Amazon Frustration Free Package Evaluation
With global shifts increasing e-commerce trade, packaging must now be able to withstand the many routes of shipping during transit. The demand for a simplified, recyclable package that is easy to use and open is greater than ever. With such wide-reaching industry changes, the caliber of testing and regulatory standards has also evolved. For instance, packages sold on Amazon.com are first evaluated and tested against the tiers of Amazon’s Package Testing standards in order to achieve certification for Amazon’s Vendor Central interface. The Amazon Frustration Free Package Evaluation process is critical to optimizing package testing methods for manufacturers and distributors in the Amazon APASS Network.
What Is Amazon Frustration Free Package Evaluation?
Amazon Frustration Free Packaging is a type of package design that removes excess packaging. The reduction of unnecessary packaging materials not only lessens environmental impact but simplifies the customer experience when opening an Amazon FFP shipment. As e-commerce efforts continue to grow, packaging needs continue to evolve as the customer experience shifts from stores to screens. These changes in marketing goods sold online allows product owners to perfect packaging for distribution with recyclability in mind and ultimately produce packaging that is more accessible to customers.
Here’s some more information about Amazon’s frustration-free packaging:
Amazon’s frustration-free packaging is an initiative that allows customers to receive their products in easy-to-open, recyclable packaging. The goal is to eliminate excess waste and to make the packaging experience less frustrating for customers.
Frustration-free packaging uses standard shipping boxes with minimal packaging material, making it easier to open and free of hard plastic “clamshell” cases or wire ties. This type of packaging benefits both customers and the environment, reducing the amount of waste generated and making the shipping process more efficient.
Amazon currently offers frustration-free packaging for a variety of products, including electronics, toys, and household goods. Customers can choose to opt-in to this packaging when making their purchase.
Customers Benefits of Amazon Frustration Free Package Evaluation
Improved packaging design makes for a better customer experience and expectation. Frustration-free packaging helps customers open their shipment more easily without the need for scissors or a sharp knife. Frustration-free packaging also produces substantially less waste due to streamlined packing materials and packaging created to securely contain the product, functioning as a durable and simplified shipping box. This means that most customers are left with fewer packaging materials to dispose of when they receive their product and a higher likelihood that products will arrive at their destinations undamaged.
Seller Benefits of Amazon Frustration Free Package Evaluation
How To Test Your Packaged Product For Amazon FFP
Amazon Package Testing Tiers
- Tier 1 - Frustration Free Packaging (FFP) is capable of shipping in its own container with minimized, fully recyclable and easy-to-open packaging. This ensures the most optimal experience for our customers.
- Tier 2 - Ships in Own Container (SIOC) minimizes waste through ensuring that packaging is designed to ship without the need for an Amazon Over Box.
- Tier 3 - Prep-Free Packaging (PFP) is designed to ship effectively without the need for Amazon to apply additional prep to prevent damage of leakage.
Amazon Frustration Free Package Evaluation
Numbers (ASINs) to ship in their original manufacturer supplied packaging. The ISTA Project 6 AMAZON.COM test was developed by ISTA in alliance with Amazon.com and is used as the standard protocol. Frustration free package testing for Amazon falls under the ISTA Project 6 AMAZON.COM SIOC procedure.
Three distinct categories are used for each type of packaged product tests: shipping method, handling method, and weight-and-dimensions. By evaluating the e-commerce transit channels that packages go through, we can confirm that your products will support their integrity and arrive to customers intact and undamaged. This test is intended to simulate the conditions of shipping and delivering a package, including calibrated drops and vibrations.
What is Amazon's Ships in Own Container (SIOC) Packaging?
What is Amazon’s Prep-Free Packaging (PFP)?
Prep-Free Packaging (PFP) is Amazon’s third tier shipping certification, which was created for items that are not capable of shipping in their own container (i.e., liquid product that is not six sided) and which require an over box applied by Amazon. A certified PFP package is designed to ship effectively without the need for Amazon to apply more prep/packaging to prevent damage of leakage.
What is the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier (APASS) Network?
Why Purple Diamond?
Purple Diamond can supply the guidance and aid needed to meet the standards needed for Amazon Packaging Certification in packaging design and validation. We help vendors perfect their products for Amazon’s APASS Network FFP program, while reducing packaging costs and improving efficiency in their supply chains.
Packaging can be designed to be protective against damage, which is needed for FFP, SIOC, and PFP certifications. The requirements and considerations of over-sized products can be evaluated and perfected to move efficiently through Amazon distribution networks. Our team is committed to delivering high-quality results as we develop a comprehensive solution to your specific Amazon Packaging Certification needs.
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Related Testing Standards
- ASTM D642
- ASTM D685
- ASTM D880
- ASTM D951
- ASTM D999
- ASTM D3078
- ASTM D3103
- ASTM D3285
- ASTM D4169
- ASTM D4332
- ASTM D4728
- ASTM D5265
- ASTM D5276
- ASTM D5277
- ASTM D5487
- ASTM D6055
- ASTM D6179
- ASTM D6344
- ASTM D6653
- ASTM D7386
- ASTM F88
- ASTM F1140
- ASTM F1886
- ASTM F1929
- ASTM F1980
- ASTM F2096
- ASTM F2250
- ASTM F3039
- ASTM D1596
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The APASS program was designed by Amazon to help support vendors, sellers, and manufacturers in obtaining certification of their products as Frustration Free Packaging (FFP), Ships in Own Container (SIOC), or Prep-Free Packaging (PFP).
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