Segregating Drop Ship Orders

Teapplix can now help you segregate dropship orders from multiple sellers.

When importing, you can ask your seller to include "QueueID" column in the file they pass you, orders will import to that specific queue.

When producing ship confirmation reports, you can pick a specific Queue to generate the file that corresponds to a specific seller.

See https://www.teapplix.com/help/?page_id=1761 for details

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Purchase Order CSVs

If you select a list of orders in Teapplix, and you are wondering how many inventory items are needed to fill this list of orders, you can find out by pressing "Generate Purchase Order CSV" button in the dropship form.

In the "DropShip Template" drop down, select Purchase Order => Everything, and the click the button. You will get a CSV that list all the SKUs and the quantities needed to fill the selected listed orders.

What's more, if you have Teapplix InventoryAdvisor<sup>&reg;</sup>, you can also generate a purchase order csv for all "short inventory". The CSV differs from the full purchase order above, by looking at your current quantity on hand and only list inventories if you are short, and the quantity is what's needed to make up the shortage.

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Support for Amazon Europe and Amazon Canada

We have released support for Amazon Europe (UK, FR, DE, IT, ES) as well as Amazon Canada.

Teapplix will automatically import orders from those Amazon accounts, and confirm orders as shipped once shipped in Teapplix.

Seller SKU as Item Name

As part of this change, we have now hard-wired to the option to use "Seller SKU" as item name. Existing customers will be able to continue with their current option, however, newer accounts will always import Seller SKU as item name. This option is better for inventory management.

Also, for each Teapplix account, you can link one amazon account per country, but not more.

QuickBooks Integration

International Amazon orders will export to your QuickBooks in the currency linked to by the Account and "Customer" record associated with the Amazon International Marketplace. The currency for these two must match:

  • If you let Teapplix create one customer per order, the customer for the international Amazon order will be created under local currency (GBP, Canadian Dollar, or Euro). The account these orders deposit to must also be in local currency. For this option to work, you must turn on multi-currency in your QuickBooks.
  • If you choose "one customer per marketplace", the "customer" and "account" associated with the Amazon international marketplace must match

Note that there is a current issue with QuickBooks that prevents automatic order export with 3 different currencies. We are still working with Intuit to resolve that. If you need to make that work, you must select the second option above, and export the third Amazon country into US currency.

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InventoryAdvisor® PickList Enhancements

If you turned on our InventoryAdvisor® product, you will notice some recent enhancements in our "PickLists". We have added 2 columns: "Quantity Available" and "Quantity Short".

Quantity Available is what you have on hand, not shipped out. This number will display if you entered your inventory quantity from our "Quantities" page.

Quantity Short will be displayed if your Quantity Available isn't enough to cover the orders in the batch.

These 2 columns give you an immediate view of what your stock level is in relation to your order. You can spot potential issues with fulfillment before generating shipping labels.

InventoryAdvisor® is a Teapplix optional subscription component that helps you track & manage inventory levels across multiple marketplaces. More information can be found in Advanced InventoryAdvisor® Help.

The PickList changes will only be visible if you turned on InventoryAdvisor®. If you have customized your PickList previously, you must "revert back to factory default" on the PickList.cs template under Setup => Packing Lists => Advanced.

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Revised Rate Quote Display

We have revised rate quote display. In addition to displaying the rate of the currently selected service, we also display rates for all other services from the same carrier.

For UPS, we also display the negotiated rates below the list rate.
UPS, FedEx and Stamps.com / Express1 rate quotes can also give you suggestions on address correction.

To access rate quote, you must enter your UPS, FedEx, USPS (Stamps.com, Endicia, Express1) credentials into Teapplix. To do that, please refer to the Setup page.

Note that rate quotes are not available for the following methods and carriers:

  • UPS Mail Innovations
  • DHL Global Mail
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Beta Support for ChinaPost ePacket and 4PX

We are beta testing support for Asian based carriers. This is designed for sellers who have to ship from Hong Kong, China, etc to other destinations including the US.

We can use API to generate labels for China Post ePacket (e邮宝), as well as 4PX.

If you would like to participate in the beta test, please contact Teapplix support.

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UPS Surepost® Beta

We have released a beta version of support via our UPS Online API support for UPS Surepost®.

To participate in this program, please contact Teapplix support.

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Core Commerce Beta

We have added bi-directional support for Core Commerce order import and export. We will be able to import orders and mark them as shipped.

You will need a version of Core Commerce that has API Support to use it. If you want to beta test the feature, please contact Teapplix support for setup procedures.

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Understanding the 2013 USPS Price Changes

On October 11, 2012 the U.S. Postal Service® announced new prices and services that will take effect on January 27, 2013.
Endicia is holding a webinar to go over these tion changes. If you use USPS, we strongly advise you to attend:

Date: Tuesday, January 22nd
Time: 10am PST

To register for this webinar please visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/202828488

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Changes to our standard dropship template

We have released changes to our generic CSV dropship template to make it more flexible

If you have a customized template, this change will not affect you and your template will continue to work as it currently does.

In the old template, we have 2 fields: "ItemName" and "Sku",

In the new template, this will expand to 4 fileds: "ItemName", "ItemDescription", "TeapplixSKU", "SupplierSKU".

  • ItemName - value from order line item
  • ItemDescription - value from order line item
  • TeapplixSKU - the SKU you assign in Teapplix, from the "remember weight" screen.
  • SupplierSKU - there is a Supplier SKU field that you can optionally assign from the "Inventory" tab

If you do not want any of these changes, Teapplix can install your old template free of charge to your account. Please contact support to do so.

But we think the new template adds future flexibility and encourage you to work with your dropshipper to handle these fields.

Note that the new dropship template will import into Teapplix correctly with "ItemName" and "ItemDescription" populating the corresponding fields in Teapplix. However, "TeapplixSKU" and "SupplierSKU" will be ignored during generic order import.

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