- Important to note is that Commercial invoices are for shipping purposes only and are not used for processing payments to you. The standard invoices you generate on Vendor Central are for processing payments to you.
- If you ship your products to or from another country, you must create a commercial invoice during the advance shipment notification (ASN) submission.
- Once you have submitted your ASN via Orders > Shipments, you will be taken directly to the Commercial Invoice page where you can select to “Create Commercial Invoice”.
- Some details are pre-populated from the ASN that you just created. Review the details and if anything is incorrect, click ASN details to update the ASN.
- Enter any required information that was not populated by the ASN.
- Select “Yes” or “No” for “Is this a Small Parcel shipment?” Small parcels are generally LTL or single cartons, whereas larger parcels tend to be a FTL (full truck load).
- Select the “Country of Manufacture (or Country of Origin)”. This is the country where the goods were manufactured. If you did not enter the Country of Origin when you originally added the product in Vendor Central, you will need to enter it manually on the commercial invoice each time you ship this product.
- Scroll down to the “Shipper Certification” section. If your shipment contains wood packing materials, select the clarification statement that applies.
- When finished, scroll to the top of the page and click “Submit” to submit the commercial invoice.
- Click “Print” thereafter, sign the printed Shipper Certification and commercial invoice where noted and provide it to the driver when the shipment is picked up. If your PO terms are Collect, you are shipping internationally, and you cannot access the Commercial Invoice feature, email: vc-commercialinvoice@amazon.com. It is a good rule of thumb to email the Commercial Invoice to Amazon regardless as a backup and to avoid any chargebacks.
- If you ship your products to or from another country, you must update your commercial invoice any time you update the corresponding ASN.
- To edit your commercial invoice, go to Shipments and click one of the links beginning with “View shipments created in the last X days” that applies.
- In “Completed shipments” at the bottom of the next page, find the shipment you need to edit.
- Click the yellow “Actions” button to the right of that shipment and then “Edit commercial invoice”.
- If you need to edit any of the information on your commercial invoice that is also included in your ASN, edit that information directly in your ASN first. Changes made to ASN-related data in your commercial invoice will not be reflected in your ASN. If you make any edits to your ASN, you will need to resubmit your commercial invoice for that shipment.
- Once you have submitted edits to your ASN, you will be taken to the Commercial Invoice page.
- If you have not yet sent your shipment, print and sign the Shipper Certification and commercial invoice document and provide it to the driver when the shipment is picked up and/or email it to
- vc-commercialinvoice@amazon.com.