Launch of PowerShip – an eBay facilitated shipping service

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear Members,

We are very excited to announce the launch of PowerShip – an eBay facilitated shipping service to enhance your experience on eBay India.

For our Sellers, PowerShip will significantly enhance the efficiency of managing multiple item shipments and delivery of items to your buyers. We’ve engaged with reputed logistic service providers such as FedEx, BlueDart, DTDC and Aramex for this initiative and what you have in store is attractive rates, item pick-ups from your doorstep, automated tracking of shipments, faster item deliveries by Logistic Service Providers and coverage for the shipment from eBay India. The seamless solution will let you develop and grow your core eBay business by sourcing more efficiently and serving buyer needs better. Essentially, greater peace of mind and ease of managing business!

PowerShip will include Air mode, enabling quicker delivery of items to Buyers, Surface mode to manage volumetric and large size shipments and Cash On Delivery enabled through BlueDart in addition to Aramex for buyers who wish to pay for items on delivery. PowerShip sellers can avail special courier rates and ship to over 10,000 plus locations across 2500 cities and towns in India.

Ensuring quick shipment & delivery of items is a critical factor in driving a great Buyer experience. So, every time you dispatch the item within a single day of order confirmation (pick-up time as per Logistics Service Provider’s confirmation), you will receive a special FastShip discount of 0.5% on your PaisaPay fees, which translates into a discount of up to 11% on the PaisaPay fees. In addition to this, you will also receive 5 Star DSR Ratings on “Shipping Timelines” for all such orders shipped within a single day from the date of order confirmation! This will result in shorter delivery timelines, enabling you to build a loyal customer base and increase your business on eBay.

5 star DSRs on Shipping Cost for listings where the Buyer checks out with Free shipping [if offered] continues.

All of this would ensure that Buyers, will consistently experience a high quality service from you for their purchases along with the benefits of tracking shipments in a transparent fashion, resulting in a delightful shopping experience on eBay.

What else is changing…

With the launch of PowerShip, ‘My PaisaPay’ is undergoing a makeover. The new interface has been designed taking into account your feedback on being more user-friendly and efficient. It will enable quick access to information onyour transactions, tracking status, shipping related documents and remittances.

Some of the new features:

•Quick view and access to your unshipped, shipped and cancelled transactions on the left side of the page in ‘Bought with PaisaPay’ & ‘Sold with PaisaPay’ section
•Additional filters to sort orders by PaisaPay ID, Buyer ID, Item ID, Order Date and Courier under the activity tabs.
•Prefilled & preformatted information of your Shipping Label, Manifest, Order Statement and Shipping Declaration made available for print at a click of a button. No more manual formatting in MS Excel/MSWord!
•New ‘Shipping Preferences’ tab to set preferences tocombine/ separate ’Ready To Ship‘ and printing actions,along withpreference of‘State exclusions’ for item deliveries [enabling you to configure the States & Union Territories to which you are ready to ship to]. You asked for it, we have now built it for you!
•Simplified Shipping service combinations for PaisaPay covering Local, National, Flat Rate and Surface. Apart from this ‘Cash on Delivery’ and ‘Buyer Picks up and pays’ can be used with any of the above combinations.

More information on the changes and sample screens available here .

PowerShip will be launched in pilot phase with a select number of sellers starting post-midnight of 5thJune 2012, and will continue ramping this up to include more sellers over a few weeks. You will be contacted over next few days for assistance on joining the program if you are part of the pilot / launch phase. Click here to refer to PowerShip T&C .

For this launch, we are making amendments to the PaisaPay User Agreement, PaisaPay Terms & Conditions and PaisaPay Rules and Policies which will be effective post-midnight of 5th June, 2012.


Want to know more? Attend our workshop on 4th June 2012 at 4 pm on this thread.

We would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on PowerShip. Do drop in your comments here.

Thank You,
eBay

[rajelectroniks]

Please introduce the 250 gms slot urgently.

What is the seller selection criteria in the initial phase.
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[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear sreelakshmitraders,

Thanks for your participation on the forum. Please find the answers to your questions.

1)250 grams weight slab: At the moment, we have commercials starting 500 gms available and offered under PowerShip. We are working on offering 250 gms and this may be available in near future.

2) Tax Invoice:

Logistics Service Providers are required to carry and post invoices at various entry points to be able to deliver items to the required designations

The requirement is to provide valid Invoice with CST/TIN number in printed form and in multiple copies during pick-up. In additional to his, sellers are required to comply with state regulatory requirements as need for the consignments.

See the below links for the requirements-
•BlueDart - http://www.bluedart.com/regulatory.html
•FedEx - http://www.fedex.com/in/domestic/services/regulatoryguidelines.html
•Aramex – http://www.aramex.com/customercare/default.aspx

3) Tariff includes surcharge: Just to be clear, the traffic includes basic rates and fuel surcharge. Service tax and Rs. 2 for packing material is additional. These great rates are available for whole of 2012!

4)Minimum weight for surface parcel is high: Thanks for the suggestion, we will reviewing this and explore the possibility of offering this in near future

5)Fastship discount is a very good concept: Thank you! We believe this will help our sellers to deliver goods in shortest time and provide great experience to the buyers.

6) Regionwise Shipping Options: Thanks for the suggestion, we will reviewing this and explore the possibility of offering this in near future

Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear rajelectroniks,

At the moment, we have commercials starting 500 gms available and offered under PowerShip. We are working on offering 250 gms and this may be available in near future.

Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear Gudgoodies,

Thanks for the participation and we are equally eager to get you started with PowerShip. PowerShip will be launched for COD on 6th June and other modes i.e Prepaid / Air will be enabled on 11th June. Surface mode will be available starting 15th June.

Regards,
Seema

[accessoriesmasters]

Hi

want to know two things as wrote by mark-infotech

1. forms for up and east india

2. 250 gms slot.

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear mark-infotech,

Logistics Service Providers are required to carry and post invoices at various entry points to be able to deliver items to the required designations

The requirement is to provide valid Invoice with CST/TIN number in printed form and in multiple copies during pick-up. In additional to his, sellers are required to comply with state regulatory requirements as need for the consignments.

See the below links for the requirements-
•BlueDart - http://www.bluedart.com/regulatory.html
•FedEx - http://www.fedex.com/in/domestic/services/regulatoryguidelines.html
•Aramex – http://www.aramex.com/customercare/default.aspx

Further, at the moment, we have commercials starting 500 gms available and offered under PowerShip. We are working on offering 250 gms and this may be available in near future.

Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear super.shopper.24x7,

Thanks for your feedback. We are happy to inform you that you have been enrolled for our Powership Program.

Happy Selling 🙂

Regards,
Seema

[rajelectroniks]

If ebay has no plans to introduce the 250 gms slot then this facility is of no use to most sellers, Rs.40/- per 500 gms charge is too high.

Another thing is 90% ebay sellers do not have CST and TIN nos, so this service is useful only to the remaining 10% who are big sellers and they are anyway getting better rates than this.

There is nothing here for medium and small sellers.
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[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear atthershabbir,

Thanks for your participation on the forum. Here's an answer to your queries:

1)In addition to Aramex, we are now tied up with BlueDart for COD shipment. Through the regular pickup process enabled by BlueDart, we are sure that your items will be picked up on the same or following day (excluding Sunday and holidays).

As long as the item is picked up and confirmed to have been picked within a day of order confirmation, we will be happy to provide 0.5% shipping discount.

2)For Prepaid shipments the orders do not move from “Awaiting Shipments” in SM Pro to “Paid and Shipped” TILL the courier confirms the pickup. That is when we mark orders as shipped.

Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear carsaccessories,

Thanks for your participation on the forum. Please find the answers to your questions:

Question 1) We will working to offer a 250 gms slot and this may be available near future.

Question 2) The chargeable weight will be basis the actual weight confirmed by LSP

Question 3) Logistics Service Providers are required to carry and post invoices at various entry points to be able to deliver items to the required designations

The requirement is to provide valid Invoice with CST/TIN number in printed form and in multiple copies during pick-up. In additional to his, sellers are required to comply with state regulatory requirements as need for the consignments.

See the below links for the requirements-
•BlueDart - http://www.bluedart.com/regulatory.html
•FedEx - http://www.fedex.com/in/domestic/services/regulatoryguidelines.html
•Aramex – http://www.aramex.com/customercare/default.aspx

Regards,
Seema