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

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear slice_price14,

Items are required to be packing in eBay packing material, that will provided to you. The eBay packing material is available in 4 sizes and this will be dispatched to you in accordance to items you sell on ebay India.


Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear rptechindia,

Thanks for sharing the ratecard with our community members.

Dear mahalaxmi_communication,

Sharing the link of the rate card once again for your reference.

http://deals.ebay.in/powership-rates/ratecard.php

Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear rajelectroniks,

Thanks for the suggestion and participation in the program. We have made a note of the request and working to offer it in near future, stay tuned!

Regards,
Seema

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear mobileaccesories,

Trust your concerns are now addressed.

Regards,
Seema

[accessoriesmasters]

Hi seema

your answer is not too informative

just go to regulatory options inside the links you have given

it has many types of forms for different states

it is not possible to give that by us as they are mainly given by buyer,

in case of west bengal there is VAT Form 50A,now that buyer has to provide but they cant as they dont have much knowledge of it.

Now this will make us to disable many states and thus states left for powership are


Andaman & Nicobar
Chandigarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
delhi
daman
lakshwadeep
pondicherry

Rest all require some or other form,

currently if we sale 100 per day than after this we will be selling 10 items a day with only 7 states.

What is to be Done?

[indiatrends]

Dear Seema,
Hope the discussion is still live....sorry for joining late.

Thanks for detailed reply, would urge pls incorporate, whenever buyer places order, a window should pop up requesting for updating mobile number of addressee.

Mobile number, helps in easy location of address by courier delivery person as well.

Warm Regards,
Prabhjot

[mark-infotech]

Hi

Does that mean we should exclude states where form is required or we can ship via our courier & also will sytem allow this??

If this is not solved powership will be of no use and I don't think I can ship more than 25% orderes with powership LSPs.

Regards,

[mark-infotech]

Oh!!

These rates are not all inlusive.. service Tax extra

It was anyway high .. now it is unaffordable.

[accessoriesmasters]

FULLY AGREE WITH mark-infotech

[seemak@ebay.com]

Dear mobileaccesories & mark-infotech,

Pertaining to your question about documentation/state exclusion, we understand that shipments to regions other than West Bengal may not be a challenge. Our Account Management team will reach out to you addressing these questions.

Regards,
Seema