Amazon lets you register as an individual without a business license or LLC, but your city, county, or state may still require one. This guide covers what Amazon asks for at signup, local licenses and home occupation permits, sales tax registration where FBA inventory is stored, Amazon's insurance rule, and a 50-state and DC table.
Virtual Bundles group 2 to 5 of your own FBA ASINs into a single Amazon listing without physical packaging. This complete guide covers eligibility (including the Brand Representative gate), the tool workflow, pricing rules, inventory mechanics, and how Virtual Bundles compare to physical bundles.
Amazon FBA long-term storage fees are now assessed monthly under the aged inventory surcharge, starting at 181 days. With updated 2026 rates and steep Q4 storage costs, this guide breaks down the current fee tiers, real dollar impact, and five actionable options to clear at-risk stock before monthly assessment deadlines.
Amazon's Seller Assistant now shows why you're not in the Buy Box (Featured Offer): the 4 factors it checks — and how to fix each one.
Win the Buy Box in one region and lose it in another? Here's why the Featured Offer is regional — and what FBA and FBM sellers can do about it.
Enrolling in Amazon’s Tax Exemption Program takes about 15 minutes. This guide covers what a resale exemption actually covers, which documents Amazon rejects, and the records you need so the savings hold up.
FBA Operations · 2026 Guide
How to Check and Act On Your Amazon FBA Returns Report (2026 Guide)
The report tells you what came back. Deciding what to do with each unit — and knowing what that decision actually costs — is separate, and Amazon just made getting it wrong more expensive to ignore.
Checking your Amazon FBA returns report regularly is the only way to catch unsellable inventory before it quietly eats your margin. Every FBA seller gets returns — it’s an unavoidable cost of selling at scale on Amazon — and what separates sellers who protect their bottom line from those who don’t is what happens after the item lands back in a fulfillment center. As of March 1, 2026, the cost of stalling on that decision has gotten more visible: removal and disposal fees are now charged per unit as each item actually ships or is destroyed, instead of one lump charge when the whole order finishes. A large removal order you submit and forget about can now generate dozens of small charges spread across weeks — and if you haven’t already decided whether removal, disposal, liquidation, or Amazon’s Grade and Resell program is the right call for that SKU, you end up making that decision fee by fee instead of once, deliberately.
Where to Find Your FBA Returns […]
A complete 2026 guide to selling hazmat on Amazon FBA: program history, what counts as dangerous goods, the 9 UN classes, prohibited products, the waitlist reality, SDS and exemption sheet documentation, lithium battery rules, hazmat shipping, and the real cost of compliance.
As an Amazon seller, you need to determine the best way to get your products into the hands of the customer. You have two basic choices: Fulfill the orders yourself (Fulfillment by Merchant, or FBM)), or take advantage of the Amazon system of order processing known as FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon). Let’s take a look at both options.
When a buyer visits the Amazon marketplace, the products that they purchase may be coming directly from the Amazon Fulfillment Center, or they may be coming straight from the third-party seller’s home or place of business. As a seller, when you add inventory through Amazon Seller Central, you are prompted to decide whether to ship it yourself, or to have Amazon store, process, and ship your items to the customers.
Amazon Merchant Fulfilled orders are shipped by the seller directly to the customer. In this scenario, the person that is selling on Amazon keeps the inventory in their possession. As orders appear in your Amazon Seller Account, you process the order, package the item(s), and ship them to the customer. Amazon deducts their sales commission from the amount paid by the customer, and the balance is credited to your account.
Alternatively, you have the option of processing the inventory and shipping it, in bulk, to one or more of Amazon’s fulfillment centers prior to the items actually being made available for sale. Currently, there are over 100 of these massive warehouses in the US with more being built all of the time. At the time of this writing, Amazon […]
If a How to sell on Amazon article actually existed, one that:
…that article would actually have to be a complete course, or at the very minimum, a series of articles, and even then, it would likely be incomplete.
Selling on Amazon, much like selling on eBay, is something that millions of people can already put on their resume. The Amazon marketplace is huge, and while they are not the world’s largest retailer (yet), they have become the world’s largest online retailer, one Amazon sale at a time.
So you want to sell on Amazon. Easy enough – Open a Seller Account, and list some products for sale.
Here are the simple steps to get started:
Step 1: Go to https://services.amazon.com
From there you can click the “Start Selling” link.
Step 2: Fill out the short form. Enter your name, email address that you want to receive communications from Amazon through, and choose and enter your password twice. Click “Next”.
Step 3: After clicking Next, you will then enter your business, tax, and banking information to set up your account. For additional information, there are two basic types of Amazon Seller Accounts discussed here. Go through the sections of […]
