Hello Sellers,

Last week I posted about Subscribe and Save and how this can help you grow your business. This week I wanted to focus on giving everyone a refresher on capacity limits.

FBA capacity limits help us manage unexpected surges in demand and supply chain disruptions so that we can run our fulfillment network efficiently and get your products to customers faster. FBA capacity limits also give you clarity about your future access to FBA capacity so that you can plan how much inventory to procure and manufacture, and when to design and launch new products in Amazon’s store.

You can view your capacity limits and capacity usage in the Capacity Monitor at the bottom of the FBA dashboard. Use the tabs to select a storage type. The chart on the left displays your current capacity usage by inventory status and your remaining capacity for creating new shipments. The table on the right displays your estimated capacity limits for the next three months.

How are capacity limits set you may ask? Well it depends on your account:

• Individual selling accounts have a capacity limit of 15 cubic feet; this limit doesn’t change and is not eligible to be increased.
• New professional selling accounts (active in FBA for less than 39 weeks) don’t receive FBA capacity limits. This allows you to establish your FBA sales record without limits so that we can determine how much capacity your FBA business needs as you grow.
• Professional selling accounts (active in FBA for more than 39 weeks) receive capacity limits based on IPI score and sales performance. Sellers with consistently higher IPI scores receive higher capacity limits, adjusted for sales volume and available capacity. Usage against your FBA capacity limits will consider your inventory on-hand at Amazon and open shipments on the way to our fulfillment centers, calculated in cubic feet.

If you’d like more capacity for products that you’re confident customers will buy, you can use Capacity Manager to request an increase to your capacity limits at a reservation fee that you specify.

Here’s how it works:

• Tell us how much additional capacity you want, and when

• Set the maximum reservation fee that you’re willing to pay for the extra capacity.

• We’ll assess fulfillment center capacity regularly (typically twice per week) and grant requests as capacity is available.

• If your request is granted, your capacity limit will increase in the Capacity Monitor.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Dominic