Setting and editing price tiers

You can use the Shipping settings feature to view and edit price-tier shipping settings. You can create up to ten unique sets of price tiers for each region.

How price-tier shipping works

For each price-tier you create, you must set shipping rates for the service levels in each enabled region. If you do not enable shipping service for a region, then that region will not have editable rate fields. All shipping rates must be greater than or equal to $0.00. For example, here is a Shipping Price-tier table for the Continental U.S. region. This table shows three different price-tiers, with different values for Standard or Expedited shipping:

Price-tiers	Standard	Expedited
$0.00 - 50.00	$5.00	$7.00
$50.01 - 80.00	$7.00	$9.00
$80.01 - up	$12.00	$15.00

Suppose a customer orders two products from you, a bracelet that costs $24.99 and a watch that costs $82.50, and the customer wants Expedited Shipping. Amazon Payments calculates the total shipping charge to the customer as follows:

$24.99	+	$82.50	=	$107.49	+	$15.00	=	$122.49
bracelet		watch		(total)		shipping charge

Note:

• Your shipping rates and restrictions automatically appear on your shipping Help pages when customers view Your Information & Policies pages. You can edit the information on your Help pages so customers can make better purchase decisions. See Your Information & Policies page for more information about customizing your Help pages.
• You must use the Shipping Settings feature to switch from the default item-based shipping to price-tier shipping before you can edit these rates
• The first time you set up price-tier shipping, only the upper bound limit for the lowest band is available, and it is pre-populated with "Up." When you type a value for the upper bound dollar value, the lower bound dollar value for the second band, $0.01 above the upper bound dollar value for the first band, appears automatically.

Changing shipping methods

You switch between item-based and price-tier shipping using the Shipping settings feature.

Note:

• Changes to your shipping methods do not appear to customers until after the four-hour latency period.
• When you change to price-tier shipping for the first time, the price-tiers are blank. You must enter new values for your price-tiers before you can use this method of calculating shipping charges.
• When you switch from one method to another, you lose the settings for the current method. That is, if you switch from price-tier to item-based shipping, then you lose your current set of price tiers.

Switch to price-tier shipping

1. On the Settings link, click Shipping Settings.

   The Current Shipping Rates and Settings page appears.

2. Click Change to price-tier shipping.

   The Set Regions page appears.

3. Make any changes you want to the regions you support, and then click Continue.

   The Set Your Shipping Rates page appears.

4. To create the first new price tier, click Add another band.

   A blank row appears below the first band.

5. Add the price-tier by typing a value into the upper bound dollar value for the first band in the list.

   For example, you can type 14.99 in the first box to set the first price tier to $0.00 through $14.99.

6. Click in the Rate box, then type the rate charge.

   For example, you can type 8.00.

7. If you want to add another price tier, click Add another band again and then enter the tier upper value and the rate.

   The last tier must always use "Up" as the final value.

8. When you are done, click Continue

   The Confirm Your Settings page appears. Changes to your rates appear as bold and highlighted text.

9. Click Confirm.

   The Current Shipping Rates and Settings page appears, showing that you updated your shipping rates.

Setting shipping user permissions

Only users with permission to use the Shipping Settings can change the shipping settings. You use the Permissions Manager to set permission levels for users on your account. There are three levels of permissions:

• View and Edit: Users with View and Edit permissions can create and modify shipping configurations.
• View Only: Users with View Only access can only view shipping configurations.
• No access: Users with No access have no access to this feature.

 

The primary account holder should carefully specify view and edit permissions for users so that unauthorized accounts cannot create or modify shipping terms.

Note: The Shipping settings feature only appears on the Settings link if you have permissions to use this feature. Only the primary account holder for your account (not Amazon Payments) can grant you permission to use this feature. Contact them to gain access to this feature. (The primary account holder is the person who initially registered with Amazon Payments.) You can change user permissions on the Settings link.

You can use Shipping Settings to view and edit price-banded shipping settings. You can create up to ten unique sets of price bands for each region and service level.

To add a new rate, follow these steps:

1. On the Set Your Shipping Rates page, delete the word Up and type the upper amount for the band (such as 100.00).
2. In the Shipment Rate box, type the amount you want to charge for shipping for orders that fall into the current band.
3. You can continue to add more rate bands by deleting Up and typing a new value and rate.
4. If you need a new band, click Add more bands.
   • Your last band must always contain Up as the upper value.
   • You must enter a shipment rate for the last band.
5. When you have finished adding the rates you want, click Continue.
6. Review your changes and click Confirm.

 

Changes will not take effect for at least 4 hours. You have 1 hour to make changes before Amazon finalizes them.