Amazon MCF: US Fulfillment

Its a bit complicated to setup but once it's running it's a great service.

We recently integrated the Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment App with our Shopify store, and it's been a game-changer. The setup was a breeze, especially with features like auto-SKU mapping, and now our US orders are efficiently managed and fulfilled using our Amazon inventory. Deliveries have sped up, with products reaching our customers in just a few days.

What's been genuinely impressive is the support from the Amazon team. We've thrown a few suggestions their way, and they've been quick to listen, respond, and act. The pricing is transparent and makes sense for our business. All in all, if you're looking to streamline your fulfillment process, this app is the game changer your business has been looking for.

The Amazon MCF works perfectly with the store, allowing the FBA fulfillment. It only works for USA. Hopefully, it will be available for Canada and Europe soon.

I can say this as an OG to the MCF app - I've been using MCF for our Shopify site for many years now starting with their older app, and the recent changes in the new app have been amazing! It runs very smooth, I've never had any issues when it comes to the inventory management and syncing products but in this newest version they have reduced a lot of the day to day workload in having to manually select shipping speeds per order which was always something cumbersome in previous iterations (and its entirely possible I was using these wrong then, but its set up automatically this time around). Once you set it up, it will map shipping speeds automatically to the customer's order and pushes the order with the correct shipping speed noted. Amazon's support has been amazing too, we wondered if we were able to automatically fulfill each other without having to confirm it each time - and they helped us out in a matter of seconds which saves us hours each week! (for those wondering, its a setting under your Shopify Settings: Settings/Checkout/Order Processing/Automatically fulfill the order‘s line items = yes)

Will be using MCF for many more years to come!

Update:

We're having a lot of issues with amazon MCF. Although the storage and fulfilment is cheap we've been having many problems:

1) Amazon receiving our inventory there are always issues. Either they overcount or undercount our inventory and then we have to submit a case against them. Getting a response takies forever. We also have to wait for them to process the whole shipment which can take up to a month.

2) Orders can stay pending fulfillment progress for months. We will send a request for amazon to fulfill our orders and it will stay in fulfillment progress for months. Customers then get upset because they never receive their order.

3) Amazon shows inventory for an item but when a customer makes an order for it, amazon declines for no inventory, although it says there is inventory.

4) We've been submitting cases for amazon to refund for items that are lost, they give us 50% reimbursement for the price. They claim they get the price based on the average of the price in the last 18 months or what other sellers are selling it at. However, we are the only ones that sell our items, so it doesn't make sense.

5) we've submitted so many cases with amazon and its weeks for a response. Then the response is barely a response.

If you're willing to lose 10% of inventory, maybe you can use amazon.

We switched to MCF and lowered our shipping costs so much that we no longer use a 3PL. So, we can access Amazon’s complete FC network instead of shipping from one warehouse. On top of that, shipping products to Amazon has reduced our shipping costs as we ship to fulfill both FBA and MCF. For example - we ship four pallets to Amazon, and they pick from that shipment to fulfill FBA and MCF.

As for the MCF app, it is easy to install and use. We set the app up to automatically ship our Shopify orders as they come in. For our pet food business, it has been a game changer.

Not as easy to set up as other connectors, but Amazon was very helpful and made sure it worked. Orders are feeding through and so far so good.

If we compare this to TikTok, Amazon is a winner. TikTok is a loser.

In due time it should work really well.

Set it and forget it. Best way to describe this well working and dependable app.

We've used a few different MCF apps in the past and this one has been the best - it's super simple and it's the cheapest. It doesn't have a ton of features but we realized we can customize things as much as we want to by using Shopify Flow. So we have some relatively complex order routing in place and it all works very well. It gives us a ton of flexibility.

We are a small company and having Amazon handle the logistics of our online orders has been wonderful. It is much easier to send products to them and not have to worry about the rest!