Max Quantity per Package

Overview

The Max Qty per Package is a product-level Shipping Preference setting that you can configure for regular SKUs and for Kit Products. This setting determines:

• How many units can be shipped in a single package
• How many shipping packages will be generated for orders
• How many labels will be printed when shipping orders

For example, let’s say you ship an order for 4 units of a product:

• If the product’s Max Qty per Package is 1:
  • Units per package: 1
  • Total number of packages: 4
  • Labels printed with separate tracking numbers: 4
• If the product’s Max Qty per Package is 2:
  • Units per package: 2
  • Total number of packages: 2
  • Labels printed with separate tracking numbers: 2

Configure Regular Products

You can set the Max Qty per Package manually, one product at a time, or for multiple products in bulk.

Manually

1. Go to a Product Details Page.
2. Click Toolbox and select Shipping Preferences.
3. Click Edit.
4. In the Packaging panel, check Enable next to Max Qty per Package.
5. Enter the Maximum Qty Per Package value.
6. Click Save.
   

In Bulk

Follow the steps to Update Products in Bulk and use the following column headers in your template:

• MaxQtyPerShippingPackageEnabled: Set to TRUE to enable the setting.
• MaxQtyPerShippingPackage: Set the maximum quantity per package.

Configure Kit SKUs

Setting the maximum quantity per package only works for All Component and Main Component kits. You can’t ship Independent kits in multiple packages.

The following four kit product settings are related to the Max Qty per Package:

1 – Enable Detailed Shipping Packages: An app setting that enables a more detailed shipping packages view when looking at orders. Contact Sellercloud Support to enable it.

2 – Number of Packages: A Shipping Preferences option where you create packages and assign components to them. For example:

• Let’s say a kit has 2 components, and the shipping preferences include 2 packages.
• You can assign 1 component to the main package and 1 component to a second package. 
• If an order for that kit comes in, 2 packages will be generated. 

However, this setting only generates according to SKU, regardless of the order quantity of each SKU:

• If an order for 2 kits comes in, the package quantity would still be 2. 
• The 2 units of each component would be in their own separate package, generating 2 packages. 

3 – Do Not Create Extra Packages For Kit Components With Max Qty: A Client Setting that prevents the creation of extra packages for kit components with the Max Qty option configured on the kit parent’s Shipping Preferences page. When this Client Setting is disabled, extra packages will be created for kit components.

4 – Enable Max Qty in One Package for Order Kit Items: A Client Setting that enables the Max Qty option for kit components under the Shipping Preferences page of the kit parent. Setting the Max Qty ensures that the kit components will be distributed in separate packages automatically.

Let’s take the following kit as an example:

• SKU A: Table (Kit parent)
• SKU B: Table base (Kit component)
• SKU C: Table leg (Kit component)

The kit parent (SKU A) needs 1 base (SKU B) and 4 legs (SKU C):

• SKU A: Qty = 1
• SKU B: Qty = 1
• SKU C: Qty = 4

Without the Enable Max Qty in One Package for Order Kit Items Client Setting enabled, the whole kit would go under one package. With this setting enabled, you can split the components into packages with the Max Qty field. For this example, let’s say that:

• SKU B: Max Qty = 1
• SKU C: Max Qty = 2

With these Max Qty settings, SKU B will be in one package. SKU C will be separated into two additional packages because the quantity ordered is 4, and the max quantity is 2. The final result:

Package 1

• SKU A
• SKU B: Qty = 1

Package 2

• SKU A 
• SKU C: Qty = 2

Package 3

• SKU A 
• SKU C: Qty = 2

When a kit order is placed, that order is for the kit parent SKU. The kit parent (SKU A) is in each package only for tracking purposes. To avoid errors, Sellercloud submits the kit parent SKU in the tracking upload so that it appears under the shipping packages.

Manually

To configure kits one at a time:

1. Go to a kit parent’s Product Details Page.
2. Click Toolbox and select Shipping Preferences.
3. Click Edit.
4. In the Packaging panel, check Enable next to Max Qty per Package.
5. Enter the Maximum Qty Per Package value for the whole kit. 
   1. This value has a higher priority and overrides the Max Qty per package for components you can configure in the Components panel as described below. Even if the Max Qty set in the Components panel allows more components to be shipped in a specific package, if the Maximum Qty Per Package for the whole kit is reached for that same package, the extra component quantities will be placed in a new package.
      
6. To change the Number of Packages, in the Packages panel, click the Plus icon.
7. Enter package Weight and Dimensions. You can delete packages with the Trash icon.
   
8. In the Components panel, for each kit component:
   1. Select Shipping Package from the dropdown menu.
   2. Enter the Max Qty per package. If you don’t see this option, enable the Client Setting Enable Max Qty in One Package for Order Kit Items.
      
9. Click Save.

In Bulk

To configure kits in bulk:

1. Go to Catalog > Tools > Import Product Info
2. Select Import Kits
3. Click the Download icon to download the template.
   
4. Update the column header MaxQtyPerPackage.
5. Complete the rest of the fields and save the updated template file.
6. Return to Sellercloud and click File to select the updated template file.
7. Click Import.