All You Need To Know About Amazon FBM (2025)
- As a Pro FBM Amazon seller, the monthly recurring subscription fee is $39.99.
- If you are not a pro seller but an individual seller, there is no recurring subscription fee, but you will have to pay $0.99 per unit you sell.
- If the monthly sales are more than 40 units, you should sign up for the Pro package to be economical.
- Highly specialized merchandise with low sales frequency
- Low-volume merchandise
- Low-profit products
- Goods that are difficult to send (e.g., bulky or fragile)
- Have temperature-sensitive items
- Already have a third-party fulfillment service with lower price than Amazon FBA
- Handmade products in your inventory. Many handmade sellers love to use FBM to guarantee the order arrives as intended.
- Having logistics procedures in place that work well
- A working e-mail address for a business account
- A chargeable credit card
- A government-issued ID (verification protects sellers and customers)
- Your company’s tax details
- Phone number
- A banking account for Amazon to transfer money to you
- First, navigate to the "Inventory" tab in your Seller Central account and select "Add a Product." You can search for the product by name or enter its unique identifiers, such as an ISBN or UPC.
- Once you've found the correct product, fill out all of its details, including title, description, variation options (if applicable), images, and pricing information.
- Aim to buy only as much inventory as you need, but don't put the business at risk of becoming overstocked.
- Ensure you always have ample inventory to meet customer demand during seasonal holidays or sales events like Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
- Another key aspect of managing your storage space is optimizing how you store your products. This includes organizing items based on their popularity, size, weight, or any other relevant factor that impacts how they are sold.
- Consider using labels or bins to keep similar items together.
- You can assign shipping templates from the dropdown menu through Manage Inventory on the Amazon Seller Central dashboard.
- You can create large batch shipping templates. Then assign them to each of your products with the right specific offers. Make sure you match your logistics capabilities for each offer.
- Additionally, you can set your Order Handling Capacity and Default Handling Time. This is to ensure the order-handling time you provide for the offer selected by you matches your logistics capabilities for that item.
Tracy Ng
Senior Content Executive at TrueProfit & SEO/Content Specialist
Tracy is a senior content executive at TrueProfit – specializing in helping eCommerce businesses scale profitably through content. She has over 4 years of experience in eCommerce and digital marketing editorial writing. She develops high-impact content that helps thousands of Shopify merchants make data-driven, profit-focused decisions.
