The Flex feature is an optional feature which gives a store the ability to assign ‘multiple locations’ to products in Shopify.
This is a great feature for stores that:
Ship some products through Amazon and some products through a 3PL or manually themselves.
Participate in the Amazon MCF program in multiple countries. And wish to track location specific inventory levels per product.
Want to sell pre-order items and wait to send the fulfillment requests to Amazon.
Participate in Amazon’s Buy with Prime Integration.
Want to turn on automatic fulfillment for Amazon products only.
Use Amazon’s MCF program in some countries, but not all.
Requirements for Flex
Before a store enables the Flex feature inside of the ByteStand MCF Shipping app, the store must have completed the below.
Have a professional Amazon Seller account set up with Amazon and Active.
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The merchant has physical products stored in Amazon buildings in at least one Amazon marketplaces.
These locations can include the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Australia, or Japan. The Amazon Multi-channel Fulfillment program will only ship MCF orders inside of the country the products are stored in.
On Step 1 in the ByteStand MCF Shipping app ‘Account’, the store has previously connected at least one Amazon marketplaces.
Automatic fulfillment has been disabled in the stores Shopify Settings on the ‘Check Out’ page.
Flex Introduction Video
More Flex Resources
Use this link to find our YouTube Playlist for Flex. Each video walks through unique Amazon Seller Flex set-up steps and discusses the multiple ways the future can be used. Merchants that have enabled the feature but are unsure on how to use the feature need to watch the video below.
Also check out the benefits Amazon MCF can bring to your business.
