US Multi-Channel Fulfillment: Fee Update and Faster Shipping
- On January 19, 2023, Amazon has updated Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) fees and launched improvements, including faster shipping, free integrator apps, and enhanced shipment tracking functionality. Improvements include improvements of standard shipping speed from 7 days to 5 days.Also continue to offer expedited three-day shipping and priority two-day shipping. New MCF features, including free-to-install MCF app experiences for BigCommerce, Wix, and Adobe (Magento), and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification of their IT security systems.
Walmart News: Walmart’s Answer to Amazon Vine Paid Product Reviews
- Walmart recently told branded merchants who sell on its marketplace about a program that lets them pay for product reviews through Plum’s Field Agent program for $15 per review. Walmart and Amazon both understand that product reviews are helpful in getting shoppers to make a purchase. Amazon said that participating in the Vine program could help boost sales up to 19% on new or slow-moving products.
New Feature Helps you Create and Manage Deals Across Amazon Stores
- A new Seller Central feature makes it easier to create and manage your deals across United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, and Turkey. You can now manage deals without having to sign in and out of store-specific Seller Central accounts to manage deals across United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, and Turkey.
Activate Invoice by Amazon and Boost Sales From Large Business Customers
- When you activate an Invoice by Amazon, your offers are eligible to be bought and instantly re-sold by Amazon to business customers. When a customer places an order, Amazon becomes the invoice issuer, or “single supplier”, which helps you generate more sales from large business customers. Get started with Invoice by Amazon
Update to US Referral and FBA Fees Starting January 17, 2023
- Important Call Outs effective Jan 17
- Referral fees will remain unchanged
- Fuel & Inflation Surcharge being removed altogether, and temporary charge that is being baked into FBA fees
- Additional granularity in our FBA fees will drive improved inventory health, more efficient use of Amazon’s storage, and create more capacity for sellers who are using space efficiently (Healthy Sell-through)
- Increase FBA outbound fee rates
- For Apparel products, the granularity of unit weight or dimensional weight to determine the shipping weight for all large standard-size products
- Reducing returns processing fee rates for customer-returned products in the Apparel and Shoes categories
- Increase the monthly off-peak storage fee (January to September) for standard-size products and oversized products
- Introducing a storage utilization surcharge for sellers who have slow-moving inventory based on weekly sales
- Increase the surcharges applied to inventory stored between 180-270 days and 271-365 days
- Increase removal and disposal fees
- Summary of Fees Available Here
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