Quick Answer
Amazon charges more distinct fees than any single help page documents — well over 100 by the time you count regional variants, tax sub-lines, and legacy names Amazon hasn’t retired from its reporting. Below are 132 of them, decoded and grouped by what they’re actually for. This list isn’t a manually-assembled guess: it’s pulled from the real fee vocabulary that shows up in Amazon’s own Settlement, Reimbursements, and Returns reports — the amount-type, amount-description, and reason-code columns in the flat files you download from Seller Central (Payments → All Statements, and Reports → Fulfillment) — cross-checked against Amazon’s own fee documentation, its Selling Partner API reference, and seller-forum discussions of the same reports. Amazon’s raw export sometimes runs these names together with no spaces, joins them with underscores, or shouts them in ALL_CAPS reason codes. We’ve added spacing consistently to the readable names so they read as English, not code — and wherever the readable name differs from Amazon’s literal raw string, we’ve included that raw string in parentheses too, so a search for either one finds this page. A handful of entries aren’t independently documented by Amazon under their exact name — we’ve flagged those rather than guess.
If you’re trying to reconcile a settlement, not just look up one fee, start with How to Reconcile Amazon Settlements in QuickBooks Online — this page is the reference you keep open while doing that, not a replacement for it.
The Fee Categories, at a Glance
| Category | Fees in this group | What they have in common |
|---|---|---|
| Referral, selling & closing | 16 | Amazon’s cut for the sale itself |
| FBA fulfillment | 11 | Pick, pack, ship — the core FBA service |
| Storage & AWD | 31 | Rent for space your inventory occupies, and getting it there |
| Returns & removals | 9 | Processing what comes back, leaves, or gets liquidated |
| Shipping & MCF | 5 | Non-Amazon-order fulfillment and shipping line items |
| Advertising & promotions | 9 | Cost of being seen, or of running a deal |
| Tax, VAT & regulatory | 26 | Amazon collecting on a government’s behalf |
| Reimbursements & adjustments | 25 | Money coming back to you, or a dispute |
Referral, Selling & Closing Fees
The referral fee — shown in your settlement report’s amount-description column simply as Commission — is Amazon’s basic cut of the sale. Per Amazon’s own selling-fee schedule, it runs 5% to 45% depending on category, most commonly 15%, with a $0.30 minimum per item. It’s calculated on the full transaction value (item price plus shipping and gift-wrap), and Amazon froze the percentages for both 2025 and 2026 — nothing here has changed rate-wise. Two separate flat charges can layer on top of it for specific categories: FixedClosingFee doesn’t vary with price, while the Variable Closing Fee (historically $1.35–$1.80) applied to media categories like books and DVDs — both are largely legacy as Amazon has simplified its category fee structure over time.
Running a Lightning Deal or Best Deal costs a flat enrollment charge (roughly $70/day for a Lightning Deal, $300 flat for a Best Deal) plus 1% of deal-attributed sales during non-peak periods, capped at $2,000. Amazon’s raw fee vocabulary breaks this into two separate lines — Deal Participation Fee and Deal Performance Fee — though we can’t independently confirm which one carries which component; treat the combined figure above as the reliable number, and each (including the Participation Fee’s own discount line) can carry its own tax.
Grade and Resell Charge (and the related Grade and Resell Fees) is the flat $1.50–$4.10 per-unit fee for Amazon’s Grade and Resell program, which inspects and relists sellable customer returns on your behalf — nothing is charged if the return grades as unsellable, and the program generally isn’t worthwhile for items under $15.
Refund Commission is worth a specific number: when you refund a customer, Amazon refunds part of the referral fee you originally paid, but keeps the lesser of $5.00 or 20% of that referral fee as an administrative charge — capped at $10 total per order across multiple refunded items.
Three more in this category are account-level rather than per-sale: Subscription Fee is the flat $39.99/month Professional Selling Plan charge (occasionally corrected via SubscriptionFeeCorrection), and GetPaidFasterFee is for opting into accelerated access to your disbursement. Flexible Customer Financing fee, by contrast, is per-transaction — deducted when a customer pays via Amazon’s 0%-interest installment program (roughly 4–12% of the order), and refunded if the order is returned.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Commission | The raw settlement-report token for the referral fee itself — Amazon’s percentage-based commission on the sale (see above). |
| Deal Participation Fee | One of two raw fee-vocabulary lines for the cost of running a Lightning Deal or Best Deal (see above); the exact split against Deal Performance Fee isn’t independently documented. |
| Deal Participation Fee Discount | A discount applied against the Deal Participation Fee. |
| Deal Participation Fee Tax | Tax charged on the Deal Participation Fee. |
| Deal Performance Fee | The other of the two raw fee-vocabulary lines for running a Lightning Deal or Best Deal (see above). |
| Deal Performance Fee Tax | Tax charged on the Deal Performance Fee. |
| FixedClosingFee | A flat per-item fee (not a percentage) that applies on top of the referral fee for specific categories, historically media products. |
| Flexible Customer Financing fee | Deducted when a customer pays for your product in interest-free monthly installments through Amazon’s Flexible Customer Financing program; refunded if the order is returned. |
| GetPaidFasterFee | The charge for opting into faster access to your disbursement funds instead of Amazon’s standard payout schedule. |
| Grade and Resell Charge | The per-unit processing fee for a customer return Amazon graded as resellable through the Grade and Resell program. |
| Grade and Resell Fees | The general fee line for Amazon’s Grade and Resell program — functionally the same program as Grade and Resell Charge above. |
Prime Service Fee (PrimeServiceFee) |
A service fee tied to Prime-eligible fulfillment. |
Refund Commission (RefundCommission) |
The referral-fee-refund shortfall Amazon keeps when you refund a customer — the lesser of $5.00 or 20% of the original referral fee. |
| Subscription Fee | The $39.99/month charge for Amazon’s Professional Selling Plan, billed regardless of sales volume. |
| SubscriptionFeeCorrection | A correction to a previously-billed Subscription Fee, such as a proration adjustment. |
Variable Closing Fee (VariableClosingFee) |
A flat per-unit fee that applied to media categories (books, music, DVDs, software, video games) on top of the referral fee — largely superseded as Amazon simplified its category fee structure. |
FBA Fulfillment Fees
This is the core “pick, pack, and ship” charge — FBA Per Unit Fulfillment Fee in your settlement report, described in Amazon’s own documentation as “the fulfillment fee Amazon charges per unit for FBA orders, covering picking, packing, and shipping the item.” A smaller set of variants covers Amazon-partnered carrier shipments, international freight (via Amazon Global Logistics), gift-wrap pass-through, and adjustments to fees already billed. Average FBA fulfillment fees rose about $0.08/unit in the January 2026 update.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| FBA Amazon-Partnered Carrier Shipment Fee | The cost of shipping through a carrier Amazon has pre-negotiated rates with, when you use Amazon’s partnered-carrier program to ship inventory to a fulfillment center. |
| FBA Amazon-Partnered Carrier Shipment Fee Tax | Tax charged on the partnered-carrier shipment fee above. |
| FBA Inbound Placement Service Fee | A per-unit fee (introduced 2024, revised January 2026) for Amazon distributing your inbound shipment across multiple fulfillment centers instead of one, which you can avoid by choosing to ship to a single location yourself. |
| FBA International Freight Shipping Charge | The freight cost for inventory shipped internationally to Amazon fulfillment centers via Amazon Global Logistics. |
FBA Per Unit Fulfillment Fee (FBAPerUnitFulfillmentFee) |
The standard FBA fulfillment fee: picking, packing, and shipping a unit, priced by size tier and weight. |
| GiftWrap | The gift-wrap charge a customer pays at checkout — passed through to your sales balance and then charged back to you via Giftwrap Chargeback, since Amazon is the one that actually wraps the item. |
Giftwrap Chargeback (GiftwrapChargeback) |
A reversal of a gift-wrap charge, typically issued alongside a refund or order cancellation. |
| GiftWrapTax | Tax charged on the customer’s gift-wrap payment. |
Postage Adjustment (PostageAdjustment) |
A correction to a previously-billed or previously-refunded shipping-label charge. |
Prime Fulfillment Fee (PrimeFulfillmentFee) |
The fulfillment fee specific to Prime-eligible orders. |
Shipping Chargeback (ShippingChargeback) |
An adjustment reversing a shipping fee that was previously credited or charged, most often tied to a cancellation or refund. |
For everything storage- and AWD-related — a much longer list — see the next section.
Storage, Inventory & AWD Fees
AWD is Amazon Warehousing & Distribution — a separate bulk-storage program (distinct from standard FBA storage) where Amazon stores inventory in bulk warehouses and automatically replenishes your FBA inventory as needed. As of the January 2026 rate update: storage runs $0.48/cubic foot/month ($0.57 on the West Coast), processing is $1.40/box (up from $1.35, plus a new $0.05/box handling fee), and transportation jumped 22% to $1.40/cubic foot. Enrolling a SKU in Supply Chain by Amazon’s Managed Service gets you 20% off AWD storage and 10% off AWD-to-FBA transportation for that SKU.
Standard FBA storage fees changed more fundamentally in 2026: the old Long Term Storage Fee, which only kicked in after a full 365 days, is gone. In its place is a tiered Aged Inventory Surcharge that starts escalating at just 181 days, with additional tiers at 271 days and 12–15 months, and a new 15+ month tier reaching up to $7.90/cubic foot (or $0.35/unit, whichever is higher). StorageRenewalBilling is a related long-term-storage billing-cycle charge that shows up mostly in EU and India FBA reports. If you were planning around the old 365-day grace period, that plan is now nine months too generous.
A separate cluster covers getting inventory into a fulfillment center in the first place: Inbound Transportation Fee (and its Program Fee variant, tied to enrolling in Amazon’s partnered-carrier program) cover freight to the warehouse door, while Inbound Defect Fee and the FBA Prep Fee family cover labeling and packaging corrections Amazon has to make on arrival — though Amazon discontinued its own in-house prep and labeling services as of January 1, 2026, shifting that work to third-party prep centers, so these charges mostly reflect activity from before that cutover.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| AWD MCD Transportation Fee | Transportation cost for moving inventory between AWD’s regional distribution centers before it reaches an FBA fulfillment center. |
| AWD Processing Fee | The per-box inbound/outbound handling charge for inventory moving through an AWD warehouse. |
| AWD Processing Fee Discount | A discount on the AWD processing fee, typically from enrolling a SKU in Amazon’s Managed Service. |
| AWD Storage Fee | The monthly per-cubic-foot storage charge for inventory held in an AWD warehouse. |
| AWD Storage Fee Discount | A discount on AWD storage, same Managed Service mechanism as above. |
| AWD Transportation Fee Discount | A discount on AWD-to-FBA transportation. |
| FBA Amazon-Partnered Carrier Shipment Fee Tax GST | Goods and Services Tax on the partnered-carrier shipment fee, for marketplaces where GST applies. |
| FBA Customer Return Per Unit Fee | The per-unit fee for processing a returned item back into inventory. |
| FBA Customer Return Per Unit Fee Discount | A discount applied against the per-unit return fee. |
| FBA Customer Return Per Unit Fee Tax GST | GST charged on the per-unit return fee. |
| FBA International Freight Duties and Taxes Charge | Import duties and taxes on inventory freighted internationally to an FBA or AWD warehouse. |
| FBA Inventory Storage Fee | The standard monthly storage fee for inventory sitting in an FBA fulfillment center, billed per cubic foot. |
| FBA Inventory Storage Fee Tax GST | GST on the standard monthly storage fee. |
| FBA Long Term Storage Fee | The escalating surcharge on inventory that’s aged past Amazon’s current threshold (181+ days as of 2026 — see above). |
| FBA Long Term Storage Fee Tax | Tax on the long-term storage surcharge. |
| FBA Long Term Storage Fee Tax GST | GST specifically, on the long-term storage surcharge. |
| FBA Prep Fee: Labeling | The FNSKU labeling service charge for inventory that arrives without proper barcodes — Amazon applies its own label and bills you per unit (see the January 2026 discontinuation note above). |
| FBA Prep Fee: Labeling Tax GST | GST on the FBA Prep Fee: Labeling charge. |
| Inbound Defect Fee | A charge for an inbound shipment that arrives with a defect Amazon has to correct before it can be stored — missing or incorrect labeling, or improper packaging. |
| Inbound Transportation Charge | The cost of shipping inventory from your location to an FBA fulfillment center. |
| Inbound Transportation Fee | The base charge for shipping inventory to an Amazon fulfillment center for FBA, whether you use your own carrier or an Amazon-partnered one — calculated by item size, weight, and quantity. |
| Inbound Transportation Fee - Adjustment | A correction to a previously-billed inbound transportation fee. |
| Inbound Transportation Program Fee | The Amazon Partnered Carrier program’s version of the inbound transportation charge — Amazon’s own pre-negotiated shipping rates for moving inventory into an FBA fulfillment center. |
| Inbound Transportation Program Fee Tax | Tax charged on the Inbound Transportation Program Fee. |
| Premium Services Fee | Not independently documented by Amazon under this exact name; appears tied to a premium fulfillment or account service tier — treat its precise trigger as unconfirmed. |
| Premium Services Fee Tax | Tax charged on the Premium Services Fee, same unconfirmed caveat as above. |
| Shipping Label Purchase | The cost of a shipping label you bought through Amazon’s platform (Buy Shipping) rather than a third party. |
Shipping Services (ShippingServices) |
Charges tied to Amazon’s shipping-services program more broadly, distinct from a single label purchase. |
| Storage Fee | A general storage-fee line, functionally the same charge as FBA Inventory Storage Fee above but appearing under this broader raw name in some reports. |
| StorageRenewalBilling | A long-term storage billing-cycle charge for inventory that’s remained in a fulfillment center for an extended period, most commonly seen in EU and India FBA reports (see above). |
| WarehousePrep | The broader prep-service fee for inventory that needs work before it’s storable or sellable — poly-bagging, bubble wrap, or other protective packaging, alongside labeling. |
Returns & Removals
Fees for closing out inventory you no longer want in FBA — either because a customer returned it, because you asked Amazon to remove or dispose of it, or because you sent it to Amazon’s Liquidations program instead. DisposalComplete and RemovalComplete are the completion-event charges for a Disposal Order and a Removal Order, respectively — functionally the same actions as the FBA Removal Order fees below, billed per item once Amazon finishes the job. LiquidationsBrokerageFee combines a per-item processing charge with a referral fee on whatever the liquidation partner recovers.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| DisposalComplete | The completion-event charge for a Disposal Order — Amazon disposing of inventory you no longer want stored, functionally the same action as FBA Removal Order Disposal Fee below. |
| FBA Customer Returns Fee | The processing fee Amazon charges for handling a customer-returned unit back into (or out of) inventory. |
| FBA Removal Order Disposal Fee | The fee for asking Amazon to dispose of inventory you no longer want stored, rather than ship it back to you. |
| FBA Removal Order Disposal Fee Tax | Tax on the disposal fee. |
| FBA Removal Order Return Fee | The fee for asking Amazon to ship inventory back to you (or elsewhere) instead of keeping it in FBA. |
| LiquidationsBrokerageFee | The combined per-item processing charge ($0.25–$1.90) and 15% referral fee on gross recovery value that Amazon’s FBA Liquidations program charges when you recover value from excess or returned inventory instead of paying for removal or disposal. |
| RemovalComplete | The completion-event charge for a Removal Order — Amazon shipping inventory back to you per item removed, functionally the same action as FBA Removal Order Return Fee above. |
| ReturnShipping | The cost of return shipping for an item sent back to you or to Amazon, distinct from a prepaid return label purchase (see below). |
| Shipping Label Purchase for Return | The cost of a return shipping label you bought — through Seller Central or Amazon’s own service — to send to a customer for a return. |
Shipping & Multi-Channel Fulfillment
MCF Preferred Pricing discounts MCF (Multi-Channel Fulfillment — orders placed on a non-Amazon channel but fulfilled from FBA inventory) outbound fulfillment fees by up to 15% and credits up to $1 per unit shipped, calculated weekly off your trailing 12-week MCF volume, capped at 50,000–100,000 units depending on which enrollment track you pick. It launched January 15, 2026. RemoteFulfillmentCredit is a separate, narrower credit: since March 25, 2025, Amazon automatically covers return fees on orders sold and returned through Remote Fulfillment with FBA into Mexico or Brazil, so those returns cost the same as a domestic US FBA return. Amazon Shipping is unrelated to either — it’s Amazon’s own carrier service, an alternative to FBA or a third-party shipper.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Amazon Shipping | The cost of using Amazon’s own shipping service (Amazon Shipping) to deliver an order, as an alternative to FBA or self-ship carriers. |
| MCF Preferred Pricing Seller Credit | The per-unit credit from enrolling in MCF Preferred Pricing (see above). |
| RemoteFulfillmentCredit | The automatic credit covering return fees on orders sold and returned through Remote Fulfillment with FBA into Mexico or Brazil (see above). |
| ShippingCharge | The base shipping fee a customer pays at checkout, passed through to your settlement as sales revenue before any Amazon-side shipping fees are deducted. |
| ShippingHB | Not independently documented by Amazon under this exact name; appears tied to a shipping-handling component distinct from the base shipping charge — treat its precise trigger as unconfirmed. |
Advertising & Promotions
Coupon Performance Fee replaced the old flat $0.60-per-redemption coupon fee, effective June 2, 2025: $5 per coupon plus 2.5% of coupon-attributed sales, capped at $2,000 for coupons created November 5, 2025 or later. Amazon’s raw fee vocabulary breaks this into two separate lines — Coupon Participation Fee and Coupon Performance Fee — the same participation-vs-performance pattern as Lightning and Best Deals (see Referral, Selling & Closing above), though we can’t independently confirm which one carries which component; treat the combined $5-plus-2.5% figure as the reliable number. Promotion Adjustment corrects a previously-applied promotional discount, while Promotions is the general line for the discount itself.
Vine Enrollment Fee is unrelated to any of the above: it’s a per-parent-ASIN charge for joining Amazon Vine, tiered by how many units you enroll — $0 for up to 2 units, $75 for 3–10, $200 for 11–30, with no extra charge for child products. You aren’t billed until 30 days after enrollment and after your first review publishes; if no review appears within 90 days, there’s no charge at all.
Transparency Charges is different again — the per-code cost of Amazon’s anti-counterfeiting Transparency program, which has no enrollment or subscription cost and bills only when you order codes: $0.05 each up to 1M codes/year, $0.03 from 1M–10M, and $0.01 above that.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Cost of Advertising | Amazon Ads spend billed on-account and deducted directly from your settlement, rather than charged to a separate payment method. |
| Coupon Participation Fee | One of two raw fee-vocabulary lines for the post-June-2025 coupon charge (see above); the exact split against Coupon Performance Fee isn’t independently documented. |
| Coupon Participation Fee Tax | Tax charged on the Coupon Participation Fee. |
| Coupon Performance Fee | The other of the two raw fee-vocabulary lines for the post-June-2025 coupon charge — combined, $5 per coupon plus 2.5% of coupon-attributed sales, capped at $2,000 (see above). |
| Coupon Performance Fee Tax | Tax charged on the Coupon Performance Fee. |
| Promotion Adjustment | A correction to a previously-applied promotional discount or rebate. |
| Promotions | A general promotional-discount adjustment line, distinct from a specific coupon or deal fee — the amount deducted for a promotion applied to an order. |
| Transparency Charges | The per-unit cost of Amazon’s Transparency anti-counterfeiting program — unique authentication codes applied to each unit, $0.01–$0.05 per code depending on annual volume (see above). |
| Vine Enrollment Fee | The per-parent-ASIN charge for enrolling a product in Amazon Vine, which sends it to top “Vine Voice” reviewers in exchange for an honest review (see above). |
Tax, VAT & Regulatory
Digital Services Fee (Digital Services Tax) is Amazon passing through digital-services taxes levied by the UK (2%), and France, Italy, Spain, and Canada (3% each) — applied as a percentage surcharge on your selling and fulfillment fees, not a separate line you’d otherwise expect; Digital Services Fee Adjustment corrects a previously-charged instance of it. LowValueGoodsTax is a different pass-through entirely: GST/VAT that Amazon calculates, collects, and remits on imports below a country’s low-value-goods threshold — $1,000 AUD in Australia, $1,000 NZD in New Zealand, S$400 in Singapore — split into Principal and Shipping components the same way Marketplace Facilitator Tax is below. SalesTaxServiceFee is a holdover from before most US states required Amazon to collect tax directly under marketplace-facilitator law: Amazon’s older, separately-billed Tax Calculation Service.
The EPR (“Extended Producer Responsibility”) eco-contribution fees got simpler in 2026: Amazon’s “Pay on Behalf” service (UK, France, Spain) used to charge a variable service fee — like Amazon Service Fee for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Textile — on top of the eco-contribution itself; as of January 1, 2026, that variable fee was dropped in favor of a flat €25 per EPR category per year. The eco-contribution itself still shows up per country and product category — Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Packaging and Printed Paper (PPP), - FR - Textile, and - GB - Packaging are three of the country/category combinations that appear in real reports, each with its own tax line.
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Amazon Service Fee for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Textile | The variable service fee Amazon charged for administering the France Textile EPR eco-contribution on your behalf, before the January 2026 flat-fee change (see above). |
| Amazon Service Fee for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Textile Tax | Tax on the above service fee. |
Digital Services Fee (DigitalServicesFee) |
Amazon’s pass-through of a government Digital Services Tax, charged as a percentage surcharge on selling/fulfillment fees. |
| Digital Services Fee Adjustment | A correction to a previously-charged Digital Services Fee. |
| Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Packaging and Printed Paper (PPP) | France’s Packaging and Printed Paper EPR eco-contribution, paid by Amazon on your behalf and recovered from you. |
| Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Packaging and Printed Paper (PPP) Tax | Tax on the above eco-contribution. |
| Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Textile | France’s Textile EPR eco-contribution, paid by Amazon on your behalf and recovered from you. |
| Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - FR - Textile Tax | Tax on the above eco-contribution. |
| Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - GB - Packaging | The UK’s Packaging EPR eco-contribution, paid by Amazon on your behalf and recovered from you. |
| Eco-Contribution for EPR Pay on Behalf - GB - Packaging Tax | Tax on the above eco-contribution. |
| FBA Inventory Storage Fee Tax | Tax on the standard monthly FBA storage fee. |
| FBA Removal Order Disposal Fee Tax GST | GST specifically on the removal-disposal fee. |
| FBA Removal Order Return Fee Tax | Tax on the removal-return fee. |
| FBA Removal Order Return Fee Tax GST | GST specifically on the removal-return fee. |
| LowValueGoodsTax-Principal | GST/VAT on low-value imported goods, applied to the item’s sale price (see above). |
| LowValueGoodsTax-Shipping | The same low-value-goods GST/VAT, applied to the shipping charge instead of the item price. |
Marketplace Facilitator Tax - Other (MarketplaceFacilitatorTax-Other) |
Tax Amazon withholds, as the deemed marketplace facilitator, on a miscellaneous charge type other than the principal sale or shipping. |
Marketplace Facilitator Tax - Principal (MarketplaceFacilitatorTax-Principal) |
Tax withheld on the item’s sale price, under marketplace-facilitator tax law. |
Marketplace Facilitator Tax - Shipping (MarketplaceFacilitatorTax-Shipping) |
Tax withheld on the shipping charge, under marketplace-facilitator tax law. |
Marketplace Facilitator VAT - Principal (MarketplaceFacilitatorVAT-Principal) |
The VAT equivalent of the above, withheld on the item’s sale price. |
Marketplace Facilitator VAT - Shipping (MarketplaceFacilitatorVAT-Shipping) |
The VAT equivalent withheld on the shipping charge. |
| MarketplaceFacilitatorRegulatoryFee-Principal | A regulatory charge (e.g., battery or electronics recycling fees) that Amazon collects and remits under marketplace-facilitator law, similar to Regulatory Fee below but categorized under the marketplace-facilitator umbrella. |
Regulatory Fee (RegulatoryFee) |
A government-mandated regulatory charge Amazon collects and remits on certain product categories (e.g., battery or electronics recycling levies), separate from EPR. |
| SalesTaxServiceFee | Amazon’s legacy fee for its Tax Calculation Service — automated sales-tax calculation and remittance — largely superseded now that marketplace-facilitator laws require Amazon to collect tax directly in most US states at no separate charge. |
| ShippingTax | Tax charged on the shipping fee a customer paid at checkout. |
| Tax | The generic sales tax collected on an order, appearing under this bare name in marketplaces or older reports that predate the Marketplace Facilitator Tax naming convention. |
Note the difference between Marketplace Facilitator Tax and Marketplace Facilitator VAT entries: both represent Amazon collecting and remitting tax on your behalf as the deemed marketplace facilitator, but the two naming conventions come from different parts of Amazon’s own reporting rather than two different tax regimes — don’t post both as if they were separate obligations for the same sale.
Reimbursements & Adjustments
SAFE-T stands for Seller Assurance For E-commerce Transactions — Amazon’s own description is “the SAFE-T claim amount for the item”: the mechanism for appealing a refund decision Amazon made that you believe you shouldn’t be financially responsible for (item returned damaged, not returned at all, or a returnless refund issued without cause). A successful claim shows up as SAFE-T Reimbursement.
Restocking Fee and Goodwill both relate to refunds but mean different things. Amazon’s own documentation describes a restocking fee as “the charge applied when returning a product in certain categories” — what you’re allowed to deduct when a customer returns a product in a condition that isn’t resellable as new. Goodwill, by contrast, is “the amount of money given to a buyer as a gesture or pain/suffering compensation” — unrelated to the item’s condition, and not something you can decline. BUY_WITH_PRIME_CUSTOMER_REFUND works on a related principle for a different channel: on a Buy with Prime order (Amazon’s checkout-and-fulfillment service for a merchant’s own direct-to-consumer site), there’s no separate return fee, but Amazon’s reimbursement policy nets the payout against the Prime service fee, Apay fee, and fulfillment fees already charged on that order, capped at $5,000 per unit.
A large family of the remaining entries are FBA’s inventory-reconciliation reason codes — Amazon’s own shorthand, in ALL_CAPS, for why a reimbursement was paid, reversed, or adjusted. WAREHOUSE_LOST and WAREHOUSE_DAMAGE are the automatic ones: inventory that goes missing or gets damaged inside a fulfillment center, reimbursed at Amazon’s own estimate of the item’s average market price — which doesn’t always cover its full value. Their _MANUAL and _EXCEPTION counterparts (WAREHOUSE_LOST_MANUAL, WAREHOUSE_DAMAGE_EXCEPTION) cover the same losses when Amazon didn’t catch them automatically and you had to request an investigation. MISSING_FROM_INBOUND and INBOUND_CARRIER_DAMAGE cover the same idea before inventory ever reaches a shelf — lost or damaged in transit to the fulfillment center — and REMOVAL_ORDER_LOST / REMOVAL_ORDER_DAMAGED cover it on the way back out, during a removal order you requested.
Three codes reverse a reimbursement rather than pay one: COMPENSATED_CLAWBACK and MISSING_FROM_INBOUND_CLAWBACK both claw back money Amazon already paid you, typically because the “lost” inventory turned up after all; REVERSAL_REIMBURSEMENT does something slightly different — Amazon takes back the cash and returns the physical inventory to you instead. RE_EVALUATION is Amazon revisiting and adjusting a reimbursement claim after the fact, for reasons it doesn’t publicly itemize.
The rest are customer-service-driven or operational catch-alls: CRETURN_WRONG_ITEM reimburses you automatically (on FBA orders only) when a customer returns the wrong item after already being refunded; CS_ERROR_ITEMS and CSBAFee are corrections tied to Amazon’s own support team resolving an issue on your behalf, usually a credit after Amazon overcharged you; FREE_REPLACEMENT_REFUND_ITEMS tracks cases where a customer got a free replacement or refund for a damaged, defective, or undelivered item; Manual Processing Fee is charged when you don’t provide box-content information electronically and Amazon has to check a shipment by hand; Fee Adjustment and other-transaction are Amazon’s general-purpose buckets for a correction or a transaction that doesn’t fit anywhere more specific. PanAmericasChargebackFee isn’t independently documented by Amazon under this exact name, but appears tied to a chargeback within Amazon’s Pan-America seller program (selling across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil from one account).
| Fee name | What it is |
|---|---|
AWD Warehouse Lost - Manual (AWD_WAREHOUSE_LOST_MANUAL) |
A manually-processed reimbursement for inventory lost inside an AWD warehouse. |
| BUY_WITH_PRIME_CUSTOMER_REFUND | A reimbursement or credit tied to a customer refund on a Buy with Prime order (see above) — nets against the Prime service, payment, and fulfillment fees already charged on that order. |
| COMPENSATED_CLAWBACK | Amazon reversing (“clawing back”) a reimbursement it previously paid you — typically because the “lost” inventory was later found, or the original reimbursement was an overpayment. |
| CRETURN_WRONG_ITEM | A reimbursement issued automatically on FBA orders when a customer returns the wrong item to an Amazon warehouse after already being refunded. |
| CS_ERROR_ITEMS | A customer-service correction, most often a credit to your account after Amazon’s own support team overcharged you or made an error resolving a customer issue on your behalf. |
| CSBAFee | A customer-service-related charge or credit tied to Amazon’s own support team resolving an issue on your behalf — commonly a credit back to you after Amazon overcharged you on something. |
| Fee Adjustment | A general correction Amazon applies to balance a discrepancy in a previously-charged fee — broader than a named adjustment like Digital Services Fee Adjustment, and not tied to one specific fee type. |
| FREE_REPLACEMENT_REFUND_ITEMS | A charge or credit tracking customer-service actions where a customer received a free replacement or refund for a damaged, defective, or non-delivered item. |
| Goodwill | Compensation given to a buyer as a customer-service gesture, unrelated to the returned item’s condition (Amazon’s own wording, above). |
| INBOUND_CARRIER_DAMAGE | A reimbursement for inventory damaged in transit by the carrier while being shipped to an Amazon fulfillment center. |
| Manual Processing Fee | A $0.15–$0.30-per-unit charge for the extra manual work Amazon does to check and verify an inbound shipment’s contents when box-content information wasn’t provided electronically. |
| MISSING_FROM_INBOUND | A reimbursement for inventory that never arrived at an Amazon fulfillment center — lost in transit, whether shipped via your own carrier or an Amazon-partnered one. |
| MISSING_FROM_INBOUND_CLAWBACK | Amazon reversing a Missing From Inbound reimbursement after the “lost” inventory turns up. |
| other-transaction | Amazon’s catch-all bucket for a transaction that doesn’t fit any of its more specific amount-type categories. |
| PanAmericasChargebackFee | Not independently documented by Amazon under this exact name; appears tied to a chargeback within Amazon’s Pan-America seller program (selling across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil from one account) — treat its precise trigger as unconfirmed. |
| RE_EVALUATION | An adjustment to a previously-processed reimbursement after Amazon re-evaluates the underlying claim. |
| REMOVAL_ORDER_DAMAGED | A reimbursement for inventory damaged while Amazon was processing a removal order you requested — the damaged-goods counterpart to REMOVAL_ORDER_LOST below. |
| REMOVAL_ORDER_LOST | A reimbursement for inventory lost while Amazon was processing a removal order you requested. |
Restocking Fee (RestockingFee) |
The deduction allowed when a returned item isn’t resellable as new (Amazon’s own wording, above). |
| REVERSAL_REIMBURSEMENT | Amazon reversing a previously-issued cash reimbursement and returning the physical inventory to you instead of keeping the cash payout in place. |
| SAFE-T Reimbursement | A successful SAFE-T claim amount — see above. |
| WAREHOUSE_DAMAGE | A reimbursement for inventory damaged while stored inside an FBA fulfillment center — issued automatically, based on the item’s value. |
| WAREHOUSE_DAMAGE_EXCEPTION | The same warehouse-damage reimbursement, but for cases requiring a seller-initiated investigation rather than an automatic Amazon-detected credit. |
| WAREHOUSE_LOST | A reimbursement for inventory that goes missing inside an FBA fulfillment center, valued by Amazon at the item’s average market price — not always covering the full cost. |
| WAREHOUSE_LOST_MANUAL | The same lost-inventory reimbursement, but triggered by a seller-initiated investigation rather than Amazon’s automatic detection. |
How to Actually Use This
Knowing what a fee is isn’t the whole job — you still need to decide when to post it (the day it happened, or the day Amazon actually charged it) and how to summarize 100+ possible fee types into a chart of accounts a human can read. That’s the workflow question, and it’s covered in two other posts:
- How to Reconcile Amazon Settlements in QuickBooks Online — the accrual-vs-cash-basis decision, the clearing-account mechanics, and the Excel categorization workflow if you’re doing this by hand.
- How to Handle Amazon FBA Fees When Reconciling in QuickBooks — the six major fee categories walked through as a step-by-step setup guide, rather than a lookup table.
If you’d rather not keep this list current yourself — Amazon renamed, re-priced, or introduced fees covered on this page in just the last 18 months — recognizing and categorizing each one automatically is exactly what Entriwise does as part of posting your Amazon activity to your books.
See the Amazon Seller Central QuickBooks Online integration for how the automated version works. The free trial covers one full calendar month of your own data — every fee name on this page included — with no credit card and no time limit on when you use it, so you can check the mapping against a settlement you’ve already reconciled by hand.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many different fees does Amazon actually charge sellers?
Well over 100 once you count regional variants, tax sub-lines, and older names Amazon hasn’t retired from its reporting. This page documents 132 distinct fee, tax, and reimbursement-reason names pulled from real settlement, reimbursement, and returns report data, grouped into 8 categories.
What’s the difference between a referral fee and a closing fee?
The referral fee is Amazon’s percentage-based commission on the sale (5–45% depending on category, most commonly 15%), shown in your settlement report as Commission. Two flat closing fees can apply on top of it for specific categories: the Fixed Closing Fee doesn’t vary with price, while the Variable Closing Fee (historically $1.35–$1.80) applied specifically to media categories like books and DVDs — both are largely legacy as Amazon has simplified its fee structure over time.
Is Amazon’s Long Term Storage Fee still based on 365 days?
No — as of 2026, the old 365-day Long Term Storage Fee was replaced by a tiered Aged Inventory Surcharge that starts at 181 days and escalates through 271 days, 12–15 months, and a new 15+ month tier reaching $7.90/cubic foot or $0.35/unit, whichever is higher.
Why are some fee names in ALL_CAPS while others are in Title Case?
Amazon’s reports use different naming conventions depending on where the entry comes from. Readable Title Case names (like FBA Long Term Storage Fee) typically come from the Settlement Report’s amount-description column, while ALL_CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES codes (like WAREHOUSE_LOST) are reason codes from the Reimbursements Report. Both describe real charges or credits — we’ve kept each in its native format rather than force them into one style, since that’s what you’ll actually see in your own export.
What is SAFE-T reimbursement?
SAFE-T stands for Seller Assurance For E-commerce Transactions — Amazon’s process for appealing a return-related refund you believe you shouldn’t be financially responsible for, such as an item returned damaged, not returned at all, or refunded without a return.
What’s the difference between a restocking fee and a goodwill credit?
A restocking fee is what you’re allowed to deduct when a customer returns an item in a condition that isn’t resellable as new. A goodwill credit is compensation given to a buyer as a customer-service gesture, unrelated to the item’s condition — you can’t decline it the way you might dispute a restocking deduction.
Do I need to memorize all 132 of these fees?
No — most sellers only ever see a handful of these in a given month. The point of a complete list is that when an unfamiliar one shows up (Amazon introduces new fee types most years), you’re not guessing what it means from scratch.