Selling on Amazon Fee Schedule
For more details about your fees, go to Detailed fee explainer.
Monthly subscription fee
- Professional selling plan: CAD $29.99 per month* when you have active listings
- Individual selling plan: No subscription fee
*If you expand to sell in other stores using merged accounts, you will pay the equivalent of USD 39.99 per month, split proportionately across each country or region in which you have an active listing and charged separately in each local currency. You can downgrade at any time. For more information, go to Monthly subscription fee FAQ and Merging accounts (Previously referred to as Linking accounts).
Selling fees
When your item sells, Amazon collects the amount paid by the buyer (including the item price and any shipping, gift wrap or other charges). Amazon shipping rates may apply to media products (book, music, video and DVD products) sold by professional sellers, and to all products sold by individual sellers. Only professional sellers can offer gift wrap.
See Shipping rates for BMVD for a table of Amazon shipping credits for media products. For a table of Amazon shipping rates for all products sold by individual sellers, see Shipping credits for individual sellers.
Per-item fees
- Professional sellers: No per-item fee
- Individual sellers: CAD $1.49 fee for each item sold
Referral fees
Sellers pay a referral fee on each item sold.
For all products, Amazon deducts the applicable referral fee percentage calculated on the total sales price, excluding any taxes calculated through Amazon tax calculation services. The total sales price is the total amount paid by the buyer, including the item price and any delivery or gift-wrapping charges.
Referral fees vary by category, as listed below.
| Categories | Amazon deducts the greater of the applicable referral fee percentage or applicable per-item minimum referral fee.
See “Referral fees” notes above. |
|
|---|---|---|
| Referral fee percentages | Applicable minimum referral fee (applied on a per-item basis unless otherwise noted) |
|
| Amazon Device Accessories | 45% | CAD $0.40 |
| Baby |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Books | 15% | -- |
| Camera and Photo1 | 8% | CAD $0.40 |
| Cell Phones1 | 8% | CAD $0.40 |
| Consumer Electronics1 | 8% | CAD $0.40 |
| DVDs | 15% | -- |
| Electronics Accessories |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Furniture (including outdoor furniture) |
Note: Mattresses will be charged 15% regardless of price point.
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Home & Garden (including Pet Supplies) | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Industrial & Scientific (including Food Service and Janitorial & Sanitation) | 12% | CAD $0.40 |
| Music | 15% | -- |
| Musical Instruments | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Office Products1 | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Personal Computers1 | 6% | CAD $0.40 |
| Software & Computer Games | 15% | -- |
| Sports & Outdoors (excluding Sports Collectibles) | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Tools & Home Improvement | 15%, except 12% for base equipment power tools | CAD $0.40 |
| Toys & Games2 | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Video Game Consoles | 8% | -- |
| Video Games | 15% | -- |
| Videos | 15% | -- |
| Everything Else 3 | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Categories requiring approval | Contact us for approval | |
| Automotive & Powersports | 12%, except 10% for tires and wheel products | CAD $0.40 |
| Beauty |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Clothing & Accessories (including sunglasses) | 17% | CAD $0.40 |
| Grocery & Gourmet Food |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Health & Personal Care (including Personal Care Appliances) |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Jewellery |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Luggage & Bags1 | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Major Appliances |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Shoes & Handbags | 15% | CAD $0.40 |
| Sports Collectibles | See Category Requirements for referral fees. | |
| Watches |
|
CAD $0.40 |
| Extended warranties, protection plans and service contracts | 96% | -- |
1Accessory products fall into the Electronics Accessories category.
2The CAD $0.40 per item minimum referral fee does not apply to Collectible Cards products in the Toys & Games category.
3 The Everything Else category is available to Sellers for products that do not clearly fit within existing categories. Do not list items in the Everything Else category that appropriately fall within another category.
Closing fees
Sellers also pay a closing fee of CAD $1.00 per media item that is sold. Media categories are Books, DVD, Music, Software & Computer/Video Games, Video, Video Game Consoles and Video Game Accessories.
High-volume listing fee
We charge a monthly high-volume listing fee based on the number of active non-media SKUs you offered for sale on Amazon. The high-volume listing fee will only apply if you exceed 2 million SKUs in a given month, and will be applied to your highest number of SKUs above 2 million at any time during that month.
For each active non-media SKU over 2 million, a fee of USD 0.0005 per SKU will apply.
For example, if during the month a total of 3 million active non-media SKUs were made available by you, the fee applied for that month will be $500 (3,000,000 – 2,000,000 SKUs = 1,000,000 SKUs x $0.0005).
Refund holdback
If you refund a buyer for an order for which you have already received payment, Amazon will refund you the amount of the referral fee you paid for the item(s), minus the applicable refund holdback, which is the lesser of $5.00 or 20% of the applicable referral fee.
For example, if you refund a customer the $10.00 total sales price of an item in a category with a 15% referral fee, your refund holdback will be $0.30 ($10.00 x 15% referral fee = $1.50).
Examples of referral fee calculations
Media products
Individual selling plan example:
Item price
+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer
- Referral fee
- Closing fee of CAD 1.00
- CAD 1.49 per item fee
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= Total deposited to seller account
Professional selling plan example:
Item price
+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer
- Referral fee
- Closing fee of CAD 1.00
- Variable closing fee for media items
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= Total deposited to seller’s account
Examples for Watch products
Examples of referral fee calculations for Watches products:
| Sales Price | Example 1: Referral fee for a CAD 8.00 watch | Example 2: Referral fee for a CAD 1,500.00 watch | Example 3: Referral fee for a CAD 7,000.00 watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| For the portion of the total sales price up to CAD 1,500.00 | CAD 2.00 | CAD 240.00 | CAD 240.00 |
| For any portion of the total sales price from CAD 1,500.01 and above | CAD 0.00 | CAD 0.00 | CAD 165.00 |
| Referral fee | CAD 2.00 | CAD 240.00 | CAD 405.00 |
Examples for other products
Individual selling plan example:
Item price
+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer
- Referral fee
- CAD 1.49 per item fee
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= Total deposited to seller account
Professional selling plan example:
Item price
+ Shipping charges paid by the buyer
+ Gift wrap charges paid by the buyer
- Referral fee
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= Total deposited to seller’s account
Selling on Amazon Fee Schedule
- Detailed Fee Explainer
- Selling policies and seller code of conduct
- Category, Product, and Listing Restrictions
- Product Detail Page Rules
- Prohibited seller activities and actions
- Prohibited Content
- Drop Shipping Policy
- Expiration dates on seller-fulfilled products
- High-volume listing fee FAQ
- Understanding fee categories
