Selling on Amazon fee schedule
This article applies to selling in: United States

Selling on Amazon fee schedule

Amazon collects the lower of the applicable fees stated below and any fees communicated to you by Amazon (such as promotional fees that Amazon may provide from time to time). This does not apply to certain sellers, such as warranty providers and other service providers, who will continue to pay selling fees in accordance with the rates provided in their program agreements.

You can also view more details about your fees with the Fee Explainer.

Monthly subscription fee

  • Professional Selling Plan: USD $39.99 per month* when you have active listings
  • Individual Selling Plan: No subscription fee

*If you have active listings in additional countries or regions using merged accounts, a different fee may apply. The subscription fee charge does not apply when you do not have active listings in any country. For more information, go to Monthly subscription fee and Merge accounts.

Selling fees

When your product sells, Amazon collects the amount paid by the buyer (including the price and any shipping, gift-wrap, or other charges). Professional account sellers can set their own shipping rates for books, music, video, and DVD (BMVD) products, including offering free shipping. For more information, go to Activate custom BMVD shipping rates. For Individual account sellers, Amazon shipping rates will apply for BMVD products.

For a table of Amazon shipping credits for products in these categories, go to Shipping rates for BMVD. For a table of Amazon shipping rates for all products sold by Individual account sellers, go to Shipping credits for individual sellers.

Per-item fees

  • Professional sellers: No per-item fee
  • Individual sellers: $0.99 fee for each item sold

For more information, go to Per-item selling fees.

Fee category guidelines

The fee category guidelines are applicable to referral fees, closing fees, FBA fulfillment fees, FBA returns processing fees, and any other fee types that use fee categories in their fee calculation.

For a detailed, searchable list of products in each category, go to our fee category guidelines. This list allows you to quickly determine which fee category pertains to a specific product. For more information, go to Understanding fee categories.

Referral fees

Sellers pay a referral fee on each item sold.

Items in some categories have a per-item minimum referral fee as listed below (for example, sellers pay the greater of the referral fee or the per-item minimum referral fee).

For all products, Amazon deducts the applicable referral fee percentage calculated on the total sales price, excluding any taxes calculated through Amazon tax calculation services. The total sales price is the total amount paid by the buyer, including the item price and any delivery or gift wrapping charges.

Referral fees vary by category, as listed below.

For more information about Fulfillment by Amazon fees, go to FBA features, services, and fees.

For applicable referral fees for registered Amazon Business sellers, go to Selling on Amazon Business fee schedule.

Referral fee rates

Referral fees vary by category, as listed below. Prior approval may be required to offer products in the categories listed in Categories and products that require approval.

Fee categories

Amazon deducts the greater of the applicable referral fee percentage or applicable per-item minimum referral fee.

See "Referral fees" notes above.

Referral fee percentages

Applicable minimum referral fee

(applied on a per-unit basis unless otherwise noted)

Amazon Device Accessories 45% $0.30
Automotive and Powersports 12% $0.30
Baby Products
  • 8% for products with a total sales price of $10.00 or less, and
  • 15% for products with a total sales price greater than $10.00
$0.30
Backpacks, Handbags, and Luggage 15% $0.30
Base Equipment Power Tools 12% $0.30
Beauty, Health and Personal Care
  • 8% for products with a total sales price of $10.00 or less, and
  • 15% for items with a total sales price greater than $10.00
$0.30
Business, Industrial, and Scientific Supplies 12% $0.30
Clothing and Accessories
  • 5% for products with a total sales price of $15.00 or less
  • 10% for products with a total sales price greater than $15.00 and less than or equal to $20.00
  • 17% for products with a total sales price greater than $20.00
$0.30
Compact Appliances
  • 15% for the portion of the total sales price up to $300.00, and
  • 8% for any portion of the total sales price greater than $300.00
$0.30
Computers 8% $0.30
Consumer Electronics2 8% $0.30
Electronics Accessories1
  • 15% for the portion of the total sales price up to $100.00, and
  • 8% for any portion of the total sales price greater than $100.00
$0.30
Everything Else3 15% $0.30
Eyewear 15% $0.30
Fine Art
  • 20% for the portion of the total sales price up to $100.00,
  • 15% for the portion of the total sales price greater than $100.00 up to $1,000.00,
  • 10% for the portion of the total sales price greater than $1,000.00 up to $5,000.00, and
  • 5% for the portion of the total sales price greater than $5,000.00
--
Footwear 15% $0.30
Full-Size Appliances 8% $0.30
Furniture
  • 15% for the portion of the total sales price up to $200.00, and
  • 10% for any portion of the total sales price greater than $200.00
$0.30
Gift Cards 20% --
Grocery and Gourmet
  • 8% for products with a total sales price of $15.00 or less, and
  • 15% for products with a total sales price greater than $15.00
--
Home and Kitchen 15% $0.30
Jewelry
  • 20% for the portion of the total sales price up to $250.00, and
  • 5% for any portion of the total sales price greater than $250.00
$0.30
Lawn and Garden 15% $0.30
Lawn Mowers and Snow Throwers
  • 15% for products with a total sales price of up to $500.00
  • 8% for products with a total sales price greater than $500.00
$0.30
Mattresses 15% $0.30
Media - Books, DVD, Music, Software, Video 15% --
Merchant Fulfilled Services4 20% $0.30
Musical Instruments and AV Production 15% $0.30
Office Products 15% $0.30
Pet Products 15%, except 22% for veterinary diets $0.30
Sports and Outdoors 15% $0.30
Tires 10% $0.30
Tools and Home Improvement 15% $0.30
Toys and Games 15% $0.30
Video Game Consoles 8% --
Video Games and Gaming Accessories 15% --
Watches
  • 16% for the portion of the total sales price up to $1,500.00, and
  • 3% for any portion of the total sales price greater than $1,500.00
$0.30

1 Bundles containing both a camera device and accessory products are classified under the Electronics Accessories category. For a detailed, searchable list of products in each category, go to our fee category guidelines.

2Certain cell phone devices may require approval. For more information, go to Selling cell phones and cell phone accessories.

3 The Everything Else category is for products that do not clearly fit within existing categories.

4 For services offered through Amazon Local Selling.

Rental book service fee

The rental book service fee is $5.00 per book rented to a customer.

Closing fees

Sellers also pay a closing fee of $1.80 per item that is sold in the categories of Books, DVD, Music, Software & Computer/Video Games, Video Game Consoles, and Video Game Accessories.

High-volume listing fee

We charge a monthly high-volume listing fee of $0.001 per eligible SKU to cover our system costs associated with cataloging and maintaining large numbers of SKUs on Amazon.com.

To help you grow the selection of products you offer on Amazon, we waive the high-volume listing fee for the first 1.5 million SKUs. All SKUs across all product categories, irrespective of creation date or sales history, will be counted towards the fee. We apply a listing fee of $0.001 for each SKU per month on the SKUs in excess of the initial 1.5 million. We apply the fee to your highest number of eligible SKUs from the fifth day through the thirty-first day of the month.

For example, if you offer 1.6 million SKUs in December 2020, we will charge you a fee of $100 for the month of December, calculated as $0.001 on the 100,000 SKUs that were above your free allowance of 1.5 million SKUs. You can view the number of eligible SKUs by going to the Reports tab in Seller Central, selecting Inventory Reports, and then selecting High Volume Listings Report from the drop-down menu on the page. The fee will be calculated and charged monthly, and will be displayed in the next month's statement.

Refund administration fee

If you refund a customer for an order for which you have already received payment, Amazon will refund you the amount of the referral fee you paid for the item(s), minus the applicable refund administration fee, which is the lesser of $5.00 or 20% of the applicable referral fee.

For example, if you refund a customer the $10.00 total sales price of an item in a category with a 15% referral fee, your refund administration fee will be $0.30 ($10.00 x 15% referral fee = $1.50).

Examples of referral fee calculations

Book, music, video, and DVD products

Individual Selling Plan example:

Item price

+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer

- Referral fee

- Closing fee of $1.80

- $0.99 per item fee

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= Total deposited to seller account

Professional Selling Plan example:

Item price

+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer

- Referral fee

- Closing fee of $1.80

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= Total deposited to seller account

Examples for watches

Examples of referral fee calculations for watches:

Sales price Example 1: Referral fee for an $8.00 watch Example 2: Referral fee for a $1,500.00 watch Example 3: Referral fee for a $7,000.00 watch
For the portion of the total sales price up to $1,500.00 $1.28 $240.00 $240.00
For any portion of the total sales price from $1,500.01 and above $0.00 $0.00 $165.00
Referral fee $1.28 $240.00 $405.00

Examples for other products

Individual Selling Plan example:

Item price

+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer

- Referral fee

- $0.99 per item fee

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= Total deposited to seller account

Professional Selling Plan example:

Item price

+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer

+ Gift wrap charges paid by the buyer

- Referral fee

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= Total deposited to seller account

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