A different way combined shipping is coming up

[triber]

Yesterday I had a request for combined shipping on 7 items. I sent the invoice, the buyer paid today. Instead of one total, there are 7 payment confirmationswith each item and different postage rates.  Is this something new?

I guess I will have to add up all the shipping costs to see if it comes out to what I offered.

[recped]

You get multiple notices, one for each item BUT it's still from a single Payment, threw me off the first time it happened but if you check the transaction details in the Payments Tab you will only see one 30 cent Fixed Fee.

I've never bothered to look at the amounts shown in the emails very closely but just now I looked at a combined sale from yesterday, all the messages (13 of them) show the TOTAL paid and the TOTAL shipping.

[triber · Accepted solution]

Thanks so much, I tried and tried to do an eBay label, I just wouldn't work. They had a fixed weight for the packge of 213 g, it was 2.556 Kg and I couldn't change. Customs details were very hard. Went back to Paypal and it was actually a few cents cheaper.

[ssales12]

Not only are there separate confirmations, none of them is correct since they try to allocate the shipping charge.  We sell collectibles where US customs requires proof of the amount paid, so all of these ebay confirmations (we had 19 for one US bound order) are absolutely useless.  The old one page paypal confirmation was perfect, so just another example of mis-managed payments not understanding or caring about seller requirements.  Life would just be so much simpler if Paypal bought ebay and installed some common sense and seller focused direction.

[recped]

Just print an Invoice, it would have all the info you need for US Customs on one page for up to 40 Items.

US Customs don't need "proof" they just need a "declaration" and the invoices you can print from eBay do the job just fine.

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@ssales12 

EBay used to own Paypal, having purchased it from Elon Musk in 2002.

EBay did not want to spin it off, but were forced into it and the current shareholders of Paypal are not at all interested in owning a selling venue.

They are happier just handling payments for hundreds of other private and public users.

Managed Payments is eBay's attempt to once again have an in-house payment processor, as they did until 2015, instead of paying fees to an outside company.

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@recped 

KISS.