{"id":3548,"date":"2020-12-21T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2021-04-21T07:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T07:27:37","slug":"how-to-set-up-an-amazon-seller-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/how-to-set-up-an-amazon-seller-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up an Amazon seller account"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to Set Up an Amazon Seller Account Tutorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2TN41OkYh_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon account levels \u2013 differences<\/h1><p>There are two different levels of Amazon account<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Individual (Basic) Seller<\/h2><p>This account levels of for individual with only a few items to sell every month<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No monthly fee<\/li><li>No listing fees<\/li><li>\u00a30.75 per item sold<\/li><li>Referral fee on sold items (standard 15%)<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Seller<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00a325 + VAT\/month<\/li><li>No per item fee<\/li><li>Referral fee on sold items (standard 15%)<\/li><li>Create products in bulk<\/li><li>Set you own shipping rates<\/li><li>Buy box Eligibility<\/li><\/ul><p>Note that new sellers are only eligible for the buy box after three months of trading activity.<\/p><p>The buy box is a very important concept which will be discussed in a later lecture.<\/p><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combined EU and NA accounts<\/h1><p>In Europe and north American a single account allows you to sell across multiple countries, along with several other benefits<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combined EU account<\/h2><p>The Amazon Europe Marketplaces account allows sellers to:<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Share inventory levels across EU marketplaces<\/li><li>Combined order screen for EU + UK orders<\/li><li>Fulfil through the European fulfilment network<\/li><li>Pay a single monthly subscription fee<\/li><li>Shared account information<\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combined North American account<\/h2><p>This is similar to the EU account except focused on the North American<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Share listing information and manage your inventory consistently across Amazon&#8217;s U.S., Canada, and Mexico marketplaces<\/li><li>Combined order screen for NA orders<\/li><li>Single monthly fee<\/li><li>Shared account information<\/li><\/ul><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon referral fees<\/h1><p>Amazon charges a referral fee on each sale. There is no fee to list an item.&nbsp; The referral fee is charged on both the sale price and any shipping charged.<\/p><p>For many categories the referral fee is 15%, though this varies by category and by amazon country<\/p><p>EU + UK fee schedule: <a href=\"https:\/\/sellercentral.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/help\/external\/200336920\">https:\/\/sellercentral.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/help\/external\/200336920<\/a><\/p><p>US fee schedule: <a href=\"https:\/\/sellercentral.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/external\/200336920\">https:\/\/sellercentral.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/external\/200336920<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Note:<\/strong> For professional level account there is a monthly subscription fee.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Many sellers chose to gain additional exposure for their product by buying advertising.&nbsp; Amazon\u2019s advertising programme is called Amazon sponsored products and is charged on a cost per click basis.<\/p><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Account opening requirements<\/h1><p>In order to open a professional level account, you will need the following information<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Business trading details<\/li><li>Owner details<\/li><li>Valid credit card<\/li><li>Bank account details<\/li><\/ul><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Account setup<\/h1><p>Some things to bear in mind<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Only one seller central account per region<\/li><li>Addresses should match<\/li><li>Set a seller name to identify your account<\/li><li>Set business policies<\/li><li>Add a logo<\/li><\/ul><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enabling single sign on<\/h1><p>If you have multiple Amazon accounts in different Amazon countries is it possible to access them via a single login. Very convenient when selling across multiple sites.<\/p><p>To enable this go to Inventory &gt; Sell Globally<\/p><p>Or Setting &gt; global accounts<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon account levels \u2013 differences There are two different levels of Amazon account Individual (Basic) Seller This account levels of for individual with only a few items to sell every month No monthly fee No listing fees \u00a30.75 per item sold Referral fee on sold items (standard 15%) Professional Seller \u00a325 + VAT\/month No per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-online-marketplace","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zVGJ-Ve","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vendlab.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}