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...
Seller lingo for when the Amazon third-party 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. Products sold via third-party sellers using MFN are displayed on the offers page as seen in...
A performance rating on a scale of 1 to 5 stars (5 being the best). The overall feedback score is displayed as a percentage on the offers page, as seen in the right hand side the image to the right. A more detailed account of recent and lifetime customer...
Part of the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program, EFN enables sellers operating in Europe to store Prime eligible products in a fulfillment center near them, allowing Amazon to ship the products to customers across the continent. In return, sellers must list the products across European venues and pay...
A program whereby sellers can pay Amazon.com to facilitate reviews. On the seller’s behalf, Amazon contacts customers who have already bought qualifying products to offer a symbolic $1 – $3 reward for taking the time to review those products. Any such review will then be displayed with the...
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...
