Automatic USPS Return Labels, Paid only When Used

Teapplix now support printing an automatic return shipping label together with your normal USPS shipping label.

Normally, this practice is done more with UPS and FedEx. However, Together with Endicia, Teapplix now supports printing a return USPS shipping label together with the forward USPS shipping label.

The second label is only paid when used by your customer to return.

To turn on such feature, you need to have an Endicia account, and you need to turn on "Pay on Use" return feature on your Endicia, after that, contact Teapplix support to turn on the "automatic return label after the normal label" feature.

 

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Teapplix Supports Submitting Orders to Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment

You can use Fulfillment by Amazon accounts to fulfill your orders from other sources. This is called “Multi-Channel Fulfillment” on Amazon.

Teapplix now allows you to "Drop Ship" your orders downloaded from any channels and submit them to Amazon FBA.

The product enhancement will enable our customers to:
- Selecting the proper Amazon FBA shipping levels
- Send bulk orders to Amazon FBA with a single button click.
- Automatically fetch Amazon FBA tracking number and upload it to the source channel
- Have the flexibility to use different item names for different channels. Teapplix can find the right one for Amazon FBA via SKU mapping

Amazon FBA submit is supported for any country that Teapplix supports Amazon MWS integration. Currently we support US, Canada and all European countries including UK.

For operation details, please see our User's Guide link:
Drop Ship to Amazon FBA

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Performance optimization in our Inventory UI

To handle large number of product and listing displays, we have optimized our "Product" and "Listing" page under our "Inventory" tab.

1. Quantity information is now split out from the product page. Now product page is purely designed for editing products

2. "Build Quantity" page is renamed to "Enter Quantity" to better reflect what it means

3. There is a separate "Current Quantity" page. This page displays the currently calculated available quantity for your products.

4. "Listings" page will by default only display a search page for listings, rather than display all listings. To display all listings, click "Display All". Note that because Teapplix will have to search your recent sales history to put "quantity sold" on each listing, this may take some time. If you do not need such data, you can use "display settings" to hide the "recent sales" columns.

You can further optimize your operational speed by only searching for specific listings that you are interested in reviewing or syncing.

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Teapplix welcomes Dan Scheffler to the bullpen!

Blog readers,

It is with great excitement that we welcome Dan Scheffler to the Teapplix family! Dan is the new director of business development. He will be working out of our new location in Palo Alto.

Dan hails from Webgility where he served as an Sales Manager. He is also well acquainted with QuickBooks shipping integration.

lease take a moment to say hello and welcome!

You can reach danscheffler@teapplix.com

 

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PickList handling of Combo Items

We have implemented some changes of pick list with combo items / kits.

If you have combo items, you will see 2 sections on your picklist:

1) child SKU sections: these will list all the child items and their quantity, including those consumed by combos

2) Combo List ==> this will list separate all the combo items and the quantity required, together with the child items that constitute the combo and the quantities required.

You must "reset" your PickList template to factory default to see this change. To do that:

  1. go to Setup => Packing List
  2. go to Advanced Tab
  3. click "reset to factory default" on PickList.cs

 

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XCart Inventory Sync, and Changes in ZenCart osCommerce CRELoaded XCart Order Import

We now support XCart inventory sync. Teapplix can download "listings" from XCart, and sync quantity updates back to XCart. We support product options on XCart.

Currently XCart 4.x is supported. We are planning to release XCart 5.x by the end of this year. To utilize our inventory sync for XCart feature, you need to contact Teapplix Support to obtain and install a new module.

We have also changed the way orders are imported from osCommerce based carts (osCommerce, ZenCart, CRELoaded) as well as XCart.

Now, item_name in Teapplix will be populated with the "SKU" on the shopping cart, item_description in Teapplix will be populated with the "Title" on the shopping cart.

 

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Express1 Enhancements: Support for USPS First Class Package International

Express1 has now added support for USPS First Class Package International. You save 1% on international first class packages (letters and flats are not included).

If you use Teapplix + Express1, your first class international package will automatically print via Express1. To start saving money, open an Express1 account if you have not already:

in Setup => Shipping, set "Discount USPS Provider" to Express1

Save

Go to Setup => Express1, and create an account there. There is no monthly fee and you pay postage via credit card.

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QuickBooks Point of Sales Support

Teapplix now can support QuickBooks Point of Sale as well as QuickBooks financial.

We can export orders as sales receipts or sales orders to POS, you can map to items from marketplaces to POS items in Teapplix.

 

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USPS 2014 Pricing Change

Details for USPS 2014 pricing change is now announced. This will be effective September 7th, 2014.

The main point this year, is massive price reduction for Priority mail in the 5-20 lbs range. It is really important that you re-plan your shipping mix come holiday season, as we expect Priority mail to be much more attractive now.

In addition, each new Teapplix account comes with an embedded Express1 account that gives you access to commercial plus pricing, including Priority Mail International and First Class Package International, which is even more savings on top of this.

Detail of the price change can be found in this webinar:

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Better Inventory Management with Teapplix

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