Amazon sellers face average $0.19 FBA fee rise from January 15, 2027

Amazon on November 5, 2026 told sellers in its US store that the fees it charges to pick, pack and ship their orders will rise by an average of $0.19 per unit sold from January 15, 2027, roughly 0.8% of the average item's selling price. The same announcement removes two storage surcharges, rewrites the size tiers for large products, narrows the list of goods that qualify for cheaper low-price rates and changes the test for a penalty charged when stock runs short.

The changes arrive in eight documents: a letter on Amazon's Selling Partners news site signed by Sunny Jain, Vice President, Worldwide Fulfillment by Amazon, and seven Seller Central help pages carrying rate cards, size definitions and worked examples. Taken together, they describe a restructuring of Amazon's bulky and oversize pricing, alongside an increase for standard-size goods that falls hardest on small, light items priced above $50. Some sellers of large, heavy goods will pay less from January. Sellers of very long items, or of wide, flat ones that exceed the new girth limits, pay more than a third more in two of Amazon's own examples.

The headline average conceals that spread. A phone case priced under $10 moves from $2.49 to $2.72 per unit in Amazon's own example. A 97-inch bulletin board moves from $50.93 to $69.75. A 65-inch television box falls from $48.57 to $36.55. Every one of those figures excludes a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge that Amazon introduced in April 2026 and is holding at the same rate.

In Short

Amazon charges sellers a fee to pack and ship each product it sends to customers from its warehouses, and in January 2027 that fee goes up by about 19 cents on average. Small, light products priced over $50 see the biggest jumps, cheap books, DVDs, computer items and car accessories lose a discount they used to get, and very long or flat products face new handling charges. Some big, heavy items get cheaper, storage charges get simpler, and the penalty for running low on stock will only apply when sales in the weeks before and after a stock check both show the shortfall.

What Amazon published on November 5

The announcement has two layers. The first is a short letter on Amazon's Selling Partners site, dated November 5, 2026 and presented as a four-minute read, in which Jain introduces the changes and reproduces the email sent to sellers. The second is a set of Seller Central help pages: a summary titled "2027 US Referral and Fulfillment by Amazon fees", a full rate card titled "2027 US FBA fulfillment fee changes", and separate pages on low-price FBA rates, product size tiers, oversize handling fees, the retiring overmax handling fee and the 2027 low-inventory-level fee.

According to the letter, "Fee changes are never easy." Jain writes that Amazon reviews its fee structure every year and that "this year's updates reflect a range of factors." The email to sellers, signed by the Amazon Selling Partner Services team, is more specific about timing. "We know this news arrives during your busiest season, and that fee changes, up or down, affect your planning and bottom line," it reads. "We're sharing them now so that you have more than two months to plan before most changes take effect on January 15, 2027."

Most of the fulfillment changes take effect on January 15, 2027, the day after the 2026 holiday peak fee period ends. A second group follows on February 1, 2027: the new storage structure, the revised low-inventory-level fee, new Amazon Warehousing and Distribution processing and transportation rates, higher Multichannel Distribution fees, and the returns processing changes for categories other than apparel and shoes. Age-based storage pricing in Amazon Warehousing and Distribution follows on March 1, 2027. One change took effect on the day of the announcement: a new, lower referral fee for 3D printers. A promotional referral rate for Amazon Renewed products runs until October 18, 2027.

The 2027 rate tables cover a non-peak window from January 15, 2027 to October 14, 2027. None of the documents publishes peak rates for the 2027 holiday season.

Amazon frames the changes against seller growth. According to the letter, independent sellers represent more than 60% of sales in Amazon's store and support over 2 million jobs in the United States, and more than 75,000 sellers surpassed $1 million in sales in 2025, up 36% from the year before. Those figures first appeared in Amazon's annual seller report in April 2026, which put the average US seller's sales above $375,000. The email adds that Amazon delivered 8 billion items same-day or next-day across its US stores last year.

The arithmetic behind Amazon's headline figure is worth stating. If $0.19 equals approximately 0.8% of the average item's selling price, the implied average selling price across the units Amazon measured is about $23.75, according to PPC Land's calculation. Amazon does not state the price itself, how the average is weighted, or which period of unit sales it used.

Amazon points sellers to two tools to measure their own exposure. The first is a new Fee Change Comparison dashboard inside Profit Analytics, which Amazon says shows the effect "at the account and product level." Amazon launched Profit Analytics on September 18, 2025 as a dashboard covering up to 500,000 listings, with fulfillment, storage, selling and advertising costs set against sales. The second is the Revenue Calculator, which models individual products.

How the rate cards work

Three variables set an FBA fulfillment fee: the product's size tier, its shipping weight and, for standard-size goods, its price band. The rate cards publish three bands, below $10, $10 to $50 and above $50. According to the fee page's frequently asked questions, items priced at exactly $10 and $50 receive the $10 to $50 rates.

Shipping weight is not always the weight on a scale. For small standard-size items, Amazon uses unit weight. For all other tiers except the heaviest, it uses the greater of unit weight and dimensional weight, which the documents define as length times width times height in inches, divided by 139. For bulky and oversize items, Amazon assumes a minimum width and height of 2 inches. A light but large box can therefore be charged as though it were heavy, a point that matters throughout the bulky and oversize changes described below.

Fees are calculated when a shipment leaves a fulfillment center, not when the order is placed. The documents give the example of a product ordered before October 15, 2026 but shipped on or after that date, which pays peak rates. By the same rule, the 2027 rates will apply to units that ship on or after January 15, 2027, whatever the order date.

Standard-size products: the increase by band

Standard-size goods have the most granular rate card. The documents define small standard-size as any packaged item of 16 ounces or less, with a longest side of 15 inches or less, a median side of 12 inches or less and a shortest side of 0.75 inch or less. Large standard-size runs to 20 pounds and 18 by 14 by 8 inches. Neither definition changes in 2027.

According to Amazon, the averages by band are as follows. Small standard-size fees for products priced from $10 to $50 rise by $0.40 per unit on average, and large standard-size fees in the same band by $0.12. Above $50, small standard-size fees rise by $0.70 on average and large standard-size by $0.47. Below $10, small standard-size fees rise by $0.20 on average, large standard-size fees for non-apparel stay unchanged, and large standard-size apparel rises by $0.08.

The full non-apparel rate card, excluding the fuel and logistics surcharge, compares as follows.

2026 figures are non-peak rates for January 15 to October 14, 2026. 2027 figures apply from January 15 to October 14, 2027. Both exclude the 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge.

Small standard-size: the steepest increases

The small standard-size rows carry the largest percentage increases on the card. In the $10 to $50 band, every row rises by between $0.36 and $0.47, or between 9.1% and 13.6%, according to PPC Land's calculation from Amazon's tables. The simple average of the eight row increases is exactly $0.40, matching Amazon's stated average. Above $50, the increases run from $0.66 to $0.76 per unit, between 15.6% and 20.5%. A product weighing more than 4 and up to 6 ounces and priced above $50 moves from $3.71 to $4.47, the largest percentage rise on the standard non-apparel card at 20.5%.

Below $10, the pattern reverses with weight. The lightest small standard-size rows rise most in cash terms: $0.21 for items of 2 ounces or less, $0.23 for items above 2 and up to 4 ounces, $0.24 for those above 4 and up to 6 ounces. The heaviest two rows rise by only $0.04. The simple average of the eight rows is $0.14, below Amazon's stated $0.20. Amazon does not explain how its average is weighted. The gap is consistent with an average weighted by unit volume, with most low-priced small items concentrated in the lightest rows, but the documents do not say so.

Amazon's own example for this tier is a mobile device case measuring 13.8 by 9 by 0.7 inches and weighing 2.88 ounces, priced under $10 in the Electronic Accessories fee category. Its fee was $2.49 in the 2026 non-peak period, is $2.68 during the current holiday peak and will be $2.72 from January 15, 2027, an increase of 9.2% on the 2026 non-peak rate.

Large standard-size: modest in the middle, unchanged at the bottom

Large standard-size goods priced under $10 see no change at all in the non-apparel card: every row from 4 ounces to the 20-pound ceiling keeps its 2026 rate. In the $10 to $50 band, the increases are small and step up with weight, from $0.06 for items of 4 ounces or less to $0.19 on the base rate above 3 pounds, or between 1.4% and 3.0%. The incremental charge of $0.08 for every 4 ounces above 3 pounds does not change in any band.

Above $50, large standard-size increases run from $0.36 to $0.50 per unit, between 6.9% and 9.0%. A large standard-size product weighing just over 1 pound and priced above $50 moves from $5.30 to $5.75.

Amazon's example of a large standard-size item in the $10 to $50 band is an iron measuring 12.6 by 6.6 by 5.5 inches, with a unit weight of 3.35 pounds and a dimensional weight of 3.29 pounds. Its fee rises from $7.13 to $7.32, built as $7.16 for the first 3 pounds plus two increments of $0.08.

The gap above $50 more than doubles

The most consistent change on the standard-size card is the price of crossing $50. In 2026, every standard-size row priced above $50 cost exactly $0.26 more than the same row priced between $10 and $50, according to PPC Land's comparison of Amazon's tables. In 2027, the premium sits between $0.55 and $0.57 on every non-apparel row. The dangerous goods card shows the same jump, from $0.26 to between $0.56 and $0.57.

Amazon explains the higher band in the fee page's frequently asked questions. "These rates enable us to invest in service improvements for products priced above $50 by improving your returns experience, reducing missing inventory, and processing faster removals," it states. The documents do not quantify those service improvements or say how they differ from the service given to lower-priced items.

The threshold produces sharp steps. Under the FAQ's rule, an item priced at exactly $50.00 takes the $10 to $50 rate. A small standard-size item weighing between 2 and 4 ounces would pay $3.78 at $50.00 and $4.34 at $50.01, a difference of $0.56 for one cent of price, according to PPC Land's calculation. The equivalent step at the $10 line is wider: the same item would pay $2.72 at $9.99 and $3.78 at $10.00, a jump of $1.06. The documents do not say whether the band is set by the list price, the price after a coupon or deal, or an average of selling prices over a period.

The above-$50 band already absorbed the largest increases a year ago. Supply Chain Dive reported on October 17, 2025 that Amazon's 2026 schedule raised small standard-size fees above $50 by $0.51 per unit and large standard-size fees above $50 by $0.31, against an overall average increase of $0.08. On Amazon's stated averages, a small standard-size product priced above $50 has absorbed about $1.21 per unit in base fee increases across the two schedules, before the surcharge, according to PPC Land's arithmetic. Because each average is calculated on a different mix of products, that figure indicates direction and scale rather than the change for any single item.

The premium does not extend to larger goods. On the bulky and oversize cards for both 2026 and 2027, the rates above $50 are identical to those between $10 and $50.

Apparel and dangerous goods

Apparel has its own rate card, and its changes broadly follow the non-apparel pattern with smaller increases for large items. Small standard-size apparel rises by $0.17 to $0.22 below $10, by $0.34 to $0.42 between $10 and $50, and by $0.57 to $0.77 above $50. Large standard-size apparel rises by $0.05 to $0.09 below $10, consistent with Amazon's stated average of $0.08, by $0.06 to $0.10 between $10 and $50, and by $0.37 to $0.41 above $50. Above 3 pounds, apparel continues to be charged $0.16 per half-pound interval, with the base rate rising from $6.15 to $6.24 below $10, from $6.97 to $7.07 between $10 and $50, and from $7.23 to $7.64 above $50.

A T-shirt in the Clothing and Accessories fee category, priced under $10 and charged in the large standard-size 8 to 12 ounce row, moves from $3.90 to $3.96 in Amazon's low-price example. The same row in the $10 to $50 apparel band moves from $4.72 to $4.79.

Dangerous goods, which Amazon also calls hazardous materials or hazmat, follow a separate card. Small standard-size dangerous goods rise by $0.06 to $0.21 below $10, by $0.25 to $0.38 between $10 and $50, and by $0.55 to $0.69 above $50. Large standard-size dangerous goods below $10 are unchanged, while the $10 to $50 band rises by $0.07 to $0.20 and the band above $50 by $0.37 to $0.51. The extra charge for handling a dangerous good narrows slightly in the small standard-size $10 to $50 band, from between $0.81 and $0.97 per unit in 2026 to between $0.71 and $0.84 in 2027, according to PPC Land's comparison with the non-apparel card. In the large standard-size rows, the extra charge barely moves: it falls with weight from about $0.83 for the lightest items to about $0.47 above 2 pounds, within a cent of its 2026 level in each row.

January brings no relief from peak for some products

The fee page states that "fulfillment fees will revert to non-peak fee rates" on January 15, 2027, with the changes listed. For a large part of the standard-size card, the reversion is upward.

Amazon's 2026 holiday peak fees, which PPC Land reported in July, run from October 15, 2026 to January 14, 2027 and average $0.32 per unit above non-peak rates. Comparing the peak table now in force with the 2027 non-peak table produces three distinct outcomes, according to PPC Land's calculation:

• Small standard-size, $10 and above: every row costs more from January 15 than at the height of the holiday season. The 2027 rates exceed the current peak rates by $0.14 to $0.27 in the $10 to $50 band and by $0.44 to $0.56 above $50.
• Large standard-size above $50: every row up to 3 pounds costs more after January 15 than during peak, by $0.07 to $0.15. Only the base rate above 3 pounds dips, by $0.04.
• Large standard-size below $50 and heavier low-price items: fees fall back after peak, by $0.15 to $0.54 for large standard-size goods priced under $50 and by $0.03 to $0.18 for small standard-size items under $10 weighing more than 6 ounces. For the three lightest small standard-size rows under $10, the 2027 rate is still $0.02 to $0.04 above the peak rate.

For sellers of small, higher-priced goods, the end of peak season on January 14 is therefore followed by a further increase rather than a decrease. The mobile device case in Amazon's example illustrates the point at the low end: $2.68 at peak, $2.72 from January 15.

Low-price FBA: five fee categories lose the discount

Low-price FBA rates are the reduced fulfillment fees Amazon applies to products priced under $10. According to the low-price page, "all products priced under $10 automatically receive Low-Price FBA rates" through January 14, 2027. From January 15, 2027, the rates will be "restricted to a narrower set of fee categories."

Products in five fee categories will no longer qualify and "will be charged the same rates as products priced from $10 to $50":

• Automotive and Powersports
• Compact Appliances
• Musical Instruments and AV Production
• Media - Books, DVD, Music, Software, and Video
• Computers

For every other fee category, products priced under $10 keep the low-price rates automatically. "No action is required," the page states. The low-price rates come with free shipping for Prime customers and standard shipping for non-Prime customers, and the products follow the standard FBA prep and packaging requirements.

The documents do not explain why these five categories were chosen, how many products or sellers they cover, or how Amazon assigns a product to a fee category, which is distinct from the browse category a shopper sees. Amazon's own example places a 3.35-pound iron in the Compact Appliances fee category.

For the categories that keep the rates, the discount against the $10 to $50 band widens. In 2026, a small standard-size item under $10 paid between $0.88 and $1.01 less than the same item priced at $10 to $50, according to PPC Land's comparison of the tables. In 2027, the gap is between $1.06 and $1.34. For large standard-size items, the gap widens from a flat $0.82 to between $0.88 and $1.01. The excluded categories move from one side of that gap to the other.

The discount has a history. When Amazon restructured its fees for 2024, Value Added Resource reported on December 5, 2023 that items under $10 would receive an additional $0.77 discount from April 15, 2024. The 2027 change is the first in the documents to withdraw that treatment from named categories.

What exclusion costs: worked examples

The effect of losing low-price eligibility is larger than any other standard-size change in the 2027 schedule. The following examples are PPC Land calculations based on Amazon's 2026 and 2027 rate cards. The first and third use Amazon's own product examples; the others use hypothetical products with stated dimensions. The surcharge-inclusive figures apply the 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to the fulfillment fee.

The DVD and paperback dimensions and the accessory are illustrative. Shares of price use the surcharge-inclusive 2027 fee and exclude referral fees, storage and advertising.

On 10,000 units, the DVD example adds $13,351 in fulfillment costs including surcharge, and the iron $10,454, according to PPC Land's calculation. A seller of a $9.99 DVD would, under these figures, pay Amazon almost 40 cents of every dollar of the price for fulfillment alone, before any referral fee.

Amazon's low-price page shows the iron example in full: $6.31 in the 2026 non-peak period ($6.15 for the first 3 pounds plus two increments of $0.08), $6.85 during the 2026 peak, and $7.32 from January 15, 2027. The page adds a note that "products in the Compact Appliances fee category are charged the $10-$50 FBA fulfillment fee rate because they no longer qualify for Low-Price FBA rates."

The 2027 non-peak fee for the iron is therefore higher than the peak fee it pays this December. The same is true for every excluded low-price item, because the $10 to $50 non-peak rates in 2027 sit above the under-$10 peak rates of 2026.

Ten size tiers replace six for large products

For anything larger than standard-size, the 2027 schedule is a new system rather than an adjustment. Two bulky tiers become four. Four weight-based extra-large tiers become six oversize tiers defined largely by length. The overmax handling fee disappears and two new handling fees take its place. According to the summary page, "Smaller and lighter products will incur lower fulfillment fees, while larger and heavier products will incur higher fulfillment fees. The amount of the increase or decrease will vary based on product size and dimensions."

The 2026 structure

Under the 2026 definitions, which remain in effect through January 14, 2027, a package above standard-size falls into one of these tiers:

A package is extra-large if it exceeds 59 inches on its longest side, 33 inches on its median or shortest side, or 130 inches in length plus girth, or if the larger of its unit weight and dimensional weight exceeds 50 pounds. Girth is twice the sum of the median and shortest sides. Extra-large products up to 150 pounds that exceed 96 inches on the longest side or 130 inches in length plus girth are "overmax" and pay a handling fee on top of the fulfillment fee: $17 for 0 to 50 pounds, $21 for 50 to 70 pounds and $25 for 70 to 150 pounds.

The 2027 structure

From January 15, 2027, the definitions are:

The bulky split follows the old boundaries exactly. The outer limits of the new medium bulky tier match the old small bulky tier, and the outer limits of the new extra-large bulky tier match the old large bulky tier. Every product that was small bulky in 2026 becomes either small bulky or medium bulky, and every product that was large bulky becomes large bulky or extra-large bulky. Nothing moves between the bulky and oversize families except through a change in measurements.

The oversize tiers reorganise the old extra-large products by length first and weight second. Within the girth limits, a 40-pound item that is 70 inches long is small oversize; the same weight at 75 inches is medium oversize; at 90 inches, large oversize; at 100 inches, long oversize. The length plus girth ceiling of 130 inches, which in 2026 triggered the overmax fee, now separates the small, medium and large oversize tiers from long oversize, which allows up to 165 inches.

For fee purposes, small standard-size and special oversize heavy products use unit weight. Every other tier uses the greater of unit weight and dimensional weight.

The 2027 bulky and oversize rate card

Non-apparel rates from January 15, 2027, excluding the surcharge, are as follows. Apparel rates are identical. The above-$50 rates equal the $10 to $50 rates.

For comparison, the 2026 non-peak card charged $7.55 plus $0.38 per pound for small bulky and $9.35 plus $0.38 per pound for large bulky, at $10 and above. Extra-large products paid $26.33 plus $0.38 per pound up to 50 pounds, $37.32 plus $0.75 per pound above 51 pounds in the 50 to 70 pound tier, $51.32 plus $0.75 per pound above 71 pounds in the 70 to 150 pound tier, and $194.95 plus $0.19 per pound above 151 pounds beyond that.

Two features of the new card stand out. The per-pound charge in the bulky tiers rises from $0.38 to $0.39, a 2.6% increase that compounds with weight. And the medium and large oversize tiers carry a base fee that covers the first 51 pounds, so a 10-pound item in the medium oversize tier pays the same $28.15 as a 51-pound item.

Dangerous goods in these tiers carry higher rates on their own card, from $8.24 plus $0.39 per pound for small bulky to $216.23 plus $0.19 per pound for special oversize heavy, at $10 and above. The dangerous goods surcharge over the standard card is little changed from 2026: about $0.73 per unit in small bulky, against $0.72 in 2026, and $2.14 in small oversize, against $2.11 for the old extra-large 0 to 50 pound tier.

Bulky: small increases, with one exception

For products already in the bulky tiers, the changes are small, and mostly upward. According to PPC Land's calculation, the new small bulky tier is cheaper than the old small bulky tier only below 5 pounds of shipping weight, and by no more than $0.04. From 5 pounds, the extra cent per pound pushes the new rate above the old one.

PPC Land calculations from Amazon's rate cards, $10 and above, non-apparel, excluding surcharge.

Every product in the old large bulky tier pays more in 2027, by between $0.53 and $1.23 per unit depending on weight and on whether it lands in large bulky or extra-large bulky. Amazon's statement that smaller and lighter products will pay less holds within the bulky family only for the lightest items that fit the new 28 by 24 by 20 inch small bulky box.

Amazon's example is a baby cot measuring 24 by 7.5 by 6 inches, with a unit weight of 7.90 pounds, priced above $50. Its fee moves from $10.21 to $10.24, a three-cent increase. In the low-price version of the example, at under $10, the same cot moves from $9.44 to $9.46.

Dimensional weight makes the bulky family narrower than the dimensions suggest. A box measuring 34 by 20 by 12 inches has a dimensional weight of 58.7 pounds under Amazon's divisor of 139, which pushes it out of bulky altogether and into the oversize tiers, whatever it actually weighs. To remain within the 50-pound bulky ceiling, a package needs a volume of no more than about 6,950 cubic inches, according to PPC Land's calculation.

Oversize: large cuts, steep rises, little in between

The former extra-large products divide into clear groups, according to PPC Land's calculations at the $10-and-above rates, excluding the surcharge and before any new handling fee.

Up to 50 pounds, within 72 inches and 130 inches length plus girth. These products move from extra-large 0 to 50 pounds to small oversize, and their base fee falls from $26.33 to $14.22, with the per-pound charge falling from $0.38 to $0.28. At 1 pound the cut is $12.11, or 46.0%; at 20 pounds, $14.01, or 41.8%; at 50 pounds, $17.01, or 37.8%.

50 to 70 pounds, within 78 inches. These move to medium oversize. The base rate falls from $37.32 to $28.15 and the per-pound rate from $0.75 to $0.56, which produces cuts of about 25% throughout the weight range: $9.17 at 51 pounds, $10.88 at 60 pounds, $12.78 at 70 pounds.

70 to 150 pounds, within 96 inches. These move to large oversize, and the outcome turns on weight. At 71 pounds, the fee rises by $1.03, or 2.0%. At 85 pounds it is almost unchanged. At 100 pounds it falls by $1.00, and at 150 pounds by $4.50, or 4.1%. The crossover sits at about 86 pounds.

Over 150 pounds. Special oversize heavy replaces extra-large 150+ pounds. The base fee falls by $3.67, from $194.95 to $191.28, with the same $0.19 per pound above 151 pounds. These products, which never paid the overmax fee, can now incur the new flat product and overhang fees.

Overmax products. Items that exceeded 96 inches in length or 130 inches in length plus girth paid the overmax fee in 2026. In 2027 they move to long oversize or special oversize light, whose base rates of $63.75 and $71.87 far exceed the old extra-large rates, and they no longer pay the overmax fee. In the examples Amazon publishes, they pay substantially more.

Overmax ends; flat and overhang fees begin

The overmax handling fee "no longer applies" from January 15, 2027, according to the overmax page. In its place, Amazon introduces two handling fees that apply only to oversize products:

• A flat product handling fee applies when the shortest side is less than 4 inches and the median side is 25 inches or greater.
• An overhang handling fee applies when the median side is greater than 43 inches.

"If a product meets both conditions, both fees apply," the oversize handling page states. The fees are the same for non-apparel, apparel and dangerous goods.

The overhang fee is listed only for the three largest tiers, which follows from the geometry. A package with a median side above 43 inches has a longest side of at least 43 inches, so with the 2-inch minimum on the shortest side its length plus girth exceeds 130 inches, which rules out the small, medium and large oversize tiers.

The flat product fee targets a recognisable class of goods: panels, mirrors, framed art, boards, flat-packed furniture and screens, packed in boxes thinner than 4 inches and at least 25 inches wide.

Winners and losers by package shape

The table below applies the 2026 and 2027 rules to Amazon's six bulky and oversize examples and to five hypothetical packages. The rates are the $10-and-above rates except where marked, and exclude the surcharge. The documents do not say whether the 3.5% surcharge applies to handling fees as well as fulfillment fees, so the figures leave it out.

PPC Land calculations from Amazon's rate cards and size definitions. Shipping weights use the greater of unit and dimensional weight where the rules require it.

The pattern is consistent. Products that were extra-large only because of weight or a moderately long side gain. Products that were overmax because of a long side or a large length plus girth lose, often by more than a third, because the long oversize base rate of $63.75 exceeds the old extra-large base plus the overmax fee. The flat-pack example shows how the two effects can stack: at 75 inches long and 26 inches wide, its length plus girth of 134 inches pushes it out of small oversize and into long oversize, and its 3.5-inch depth adds the flat product fee.

Amazon's tabletop panel, at 70 by 44 by 3 inches, is the clearest case in the documents. It meets all three new conditions: a length plus girth of 164 inches puts it in long oversize, a 3-inch depth with a 44-inch median side triggers the flat product fee, and the 44-inch median side triggers the overhang fee. Its total rises from $70.32 to $97.48.

Ambiguities in the definitions

Read literally, the documents leave some packages without an obvious tier. The glossary defines special oversize light as an item of 150 pounds or less "with longest side 108 inches or above, and its longest side plus girth 165 inches or above." Long oversize covers items up to 108 inches with length plus girth up to 165 inches. A package 110 inches long with a length plus girth of 142 inches satisfies neither definition as written. The size tier page's general instruction, to "find the row in the table below with measurements that don't exceed the weight or the dimensions of your item," does not resolve the case. The documents do not address it.

Two of Amazon's own examples also appear to meet the flat product definition without showing the fee. The monitor in the main fee page and the closet organizer in the low-price page both measure 54 by 34 by 3.5 inches: a shortest side under 4 inches and a median side above 25 inches. The examples show only base fees of $27.10 and $26.32 for 2027. Applying the flat product fee of $8.40 published on the oversize handling page would bring them to $35.50 and $34.72, according to PPC Land's calculation, still below their 2026 fees of $43.81 and $43.42. The wall panel example on the oversize handling page, at 60 by 30 by 3 inches, does include the fee.

Storage: one age-based rate from February 1

The storage changes are the part of the announcement Amazon presents as a response to seller complaints. "You've told us that storage fees are hard to predict, and we want to change that," the email to sellers states.

From February 1, 2027, Amazon will eliminate the storage utilization surcharge, "which will make it easier to stock up ahead of high-demand events," according to the summary page. It will also remove the aged inventory surcharge and fold it, together with the monthly storage fee, into what the documents call a "single, age-based rate," the unified monthly storage fee. According to Amazon, "These changes will result in flat or lower fees for inventory that turns in under six months, higher fees for aged inventory, and a new age-based rate that will make your storage costs easier to predict."

That sentence is the only statement of the economic effect in the documents provided. The unified monthly storage fee has its own Seller Central page, referenced in the summary, but its rate card was not among the materials Amazon published with the announcement that PPC Land reviewed. The documents therefore do not show the new rate per cubic foot, the age bands, how steeply the rate rises after six months, whether the January to September and October to December seasonal split survives, or how the size tiers feed into storage pricing.

What can be established is the starting point. Standard-size inventory in the FBA network, which also serves Multi-Channel Fulfillment orders, has been charged $0.78 per cubic foot a month from January to September in 2026 and $2.40 from October to December. The January to September rate has stood at $0.78 since Amazon cut it from $0.87 on April 1, 2024, according to the Value Added Resource report of December 5, 2023. The product size tier page still lists the aged inventory surcharge among the fees that use size tiers.

The direction of the change is clear from Amazon's own wording. On that description, a seller holding inventory that sells within six months would see flat or lower storage costs, and a seller stocking up before Prime Day or the holiday season will no longer face the utilization surcharge on top. A seller with slow-moving or seasonal stock that sits beyond six months will pay more than under the current combination of monthly fee and aged inventory surcharge. Whether that trade favours a given catalog depends on numbers the provided documents do not contain.

Amazon's own warehousing service follows the same logic with a lag. From March 1, 2027, storage fees in Amazon Warehousing and Distribution will "vary based on inventory age, with inventory stored for more than 12 months charged at 2.5 times the standard rate," according to the summary page.

The New Selection programme already offered relief on the surcharge now being abolished. Amazon's 2026 New Selection terms, which PPC Land reported in July, waived storage fees, storage utilization surcharges and low-inventory-level fees on the first 200 units of qualifying new products for 120 days after the first FBA inbound.

Low-inventory-level fee: four weeks back and four weeks forward

The low-inventory-level fee is the counterweight to storage charges. Amazon charges it when a seller holds too little stock relative to sales, on the grounds that thin inventory prevents the company from spreading products across its network. According to the 2027 fee page, low inventory "inhibits our ability to distribute products across our network, degrading delivery speed, and increasing shipping costs."

The fee is not new. Amazon introduced it for standard-size products on April 1, 2024, and Supply Chain Dive reported on April 5, 2024 that it applied to products with less than 28 days of inventory relative to historical demand, with the April charges credited back to sellers. What changes on February 1, 2027 is the test that triggers it.

How the new test works

According to Amazon, the current fee "is assessed using trailing 30- and 90-day sales." From February 1, 2027, the fee "will apply only when your inventory falls below 28 days of supply, based on actual shipments in both the four weeks before and after the assessment date."

The mechanics, as set out on the 2027 page, are these. Amazon checks inventory weekly at the FNSKU level, the fulfillment network label that ties units to a seller account. It divides the inventory at the check by the average daily units shipped in the 28 days before the check, producing a trailing days of supply figure, and by the average daily units shipped in the 28 days after it, producing a following days of supply figure. The fee applies only if both figures are below 28 days. When it applies, the rate is set by the higher of the two figures.

Inventory, for this purpose, is all sellable FBA inventory in the US network, including units in transfer between fulfillment centers and units in "FC Processing" and "Staging" status. Unsellable units, such as those pending removal, disposal or liquidation, and units still on their way into the network are excluded. Shipped units include sales through FBA, Multi-Channel Fulfillment, Remote Fulfillment with FBA "and any other program that ships units from our US fulfillment network." Seller-fulfilled inventory does not count.

The fee is charged per unit, but only on the units shipped in the first week after the inventory check, which Amazon calls "following week 1." Because the following days of supply figure needs four weeks of sales data, the charge appears four weeks after the check. "You'll wait four weeks before seeing low-inventory-level charges on your shipped units for any given week," the page states.

Amazon gives a simple example in the explanatory text. A product with 100 units at the weekly check, which shipped an average of 5 units a day in the trailing 28 days and 2 a day in the following 28 days, has trailing days of supply of 20 and following days of supply of 50. Because inventory was insufficient in only one period, no fee applies. If the same product shipped 10 units a day in the following period instead, its following days of supply would be 10, both figures would be below 28, and the fee would apply at the rate for 14 to 21 days of supply, the band set by the higher figure of 20.

The four numbered examples on the page work the same way:

Example 2 shows the protection against demand spikes: a product whose sales doubled after the check pays nothing, because its trailing figure was healthy. Example 3 shows the protection Amazon describes for "end-of-season drawdowns where trailing sales overstate current demand": strong past sales against weak future sales leave the following figure above 28 days.

The page also reproduces 13-week tables for four product types. A car accessory selling 25 to 30 units a day never triggers the fee. A festive winter boot with sales peaking in November and December avoids the fee throughout the post-holiday decline, because each week's following days of supply stays at or above 28 even as trailing days of supply falls to 6.7. An electronic product with a Prime Day deal avoids it in every week, because at each check at least one measure is at or above 28 days: through the deal weeks, trailing days of supply holds at 28.5 or more while the spike drives following days of supply down to 10.4. Only the fourth case, an everyday essentials product whose seller does not replenish on time, incurs the fee, in five consecutive weekly checks from July 29, as both measures fall below 28 days.

What the new test changes in practice

The revision answers two long-standing complaints in Amazon's own terms: that the fee punished sellers whose stock ran down because of a sudden sales surge, and that it punished sellers running down seasonal or discontinued products. By requiring both measures to fall short, the new test exempts both cases.

It also introduces a different cost. A seller will not know whether a given week's shipments incurred the fee until four weeks of subsequent sales have been recorded. The fee will move out of the FBA fulfillment fee line and appear "as a standalone fee on the Payment view report," which makes it easier to see but separates it from the per-unit fulfillment charge it previously sat within. A new Low-Inventory-Level Fee Report, available from February 1, 2027, will give order-level detail with trailing and following days of supply and any exemption reason.

The FAQ states the condition that avoids the fee. "As long as your inventory levels are greater than your units shipped in the trailing 28-days, you won't be charged," it reads. "Even if your demand spikes, the fee won't apply."

Oversize brought into scope; rates unchanged since 2024

From February 1, 2027, "the fee will now apply to items in all oversize product size tiers," according to the page. The 2027 rate card, which uses the new size tiers, is as follows:

The standard-size rates are identical to those Amazon introduced in April 2024, according to the Supply Chain Dive report of that month: $0.89, $0.63 and $0.32 for small standard-size, $0.97, $0.70 and $0.36 for large standard-size up to 3 pounds, and $1.11, $0.87 and $0.47 above 3 pounds. The documents do not state whether the bulky rates are new for 2027 or carried over.

To put the oversize rates in context: a small oversize product weighing 20 pounds pays a 2027 fulfillment fee of $19.54, according to PPC Land's calculation, and a low-inventory-level fee of $2.90 on each unit shipped in a week when it has under 14 days of supply. A seller shipping 5 units a day of such a product would pay $101.50 for that week, before the surcharge is considered. A large standard-size product of up to 3 pounds shipping 30 units a day in the 14 to 21 day band would pay $147 a week.

Exemptions

The fee does not apply, according to the 2027 page, to:

• New Professional sellers, for the first 365 days after the first inventory-received date.
• New-to-FBA parent products, for the first 120 days or first 200 units after the first inventory-received date, if enrolled in FBA New Selection.
• SKUs for which 70% or more of the inventory was auto-replenished through Amazon Warehousing and Distribution over the prior 90 days.
• Products that shipped fewer than 20 units in the past seven days.
• Products in the grocery category.

The third exemption ties the fee to Amazon's own upstream storage service. The FAQ makes the connection explicit, suggesting auto-replenishment through Amazon Warehousing and Distribution as a way to avoid the fee, since "AWD manages product replenishment into FBA on your behalf." Amazon also states that it will automatically reimburse low-inventory-level fees caused by excessive receiving delays on its side or by Amazon-managed services such as the Amazon Partnered Carrier programme and Amazon Global Logistics, with the reimbursement made by the 15th of the following month.

Fuel and logistics surcharge: same rate, wider reach

"The FBA fuel and logistics surcharge remains unchanged," the email to sellers states. "Costs, especially fuel and line-haul trucking, have remained elevated since we introduced the surcharge in April 2026, and we'll keep reviewing the surcharge as conditions change."

Amazon announced the 3.5% surcharge in early April 2026, applying it to fulfillment fees but not to referral or storage fees. According to the fee page, it has applied since April 17, 2026 to FBA in the US and Canada and to Remote Fulfillment with FBA from the US into Canada, Mexico and Brazil, and since May 2, 2026 to Buy with Prime in the US and to Multi-Channel Fulfillment in the US and Canada. PPC Land reported at the time that the surcharge added about $0.17 per unit on average for US FBA.

The rate stays at 3.5%, but its scope grows. According to the summary page, the surcharge will also take effect for PanAmericas US to Canada fees from January 15, 2027, for Amazon Warehousing and Distribution transportation fees from February 1, 2027, and for Multichannel Distribution fees from February 1, 2027. Each extension repeats the same justification about fuel and line-haul trucking costs.

Because the surcharge is a percentage of the fulfillment fee, it rises with the base. On Amazon's average increase of $0.19, the surcharge adds a further $0.007 or so per unit, according to PPC Land's arithmetic. All the 2027 rate tables are published excluding the surcharge, with a footnote stating that it applies.

Inbound: three regions become two

There are "no changes to the inbound placement service fee rate card," according to the summary page. Amazon will, however, consolidate its central inbound locations for standard-size products into the East region, "reducing the number of inbound regions from three to two (East and West)." Amazon presents the change as a way to "improve efficiency of shipments to our fulfillment centers for standard-size products." The documents do not say how the consolidation will affect the split options or the fees sellers in the central United States pay in practice.

The inbound placement service fee is itself a product of the 2024 restructuring. According to Value Added Resource, it took effect on March 1, 2024 at an average of $0.27 per unit for standard-size products and $1.58 for large bulky items. Amazon then cut the large bulky fee for minimal shipment splits by an average of $0.58 per unit from January 15, 2025, according to its November 19, 2024 fee update, and withdrew partial shipment splits for standard-size products from February 20, 2025.

Referral fees: 3D printers and Renewed

The announcement contains only two referral fee changes, both reductions.

The first, effective November 5, 2026, creates a referral fee for 3D printers, which were previously categorised as Business, industrial, and scientific supplies. The new fee is 12% on the first $200 of the total sales price and 5% on any amount above $200. According to Amazon, "This tiered structure means higher-priced 3D printers will have a lower overall fee rate compared to the previous fee category." The documents do not state the previous rate.

Under the new structure, the effective rate falls as the price rises, according to PPC Land's calculation: a $200 printer pays $24, or 12%; a $500 printer pays $39, or 7.8%; a $1,500 printer pays $89, or 5.9%; and a $3,000 printer pays $164, or 5.5%.

The second change is a promotional referral rate of 10% for Amazon Renewed products in eligible fee categories, running through October 18, 2027. Amazon describes Renewed as a programme for selling pre-owned and refurbished products "that have been professionally inspected and tested to work according to original manufacturer specifications." The reduced rate applies automatically, with no enrolment. The documents do not list the eligible fee categories or the standard rates the promotion replaces.

The documents announce no other referral fee changes. For comparison, in the 2024 schedule, according to Value Added Resource, Amazon cut the referral fee on apparel priced under $15 from 17% to 5% and on apparel priced from $15 to $20 to 10%, effective January 15, 2024.

Promotions: Buy X, Get Y fees and monthly billing

The promotions changes bring a previously uncharged promotion type into Amazon's fee structure and alter when all promotion fees are billed.

Amazon will introduce "a $5 upfront fee, and a 2% variable fee capped at $2,000, for Buy X, Get Y promotions (also known as buy one get one, or percentage off promotions) to align with our fee structure for deals and coupons," according to the summary page. The documents describe the fee as new and do not give an effective date beyond the general timetable.

On PPC Land's reading of the cap as applying to the variable component, a Buy X, Get Y promotion generating $10,000 in sales would cost $205, one generating $40,000 would cost $805, and the variable fee would reach its $2,000 ceiling at $100,000 of promotion sales, for a maximum of $2,005 per promotion.

The structure matches the model Amazon now uses for its other promotions. A lightning deal outside peak events has cost $70 per day plus 1.0% of deal sales, capped at $2,000, since June 2, 2025, and promotions in Prime Big Deal Days and Black Friday Week 2026 cost $100 upfront plus 1.5% of promotion sales, with the variable part capped at $5,000.

From February 2027, all promotions will be billed monthly "to ensure more predictable charges and no off-cycle bills when a promotion ends." Fees that would have been charged in January 2027 will be postponed to the first monthly cycle in February. For coupons and Buy X, Get Y promotions, upfront fees will be charged in the first monthly billing cycle after the promotion is created, and variable fees on the prior month's sales. For deals and price discounts, both upfront and variable fees will be charged in the first billing cycle after the promotion ends.

Returns processing fee: new tiers, two dates

The returns processing fee, which applies to products with high return rates, will be updated to align with the 2027 size tiers. The change takes effect for Apparel and Shoes units shipped from January 15, 2027, and for all other high-return categories from February 1, 2027. The documents point to a separate returns processing fee page and do not publish the new rates.

The fee's reach was set in the 2024 restructuring. According to Value Added Resource, Amazon extended returns processing fees from June 1, 2024 to products with high return rates in all categories, not only apparel and shoes. The timing of the 2027 change overlaps with Amazon's holiday return window: items bought between November 1 and December 31, 2026 can be returned until January 31, 2027, a rule Amazon has made annual.

Beyond FBA: AWD, MCF, MCD and cross-border fees

The summary page lists changes across Amazon's wider logistics services. None comes with a full rate card in the documents provided, and most are stated as averages or percentages.

Amazon Warehousing and Distribution. From February 1, 2027, processing fees become $1.55 per box and transportation fees $1.58 per cubic foot. Single-SKU pallets receive a 40% discount on inbound processing. From March 1, 2027, storage fees become age-based, with inventory held more than 12 months charged 2.5 times the standard rate. Amazon will introduce storage reservations "to make capacity more predictable" and offer removal and disposal options with corresponding fees. The fuel and logistics surcharge applies to transportation fees from February 1. The documents do not give the current rates against which the new figures can be compared.

Multi-Channel Fulfillment and Buy with Prime. Fulfillment fees for standard-speed MCF and for Buy with Prime rise by an average of 3.5%, while expedited fees "will remain the same, on average." MCF size tiers will be aligned with FBA's. Amazon extends Preferred Pricing through 2027, "with savings of up to 25% off fulfillment fees, and discounts that scale with your business." Amazon launched MCF Preferred Pricing on January 15, 2026 with discounts of up to 15% on outbound fees plus FBA credits, capped at $50,000 or 50,000 units on the six-month track. The 2027 changes also alter the Ships in Product Packaging discount and packaging fees, and introduce a returns surcharge for boxed returns "to reflect higher shipping costs." Because MCF and Buy with Prime already carry the 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge, a 3.5% average increase on top implies MCF standard-speed charges about 7.1% above their pre-surcharge level of January 2026, according to PPC Land's arithmetic. Amazon raised MCF fees by an average of $0.30 per unit and Buy with Prime fees by $0.24 for 2026, according to Supply Chain Dive.

Multichannel Distribution. From February 1, 2027, the palletized load (less than truckload) fee rises by 8% and the box load (small parcel delivery) fee by 1.5%, "to more accurately reflect carrier and shipping rates." The fuel and logistics surcharge applies to these fees from the same date.

Remote Fulfillment with FBA. Fees for Remote Fulfillment from the US into Canada rise by an average of $0.58 per unit, and into Mexico and Brazil by an average of $0.16 per unit each. The rate cards will reflect the 2027 size tiers.

PanAmericas. Amazon introduces a new route into Canada under which sellers ship inventory to a US location and Amazon moves "a share of those units into Canadian fulfillment centers on your behalf." To support it, PanAmericas US to Canada fulfillment fees rise by an average of $0.13 per unit, and the fuel and logistics surcharge applies to PanAmericas fees from January 15, 2027.

Ships in Product Packaging. For FBA, "There are no changes to SIPP eligibility or enrollment for 2027." Certified standard-size products continue to receive lower fulfillment fees, and bulky products not certified for SIPP "will see additional packaging fees." The fee page refers to a separate rate card for detail.

New Selection: up to $600 per product

The one clearly expanded incentive concerns new products. Amazon is "now offering up to $600 in value per new product, double the previous offer," with fee credits, free storage, returns, liquidations and promotional credits on the first 200 units, according to the summary page. The documents do not break the $600 down by component.

The 2026 version of the programme, which PPC Land described in July, capped referral fees at 10% for the first 100 units and 5% for the next 100 on qualifying branded products, added a $75 Vine credit and a $50 coupon credit, and waived storage, storage utilization, low-inventory-level, returns processing and liquidation fees on the first 200 units for 120 days.

How 2027 compares with 2024, 2025 and 2026

Amazon publishes its US fee changes once a year, normally effective in mid-January, and the four most recent schedules move in different directions. Comparing them is imperfect, because each year's average is calculated on a different mix of products and Amazon rarely publishes its weighting. The broad sequence is nonetheless clear.

Sources: Value Added Resource and Chain Store Age (2024), Amazon (2025), Supply Chain Dive (2026), Amazon's November 5, 2026 documents (2027). The 2026 announcement date is the Wednesday before Supply Chain Dive's report of Friday, October 17, 2025, which dates Amazon's announcement to that Wednesday.

2024: the restructuring

The 2024 schedule restructured how FBA costs are charged. According to Value Added Resource, Amazon split out the cost of sending products into its network with a new inbound placement service fee from March 1, 2024, averaging $0.27 per unit for standard-size products and $1.58 for large bulky items, while cutting standard-size fulfillment fees by an average of $0.20 per unit and large bulky fees by $0.61 from April 15, 2024. Products under $10 received an additional discount of $0.77. The low-inventory-level fee arrived on April 1, 2024 for standard-size products. Non-peak storage for standard-size goods fell from $0.87 to $0.78 per cubic foot. Chain Store Age, reporting the same changes, put the combined effect at an average increase of $0.15 per unit sold.

2025: the pause

For 2025, Amazon held its headline fees. In a post dated November 19, 2024, Dharmesh Mehta, Vice President, Worldwide Selling Partner Services, said Amazon was introducing no new fee types and not increasing referral or FBA fees. The post listed three changes: a lower inbound placement fee for large bulky items using minimal shipment splits, an inbound placement fee waiver for new products in the FBA New Selection programme, and larger incentives for new sellers. Operational changes continued through the year, including the end of partial shipment splits for standard-size products on February 20, 2025 and a new lightning deal fee structure from June 2, 2025.

2026: price bands and a surcharge

The 2026 schedule returned to increases, with the burden weighted towards higher-priced items. According to Supply Chain Dive, the average increase was $0.08 per unit from January 15, 2026, with small standard-size items rising by $0.12 below $10, $0.25 between $10 and $50 and $0.51 above $50, and large standard-size items unchanged below $10, up $0.05 between $10 and $50 and up $0.31 above $50. MCF fees rose by an average of $0.30 per unit and Buy with Prime by $0.24.

The year then brought a series of further charges and billing changes outside the annual schedule. Removal and disposal orders moved to per-unit billing from February 15, 2026, at unchanged rates. FBA commingling ended on March 31, 2026, requiring resellers to label every unit. The 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge followed from April 17, 2026, adding about $0.17 per unit on average for US FBA. In July, Amazon set holiday peak fees averaging $0.32 per unit above non-peak rates for October 15, 2026 to January 14, 2027.

2027 in sequence

Set against that history, the 2027 schedule is the second consecutive year of increases in the average fulfillment fee, and the larger of the two. It concentrates the increase in standard-size goods, especially small items above $50, and in five low-price categories, while cutting fees for a large part of the old extra-large tier and removing two storage surcharges.

The announcements have also moved around the calendar. Amazon gave sellers 57 days between its November 19, 2024 announcement and the January 15, 2025 effective date, 92 days between October 15, 2025 and January 15, 2026, and 71 days between November 5, 2026 and January 15, 2027, according to PPC Land's count.

The cumulative arithmetic

Adding Amazon's own averages gives a rough sense of the cumulative change for a typical unit since the 2025 freeze. The 2026 increase of $0.08, the surcharge's average of about $0.17 and the 2027 increase of $0.19, plus the surcharge on that increase, total about $0.45 per unit in non-peak fulfillment fees, according to PPC Land's arithmetic. Because each figure comes from a different product mix and period, the total is indicative only. For a small standard-size product above $50, the two annual increases alone come to about $1.21 on Amazon's averages, before the surcharge.

Amazon's framing and what the documents leave out

Amazon's letter places the fee changes alongside claims about delivery speed. "When the delivery promise moves to 2 days from more than 4, purchase conversion rates increase by more than 20%," it states. "When that promise goes from 2 days to just hours, conversion can go up another 15% or more." The letter adds that faster delivery speeds are available in more than 9,000 cities, towns and rural communities. The documents do not describe how the conversion figures were measured, over what period, or for which products.

"Our commitment is to earn sellers' trust every year by delivering value that outpaces the cost of selling in our store," Jain writes. "Because these changes will affect sellers differently depending on their products, we've built tools to help each seller understand exactly how the updates impact their business."

The business behind the fees continues to grow, if more slowly than advertising. Amazon's third quarter 2026 results, reported on October 29, showed third-party seller services revenue, the line that includes seller commissions and fulfillment fees, up 9% to $46.49 billion, with third-party sellers accounting for 61% of paid units.

What is not in the documents

Several points a seller would need to model the full effect are absent from the materials reviewed:

• The new storage rates. The unified monthly storage fee is described but its rate card is not included.
• Returns processing rates. The documents state the dates of the change but not the new fees.
• A baseline for the warehousing and MCF changes. New Amazon Warehousing and Distribution rates appear without the current rates, and MCF changes are given only as averages.
• The distribution of winners and losers. Amazon states that "fees for some products will increase, and others will decrease," but gives no count of products or sellers in either group and no estimate of the net effect on its own fee revenue.
• The price that sets the band. The documents do not say whether the $10 and $50 thresholds apply to the list price, the price after promotions, or an average.
• The surcharge on handling fees. The documents do not say whether the 3.5% surcharge applies to the flat product and overhang fees.
• Peak 2027. No holiday peak schedule for late 2027 is published.

Inconsistencies in the source documents

The documents contain a number of internal discrepancies, none of which changes the rate cards themselves:

• The low-price page's weight bench example gives the 2027 medium oversize base as "$27.63 for first 51 lb," while the rate card on the same page lists $27.36. The example's total of $35.76 matches the rate card figure.
• The closet organizer example states a dimensional weight of 46.23 pounds and, in a note, of 47.59 pounds. Its 2026 fees of $43.42 and $46.15 are consistent with a 48-pound shipping weight, while its 2027 fee of $26.32 is consistent with 47 pounds, according to PPC Land's calculation.
• The main fee page prices a T-shirt in the large standard-size 8 to 12 ounce row at non-apparel rates ($4.20 rising to $4.26), while the low-price page prices a T-shirt in the Clothing and Accessories category at apparel rates.
• The main fee page applies the 2-inch minimum width and height to bulky and oversize items, while the low-price page applies it to "large standard, bulky, and oversize items."
• The overmax page dates the 2026 peak period to "January 15, 2027," against January 14, 2027 everywhere else.
• In the low-inventory-level page's fourth product case, the text describes following days of supply as based on units shipped "in the 28 days before the inventory check," which contradicts the definition elsewhere on the page.
• The flat product fee is absent from two examples that appear to meet its definition, and the special oversize light definition leaves a gap, as described above.

Why the changes matter beyond the warehouse

For brands that advertise on Amazon, fulfillment fees are not a separate concern from media budgets. Every unit's revenue has to cover the referral fee, the fulfillment fee and surcharge, storage, and the advertising cost of acquiring the sale. In the sample dashboard Amazon showed when it launched Profit Analytics in September 2025, a seller with $183,705.69 in sales carried $34,046.91 in fulfillment costs and $53,162.92 in advertising cost of sales over one month. A per-unit fee increase reduces what remains to fund advertising at an unchanged price, or pushes the price up.

The changes do not fall evenly across categories, which means their effect on advertising will not either. Sellers of small, light products priced above $50 face the largest standard-size increases. Sellers of products priced under $10 in the Media, Computers, Automotive and Powersports, Musical Instruments and AV Production, and Compact Appliances fee categories face increases of a quarter to a half on the fulfillment fee alone in PPC Land's examples. Furniture, home improvement and sporting goods sellers with heavy or moderately long products may pay less, while those with very long, wide or flat products may pay considerably more.

The price bands also intersect with promotional pricing. A product priced just above $10 or $50 sits close to a fee step of between $0.55 and $1.34 per unit, depending on tier and weight, and the documents do not state whether a deal or coupon that takes the price across the line changes the fee band. The new Buy X, Get Y fee adds a cost to a promotion type that the documents describe as previously outside the fee structure, and monthly billing will move January's promotion fees into February statements.

The timing adds pressure. The announcement arrived three weeks into the holiday peak fee period, after Black Friday deal submissions closed on October 20, and ahead of mandatory prepaid return labels for seller-fulfilled orders from December 18. It follows a requirement, effective November 2, for $1 million in liability cover for smaller sellers in safety-sensitive categories. The 2027 rates will apply to every unit shipped from January 15, two weeks into the first quarter.

The structural changes also extend Amazon's model of rewarding inventory placed under its control. The low-inventory-level fee exempts SKUs auto-replenished through Amazon Warehousing and Distribution, the storage changes favour fast-turning stock, and the surcharge now reaches warehousing transportation and distribution fees. Amazon opened its logistics network to any business through Amazon Supply Chain Services in May 2026, and the 2027 schedule prices the services that feed FBA more closely alongside FBA itself.

Key dates

• November 5, 2026: Announcement; new 3D printer referral fee takes effect.
• January 14, 2027: Holiday peak fees end; last day of the overmax handling fee and of low-price rates for the five excluded categories.
• January 15, 2027: 2027 FBA fulfillment fees; new bulky and oversize tiers; flat product and overhang fees; low-price eligibility narrowed; returns processing changes for Apparel and Shoes; surcharge extended to PanAmericas; Remote Fulfillment and PanAmericas increases.
• February 1, 2027: Unified monthly storage fee; storage utilization and aged inventory surcharges removed; new low-inventory-level test and standalone reporting; returns processing changes for other categories; AWD processing and transportation rates; surcharge on AWD transportation and MCD fees; MCD increases.
• February 2027: Monthly billing for all promotions.
• March 1, 2027: Age-based AWD storage, at 2.5 times the standard rate after 12 months.
• October 14, 2027: End of the 2027 non-peak period covered by the rate tables.
• October 18, 2027: End of the 10% Renewed referral promotion.

Timeline

• December 5, 2023: Value Added Resource reports Amazon's 2024 US fee changes, including a new inbound placement service fee and a $0.20 average cut to standard-size fulfillment fees
• March 1, 2024: Inbound placement service fee takes effect, averaging $0.27 per unit for standard-size products
• April 1, 2024: Low-inventory-level fee introduced for standard-size products; non-peak storage falls from $0.87 to $0.78 per cubic foot
• April 15, 2024: Standard-size FBA fulfillment fees fall by an average of $0.20 per unit
• November 19, 2024: Amazon announces no increase in US referral or FBA fees for 2025
• February 20, 2025: Amazon withdraws partial shipment splits for standard-size FBA products
• June 2, 2025: Lightning deal fees move to $70 per day plus 1.0% of deal sales, capped at $2,000
• September 18, 2025: Amazon launches Profit Analytics for sellers
• October 15, 2025: Amazon announces its 2026 US fee changes, with FBA fees up $0.08 per unit on average
• January 15, 2026: 2026 fees take effect; MCF Preferred Pricing launches with discounts of up to 15% on outbound fees
• February 15, 2026: FBA removal and disposal orders move to per-unit billing
• March 31, 2026: FBA commingling ends
• April 17, 2026: 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge applies to US FBA fulfillment fees, about $0.17 per unit on average
• April 30, 2026: Amazon reports more than 75,000 sellers passed $1 million in sales in 2025
• May 2, 2026: Surcharge extends to Buy with Prime and MCF; Ships in Product Packaging extends to both
• May 4, 2026: Amazon Supply Chain Services opens Amazon's logistics network to any business
• July 2026: Amazon sets 2026 holiday peak fees averaging $0.32 per unit above non-peak rates and publishes 2026 New Selection terms covering the first 200 units
• October 15, 2026: Holiday peak fulfillment fees begin
• October 20, 2026: Amazon makes its January 31 holiday return deadline annual
• October 29, 2026: Amazon reports third-party seller services revenue of $46.49 billion for Q3 2026, up 9%
• November 5, 2026: Amazon announces 2027 US referral and FBA fee changes; FBA fees to rise $0.19 per unit on average; 3D printer referral fee takes effect
• January 14, 2027: Holiday peak fees and the overmax handling fee end
• January 15, 2027: 2027 FBA fees, size tiers, handling fees and low-price eligibility take effect
• January 31, 2027: Holiday return window closes
• February 1, 2027: Unified monthly storage fee, revised low-inventory-level fee and AWD and MCD changes take effect
• March 1, 2027: Age-based AWD storage fees begin
• October 18, 2027: Renewed 10% referral promotion ends

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Summary

Who: Amazon and the third-party sellers in its US store that use Fulfillment by Amazon and related services, including Multi-Channel Fulfillment, Buy with Prime, Amazon Warehousing and Distribution and Remote Fulfillment. The announcement was signed by Sunny Jain, Vice President, Worldwide Fulfillment by Amazon, and sent to sellers by the Amazon Selling Partner Services team.

What: FBA fulfillment fees rise by an average of $0.19 per unit, or about 0.8% of the average item's price, with the largest increases for small standard-size items above $50 ($0.70 on average). Five fee categories lose low-price rates for items under $10. Two bulky tiers become four and the extra-large tiers become six oversize tiers, cutting fees for many heavy items while raising them for very long items, as the overmax fee gives way to new flat product and overhang fees. Storage moves to a single age-based rate without the utilization and aged inventory surcharges, the low-inventory-level fee adopts a two-sided 28-day test and extends to all oversize tiers, the 3.5% surcharge stays and spreads to more services, and Buy X, Get Y promotions gain a fee.

When: Announced on November 5, 2026, when the 3D printer referral fee also took effect. Most fulfillment changes apply from January 15, 2027, the storage and low-inventory-level changes from February 1, 2027, and age-based warehousing storage from March 1, 2027.

Where: The Amazon US store and Amazon's US fulfillment network, with linked changes for fulfillment into Canada, Mexico and Brazil. The changes were published on Amazon's Selling Partners news site and in Seller Central Help.

Why: Amazon says it is adjusting fulfillment fees "to better match our cost of serving different products" and simplifying storage fees "based on direct feedback from sellers," while keeping the surcharge because fuel and line-haul trucking costs remain elevated. For sellers and the advertisers among them, the changes move per-unit margins by amounts ranging from a few cents to more than a third of the fulfillment fee, depending on price, size and category, and they arrive in the middle of the holiday season, ahead of first-quarter budget planning.