Guide · Amazon & Marketplace
Product preparation, shipping to Amazon, ongoing management and other fees belong in the calculation. Review proposals using the same products, volumes and tasks.
List preparation, inbound delivery, content and account management separately.
Consider product count, shipments, storage duration and campaign demand.
Distinguish agency services, transport and Amazon fees in the calculation.
Compare a fixed monthly fee, revenue share and hybrid model using the same assortment and period. For each quote, record the base fee, revenue-share basis, minimum fee, included tasks and separately charged services. Calculate a low, expected and strong sales month.
For a revenue share, clarify how returns, discounts and taxes enter the agreed calculation basis. Keep setup and content creation separate from recurring fees. Add Amazon charges, media spend, goods preparation, delivery and removal handling where not included.
An agency can fit when your own logistics already works reliably; combined operations are an option when that handover creates the workload.
Bring together the information about your project. It provides a clear basis for discussing effort, open questions and a suitable starting point.
Whether flat fee or revenue share: every FBA mandate ultimately breaks down into the same components. Anyone comparing quotes should ask about each one individually.
Enter quoted rates and your volumes for low, expected and high sales months. Add Amazon fees from the specific account. This worksheet does not recommend prices.
| Cost component | Assumption | Calculation |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Agreed setup | One-off, separate from monthly costs |
| Management | Fee and revenue basis | Fixed fee + agreed share |
| Content | Articles and changes | Quantity × agreed rate |
| Advertising | Media budget and management | Budget + management fee |
| Logistics | Volumes, storage, preparation | Quantity × rate plus storage/freight |
| Removal orders and evidence | Inspections, return transport, support | Separate by commissioned task |
Compare total costs and responsibilities together. Contract count alone does not decide the result: a well-defined handover may be more economical than changing the entire operation.
PROWERB operates marketplace accounts as part of its own logistics operation, not as a consulting service on the side. For a leading manufacturer of abrasives, the Amazon marketplace runs as its own JTL tenant: FBA processing, remission and returns management, Prime Day and Black Friday deals, listing optimization. For an international manufacturer of office and electronics technology, PROWERB manages Vendor Central, Brand Registry and Google Ads campaigns. For a building-chemicals provider, the complete e-commerce build was added — website, Amazon FBA, SEO and SEA through to DAC7 compliance. And for Arizona, PROWERB handles goods dispatch for Amazon and D2C directly from its own warehouse. Behind this stands an operation that has grown since 1979 and moves more than 2 million shipments a year — delivery to the Amazon warehouse is not an outsourced item here, but day-to-day business.
That can only be seriously quantified after a look at assortment, channel strategy and revenue target. The range runs from a lean management mandate to a full-service operation including logistics. Binding figures belong in a quote, not in a guide.
Fixed monthly fee, revenue share, or a hybrid of both. Setup — account, Brand Registry, first listings — is usually billed as a one-time project. Ask which of the six cost components each model includes.
Amazon charges sales commission plus shipping and storage fees for FBA. Ad campaigns need their own media budget. And if the agency only manages the account, goods preparation, delivery and remission come on top as a separate item.
In-house pays off when marketplace expertise and capacity exist within your own team. An agency buys in expertise but leaves physical handling open. The operator model bundles both — worthwhile once coordination between account and goods becomes the bottleneck.
Yes. PROWERB manages both Seller and FBA accounts as well as Vendor Central including Brand Registry — and handles remissions and returns in its own warehouse operation, from inspection through to re-marketing.
Send us your assortment, your channels and your revenue target. You'll receive a concrete scope of services with a cost framework — broken down by the same six components as in this guide.
