It's snow-time! ❄️ December newsletter inside!

[InventoryLab Newsletter] Read time: 3 minutes How does a Snowman get to work? By icicle. Obviously. Snuggle up to this edition of the IL newsletter and the un-brr-lievable things we have in store this winter. In today’s email: - Brain Break - Find out what type of winter beverage you are, and listen to some seasonal tunes! - Working Shipments Update - We made it easier for you to filter your shipments by status. - Ship from China to the US and Save - Learn about the seller export and delivery program. - Customer Coaching - Come learn more about how to maximize your IL account! - Tax Tips - Get ready for tax season. - Blog - Maximize Q4 sales and learn the top 4 IL tips for success Are you an egg nog? A cocoa?  You know you’re curious -  [Which cozy winter beverage are you?]( Reply directly to this email with your results, and get entered to win some cool IL swag! Be sure to include your mailing address in your email. It’s officially cozy season! Set the mood with our [Winter Wonders]( - curated just for you by our team of Customer Champions! It makes the perfect background for packing boxes and searching for profitable items - or wrapping presents. [Listen to the Playlist Here]( We value your feedback! This month, we would like to shine a spotlight on one of our users who took the time to share their thoughts about our platform. Ryan H. recently shared his opinion on InventoryLab vs. other competing softwares. Here’s what he had to say: “This software (InventoryLab) that I’m going to be using, blows the others out of the water with customer service and staying up to date with features. This is the fourth listing software I’ve tried extensively and I think this is the Goldilocks fit.” Thank you, Ryan, for your support! It's users like you who inspire us to strive to be the best we can be! Have feedback you would like to share? Send an email to support@inventoryLab.com to get highlighted in a future newsletter and receive some InventoryLab swag! [What's New?] Working Shipments Window Once you have created shipments in Stratify, you can now filter them by status in your Working Shipments window for easier viewing! Shipments can be filtered by the following statuses: - Working - Ready to Ship - Ready for Carrier Learn more about our this update here: [Filtering Working Shipments in Stratify]( Check out this quick walkthrough video! [Product Updates - Filter Your Shipments]( LTL (Less Than Truckload) Shipping Workflow As promised, our development team has been hard at work on creating a shipment workflow for LTL shipments,  using both partnered and non-partnered carriers, and it’s almost here! Keep an eye on your inbox for the official release date (coming before the end of Q4) and more details. Lower Costs on Shipping from China to the US Did you know that you can now ship your FBA inventory from China directly to the US fulfillment centers? According to Amazon, it will be at a lower cost if you use Seller Export and Delivery program. Learn more in this article from Seller Central: [Partnered carrier shipping from China to the US]( [Customer Coaching] Have you joined us for a FREE customer coaching session yet?! Each course is held in a live small-group setting via Zoom, and led by an expert customer coach. These courses are not recorded, so be sure to mark your calendar! Here’s a quick rundown on the two courses we currently offer: Inventory Management In this course, you’ll learn how to: - resolve inventory alerts - use Unlisted Inventory - update your accounting in bulk - list replenishments Batch Basics In this course, you’ll learn how to: - list items in a private FBA batch - create shipments - add box contents - purchase shipping labels Click the link below to sign up! [Sign Up for Customer Coaching]( Tax time is upon us! Check out these 5 tips to prepare for tax season! - Review your buy costs. Export your Replenishment data to find missing costs, then navigate to your sales pages and complete an advanced search for the tax year with a filter for “No Buy Cost.” Once you have the MSKUs that you need to update, export your inventory page, add your costs, and import the numbers in. If your MSKUs have replenishments, you can use the [Bulk Edit]( feature to quickly update your items. If you stopped selling an item throughout the year, you can make these changes in your [Archived inventory](. - Review your Disposition Management. Before you export your Profit & Loss report, make sure that all of your MFN returns and removals for the year have been correctly marked as Sellable or Unsellable. This ensures the correct buy costs are taken into account for those transactions. Not sure what the right way to mark an item is? See [When + Why to Change a Removal to Sellable or Unsellable]( for more details. If you know what the disposition of most of your removals or MFN returns will be, you can set up [default dispositions]( in settings. - Resolve any inventory alerts.  If there is a quantity discrepancy on an item in your inventory, we’ll be sure to create an alert to let you know. Navigate to your inventory pages and filter the data for ‘Has Alerts’. Clicking on an alert will take you to the item’s replenishment detail page. Under the ‘Alerts’ tab, you’ll see the amount of the quantity difference, which will allow you to begin to research. For reasons on why you may see alerts and how to address them, please see:  [Why do I have Inventory alerts? Replenishment quantity totals are different from Amazon](. Once you find the reason for your alerts, it may involve increasing your inventory replenishment amounts in InventoryLab, decreasing them, waiting for Amazon to make certain adjustments, or reaching out to Seller Support for further investigation. - Pull your Inventory Valuation. On January 1st of each year, your previous year’s ending inventory value from December 31st should be available to export from the Inventory Valuation report. This report shows you your inventory value on specific dates for your active, inbound, and unlisted inventory. More details can be found here: [Inventory Valuation]( - Make sure your sales are fully reconciled. Navigate to your FBA and MFN sales pages and filter for any estimated sales. If it’s after January, all of your past year’s sales should be reconciled by then, so if you have any that are still in an estimated status, you’ll want to be sure to sync any missing historical data. Step-by-step instructions on how to do this can be found here: [How do I get data from before I signed up for InventoryLab?]( [On the Blog] Did you know that  [Adobe]( predicts a 4.8% growth in online spending this holiday season?! That’s great news for ecommerce sellers, but also means now is the time to get some things in place to set yourself up for success. Check out this helpful blog from Cyndi over at Bookskeep: [Maximizing Q4 Sales and Profitability for E-commerce Businesses]( Cyndi has been sharing her awesome content with us here at IL for quite some time, and we are sad to report this will be her final blog post and she takes time to focus on big things to come over at [Bookskeep](. We hope you have enjoyed her many tips along the way. If you haven’t yet, check out Bookskeep’s free Inventory Basics Guide [HERE](. Thank you, Cyndi! Selling on Amazon can be a profitable business, but it can also be tricky without the right tools! If you’re looking for a way to streamline your workflow and maximize your earning potential,  InventoryLab has you covered. [In this post]( we’ll explore the top 4 InventoryLab features every seller should master: Buy List Import, Bulk Edit Tool, Total Cost Calculator, and Unlisted Inventory. By learning to use these tools correctly, you can save time, and maximize your InventoryLab subscription. Read more here: [The Top 4 InventoryLab Features Every Amazon Seller Should Master]( Thanks for reading and being part of the IL Team! Remember, snowman is an island.  You can always reach out to us at support@inventorylab.com at anytime.  We are here to help! [Instagram icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Facebook icon]( [YouTube icon]( [Email icon](mailto:admin@inventorylab.com) © 2023 · InventoryLab Inc. · 9218 Metcalf Ave #102 · Overland Park, Kansas 66212 · USA You are receiving this email because you signed up for InventoryLab or its Newsletter. Want to change how you receive these emails? 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