Amazon Global Program: Sell Worldwide With No Added Fees

Amazon Global Program: Sell Worldwide With No New VAT Accounts or Added Fees: Things have just gotten a whole lot easier for Amazon sellers when it comes to selling products internationally. By taking advantage of Amazon’s new global operation, products that are fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) can now be sold anywhere in the world without any extra charges.

Sellers can now allow Amazon to purchase FBA items at the price the seller names, and Amazon will sell these products to international customers from the customer’s local Amazon marketplace. This means that the sale is registered as a regular domestic transaction for Amazon sellers and their customers. Meanwhile, Amazon takes care of all the logistics costs and handles all of the cross-border legwork.

By enrolling in the program, sellers permit Amazon to add their products to other Amazon marketplaces around the globe, which translates the item information into the local target language and converts its price into the local currency, making it easier for customers to find and buy the products they want.

Once sellers have enlisted, Amazon will sell products bought by international customers through the customer’s local Amazon marketplace, which is also used for returns. They will purchase the product from your current marketplace and arrange for delivery to the customer. For customers, it will be as if they bought the product locally.

Yet, while the customer pays for the product in their local currency, sellers are still paid the set product price in their own currency, making it a win-win, with the added bonus of no cross-border transportation fees or new VAT accounts or VAT filings needed.

It’s as if Amazon is acting as the cross-border drop shipper, listing your products in marketplaces where you don’t currently list or have VAT accounts and then buying them from you and selling them through these listings. Amazon takes care of the logistics and any VAT requirements within the new country of sale. You, of course, would need to handle any required VAT to your local country on your end for your sale to Amazon for this transaction.

Amazon will only purchase products from the Amazon marketplaces where sellers have provided a VAT number in Seller Central. Then, when sellers receive an order through the global program, it will appear as a domestic order on the Manage Orders page within Seller Central, while the name of the customer will show as Amazon.

There is no need for sellers to sign up as an Amazon supplier or vendor in order to join the program, and their account status will remain unchanged.

Opting in is very straightforward and simply requires sellers to go to their Fulfillment by Amazon settings and click Enable where it says “Allow Amazon to buy my products to sell globally” for each Amazon marketplace they want to allow to sell their products.

Sellers who decide to enable this feature should familiarize themselves with all the terms and conditions of the program.