Learn about the different prep services available for inventory you send to Amazon fulfillment centers and their associated fees.
You can use the FBA Prep Service to have Amazon properly package and prepare your products for fulfillment.
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) has Packaging and prep requirements for products you ship to and store in Amazon fulfillment centers. Properly packaging and preparing units helps to reduce delays in receiving time, protect your products while in our fulfillment centers, and create a better customer experience.
If you decide to use the FBA Prep Service, Amazon will prepare your eligible products for a per-unit fee. After you enable the service, you will be able to choose whether you or Amazon will prep products you send to fulfillment centers. When you build your shipping plan, we will provide an estimate of the prep fees based on the expected services for the selected products.
To enable the FBA Prep Service, follow these steps when
creating your shipping plan:
Once you have enabled the FBA Prep Service, you can choose on the Prepare Products page of your shipping plan whether Amazon or you will prep each eligible product by following the steps below.
You can also choose who preps your products by default in your FBA settings page. 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, in the Who preps? field select Amazon if you want Amazon to prep the product or Merchant 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 on the Prepare
Products page. If you want Amazon to prep these products, follow
these steps:
If you do not follow these steps or if you select Merchant in the Who preps? column, you will be responsible for preparing these products.
* See How to Prep Products (.pdf) for descriptions of prep categories and related prep activities. To learn more, visit Packaging and prep requirements.
After determining who will prep the products, you can choose on the Label Product page of your shipping plan whether Amazon or you will apply labels to each unit.
You can also choose who labels your products by default in your FBA settings page. Changing the default does not affect previously created shipments or any label preferences you have defined for specific items.
For more information, see FBA Label Service.
Per unit fee | Standard size | Oversize | ||||
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Prep category | Prep | Labeling | Total | Prep | Labeling | Total |
Fragile/glass
|
$0.80 | $0.30 | $1.10 | $1.60 | $0.30 | $1.90 |
Liquids
|
$0.50 | $0.30* | $0.50 to $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.30* | $1.00 to $1.30 |
Apparel, fabric, plush, and textiles
|
$0.50 | $0.30* | $0.50 to $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.30* | $1.00 to $1.30 |
Baby products
|
$0.50 | $0.30* | $0.50 to $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.30* | $1.00 to $1.30 |
Sharp
|
$0.80 | $0.30 | $1.10 | $1.60 | $0.30 | $1.90 |
Small
|
$0.50 | $0.30 | $0.80 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Adult
|
$1.00 | $0.30 | $1.30 | $2.00 | $0.30 | $2.30 |
Powders, pellets, and granular
|
$0.50 | $0.30* | $0.50 to $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.30* | $1.00 to $1.30 |
Perforated packaging
|
$0.50 | $0.30* | $0.50 to $0.80 | $1.00 | $0.30* | $1.00 to $1.30 |
*Label service optional. All products must have a scannable label that will be visible after prep is complete. Amazon may verify the weight and dimensions of a product using representative samples. Amazon’s information about a product’s weight and dimensions will be used to calculate fees if there is a difference between Amazon’s information and a seller’s information. Amazon may change its information about a product’s weight and dimensions from time to time to reflect updated measurements. Fees based on the weight and dimensions of a product are calculated using Amazon’s information about the weight and dimensions of that product at the time the fee is calculated.