You can use Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) to send inventory to one of our fulfilment centres. When a customer places an order, Amazon packs/handles the stored inventory and ships it for you.
The benefits of using FBA include:
We recommend that you familiarise yourself with the FBA fees and rate structure prior to ensure it is the right fit for you.
Use the FBA Revenue Calculator to determine what your actual fulfilment costs will be and how this would impact your margin.
You must first create your listing as Merchant Fulfilled – this is the default option. After you have created your listings as Merchant Fulfilled, the following steps will walk you through the process of converting them to FBA:
Proper preparation, packaging, and labelling helps ensure your products are transported safely and securely to the fulfilment centre and made available quickly to customers.
For additional information on the prep and packaging requirements for FBA, go to Packaging requirements and Shipping and routing requirements.
As hand-crafted products do not have a barcode attached to them, they must be labelled individually with FBA labels containing an Amazon barcode so that they can be received at Amazon’s fulfilment centres.
When you are ready to send inventory to Amazon, you begin by creating a shipping plan. A shipping plan specifies:
To learn about creating a shipping plan, go to Send/replenish inventory to Amazon.
Once your products are received at the fulfilment centre, they are available for customers to buy. For more information, go to How Amazon receives and stores your inventory and Manage FBA orders.
Replenishment alerts: Amazon will alert you when remaining inventory falls below a threshold of your choosing. We suggest a coverage of 4-8 weeks, which is likely to give you enough time to prepare/send inventory and have it received before items sell out.
Determine if Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is right for your business by using the FBA Revenue Calculator. This tool allows you to calculate your FBA fees by entering the ASIN you consider enrolling. There are no inventory minimums, so you control which and how many items you enrol.
Yes, but modify the title so that the listing is not a duplicate. Send the non-customizable SKU to FBA while your offer with customisations needs to be fulfilled by you.
Examples:
You list a personalised necklace with chain lengths offered in 12”, 18” and 22”. You could offer one, two, or all three sizes without personalisation through FBA by creating a unique custom-disabled listing for each size. You could also create a separate seller-fulfilled listing that offers engraving in all three chain lengths.
You have multiple candles in five different colours. You could have an FBA offer for your best-selling colours – green and blue – plus a seller-fulfilled listing with customisation options offering all five colours.
Listings must be custom-disabled. This means that attributes such as size or colour need to be fixed to be eligible.