VAT invoicing for Amazon Pan-European and EFN sellers
Mark Aldous
I have spoken with our development team on this as I know there has been work going on to enhance the order download for FBA orders.
The work they have done is now complete and will be gradually rolled out to all users of Linnworks so that synchronisation of orders will be via our updated cloud based methods.
As part of this we have looked at the Fulfilment Center Code and what we are able to do with it to make it visible to the end user such as yourself. As Linnworks handles orders from multiple channels we don't want to change the order page so that the information displayed is specific to a single channel. With this in mind we will be logging the Fulfilment Center Code in the Audit Trail of the order for you to view.
At the moment there are not any reports that have been created to view this in Dashboards > Query Data, but I am sure this would be possible to add later once we know under what sort of conditions a report would be required.
As we are using the Audit Trail, there would be no real way within Linnworks to use this for any invoicing systems.
Mark Aldous
Head of Implementation
Linn Systems
That's a huge step forward Mark - thanks!
Mark Aldous
Once I know the roll out of this starts I will update this thread
Saif Khan
@Mark Aldous..Any updates on fba invoices please..You promised this 3 years ago and nothing has been done...
This is a very much needed function, We provide alot of invoices to Fba customers and its increasing, it is very much time consuming and very much frustrating.
It would be great if this important task is done asap.
Thanks
Mark Aldous
Hi,
apologies for not updating the thread, the feature took longer than anticipated to develop and as a result an update was not published here when related features were released.
As mentioned to Andrew in my original response we have added the details regarding Amazon-Fulfilled shipment to the audit trail of an Amazon FBA order.
This audit may include the following details when they have been made available by Amazon
- SKU
- Qty
- Carrier
- Service Level
- Shipped On
- Fulfillment Centre ID
- Tracking Num
I know of a number of clients that have written their own API connections to Linnworks to extract this data for use within their own systems
I would also like to confirm that if you are enrolled in Amazon VCS, Linnworks is able to retrieve the tax that was applied at point of checkout and include this on an invoice that can be automatically uploaded to Amazon for customers to download. Details for making using of Amazon VCS can be found here
regards
Mark
Andrew Skirrow
It would be great for LW to be able to pull in the fulfilment centre code (and therefore its country) into the FBA order when it downloads it from Amazon. This data is required in order to send a correct VAT invoice to an FBA customer since in certain circumstances the VAT liability is in the country from which the goods are dispatched. Currently the information is only available via a downloaded report in Seller Central (Amazon Fulfilled Shipments - the fulfillment-center-id field). This is extremely time-consuming when sending even just a few VAT invoices per day.
If the FBA fulfilment centre data were available via the API, this could be included in the order details within LW. It would seem logical that this info would be available in the order details.
This would also be the basis for an invoicing system which fully supported PanEU sellers and EFN sellers that allow their stock to be held in FBA centres outside their home country, although that is a more complex requirement.
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