with the column headers **AmazonEnableShippingOverride** and **AmazonShippingTemplate**. Then enter **True** below the **AmazonEnableShippingOverride** header and enter the shipping template names under **AmazonShippingTemplate**.

3. Fill out the file, save it, and upload it.