Dimensional weight calculation: bulk add weight and dimensions to your listings

Providing listings with weight and dimensions allows sellers to set calculated shipping, i.e., shipping profiles that have variable costs that depend on the weight and dimensions of the item that will be packed and shipped.

Even though flat shipping rates are more predictable, dimensional weight shipping allows you to charge fairly for the delivery costs without incurring any extra fees due to shipping miscalculations that might eventually affect your profits and margins.

Most marketplaces automatically calculate the shipping fees based on the items’ weight and size values. But what if your products aren’t provided with those specifics yet? And how can you transfer weight and dimensions on multiple channels (multiple Etsy and eBay accounts)?

Let’s find out together:

How to add weight and dimensions in bulk to your listings?

To easily add in bulk weight and dimensions, you can use the Nembol CSV template and add in each product line the corresponding measurements. Here is how to do it:

1. Import in Nembol the products from your Etsy/eBay account(s)
2. Export the products as CSV file. Nembol will automatically fill the CSV lines with all your product data. No manual action is needed because Nembol will do it for you automatically and in a matter of seconds.
3. Once the CSV has been downloaded, you’ll be able to use your favorite spreadsheet program to fill the weight and dimension fields.
4. When you’re done, all you need to do is upload the file back to Nembol, and, in a click, all your products will be updated with their size information.

Now that all your products are associated with measurements, set your calculated shipping profile, and you’re done!

Easy and hassle-free.

How do transfer weight and dimensions across channels?

With Nembol, you can list your products across multiple channels with all their product data. So if you’re opening an additional Etsy or eBay store, and you are worried about having to start listing your products all over again, we have a solution for you.

Using Nembol, you can import all the listings provided with:

• Title
• Description
• Variations
• Categories
• Barcodes
• SKUs

And, of course, with

• Weight
• Dimensions

How do convert unit measures across channels?

If you sell internationally, and the market you stepped into uses different measurement systems (metric system vs international system) you will need to convert the weight and dimension unit.

Doing it manually is extremely time-consuming and troublesome. Indeed, if you are not very familiar with one of the systems, it is quite possible to make a mistake in entering values, which would eventually cause problems with the shipping.

Nembol will automatically convert the unit measures while listing across your different online venues based on the store locations (.com, .it, .de, .uk, etc).

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