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Handbook, stops five and six

Building the AnovaBuy parcel and paying to ship it

Choose what travels together, decide on packing, pick a line that accepts your goods, and pay the estimated shipping.

Ticking warehouse items for one outbound box

Anything in Ready for Shipment can travel, and you are free to split your warehouse into one parcel or several. The official guide's step 6 is short: open Warehouse, select the products, submit the package, fill in delivery details and choose the delivery type it recommends.

Checklist for choosing parcel contents: weight under 10 kg, few identical items, keep fragile goods apart, separate battery and perfume items — What to weigh up before ticking items for one parcel.

Several small parcels are not automatically cheaper than one. Many lines charge a first weight unit, so two half-full boxes can each pay that minimum. The line finder on the tools page shows where the price steps sit for your country.

The official guide has no picture of the submit screen either. The one below is our drawing, priced with AnovaBuy's own freight quotes for the UK.

Illustration of the AnovaBuy Submit package page: three warehouse items, masked delivery details for a UK address, three recommended UK air lines with prices, value-added services and an estimated total of CNY 198.70 — Illustration drawn by this site, not a real account screen; the delivery details are masked. Worked example from AnovaBuy's own freight estimate for the UK at 2 kg, replayed October 23, 2026: the general air line costs CNY 178.70, the battery and magnet line CNY 236.20 and the perfume line CNY 299.00. Add the CNY 20 pre-packaging demonstration and the estimate comes to CNY 198.70; the final freight follows the packed weight.

Rehearsal, photos, reinforcement: the packing menu

Step 8 of the guide sums up the warehouse's work as consolidate, reinforce, weigh and send. Some of that is free and some is a paid service you add in the parcel remarks or the service list.

Official AnovaBuy drawing of a warehouse with labels Consolidate Package, Package Reinforcement, Weight and Send, and a plane for international delivery — Step 8 from AnovaBuy's beginner guide: consolidation, reinforcement, weighing and dispatch. Open full-size screenshot.

Service	What you get	Price
Pre-packaging demonstration	The parcel is packed before you pay and you are told the real weight	CNY 20 per parcel
Parcel photography	One photo of the items in the open box, one of the sealed box	CNY 5 per parcel
Original packaging removal	Shoe boxes and spare cartons taken off to save weight	Shown when you submit
Package reinforcement	Extra cushioning and a sturdier box	Shown when you submit
Parcel insurance	Compensation for loss or damage in transit, on the insurer's terms	Shown when you submit

The rehearsal, as AnovaBuy calls it elsewhere, is the one we would buy on a first parcel. It replaces a guess with a measured weight before you pay, which matters most for bulky clothing.

How the weight is counted

The bill follows the heavier of two numbers: scale weight, or the weight implied by the box dimensions. Box size turns into kilograms once the three sides, in centimeters, are multiplied together and divided: usually by 5000 at AnovaBuy, by as much as 8000 where a carrier is more generous.

Worked example: a 45 by 35 by 20 cm box of two puffer jackets weighs 1.8 kg but counts as 6.3 kg at divisor 5000 — One worked example. The same box at divisor 8000 would count as 3.9 kg.

Before packing, the system guesses: stored weight plus an allowance for packaging gives the estimated billing weight you pay on. Then the real box is built, weighed and measured, and the carrier can still correct it. The final figure turns up in the parcel details roughly three days after dispatch.

Lines for batteries, magnets and perfume

AnovaBuy splits its air lines by cargo. A general line takes ordinary goods; lines marked as carrying magnetic or electric goods accept batteries and magnets; perfume lines take liquids in perfume bottles. Prices differ, and not every country gets all three.

Bar chart of 1 kg quotes on October 23, 2026: Germany battery line CNY 156.00, Germany general CNY 183.30, UK general CNY 110.70, UK perfume CNY 195.00, US general CNY 201.50, US perfume CNY 214.50 — Selected 1 kg quotes from AnovaBuy's freight tool, replayed October 23, 2026. Quotes move; check your own before paying.

One oddity worth knowing: for Germany at 1 kg, the battery and magnet line was cheaper than the general line in our replay. We report it as it came back. Pick the cheapest line that is allowed to carry what is in your box.

Paying the shipping

Step 7 in the official guide is the international checkout. It looks like the goods checkout: a pay-by deadline, the same payment options, and an Actual Payable total with any handling fee listed below it.

Official AnovaBuy Check Out page with a pay-by deadline and payment options: balance, PayPal, Stripe card, Alipay, WeChat, credit or debit card, and the Confirm Payment button — Step 7 from AnovaBuy's beginner guide. The amounts are AnovaBuy's example in Mexican pesos, not a real quote. Open full-size screenshot.

What you pay here is based on the estimated weight. If the packed parcel comes out heavier, AnovaBuy asks for the difference. If it comes out lighter, beyond a margin, the system refunds the difference to your balance within 72 hours of dispatch. Check the balance after a few days rather than assuming.

Customs, IOSS and a fixed declared total

AnovaBuy keeps a reference table of duty thresholds by country in its help center and adds that it is for reference only. Three points from that article are practical for a first parcel:

Checklist: IOSS option on some EU lines, declared value rules under IOSS, recipient pays duties on non-IOSS lines — Customs points from AnovaBuy's Customs and Taxes article, checked October 23, 2026.

Two warnings from that article: express couriers (it names DHL, UPS and FedEx) attract tax more often, and Canadian and European customs look harder. Inspections are sampled at random. When a parcel is pulled aside, the recipient is normally asked for an invoice, and AnovaBuy says one can be downloaded in your account or requested from support.