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How do you guys import shipping addresses into postage software?
 

I am not sure if this topic has been discussed before, but I have looked for couple of hours and I cannot find it so I am starting a thread. I apologize in advance if my English is confusing, since I am not a native speaker.

I am currently operating 5 Amazon accounts (all stealth), when I print postage I always do copy & paste all the orders' shipping addresses into one Excel spreadsheet manually (I mean I copy&paste customer's name into "name" column, street address to "address" column, state to "state" column...etc. ONE BY ONE), so that I am able to import them into Stamps.com software, it sounds stupid but I haven't found a easier way to do it, and it is so time consuming when there were high volume of orders....:doh: so do you guys know if there is any free software which automatically confirm the shipment, pull all the addresses and put them into a importable format for my Stamps.com software?

I know there are some third party Amazon seller management software that have all these features, but I believe those are one subscription for one seller account. Since I have 5 accounts, I will have to have 5 subscriptions and pay 5x for monthly fee....

How do you guys do when import shipping addresses into postage software?Any help would be greatly appreciated! :hail:

I know of no easy way to do it.
I pretty much do the same thing you are doing.

You can download a sheet for orders that needs to be shipped through amazon. That sheet has everything your doing manually. Simply download and verify the information is in the correct place where is needs to go in the software. I use encidia for my 2 accounts works like a charm.

Thanks Gamefreak. Where did u download those sheets? I looked around my seller account but couldn't find that option.

I double click the cell block and paste the entire address. Excel will only show one line of the address but if you double click the cell, it will show the entire address, then paste the address into stamps. Takes me a cpl seconds.

I have a web application I wrote myself in PHP language, that can automatically do all the following things:

- Sign in to your Amazon seller account and go to the order management page.
- Explore all pre-designated orders (pending, canceled, unshipped, shipped) and retrieve their detailed information such as shipping address (name, street line 1, street line 2 if any, city, state, zip), price, expect ship date...
- Gather all information into a downloadable csv or excel file

It's actually a great application. I have been using it for almost 6 months and never experience any incorrectness in grabbing customer shipping address, which is the most important thing of an unshipped order. I can also update its features according to mass member requests.

I'm thinking about opening my service to subscription and I will aim at a low monthly fee for member here. If you guys feel like it please reply to the thread and I will plan for it. Just trying to earn some money for my college expense, honestly :)

how much will it cost per month? does it automatically send u another copy of our files, so u are able to know what product we are selling :)

It will be $19.99 a month if I open this service. Btw it will cost you one subscription/person, not for every seller account.

I don't need to know what you are selling dude, I have my own business to focus on :)

Thats good. When are u planning to open this service? I am very interested. Is that a software that we can download or we have to go to your website to use that?

You have to download a software to your own computer to execute within it, and your software will verify your subscribed information to my server. Doing such way will guarantee that I don't have to save your Amazon seller info, and my server will not be the one which is used to authorize multiple seller accounts, that could lead all subscribed member to suspension lolz. Anyway don't mind the second sentence, I just want to point out some network programming aspects if you feel interested to know =}

Oh, and if you have to download some kind of a software, I have to convert my current program from PHP to C#, because subscribed members don't have a ready server to run PHP script. Well look like I will need time...

Sounds good :) The problem is I am using virtual machines for different seller account, which means I have to install your software on each individual machine. Should I use the same authorization code for all my virtual machines? How would your software work in my situation?