FBA Prep Service

FBA Prep Service helps you to properly package and prepare your shipments for Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Correct packaging and prep helps to reduce receiving delays and protect your products from damage.

If you use FBA Prep Service, we’ll prepare your products for a per-unit fee, including labeling, bubble-wrap, stickering and bagging. After the service is enabled, you can choose to prepare your own products or have Amazon prepare them for you.

When you plan your shipment in the Send to Amazon workflow, we’ll provide an estimated FBA Prep Service fee depending on the services required for each product.

The following products qualify for FBA Prep Service:

• Condition: Any (new, used, collectible, and refurbished)
• Product type: Any (media and non-media)
• Barcode: Each unit must have a scannable barcode (for example, ISBN, UPC, EAN, or JAN). The unit's barcode must not be punched out, marked over, covered, or obstructed.

The following products do not qualify for FBA Prep Service:

• Sharp products: These products must be fully packaged and meet the packaging guidelines for sharp units.

Products with packaging and preparation requirements

To enable FBA Prep Service for products with packaging and preparation requirements set by Amazon, select one of the following in the Who preps? field:

• By Amazon if you want Amazon to prep the product.
• By seller if you want to prepare the product yourself.

Products without packaging and preparation requirements

If your products don’t have packaging and preparation requirements set by Amazon, you can choose how to prepare your products based on the category:

1. Click Choose prep category from the Prep guidance tab.
2. In the pop-up window, select the category that best fits your product from the Prep category drop-down list. You can select No prep if you believe that no prep is required.
3. Select By Amazon in the Who preps? column.

If you don’t follow these steps, or if you select By seller in the Who preps? column, you’ll be responsible to prepare your own products.

For more information, go to Prep guidance and Product packaging requirements.

Choose who labels the products

After determining who will prep your products, go to the Label product tab to choose whether you or Amazon will apply labels to each unit.

If Amazon prepares your products, the FBA Label Service will be automatically set to By Amazon for products that require bubble wrap, opaque bagging, or that are sold as a set.

You can choose a default in your FBA settings, and changing the default won’t affect previously created shipments or label preferences already defined for specific items.

For more information, go to FBA Label Service.

Prior to February 5, 2024

February 5, 2024, and after