Optimizing Amazon Vendor Agreements and Pricing
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You can offer Amazon business customers discounts that vary depending on the quantity they buy only registered Amazon business customers will be able to see these quantity discounts also known as volume discounts, regular Amazon customers will not be able to see these prices. Amazon business customers will receive the full discount you specify.
show moreEvery time the customer buys a product from you on Amazon business, in the quantity discount, tier, and discount amount that you define. Amazon will accrue the discounts, passed to business customers and generates an invoice every month for you to reimburse only one promotion can run at any one time. If you’re offering quantity discounts for a product and are also offering another type of discount or promotion.
Such as a lightning deal or best deal for the same product, the business price and discount will not apply presenting this option at the right level encourages business customers to make larger unit purchases, to obtain the discount. The levels of quantity discount are at your discretion. Although Amazon can help to present where the best opportunities are.
All discounts you provide to Amazon on different volume tier are passed on a hundred percent to business customers. You can use vendor central to set up edit and cancel quantity discounts for Amazon business customers to manage quantity discounts for Amazon business customers, select business pricing discounts under the merchandising tab on the top menu.
If it’s your first time creating a business pricing discount, choose a billing contact and agree to the business pricing program agreement. Review the recommended products. You’ll have the choice to proceed with one click optin or create your own list products. If you choose to create your own list. You’ll have the option to download an Excel template with our recommendations, prepopulated or a blank template.
Add your product data to the spreadsheet. You can specify the discount as a flat rate, whereas a percentage of Amazon’s cost, the maximum discount is 50% upload and submit the completed spreadsheet. If you’ve created a business pricing discount before. Download the blank Excel template. Add your product data to the spreadsheet.
You can specify the discount as a flat rate, or as a percentage of Amazon’s cost. The maximum discount is 50% upload and submit the completed spreadsheet. Note that if a discount already exists for a product, updating it in the template will override the previously submitted discount and will take effect the following month to delete an existing price discount.
Enter zero in the single unit discount amount field and leave the other fields blank. If no discount type or amount is entered, the discount will not be processed. An existing discounts will not be affected Amazon system first validates the pricing spreadsheet. You can click on view history to display the status of your spreadsheets that are pending validation and fix any errors.
It takes up to 48 hours for pricing discounts to reflect on Amazon. If a discount hasn’t yet gone live, ensure your vendor code is activated and that you have no other promotions running. Also only a registered Amazon business customer can view the business discount. Changes to existing discounts will take effect on the first day of the following month, the price discounts are valid until you remove or edit them.
If you revise or cancel your quantity, discount or discounts, or your discount is tied to a percentage of product cost of good sold, and there is a cost change. Those changes will become active on the first day of the following month. Your business pricing discounts will not appear on your agreements page, but you will still need to factor these costs into either a new cost and calculation altogether, or a specific cost calculation for these bulk purchases for select customers. Either way you do need to factor these costs in somewhere. If you intend to engage in this program.