Amazon Shopping Payments & Pricing

 

Shopping Services Of Amazon

Amazon website accepts various cards including American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB, MasterCard, Eurocard, Visa and Visa Check Cards, payments from your checking accounts, Amazon.com gift cards, Amazon.com Gift card claim codes, Amazon Payments Stored balance, and Amazon Stone Card. However, currently at present they do not accept international wire transfers, PayPal or Smart cards. As for grocery purchases, right now they do not accept manufacturer’s coupons or food stamps due to some technical difficulties and issues which they are trying to resolve.

 

Payment Type :

The Payment Type structure varies accordingly on the amount of items sold. This stands at 40 items or less monthly, $0.99 per sale with additional 15% referral fee and variable closing fee per item starting at $0.45 to $0.05 per pound. If it is 40 items or more monthly, the same figure changes to flat $39.99 for unlimited sales including the same referral and closing fees.

 

Fulfillment Web Service Functionality of Amazon :

With this special feature merchants can integrate with the system of family benefits, which in turn allows them to process the orders first to Amazon and then to their potential happy customers. It has three API keys used specifically to enter the service, termination of service, and other inventory related services. There is no charge for using this particular feature. If you integrate Fulfillment Web Service with Fulfillment by Amazon features, it will be quite beneficial for the better management and performance of your online store. You’ll have to pay the FBA fees, and only when orders are generated and processed or while inventory is stored at Amazon Warehouses.

 

Amazon Shipping Services :

  1. Inbound Service :
    Inbound service is a feature that allows merchants to create and send inbound shipments. They send shipments of inventory to Amazon’s fulfillment centers. They also create shipments of inventory to the same centers. Their tools and resources make it easy for merchants to ship inventory to Amazon with everything from label creation and packing slips. US merchants also have the advantage of making good use of Amazon’s discounted UPS shipping rates.

  2. Outbound Service :
    This particular service allows merchants to use Amazon’s fulfillment processing feature for orders sold on merchant’s website or other non Amazon channels.

  3. Submitting Fulfillment order/Shipping Requests :
    At Amazon customer orders are processed in real time which informs them regarding what to ship and where to ship the same product. This is done by integrating outbound service API to merchant’s software.

Tracking and Managing Shipment Requests :

Merchants can track shipments and keep their customers well informed and in advance even after orders have left the Amazon’s Fulfillment centers.
  1. Inventory Service:
    Merchants can stay up to date on the status of their inventory in Amazon’s fulfillment centers using this particular service.

  2. Checking Inventory Status:
    Merchants can monitor when Inventory stocks change status and get current availability status in order to keep product listing information updated.

Pricing :

No monthly fees or minimum spend on product announcements. Products make use of Pay-Per-Click pricing model which also considers the price and quality of the product being advertised. This feature can certainly affect the total cost of setting the maximum price you’re willing to pay per click and daily budget. Every time an item sells, Amazon collects sales price and shipping cost from the buyer, deducts referral fee which is about 6 to 25% of sales price, a variable closing fee, and per-item fee of $0.99. This per item fee is waived for Pro Merchant Subscribers.

 

How it works? :

- Selling price of the item.
- Shipping credit
- Referral Fee of 6-25% of the sales price (including any gift wrap)
- Variable Closing Fee
- $0.99 Fixed Closing Fee (waived for Pro Merchant Subscribers)
------------------------------------- = Total deposited to seller's account

 

Cost per Click Ranges and Eligible Categories :

Amazon has two pricing plans categorized under Individual and Professional. You can opt for anything based on your selling needs and other requirements.

Individual Plan :
This feature is nothing but “Sell your stuff”. If you are looking to have less than 40 orders a month, this plan would be more than suitable for your requirements and needs. This has no monthly fee and you’ll only have to pay a per product sold fee of $0.99.

Professional Plan :
This feature is nothing but “Sell professionally”. If you expect to have more than 40 orders a month, this package is more than suitable. The tools and analytics and other resources helps you to manage your store and products better. You’ll have to pay a monthly subscription fee of $39.99 along with selling fees on every item that has been sold for that month. Selling on Amazon is quite the low cost, low investment and incremental sales channel. Thus it is quite beneficial for you.

 

Rate Per Categories :

Product Category
Referral Fee
Closing Fee(per item)

Amazon Kindle

15%

-

Baby Products (excluding Baby Apparel)

15%

-

Beauty

15%

-

Books

15%

$1.35

Cell Phones & Accessories

15%

-

Camera & Photo

8%

-

Consumer Electronics

8%

-

DVDs & Videos VHS

15%

$0.80

Grocery & Gourmet Food

20%

-

Health & Personal Care

15%

-

Home & Garden

15%

-

Kitchen

15%

-

Music

15%

$0.80

Musical Instruments

12%

-

Office Products

15%

-

Personal Computer

6%

-

Software

15%

$1.35

Sports & Outdoors

15%

-

Tools & Hardware

12%

-

Toys & Games

15%

-

Video Games

15%

$1.35

Video Game Consoles

8%

$1.35

Wireless Antennas & Boosters 2

12%

-

 

The package lists the products based on its item type rather than the manufacturer or model type. This serves to be a great marketing tool if your product is quite unique from that of your competitor’s product. Search Engine Genie certainly makes it a unique shopping experience and business experience. contact Search Engine Genie at webpromotions@gmail.com or Submit our Shopping Feed Request Quote We do your job easily and efficiently giving you a greater performance and professional experience.

 

 

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