Amazon FBA Fees
Amazon offers significant advantages to many e-commerce businesses, ranging from merchants who do not use its platform to e-commerce sellers who do. One of the greatest of these service opportunities is the Amazon FBA service. However, as is known, every service offered by companies has a cost, and Amazon also charges its users certain fees based on specific service items in return for the FBA service it provides. Through the “Amazon Fulfillment Revenue Calculator” available in Seller Central on Amazon’s website, you can calculate your logistics costs. Additionally, you can calculate your Amazon FBA expenses by reviewing the cost information in this article and other related articles on the QuickShipper blog page. Before reviewing the fees of the Amazon FBA service, we recommend that you check out our articles in which we explain Amazon FBA services in detail on the blog section of the QuickShipper website. In this article, we aim to guide e-commerce sellers who want to start using the Amazon FBA service by presenting the fees that Amazon charges its users for the FBA service in itemized form.
PACKAGING AND PRODUCT SHIPPING
While providing the Amazon FBA service, Amazon offers many additional services that facilitate e-commerce sellers’ sales processes, such as labeling, bubble wrapping for products, and package removal. Within the scope of the Amazon FBA service, when an order is created for your products in the Fulfillment warehouses, Amazon will charge the following items and fees for packaging the products to be shipped and completing the shipment.
PRODUCT REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL
If you want to retrieve the products you have sent to Amazon’s Fulfillment warehouses, Amazon will charge you an average of $0.50 per product. If you decide not to retrieve the products and instead request their disposal, Amazon will charge an average of $0.10 per product. However, it should be noted that when you request the disposal of your products from Amazon, those products will no longer be available for sale on Amazon’s platform and will not remain in the FBA warehouse.
CUSTOMER RETURN SERVICE FEE:
Within the scope of the Amazon FBA service, if a customer who purchased your product requests a return, Amazon will charge you either $5 or 20% of the return amount, whichever is lower.
STORAGE SERVICE FEE:
Within the scope of the Amazon FBA service, Amazon charges monthly storage fees that vary depending on the dimensions and weight of your products stored in Amazon warehouses. Amazon categorizes storage pricing into two categories: Standard Size and Oversize.
The storage fees announced by Amazon for 2024 are as follows:
They vary between $0.04 and $1.58 depending on the dimensions.
In addition, long-term storage fees are applied to products stored for more than one year in Amazon-contracted logistics centers, and inventory evaluations are conducted on the 15th of each month. These fees range between $0.78 and $2.40.
In addition, long-term storage fees are applied to products stored for more than one year in Amazon-contracted logistics centers, and inventory evaluations are conducted on the 15th of each month. These fees range between $0.78 and $2.40.
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