Getting Started with Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA)
Simply send our products to Amazon Fulfilment Centers (FCs) across the UK and Europe and let Amazon handle the heavy lifting with a one-day delivery promise providing a Prime Experience for your customers.
We've made selling easy with FBA
We let Amazon take care of storing, picking, packing and shipping our products to your customers worldwide. With FBA, you’ll start your Amazon journey with a boost, reaching millions of customers and providing a Prime Experience with Amazon's unique logistic network, meaning that your sales can achieve a boost of up to 35%* as a result of free faster delivery that customers love.
Active or Passive FBA Enrolment?
You can decide whether to take control or simply let us handle things for you.
1. Active FBA Enrolment
Opt for Active FBA Enrolment if you prefer maintaining an active Amazon seller account under your own business name. With this option, you create FBA Shipments that we'll prepare and ship to Amazon for you.
2. Passive FBA Enrolment
Opt for Passive FBA Enrolment to eliminate the need for operating and managing your own Amazon seller account. We take care of the entire selling process. There are no costs to you, and we provide a guaranteed fixed payout for every unit of product sold.
Our complete guide to getting started with Active FBA Enrolment
Before you get started you'll need to create an account. It's 100% free for you to do this.
TIP! Selling on Amazon can be complex, particularly for new sellers. It's crucial to familiarise yourself with the intricacies of the platform. You will need to list at least one product on Amazon before moving on to any of the steps shown below.
Setting things up correctly
Before starting with FBA, it's essential to ensure that the Barcode Preference is set to Amazon Barcode (not manufacturer barcode). You can easily configure this default setting within your Fulfilment by Amazon Settings. Go to Settings → Fulfilment by Amazon and update the FBA Product Barcode Preference to Amazon Barcode.
FBA Growth Opportunities Report
Our FBA Growth Opportunities Report, offers a list of top-notch enrolment opportunities for Active FBA resellers. We highly recommend using this report to make informed choices regarding product selection and adding these products to your inventory.
How to sell our products with Amazon FBA?
If you're new to selling on Amazon you will need to familiarize yourself with the process of creating offers against our existing products that already exist in the Amazon catalog. Unlike eBay or Etsy, Amazon sellers must share the same listing pages when selling the same products. Creating an offer simply means that you will match your product to an existing product already in the Amazon catalog.
Most of our products already exist in the Amazon catalog
The simplest and quickest way to begin selling our products on Amazon is to create an offer against our existing products in the Amazon catalog. This means that the product may already have offers from other sellers who are selling the same product. On Amazon, it is customary for products with identical characteristics (such as the same brand and product attributes) to have only one catalog entry. Therefore, multiple sellers can sell the same product by creating an "offer" against the existing ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number), which refers to the product detail page.
If the product doesn't yet exist in the Amazon catalog, just reach out to us via our Retailer Portal and we will add the product to the Amazon catalog for you.
Create an FBA offer for an existing product (ASIN) on Amazon
- Go to Catalogue → Add Products.
- Find an existing product in the Amazon catalog using ASIN or Product Name.
- Click Select a condition and choose New from the dropdown menu.
- Click Sell this product.
Fill out the required Offer:
- Seller SKU: your unique SKU, or leave blank to auto-generate.
- Your price: your selling price.
- Country/Region Of Origin: Great Britain or United Kingdom.
- Condition: New.
- Fulfilment Channel: Choose Amazon will dispatch and provide customer service to indicate that the product will be Fulfilled by Amazon.
Click "Save and finish" to publish your offer
TIP! You will need to wait at least 15 minutes for your offer to appear in the Amazon catalog. To make any changes to your offer, simply go to Inventory → Manage All Inventory and locate your product using its SKU, ASIN or Product Name.
Why do I have to wait 15 minutes?
Amazon's systems need time to process and update changes that you make to your products. For this reason you'll often find that your newly enrolled FBA products won't be available for selection immediately after converting them to FBA. Simply wait about 15 minutes and everything will be fine.
Step 1: Send to Amazon Workflow
Now it's time to initiate the process of sending your inventory to Amazon. Go to the Send to Amazon screen. This will open the FBA Shipment workflow.
When creating your shipment, ensure that you use the correct Ship from address as shown below:
Company Name
JCM® GRAPHICS
Name
YOUR NAME
Ship from
24 Plasnewydd Walk
Heritage Gate
Llantwit Major
Vale of Glamorgan
CF61 2YW
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER
Email
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IMPORTANT! It's essential to provide accurate and complete address information.
TIP! Verify that the Marketplace destination is set correctly to the country where you want your products stored. If you're sending inventory to a destination outside of the United Kingdom, please contact us for a shipping cost quotation before proceeding.
Sending a product to Amazon for the first-time
If you're sending a new product to Amazon for the first time, you'll need to set the prep category.
- Select one or more product(s) that require the prep category to be set.
- Click Set prep category.
- Choose No prep needed.
- Click Save to apply the settings.
TIP! Keep in mind that you only need to set the prep category one-time per product. Amazon will remember your settings for all future shipments of the same products.
Input your desired Quantity to Send
You need to tell Amazon how many individual units of each product that you intend to ship. Do this by inputting your desired amount into the Quantity to send box.
After inputting the desired quantity to send, click Ready to pack alongside each product. The Ready to pack button will only appear after you have entered a value into the Quantity to send box.
Once you have completed this step, click Pack individual units (at the bottom) to proceed to the next step.
Step 1b: Packing Individual Units
Begin by selecting Everything will fit into one box, and then click View contents so that you can print labels and download your pack list.
Printing SKU labels
Choose the following options for generating your SKU labels.
- Print format: Standard formats
- SKU label format: 21-up labels 63.5mm x 38.1mm on A4
Click Print and save the file as a PDF. You will need to upload this file later on via our FBAE Wizard.
Click Download pick list to obtain the Pack list CSV file. You will also need to upload this file later on via our FBAE Wizard.
Click Close and then Confirm. You will be prompted to enter Packing Information for one box. Please enter the following weight and dimensions:
- Box dimensions (cm): 40 x 35 x 25 cm
- Box weight (kg): 10 kg
TIP! You may encounter a warning message; Box volume does not meet the expected minimum cubic cm. Please ignore this warning and click Confirm and continue to proceed.
Step 2: Confirm Shipping
Enter your desired ship-date
While the specific date is not critical, we aim to ship your order to the Amazon Fulfillment Centre within ten business days from the date you specify here.
Shipping Mode & Shipping Carrier
- Choose Small parcel delivery (SPD) as the Shipping Mode.
- Choose UPS (Amazon partnered carrier)
- Click Accept charges and confirm shipping.
TIP! Shipping costs will be directly charged to your Amazon account. When you select the Amazon partnered carrier option, there are no additional shipping or handling fees charged by us.
Step 3: Print Box and Shipping Labels
Select Thermal Printing and click Print.
Save the file as a PDF. You will now need to upload your Shipping label, Pack list and SKU labels using our FBAE Wizard.
Step 4: Go to our FBAE Wizard to Submit Shipment Information
Open our FBAE Wizard and upload your shipment information and files as instructed.
Congratulations! Your Amazon FBA Shipment is now complete.
We provide all the help you need to succeed with Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA)
As an FBA Reseller of our products, you will have access to dedicated support 7-days a week.
You can also book a free call with us today and we'll even help you get started. And if don't like video calls — that's not a deal breaker. Join our FREE Seller Community and we'll be happy answer your questions over there instead.
