Practical articles for Western Bid clients about international online sales, payment processing, shipping, fulfillment, rates, Shopify, Etsy, eBay, and working with marketplaces. Find useful guides, tips, and solutions to help grow your business abroad.
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A detailed guide for sending goods to Amazon FBA warehouses via Western Bid. We cover shipping directly from Ukraine and from the Miami warehouse, packaging and labeling requirements, available shipping options, rates, and the alternative Amazon FBM operating model.
Learn how Sales Tax works on Etsy for Western Bid customers, whether you need to set up the tax yourself, who collects it from the buyer, and how it appears in Etsy Bill and the seller's financial reports.
Find out how Sales Tax works on Etsy for Western Bid customers, whether you need to set up the tax yourself, who collects it from the buyer, and how it is reflected in Etsy Bill and the seller's financial reports.
Find out how Sales Tax works on Etsy for Western Bid customers, whether you need to set up the tax yourself, who collects it from the buyer, and how it is displayed in Etsy Bill and the seller's financial reports.
Find out which duty-free threshold for importing goods applies in different countries when the buyer pays duties and taxes, how shipping affects the customs value, and why it's important to check the latest import rules before shipment.
Find out what to do if there are problems with a UPS shipment in transit, how Western Bid's free UPS monitoring works, where to view open cases, and how to respond quickly to delays, returns, or address errors.
Learn how to use the parcel label printing service at Western Bid, what data to write on the box if you don’t have a printer, how to process a shipment in the dashboard, and what restrictions apply to this service.
Learn how to import orders from eBay into the Western Bid Personal Cabinet, pull transactions from Managed Payments, avoid manual data transfer, and quickly fulfill deliveries for a large number of orders during the selected period.
Find out which goods require an export permit from Ukraine, when certificates, expert assessments or other documents are required, which categories are prohibited from being sent via Western Bid, and how to avoid blocking, fines and problems at customs.
Find out how to stop, return, or change the address of a shipped package with Western Bid, when cancellation is available for Consolidation Plus, why UPS Express does not support interception, and how to correctly submit a request via your account.