Amazon 2027 FBA Fee Changes: What Sellers Should Check Before Jan 15

What Amazon Announced on November 5, 2026

The update came as a letter on Amazon's Selling Partners site from Sunny Jain, Vice President of Worldwide Fulfillment by Amazon, plus Seller Central help pages with rate cards. Amazon said it was sharing the update now "so that you have more than two months to plan before most changes take effect on January 15, 2027."

Key dates at a glance

• November 5, 2026: announcement; a new, lower referral fee for 3D printers takes effect.
• January 14, 2027: last day of 2026 holiday peak fulfillment fees.
• January 15, 2027: new fulfillment fees, new bulky and oversize size tiers, narrower low-price FBA eligibility, Buy X, Get Y promotion fees. The 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge stays.
• February 1, 2027: unified age-based storage fee, new low-inventory-level test, AWD processing and transportation rates. Monthly billing for all promotions starts in February.
• March 1, 2027: age-based AWD storage pricing, according to PPC Land's review of the Seller Central pages.

The two tools Amazon points you to

Amazon recommends the new Fee Change Comparison dashboard inside Profit Analytics, which shows the effect at the account and product level, and the Revenue Calculator for modeling individual products. Start there; it shows which SKUs move most.

Fulfillment Fees From January 15, 2027

Three things set an FBA fulfillment fee: the product's size tier, its shipping weight, and, for standard-size items, its price band (under $10, $10 to $50, and above $50). PPC Land, which compared Amazon's 2026 and 2027 rate cards line by line, reports these average changes by band:

• Small standard-size, $10 to $50: up about $0.40 per unit on average.
• Small standard-size, above $50: up about $0.70 per unit on average, the largest standard-size increase.
• Small standard-size, under $10: up about $0.20 per unit on average.
• Large standard-size, $10 to $50: up about $0.12 per unit on average.
• Large standard-size, above $50: up about $0.47 per unit on average.
• Large standard-size, under $10 (non-apparel): unchanged.

In one of Amazon's examples, a phone case priced under $10 moves from $2.49 to $2.72 before the surcharge. Fees are set when a unit ships, not when it is ordered.

Small, higher-priced items carry the biggest jump

If you sell light, compact products priced above $50, check them first. PPC Land notes the fee gap between the $10 to $50 band and the above-$50 band roughly doubles in 2027, so a product priced just over $50 can pay noticeably more than the same item at $50.00.

January may not bring the usual relief

Many sellers expect fees to drop when peak pricing ends. PPC Land's comparison shows that for small standard-size items priced at $10 and above, 2027 non-peak rates are higher than today's peak rates. Large standard-size items under $50 do fall back. Plan January pricing with the 2027 table.

Low-Price FBA: Five Fee Categories Lose the Discount

Low-Price FBA rates are the reduced fulfillment fees for products priced under $10. Until January 14, 2027, every product under $10 receives them automatically. From January 15, Amazon narrows the program. Products in these five fee categories will be charged the $10 to $50 rates instead, as listed on Amazon's official summary and the help pages reviewed by PPC Land:

• Automotive and Powersports
• Compact Appliances
• Musical Instruments and AV Production
• Media (Books, DVD, Music, Software, and Video)
• Computers

Every other fee category keeps low-price rates automatically, with no action required. A fee category is not always the browse category shoppers see, so check the one Amazon assigns to each low-priced SKU.

For low-priced media, car accessories, and small appliances, this can be the biggest per-unit change in the update. A product with thin margins may need a new price, a bundle, or a different fulfillment method. Our guide to calculating your true per-unit cost walks through how to rebuild that number.

New Size Tiers for Bulky and Oversize Products

For products larger than standard size, 2027 brings a new system. Amazon's summary states that the two bulky tiers split into four and the extra-large tiers become six oversize tiers. Amazon's worked examples, as reported by PPC Land, show how wide the range is:

• A 65-inch TV box (65 x 20 x 7 inches, 62 lb) falls from $48.57 to $36.55.
• A 97-inch bulletin board (97 x 14.5 x 2 inches, 20 lb) rises from $50.93 to $69.75.

Overmax ends, two handling fees begin

The overmax handling fee no longer applies from January 15, 2027. In its place, oversize products can pay two new handling fees:

• Flat product handling fee: when the shortest side is under 4 inches and the median side is 25 inches or more. Think panels, mirrors, framed art, boards, and flat-pack furniture.
• Overhang handling fee: when the median side is greater than 43 inches.

A product that meets both conditions pays both. If you sell long, wide, or flat items, re-measure your packaged dimensions; a packaging change can move a product across a trigger, but a bigger box can also raise dimensional weight. Eligible products that can ship to customers in their own packaging may also qualify for Amazon's Ships in Product Packaging (SIPP) program, which can change the fulfillment fee on certified units.

Storage Fees From February 1, 2027

This is the change Amazon frames as a response to seller feedback. "You've told us that storage fees are hard to predict, and we want to change that," the email to sellers says. From February 1, 2027:

• The storage utilization surcharge is eliminated, which Amazon says will make it easier to stock up ahead of high-demand events.
• The aged inventory surcharge is removed and combined with monthly storage fees into a single, age-based rate.

Amazon says the result will be "flat or lower fees for inventory that turns in under six months, higher fees for aged inventory." Amazon's Korean summary adds that the rate rises as storage time increases, with inventory stored longer than six months charged at higher rates.

What we do not know yet

The public materials we reviewed do not include the full unified storage rate card, so check Seller Central for exact rates. The direction is clear: fast-turning stock benefits, slow stock costs more, so holiday leftovers carried into spring become a growing cost. Our guides on reorder points and Q4 2026 peak fees help with that planning.

The New Low-Inventory-Level Fee Test

Today the low-inventory-level fee is assessed using trailing 30-day and 90-day sales. From February 1, 2027, Amazon will charge it only when inventory falls below 28 days of supply based on actual shipments in both the four weeks before and the four weeks after the weekly assessment date.

How the two-step check works

Amazon checks inventory weekly per FNSKU and divides units on hand by average daily shipments in the 28 days before the check, then in the 28 days after it. The fee applies only if both results are under 28 days.

Amazon's example: a product has 100 units at the check. It shipped 5 units a day in the prior 28 days (20 days of supply) and 2 units a day in the following 28 days (50 days of supply). Because one result is above 28 days, no fee applies. Amazon says this reduces charges caused by demand spikes and end-of-season products.

Practical effects

• Charges appear about four weeks after each check, because the second step needs future sales.
• PPC Land reports the fee becomes a standalone Payments line, gets its own report, and extends to all oversize tiers from February 1.
• Reported exemptions include new Professional sellers for 365 days, eligible New Selection products, SKUs mostly auto-replenished through AWD, products that shipped fewer than 20 units in the past seven days, and grocery.

If you read our earlier guide to the low-inventory-level fee, keep it for how the fee works through January. From February, the two-sided test replaces the trailing-sales method.

Promotions, Inbound, AWD, and Referral Changes

Several smaller changes can still matter for your budget:

• Buy X, Get Y promotions: from January 15, 2027, a $5 upfront fee plus a 2% variable fee, capped at $2,000, matching the fee structure for deals and coupons. Our comparison of coupons, deals, and Prime Exclusive Discounts covers the other promotion fees.
• Monthly promotion billing: from February 2027, all promotions are billed monthly.
• Inbound regions: for standard-size products, the Central inbound region merges into East, so there are two inbound regions (East and West) instead of three from January 15, 2027. Amazon says the inbound placement fee rate card itself does not change. See our guide to inbound placement fees for how split options work.
• AWD: from February 1, 2027, processing fees become $1.55 per box and transportation $1.58 per cubic foot, with a 40% inbound processing discount for qualifying single-SKU pallets. See our AWD guide.
• Multi-Channel Fulfillment: PPC Land reports standard-speed MCF and Buy with Prime fees rise about 3.5% on average.
• Referral fees: most are unchanged. 3D printers get a new tiered fee (12% on the first $200, 5% above that) from November 5, 2026, and a 10% promotional rate applies to eligible Amazon Renewed products through October 18, 2027, per PPC Land.

Your Checklist Before January 15, 2027

Know which SKUs are exposed before January prices and Q1 orders are locked:

1. Open the Fee Change Comparison dashboard in Profit Analytics and sort by the largest per-unit change.
2. Flag products priced near $10 or $50. Those price lines now carry bigger fee steps. Test the 2027 fee at your current price and at the nearest alternative price in the Revenue Calculator.
3. Check low-price SKUs in the five excluded fee categories. Decide whether to reprice, bundle, or move them to another fulfillment method.
4. Re-measure bulky, long, and flat products. Confirm which new tier each one lands in and whether the flat product or overhang fee applies.
5. Plan post-holiday inventory. Units that sit past six months will cost more to store.
6. Review your promotion calendar. Price in the new Buy X, Get Y fee and the shift to monthly billing.
7. Update your margin sheet with 2027 rates plus the 3.5% surcharge for units shipping from January 15.

A note on sources: Averages, dates, storage and low-inventory changes, and tool names come from Amazon's November 5, 2026 announcement and Amazon's Korean seller summary. Band averages, worked examples, handling fee triggers, and exemptions come from PPC Land's review of Seller Central help pages; Chain Store Age and PYMNTS confirm the main points. Rates exclude the surcharge. Confirm exact fees in Seller Central.

Your next step: Pick your ten best-selling SKUs today, look up each one in the Fee Change Comparison dashboard, and write down the 2026 and 2027 fulfillment fee side by side.