- When it comes to choosing how you send your Purchase Orders to Amazon, Amazon allows you to select between two options:
- Collect – Which means that Amazon pays for the freight, which has the benefits of being able to make use of the highly favourable rates of shipping that Amazon has negotiated with their carriers as well as leaving Amazon to make all the shipping arrangements using their preferred carriers; but the requirement of you having to agree to a Freight Allowance which is updated annually and which becomes a part of your initial standard Agreements with Amazon; or
- Prepaid – Which means that you pay for the freight of your Purchase Orders to Amazon’s Fulfilment Centers but at non-Amazon negotiated shipping rates and which requires you to make all the necessary shipping arrangements yourself, but where you can use your own preferred carriers.