A score between 0 and 1,000 calculated by Amazon over a 90-day period to evaluate a seller’s FBA inventory management over time and to set storage limits
Professional sellers are also called Pro Merchants on Amazon. They tend to be businesses and other organizations. Amazon has developed the Professional Selling Plan for them, whereby they’re charged a fixed rate on a monthly basis rather than based on the number and type of item sold.
A virtual shipment that sellers must create every time they ship items to an Amazon Fulfillment Center. It’s a report that Amazon’s staff will use to compare what’s been received versus what was declared by the seller. There are various ways to do it, including manually or via...
Headline Search ads, once available only to vendors, are now available to all brand owning merchants on Amazon. They grant access to the top banner on search results pages (SERPs), so they’re considered a form of top-of-the-funnel marketing. They’re keyword driven and they can be used to send...
An umbrella term for various forms of product identification on Amazon supported by GS1. It includes UPCs, ISBNs, and EANs, among others. More details are available on the GTIN website.
Selling certain products and brands on Amazon comes with restrictions. When this happens, the seller must ask for Amazon’s approval and/or meet various extra requirements. These brands and product categories are called ‘gated’. You’ll probably also hear the term ‘ungating’ on seller forums, which refers to lifting these...
When the seller is in complete control of the entire handling and shipping process for an Amazon order, and they use their own resources to fulfill the order. It’s the pposite of FBA. Also see FBM.
All products sent to Amazon distribution centers for fulfillment via FBA are assigned a unique FNSKU when the seller creates an Inbound Shipment. It is displayed on a label that the seller must print out and attach to each item before shipping to the fulfillment center. Alternatively, Amazon can...
A flat fee charged by Amazon for every unit of a product sent to a fulfillment center. The fee is based on the type of product, its weight, its dimension, and the venue it’s being sold on. The fee is charged on top of storage fees, which are...
A fulfillment center is essentially a third-party logics warehouse (3PL) where products sent by sellers are received and processed for order fulfillment. Unlike Distribution Centers, which tend to cater mostly to vendors, wholesalers, and large retailers, they deal mainly with small quantities of items picked individually to be...
