FBA inventory

Important: If you have a North America Unified Account and if you list products on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or Amazon.com.mx, products listed for sale in those marketplaces must be sent to a fulfillment center in the respective country. To create shipments for different North American marketplaces, select the marketplace from the drop-down menu at the top right of Seller Central before you create your shipment. For information about selling across North American borders, go to Important information for international sellers.

A legacy shipment creation workflow

Use the tools in your seller account to list products, create shipping plans, send in shipments, track and monitor your shipments, and remove inventory from Amazon fulfillment centers.

Manage FBA inventory

Manage FBA inventory: Manage your inventory using the tools on the Manage Inventory page.
Add one product at a time: List individual products with the Add a Product tool. For a video tutorial, go to List your first item.
List products for Fulfillment by Amazon: After you create a new listing for a product, specify it as FBA inventory by changing Fulfilled by from Merchant to Amazon.
List FBA products in bulk: Upload a tab-delimited .txt file to list all of your products at the same time. For a video tutorial, go to Product feeds overview.
Resolve stranded inventory issues: Resolve issues related to your stranded inventory.
Fix a "no listing" error: Get troubleshooting tips for the most common listing errors related to FBA listing errors.
FBA inventory storage limits: Learn about how and why storage limits may apply.
FBA Donations program: Find out how to donate overstock, returned, or other unwanted FBA inventory to select US charities.
Manage Inventory Health: Use the Manage Inventory Health tool to help you maintain 30 to 60 days of on-hand inventory in relation to your sales and to avoid excess inventory.

Send inventory to Amazon

Note: Once your inventory is received at a fulfillment center or receive center, it is available for sale. You can track the status of your shipment in the Shipping Queue as it changes from In transit to Delivered, Checked in, Receiving, and Closed. To learn more, go to How Amazon receives and stores your inventory.

Options for creating shipments include the following:

Send to Amazon: A streamlined shipment creation workflow with simplified steps that saves you time when replenishing inventory. You can create your shipments either by adding products from the Send to Amazon page or by uploading the list of products using an Excel spreadsheet.
Send/replenish inventory to Amazon: A legacy shipment creation workflow that should be used if you want to use Amazon Global Logistics to ship inventory from China.
Amazon Marketplace Web Service or Selling Partner API: For medium to large shipments. You can integrate your own inventory systems using Amazon APIs.

For a quick introduction to the shipment creation process, watch the Seller University video series beginning with How FBA works.

Note: By default, when you create a workflow, your inventory may be divided into multiple shipments, each directed to a different fulfillment center. The fulfillment centers are selected based on the products you're shipping and where you're shipping them from. With your inventory spread across multiple fulfillment centers across the country, customers who buy your products can get them delivered faster than they would if your inventory was located farther away.

Track and reconcile shipments

Track your shipment: Track your shipments to Amazon and the status of each shipment in the Shipping Queue.
Reconcile your shipment: Identify and resolve any discrepancies between what is listed in your shipping plan and what is received at the fulfillment center.
Troubleshoot receiving issues: Get troubleshooting tips for the most common receiving errors related to FBA shipments.

Remove inventory from an Amazon fulfillment center

Remove inventory (overview): Request to have inventory that you have stored in Amazon's fulfillment centers returned to you or disposed of.
Remove inventory from fulfillment centers: Create a removal order for any amount of inventory at any time using the tools in your seller account.
Remove inventory in bulk: Remove inventory in bulk by uploading a tab-delimited .txt file.
Remove inventory automatically: Have your unfulfillable inventory or inventory that is subject to a long-term storage fee automatically removed from Amazon fulfillment centers and either returned to you or disposed of.

Manage Multi-Channel Fulfillment inventory

Fill orders for other sales channels (Multi-Channel Fulfillment): Use Amazon to fill orders from your other sales channels.
List products for Fulfillment by Amazon: List inventory for Multi-Channel Fulfillment without making it available for sale on Amazon.
Submit or cancel a Multi-Channel Fulfillment order: Submit Multi-Channel Fulfillment orders by creating orders individually, or by using bulk Excel spreadsheet upload, or by using the Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) API.

Manage FBA orders

Manage FBA orders: Review the status of FBA orders for products sold on Amazon and through multi-channel fulfillment on the Manage Orders page.

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