When an item stored at an Amazon fulfillment center is about to be disposed of because it’s not worth the cost of returning it to you, then Amazon will dispose of it. But this can only happen if you’ve logged into your FBA inventory report and specifically created...

  The name of the payment Amazon makes to you. It’s usually every 2 weeks, but you can also request it to be sooner than that. A list of your disbursements is available in the Payment Summary in Seller Central. For new sellers, it could take an extra few...

Review and feedback are sometimes used interchangeably by Amazon users. After all, both refer to a testimony from the buyer and both involve a star rating from 1 to 5. However, a review refers to the product, while a rating refers to the service (i.e. the seller’s performance). A...

Products can only be listed on Amazon if the seller states the condition they’re in. Amazon lists its condition guidelines here. Note that they do not correspond to the guidelines you’d see on eBay, Abe, etc., and they can be different from one category to the next. You may...

This refers to the situation where a seller’s offer is featured on Amazon as the main option for a buyer. When the buyer presses the ‘Add to Cart’ button, Amazon automatically adds the featured product in the buyer’s cart. If the buyer then completes the order, they will have...

Amazon Brand Registry is a tool that enables brand owners to personalize their product pages on Amazon. It’s available to manufacturers, artisans, makers of personalized items, and own label sellers who have their manufacturer’s authorization. Registering grants brand owners complete control over their listings, giving them exclusivity over the...

A category on Amazon referring to media. Back in 1994, when Amazon was launched, this was Amazon’s only product category, but since then, products have been classified into 38 categories and hundreds of sub-categories, as seen here. Sellers still refer to these as BMVD products, though, because they tend...

The ACoS (Advertising Cost of Sale) is a key metric used to measure the performance of your Amazon Sponsored Products campaigns. ACoS indicates the ratio of ad spend to targeted sales and is calculated like this:   ACoS = ad spend ÷ sales

Advertising is a means of communication with the users of a product or service. Advertisements are paid messages aimed at informing or influencing the people they’re sent to. On Amazon, advertising can help you increase brand visibility and drive sales for your products. There are three advertising solutions on...

Account Health is an Amazon page which contains an overview of the performance targets and policies seller accounts are required to comply with to sell on Amazon. The purpose of this page is for sellers to easily inspect their overall performance on Amazon in terms of targets and policies...