Fee Explainers

A Fee Explainer is an advanced tool that helps you understand Amazon’s fee structure through clear, detailed explanations. It provides comprehensive information about your fees across multiple Amazon selling tools and services.

Benefits of a Fee Explainer

A Fee Explainer offers several key advantages to help you manage your business:

• Clear fee transparency: Get detailed explanations of how fees are calculated and applied to your transactions
• Better business planning: Understand fees while listing products using our preview tools
• Comprehensive fee information: Access complete fee breakdowns with relevant examples and calculations
• Real-time fee understanding: View detailed explanations directly within your transaction details

How Fee Explainers work

Each Fee Explainer provides information in three easy-to-understand sections:

• Fee definition
  • Clear explanation of what the fee is
  • Why the fee applies to your transaction
• Fee attributes
  • Specific factors that determine the fee
  • Relevant product or service characteristics
• Fee calculation
  • Transparent breakdown of how the fee is computed
  • Clear example of calculations when applicable

Where to find Fee Explainers

Fee Explainers are available in both preview and review tools to help you understand fees before and after transactions.

Preview tools

Access Fee Explainers while estimating potential fees.

Revenue calculator

1. Go to Menu > Inventory > Manage all Inventory
2. Click the Calculate revenue hyperlink for any product
3. Click any fee amount to view its detailed explanation

Inline revenue calculator

Access Fee Explainers directly within your inventory management workflow to understand potential fees before listing products.

Review tools

Review actual fee breakdowns for completed transactions.

Transaction details page

1. Go to Menu > Payments > Payments
2. Select Transaction view
3. Click a transaction
4. Click any fee amount to see its detailed Fee Explainer

Each Fee Explainer provides the following information:

• Fee definition: What the fee is and why it has been applied
• Fee attributes: Factors that determine the fee
• Fee calculation: How the fee amount is computed