Attention Sellers: Amazon Streamlines Fulfillment with New Size Categories
Exciting news for Amazon sellers! The eCommerce giant is implementing a revamped size tier system for products, bringing greater precision and efficiency to the fulfillment process.
What’s Changing?
Under the new system, small standard-size items will be tiered at 2-ounce intervals, ensuring precise classification. Meanwhile, large standard-size items weighing over 1 pound will be tiered at 4-ounce intervals, allowing for better differentiation.
Gone are the days of the broad “Oversized” category. Amazon is introducing two new tiers:
- Large Bulky: This category will accommodate products that are larger in size but may not necessarily be particularly heavy.
- Extra-Large: This tier will encompass items with significant dimensions and weight.
Benefits for Sellers:
- Accurate Product Classification: The new system ensures your products are categorized based on both size and weight, leading to more precise fulfillment fees and potentially lower costs for some items.
- Enhanced Efficiency: Clearer size classifications will streamline the fulfillment process, potentially reducing processing times and delays.
- Consistency Across Services: The new tiers apply to both standard and remote fulfillment, offering a unified system for managing your inventory across all Amazon services.
Benefits for Customers:
- Improved Search Results: More accurate product categorization can lead to better search results, allowing customers to find the items they need faster and easier.
Transparent Shipping Costs: Precise size classification may translate to a fairer and more predictable shipping cost structure for customers.
Apparel Referral Fees Changes For items ≦ $20 (Effective January 15, 2024)
Simpler Breakdown:
We’re making some changes to our referral fee structure for clothing! Here’s the quick guide:
- Clothing under $15: Referral fee goes from 17% to 5%.
- Clothing between $15-$20: Referral fee goes from 17% to 10%.
- Clothing over $20: Referral fee stays at 17%.
2. Emphasize High-Value Referrals:
Great news for our referrers! We’re rewarding you even more for recommending our amazing clothes, especially for higher-priced items. Our referral fee remains 17% for all clothing priced above $20!
3. Highlight Changes for Lower-Priced Items:
Heads up, referrers! To ensure a fair system, we’re adjusting referral fees for clothing under $20. It’ll now be 5% for items below $15 and 10% for those between $15-$20. The 17% fee still applies to clothing priced over $20.
4. Combine Options:
We’re refining our referral fee structure for clothing! Here’s the breakdown:
- To streamline rewards, referral fees for items under $15 will decrease to 5%.
- For clothing between $15 and $20, the fee will be adjusted to 10%.
- The good news? The 17% referral fee remains unchanged for all clothing priced above $20!
Inbound: The term “inbound” in Amazon refers to the products that come into the fulfillment center
These changes are listed below in chronological order of their implementation dates.
| Implementation Date | Changes |
| From Jan 15, 2024 | – Application of inbound placement service fees for standard and large-volume products – Application of inbound defect fees |
| From Feb 5, 2024 | – Decrease in selling fee for apparel prices under $20 |
| From Feb 15, 2024 | – Increase of additional fees for aged inventory among storage inventory between 271 and 365 days |
| From Mar 1, 2024 | – Imposing low-inventory-level fees – Decrease of $0.09 per ft3 regarding monthly storage fee of off-peak standard-size products |
| From Apr 1, 2024 | – Imposing low-inventory-level fees – Decrease of $0.09 per ft3 regarding monthly storage fee of off-peak standard-size products |
| From Apr 15, 2024 | – Some changes in the FBA Order Processing fee ratio |
| From Jun 1, 2024 | – Application of returns processing fees for products with high returns rates excluding apparel and shoes |
Reference link: Amazon Fee 2024