Shipping your "merchant ships" orders

- So far, we've seen how to list your products on Amazon.…Now, with luck, they'll start selling.…What happens next?…Well, if you're fulfilling orders yourself,…you'll need to ship those products to the buyers.…We'll look at FBA-fulfilled orders in the next video,…but in this one, we're going to…focus on merchant-fulfilled orders.…Probably the first things you'll see…when Amazon sells one of your products…is an email announcing the happy news.…The email won't arrive instantly.…Amazon has a lot going on, as you may imagine.…

In fact, it can take quite some time…before the order information's provided to you,…perhaps 20 minutes or more.…You may see a pending order up here,…in the Manage Orders page.…This appears when an order has been placed…but the payment has not yet been verified.…Eventually, though, you'll get an email that tells you…what sold, how much it sold for,…and the fees that Amazon will subtract.…Your task now is to ship that product to the buyer…as quickly as you can.…

Remember, the happier your buyer is,…