Learn about the different prep services available for inventory you send to Amazon fulfillment centers and their associated fees.
You can use the FBA Prep Service to have Amazon properly package and prepare your products for fulfillment.
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) has Packaging and prep requirements for products you ship to and store in Amazon fulfillment centers. Properly packaging and preparing units helps to reduce delays in receiving time, protect your products while in our fulfillment centers, and create a better customer experience.
If you decide to use the FBA Prep Service, Amazon will prepare your eligible products for a per-unit fee. After you enable the service, you will be able to choose whether you or Amazon will prep products you send to fulfillment centers. When you build your shipping plan, we will provide an estimate of the prep fees based on the expected services for the selected products.
Amazon will only package products in accordance with the prep category selected by the seller. Amazon will not perform services that are not included in prep category, such as packaging multiple items together as one set product. Even if you use FBA prep service, Amazon may receive the products without performing additional prep which you requested if Amazon determines additional prep is not required after checking an actual packaged product that arrived at FC. Failure to comply with the packaging requirements upon shipment may result in refusal of inventory at Amazon Fulfillment Center, disposal or return of inventory at the seller's cost, or temporary suspension of creating new shipment function.
To enable the FBA Prep Service, follow these steps when
creating your shipping plan:
Once you have enabled the FBA Prep Service, you can choose on the Prepare Products page of your shipping plan whether Amazon or you will prep each eligible product by following the steps below.
You can also choose who preps your products by default in your FBA settings page. Changing the default does not affect previously created shipments or any prep preferences you have defined for specific items.
For each eligible product listed on the Prepare Products page of the shipping workflow, in the Who preps? field select Amazon if you want Amazon to prep the product or Merchant if you want to prep the product yourself. Amazon will be the default selection for products with prep guidance.
If you believe that default settings for a specific prep guidance is inappropriate or is required, click "Investigate" to confirm the packaging and prep requirements for the product.
*For MWS users, products with "For Products with Prep Guidance"are the only items that will be available for FBA prep service request.
Products without prep guidance may still have packaging and prep requirements.
For products without prep guidance, Choose category will
appear in the Prep guidance column on the Prepare
Products page. If you want Amazon to prep these products, follow
these steps:
If you do not follow these steps or if you select Merchant in the Who preps? column, you will be responsible for preparing these products.
* To learn more visit Packaging and Prep Requirements.
After determining who will prep the products, you can choose on the Label Product page of your shipping plan whether Amazon or you will apply labels to each unit.
You can also choose who labels your products by default in your FBA settings page. Changing the default does not affect previously created shipments or any label preferences you have defined for specific items.
For more information, see FBA Label Service.
Prep Guidance | Small/Standard-size (per unit) | Oversize (per unit) |
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Bagging | 25 JPY | 92 JPY |
Taping | 20 JPY | 51 JPY |
Bubble wrap with Labeling service |
51 JPY Bubble wrap: 31 JPY Labeling: 20 JPY |
143 JPY Bubble wrap: 92 JPY Labeling: 51 JPY |
Per Unit Fee | Small/Standard-Size | Oversize | ||||
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Prep Category | Prep | Labeling | Total | Prep | Labeling | Total |
Fragile/Glass
|
31 JPY | 20 JPY | 51 JPY | 92 JPY | 51 JPY | 143 JPY |
Liquids (non glass)
|
25 JPY | 20 JPY* | 25 JPY to 45 JPY | 92 JPY | 51 JPY* | 92 JPY to 143 JPY |
Apparel, Fabric, Plush, and Textiles
|
25 JPY | 20 JPY* | 25 JPY to 45 JPY | 92 JPY | 51 JPY* | 92 JPY to 143 JPY |
Powder, Pallets and Granular
|
25 JPY | 20 JPY* | 25 JPY to 45 JPY | 92 JPY | 51 JPY* | 92 JPY to 143 JPY |
Baby Products
|
25 JPY | 20 JPY* | 25 JPY to 45 JPY | 92 JPY | 51 JPY* | 92 JPY to 143 JPY |
Perforated Packaging
|
25 JPY | 20 JPY* | 25 JPY to 45 JPY | 92 JPY | 51 JPY* | 92 JPY to 143 JPY |
Small
|
25 JPY | 20 JPY | 25 JPY to 45 JPY | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Fees above include consumption tax of 10%
*Label Service Optional. All products must have a scannable label that will be visible after prep is complete.