Configuring the Inbound Placement Fee for the US market
Keep your business profitable with the Amazon Inbound Placement Fee in US/.com marketplace - to configure, visit Settings > Amazon Specific and set your default Inbound Placement selection:
- O: Amazon optimized shipment split = sent to 4+ locations; Amazon will ask you to ship to the most unique Fulfilment Centres, but with no placement fee. However, this will increase your average per pound shipping rate.
- P: Partial shipment splits = sent to 2-3 locations; Amazon will find a middle ground. You will have a few split shipments, and reduced fees versus Minimal.
- M: Minimal shipment splits = send to 1 location; Amazon will ship to as few Fulfilment Centres as possible, but it will come with an extra fee per unit.
With your preferred setting, SAS will then calculate your true profit; note that within Partial and Minimal, we include the highest amount of the range for that fee. See full details on the Inbound Placement program in Seller Central.
We suggest using Amazon optimized shipments as a general rule based on the best fees Amazon sellers are seeing at the moment; should you do that, we recommend increasing your average price per pound for Amazon shipping.
From shipments we have seen thus far, an estimate around $.60/lb is a good baseline to start with if you are using Amazon optimized; if you use the other methods, SellerAmp will automatically include the increases for that type of shipment flow to Amazon which you can see on the fee breakdown on the profit calculator