Learn about the different preparation services available for inventory that you send to Amazon fulfilment centres and their associated fee.
You can use the Preparation service to have Amazon properly package and prep your products for fulfilment.
FBA has Packaging and Prep Requirements for products you ship to and store in Amazon fulfilment centres. Properly packaging and preparing units helps to reduce delays in receive time, to protect your products while at our fulfilment centres and to create a better customer experience.
If you decide to use the Preparation service, Amazon will prepare your eligible products for a per-unit fee. To have Amazon prepare your products, you must first enable Preparation services. When you send inventory to our fulfilment centres, you will be able to select whether your products will be prepared by Amazon or by you. When building your Shipping Plan, we will provide an estimate of the FBA Preparation Fees based on the expected preparation services for the selected products.
To enable your Preparation service, follow these steps when creating your Shipping Plan:
Once you have enabled the Preparation service, you will be able to select whether Amazon or you will prep each eligible product by following the steps below on the Prepare Products page of your Shipping Plan.
You can also choose who preps your products by default on your FBA settings page. Note that changing the default does not affect previously created shipments or any prep preferences you have defined for specific items.
For each eligible product listed on the Prepare Products page of the shipping workflow, under "Who preps?" select "Amazon" if you want Amazon to prep the product or select "Seller" if you want to prep the product yourself. "Amazon" will be the default selection for products with Prep Guidance.
Products without Prep Guidance may still have packaging and prep requirements. For products without Prep Guidance, "Choose category" will appear in the Prep Guidance column. In order for Amazon to prep these products, you must follow these steps:
If you do not take these actions, or select "Seller" in the "Who preps?" column, then you will be responsible for preparing these products.
* See the Preparation Matrix for descriptions of prep categories and related prep activities. To learn more, visit Packaging and Preparation Requirements.
After determining who preps the products, you can select whether Amazon or you will be responsible for applying labels to each unit on the Label Product page of your Shipping Plan.
See FBA Label Service for additional information on labelling.
Per Unit Fee | Standard-Size | Oversize | ||||
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Preparation Category | Prep | Labelling | Total | Prep | Labelling | Total |
Fragile/Glass
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£0.40 | £0.15 | £0.55 | £0.80 | £0.15 | £0.95 |
Liquids
|
£0.25 | £0.15* | £0.25 - £0.40 | £0.50 | £0.15* | £0.50 - £0.65 |
Clothing, Fabric, Plush and Textiles
|
£0.25 | £0.15* | £0.25 - £0.40 | £0.50 | £0.15* | £0.50 - £0.65 |
Baby Products
|
£0.25 | £0.15* | £0.25 - £0.40 | £0.50 | £0.15* | £0.50 - £0.65 |
Small
|
£0.25 | £0.15 | £0.40 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
*Label Service Optional. All products must have a scannable label that will be visible after prep is complete.