This article covers the 5 most important reports for Amazon sellers. Amazon provides many different reports across a wide variety of business aspects. Given the amount of reporting that is available it can be challenging to identify which information is important to your business. Focusing on the few key performance metrics and analyzing historical data; insights can be made and actions can be taken from identifying issues and doubling down on what is working. Goat Consulting builds out managerial strategy reports for our clients in order to track Amazon KPIs and report to our clients the important metrics to reach our clients desired goals.
Amazon FBA Fee Changes for 2022
Amazon fees are ever-changing due to constraints including but not limited to macroeconomic effects, sales velocity, and competition. Depending on your product's size and category, the fee changes could impact your business in a variety of ways. In this post, we will cover the new fee changes to Amazon’s FBA program for 2022. It is very important to recalculate profit margin when large fee changes happen in order to make sure your product is priced appropriately. Below we will cover which product sizes were most negatively impacted, which product sizes were barely impacted, and other options for fulfillment moving forward. If you just have questions about calculating amazon fees, see our previous blog post.
How to Calculate Amazon FBA Fees - Understanding Amazon's Shipping and Fulfillment Fees
When using fulfillment by Amazon it is important to have an idea of what is going behind the scenes so you know how much it will cost. For the purpose of this post, we are going to break the fees down in terms of shipping the product into Amazon's Warehouse. What is charged while the item is at Amazon's warehouse and what the costs are for Amazon to ship your product to the end customer.