How to use Amazon to shop in mainland China? How does Amazon determine the delivery date?

Amazon is a good cross-border e-commerce platform. You can buy the products you want on this platform. As a user in mainland China, how do you use Amazon to shop online? The following content will provide you with relevant answers.

How to use Amazon to shop in mainland China?

1. Initial Setup

Before that, we need to first understand that Amazon's Buy Shipping service is a shipping service that Amazon mainly provides to sellers for self-delivery orders. The expansion of this service allows sellers to directly contact the delivery company through the platform, reducing the cumbersome process in the middle.

First, we need to go through the account information settings, find the option of "Purchase Shipping Preferences" in the shipping and return information of the seller's account, enter the regular package size we often use, and fill in "None" in the insurance option. At this point, our initial settings are actually ready. But then we also need to edit the warehouse addresses under our name. Because Amazon is an international trading platform, we cannot enter Chinese names, and we also need to fill in the place names and names in English and pinyin, which can also avoid embarrassing situations in international transactions.

2. Two ways to purchase delivery

After the initial settings are ready, the rest is to be done when we receive an order and are ready to ship. When we receive an order, the purchase and delivery service provides two delivery methods for sellers to choose from. The first is to purchase and deliver services for a single order, while the second is for large orders. The latter requires the help of a third-party service provider such as ERP to help us process large orders.

The reason for launching these two service methods should be that Amazon has considered all aspects of the industry's peak season and off-season as the best solution. Of course, if you want to choose the latter, using third-party services will naturally incur some additional cooperation fees, and this fee is borne by our sellers themselves. Therefore, if sellers want to choose the latter, it is best to make the right choice based on their own business status and market conditions. After all, our purpose is to operate, and when choosing the way to purchase and deliver, we strive to maximize our own interests.

3. Operational process of purchasing and delivery

Finally, we should understand that Buy Shipping uses the shipping method's transit time, ship time, and promised arrival date to determine whether the shipping method is likely to arrive on time. The transit time is the time the carrier says it will deliver the package after picking it up from the seller. The transit time is based on the delivery route, which is the zip code pair of the shipping and delivery addresses. For example, if a package is shipped from New York to Los Angeles, California, the delivery route might be 10001 to 90001.

This service will use the order's shipping and delivery addresses to query the carrier to obtain a delivery method that meets the buyer's promised arrival date requirements. After receiving the carrier's delivery method that meets the requirements, Amazon will use Amazon's transportation data to verify the actual transportation time on the order delivery route and confirm whether the actual transportation time is similar to that provided by the carrier.

How does Amazon determine delivery dates?

It is actually determined by the shipping date and transit time. If the estimated delivery date is after the promised arrival date, the shipping method is not eligible for the shipping order. Therefore, the shipping method may be displayed on the carrier's website, in which case it is not applicable for purchasing shipping.

But it’s important to note that this is only the expected behavior, not the actual behavior, so once we understand this, what will actually appear on the page are the delivery methods that have been proven to meet the delivery promises provided by the buyer.

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