FBA Prep Service

Learn about the different prep services available for inventory you send to Amazon fulfilment centers and their associated fees.

You can use the FBA Prep Service to have Amazon properly package and prep your products for fulfilment.

FBA has Packaging and Prep Requirements for products you ship to and store in Amazon fulfilment centres. Properly packaging and preparing units helps to reduce delays in receive time, protect your products while in our fulfilment centres, and create a better customer experience.

If you decide to use the FBA Prep Service, Amazon will prepare your eligible products for a per-unit fee. To have Amazon prepare your products, you must first enable FBA Prep Services. When you send inventory to our fulfilment centres, you will be able to select whether your products will be prepared by Amazon or by you. When building your Shipping Plan, we will provide an estimate of the FBA Prep Fees based on the expected preparation services for the selected products.

Minimum qualifications

• Condition: Any (New, Used, Collectible, Refurbished).
• Product Type: Any (Media and Non-media).
• ASIN: Each unit must have a scannable barcode (ISBN, UPC, EAN, or JAN). The unit's barcode must not be punched out, marked over, covered, or otherwise obstructed.

If you sign up for FBA Prep Services

• You will have the option to select whether Amazon or you prep each eligible product in your Shipping Plan.
• For products that Amazon preps, you will be charged the applicable FBA Prep Service fees based on the prep services Amazon provides as determined by Amazon.
• There are separate fees for Standard-Size and Oversize products.
• Your qualifying units may be split into multiple additional shipments.
• If you choose to have Amazon prep your products, for selected product FBA Label Service may be automatically included in the prep activities on those products, and you will also be charged according to the FBA Label Service Pricing.
• We will determine in our sole discretion which prep services we perform with respect to your products.
• We may discontinue the FBA Prep Service at any time.

Enable the FBA Prep Service

To enable your FBA Prep Service, follow these steps when creating your Shipping Plan:

1. Select a product that you want Amazon to prep.
2. On the Prepare Products page, select "Amazon" in the Who Preps field.
3. In the pop over window "Are you sure you want save settings to your Fulfilment by Amazon Settings?" click the Yes button.

Select who preps the products

Once you have enabled FBA Prep Service, you will be able to select whether Amazon or you will prep each eligible product by following the steps below in the Prepare Products page of your Shipping Plan.

You can also choose who preps your products by default in your FBA settings page. Note that changing the default does not affect previously created shipments or any prep preferences you have defined for specific items.

For products with Prep Guidance

For each eligible product listed on the Prepare Products page of the shipping workflow, under "Who preps?" select "Amazon" if you want Amazon to prep the product or select "Seller" if you want to prep the product yourself. "Amazon" will be the default selection for products with Prep Guidance.

For products without Prep Guidance

Products without Prep Guidance may still have packaging and prep requirements. For products without Prep Guidance, " Choose category " will appear in the Prep Guidance column. In order for Amazon to prep these products, you must follow these steps:

1. Click "Choose category" from the "Prep guidance" column on the Prepare Products page.
2. In the pop-up window, select the Prep Category that best fits your product from the Prep Category drop-down, or choose "No prep" if you believe that no prep is required.*
3. For the given product select "Amazon" in the "Who preps?" column on the Prep Product page.

If you do not take these actions, or select "Seller" in the "Who preps?" column, then you will be responsible for preparing these products.

* See the Prep Matrix for descriptions of prep categories and related prep activities. To learn more visit Packaging and Prep Requirements.

Select who labels the products

After determining who preps the products, you can select whether Amazon or you will be responsible for applying labels to each unit in the Label Product page of your Shipping Plan.

You can also choose who labels your products by default in your FBA settings page. Please note that changing the default does not affect previously created shipments or any label preferences you have defined for specific items.

See FBA Label Service for additional information on labelling.

Per-unit fee (CAD)	Standard-size			Oversize
Prep category*	Prep	Labelling	Total	Prep	Labelling	Total
Fragile/glass Bubble wrap Labelling	$0.80	$0.20	$1.00	$1.60	$0.20	$1.80
Liquids Bagging Labelling (optional)	$0.50	$0.20**	$0.50 to $0.70	$1.00	$0.20**	$1.00 to $1.20
Apparel, fabric, plush, and textiles Bagging Labelling (optional)	$0.50	$0.20**	$0.50 to $0.70	$1.00	$0.20**	$1.00 to $1.20
Baby products Bagging Labelling (optional)	$0.50	$0.20**	$0.50 to $0.70	$1.00	$0.20**	$1.00 to $1.20
Sharp Bubble wrap Labelling	$0.80	$0.20	$1.00	$1.60	$0.20	$1.80
Small Bagging Labelling	$0.50	$0.20	$0.70	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adult Bagging (black or opaque Labelling	$1.00	$0.20	$1.20	$2.00	$0.20	$2.20
Powders, pellets, and granular Bagging Labelling (optional)	$0.50	$0.30**	$0.50 to $0.80	$1.00	$0.30**	$1.00 to $1.30
Perforated packaging Bagging Labelling (optional)	$0.50	$0.30**	$0.50 to $0.80	$1.00	$0.30**	$1.00 to $1.30

*Amazon will eventually charge for these additional prep services: boxing, hanger removal, set creation, suffocation stickering, and set stickering.

**The Label Service is optional. All products must have a scannable label that will be visible after prep is complete.