SEA Service Metric: Unsatisfactory Delivery Rate

Keep track of your selling performance on the CBT Seller Dashboard.

What you need to know

Starting from August 25th 2019, sellers will be evaluated on the number of transactions with delivery-related issues. Sellers who do not comply or consistently fall short of expectations may have their selling limits reduced or account(s) restricted.

Best Practices

As a seller, shipping your items in a timely and reliable manner is crucial to provide buyers with a great shipping experience. Most of the time when something goes wrong, it is due to delays, inaccuracies, or lack of visibility related to the delivery of an item. You’re expected to follow these best practices:

Ship items within your specified handling time
Use reliable shipping providers that offer shipment tracking
Manage inventory and keep items well stocked
Charge reasonable shipping and handling costs
Specify shipping costs and handling time in the listing
Follow through on your return policy
Respond to buyers’ questions within 3 working days

Be helpful, friendly, and professional throughout a transaction

Evaluation Criteria

eBay will evaluate the rate of transactions with delivery-related issues for items shipped from Southeast Asia or Greater China, defined as the percentage of transactions where a buyer:

Filed an Item Not Received (INR) case, or
Escalated an Item Not Received (INR) case

How are you being evaluated

Evaluation Frequency	Every Wednesday
Evaluation Window	Past 12 weeks from evaluation date. Please refer below as an example:
	Week 1 - 12: Evaluation Period 1 Week 13: Report 1
	Week 2 - 13: Evaluation Period 2 Week 14: Report 2
	Week 3 - 14: Evaluation Period 3 Week 15: Report 3
Seller Protection	Transactions that meet the requirements below will be excluded from evaluation: Fully-Tracked Service If an acceptance (A-Scan) is uploaded and validated with your specified handling time, and Delivery Scan (D-Scan) is recorded within the estimated delivery date. SpeedPak Service (for items shipped from China) For sellers who ship their items from China, transactions adopting SpeedPak are protected as long as the following criteria are met: Adopted SpeedPak service (with Tracking ID), and Seller offers SpeedPak option and buyer selects this option, and A-scan is uploaded and validated within specified handling time, and No service downgrade. We also strongly encourage sellers to use one of the integrated services on our SEAPaSS shipping platform, as well as the recommended shipping services below.
Consequences for non-compliant account (s)	Your account’s performance will be compared against other sellers within an evaluation cycle. Sellers with consistently high Unsatisfactory Delivery Rate relative to their peers may be subjected to various actions (such as sellin limit reduction or account restriction). If a delivery-related claim against a seller is found to be invalid, the claim will not be counted towards performance and the feedback (if any) will be hidden.
Account performance	Please visit your Seller Dashboard to find out more details.

To provide sellers time to comply with the new policy, eBay will start implementing the above evaluation criteria on November 20th 2019 and the first evaluation window will cover transactions from August 25th 2019 – November 16th 2019. Sellers who do not comply after warning may have their selling limits reduced or account(s) restricted.

Recommended shipping services

Provider	Service Name	Carrier Name in eBay
Singapore Post	Registered Mail/Article Speedpost ePac	Singapore Post
DHL eCommerce	DHL Parcel International Direct DHL Parcel International Standard DHL Packet Plus International Standard DHL Packet Plus International Direct Expedited	DHL eCommerce
Thailand Post	International Registered Article/Mail EMS ePacket	Thailand Post
Malaysia Post	Registered Article/Mail EMS International Small Packet (Tracked) International Air Parcel	Malaysia Post
FedEx	FedEx International First FedEx International Priority FedEx International Economy	FedEx
UPS	UPS Worldwide Express UPS Worldwide Express Saver UPS Worldwide Expedited	UPS
DHL Express	DHL Express Service	DHL
USPS	Priority Mail Express International Priority Mail International	USPS

You can visit your Seller Dashboard to find out more details. The details for your performance will be refreshed every Wednesday.

We appreciate your effort in ensuring that the acceptance scan was recorded within your handling time and will take your efforts into account when evaluating your account for non-compliance. That being said, we would strongly encourage our sellers to use our CPaSS shipping platform or any of our recommended shipping services to reduce these types of issues.

Please do ensure that your A-Scan is uploaded and validated within the specified handling time. Otherwise, it will be considered as a transaction in which tracking was not uploaded on time.

Yes. If you have evidence to support that eBay’s evaluation was applied incorrectly, you may contact Customer Support to submit an appeal (please refer to the following question regarding the appeal process).

In order to be eligible for an appeal, sellers must provide evidence to support the claim. For example: If the delivery delay is due to customs hold, kindly provide the official supporting documents when you appeal.